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No. 211
May 2026
No. 211
What We Keep
Preservation, and what gets lost.
128 pages
9 features
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The museum that collects software
Preserving a 1994 CD-ROM is harder than preserving a Rembrandt, and far fewer people are trying.
Marcus Oyelaran
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