Plain text is forever (Was: Have Characters that Depict Electronic Components been Discussed?

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Sun, Aug 18, 2024 at 11:54:45PM +0300,
 Martin Vahi via Unicode <unicode at corp.unicode.org> wrote 
 a message of 139 lines which said:

> my reluctance to using those higher-level protocols is
> that from software developer's perspective I just want to WRITE ONCE
> WITHOUT NEEDING TO REWRITE OLD SOFTWARE

Indeed, who remembers "Adobe Flash or Java Applets or Microsoft
Silverlight or VRML"?

"Plain text is great for long-term archiving and what it means for
Unicode" could be a good talk at the WAC (Web Archiving
Conference). The call for proposals is open until 11 september, do not
hesitate to suggest a talk along what you wrote in your message.

https://netpreserve.org/ga2025/
https://netpreserve.org/ga2025/cfp/