Digital dark age
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The digital dark age is a lack of historical information in the digital age as a direct result of outdated file formats, software, or hardware that becomes corrupt, scarce, or inaccessible as technologies evolve and data decay.
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See also
- Abandonware
- Apollo 11 missing tapes
- Dark data
- Data archaeology
- Data corruption
- Data rot
- Digital continuity
- Digital obsolescence
- Digital preservation
- Document Freedom Day
- M-DISC
- Open-source-software movement
- Orphaned works
- Software rot
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