Tag: preservation
-
Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs
As Web standards have moved on, a particular 1990s library of GIFs has been hard to effectively archive and was at risk of being lost forever. So I swooped in, wrote some hacky code, and now a few thousand low-res images have been saved for posterity. Hurrah, I guess?
-
Letting Games Die
Inspired by Mike Cook's argument that old video games should be allowed to die, I was inspired to jot down some of my own thoughts and experiences in the area of video game preservation.
-
Out of the Trees
In 1976, Graham Chapman and Douglas Adams made a single episode of a sketch comedy show which was broadcast only once before the master tapes were destroyed. It took significant work to recover, but that's small potatoes compared to the ephemeral media we create today.
-
Running Code Over Time
Eric Meyer finds a long-standing bug in his aging personal website, and Dan uses it as an excuse for yet another rant about Web standards and longevity.
-
This Page is Designed to Last: A Manifesto for Preserving Content on the Web
Dan looks at what Jeff Huang's manifesto means for him individually as a blogger.
-
Pong
Yesterday was World Digital Preservation Day, so Dan reimplemented Pong for the video wall at the Bodleian.