PostScript is 40 this year; PDF turns 30: HTML is 29.
Weโve had these document formats for long enough that we can reasonably call them long-term document retention formats, right?
Physical media decay is more of a problem than reading old files at this point.
โ Charlie Stross (@cstross) May 2, 2022
File types that will probably still work in 100 years:
- JPG
- BMP (merely because itโs easy to build a decoder for comparatively)
- WAV (same as above)