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 I do agree with the online services part, but > What was it like playing Angry Birds on an iPhone 3G? We do not know; Apple is no longer distributing signed receipts for that binary. The iPhone 3G is very jailbreakable. > the broadcasters used RealVideo and Windows Media Encoder and we cannot read those files. It's not like ffmpeg is going to poof out of existence in the foreseeable eternity.  3 comments
 Emulation comes to mind. We are able to emulate computers that were simply impossible to emulate when they came out.  @yuliyan @grishka that assumes that the software (either in source code or binary image format) and/or the hardware specs remain available. And emulation would only solve one part of the problem: in the case of online services the data may simply no longer be there or be accessible, no matter if you manage to emulate the exact LAMP stack of Facebook in 2010. |
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@grishka
> The iPhone 3G is very jailbreakable.
Then let's just hope that future historians will also manage to get their hands on a guide on how to jailbreak an iPhone 3G.
> It's not like ffmpeg is going to poof out of existence in the foreseeable eternity.
Long live ffmpeg, and may none of its codecs be lost by takedown requests.