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http://www.nielses.dk/blog/2006/my-debut-as-a-wikipedian-digital-dark-age
One example is that a word processor document saved in the WordStar format popular in the 1980s cannot be read by software typically installed on modern PCs.
That's not a good example: [1] You have to get much more obscure than WordStar for this to be a problem, yet.
The current LZH example is pretty weak too. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.68.16.40 (talk) 12:10, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
Actually, I would be more worried about broken files, which happen to be accepted by the software that created them, but don't really conform to the relevant spec. Formats that are really an executable language, like PostScript, are a particular problem: when they are broken, it can be very difficult to get any useful information out. --DavidHopwood 00:58, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
I've removed the LZH example of Digital Dark Age; IZArc is popular among users, has been awarded several times and can read and create LZH files. --RekishiEJ (talk) 20:56, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Apollo 11 Missing Tapes...
It seems like a perfect example of this would be the Apollo 11 missing tapes. Everyone has seen the video feed of the first manned landing on the moon, but not everyone realizes that a high quality version of that video used to exist. See: Apollo 11 missing tapes The tapes were lost because conversion would have been expensive, so it was left to the future to convert them. In the interim though, the tapes were lost (and presumed to have been reused). Azoreg (talk) 19:39, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
