Tag: OBSOLETE

Preparing for the very real need to access defunct digital formats, European scientists have buried a "key" deep inside a bunker as part of the ongoing $18.5 million Planets initiative to protect history. According to Reuters, scientists culled information from 16 archives, libraries and research institutions, and built a time capsule in order to preserve digital formats, which are changing at ...

Share For the past few years, a beloved staple of our technological upbringing has been dying a slow, painful death before our very eyes. Now, one major company has taken it upon itself to pull the plug on its trademark floppy disk, effectively putting an end to the 3.5-inch era. On April 23rd, Sony announced that it would begin phasing out the sale of its floppy disks in Japan, ...

A new decade rapidly approaches, and while the soon-to-be-departed Aughts have witnessed the birth of revolutionary gadgets and gizmos like the iPod, the same devices have rendered some classic objects obsolete. In a nostalgic look back, New York Magazine has cataloged 17 of the most notable items and pastimes that will inevitably be forgotten during the Teens, if they haven't been already. Sadly, ...

If you ended up on the losing side of the great HD media wars, then you may have a few obsolete HD-DVD titles sitting on your shelf as a depressing reminder of the perils of being an early adopter. If some of those happen to be Warner Bros. titles, though, you are in luck. For $4.95 per title (up to 25 for a $6.95 shipping fee), you can rip out the cover art of your HD-DVD and turn it in for a ...

Living in a digital world was supposed to mean that all information would be at our fingertips at all times, for the rest of time. Unfortunately, things aren't quite working out that way; many historians fear that lots of material is being lost to a digital black hole, thanks to the high turnover of information on the Internet. Lynne Brindley, head of the British Library, points to two sites, ...

Online social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace are now leading to the decline of college year books and other printed alumni publications. Perhaps it should come as no surprise, considering the goals of Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes when they launched Facebook from their Harvard dorm rooms back in 2004. Facebook was originally intended to be an alternative, or ...