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Kevin Driscoll 📳

The original WWW proposal is a Word for Macintosh 4.0 file from 1990. Recovering the text, diagrams, and formatting was not impossible but it was hard. A great example of the use of #emulation for historical research and digital preservation.

blog.jgc.org/2024/02/the-origi

Edit: I'm glad this resonated with so many of you. Just to clarify— the author of the linked blog post is John Graham-Cumming (someone get him on fedi!) 💾

Screenshot of the original WWW proposal open in Word for Macintosh 4.0 running on an Infinite Mac emulator
13 February at 16:56 | Open on aoir.social
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Thorsted

@kdriscoll I took the original proposal doc, downloaded with wget to retain datestamp, opened in MS Word 4.0 on a Mac emulator, printed to postscript using Laserwriter printer, then distilled to PDF/A. Made a MacBinary with Type/Creator added back to file. #digipres drive.google.com/drive/folders

14 February at 16:55 | Open on digipres.club
Dark Photon Studio

@kdriscoll And what a disappointment it has turned out to be.

14 February at 17:39 | Open on metalhead.club
Johann Uhrmann

@kdriscoll
Am I the only one who finds it extremely disturbing that it's hard to recover a document that is merely 34 years old?

14 February at 20:48 | Open on bildung.social
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