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What is the oldest file you still have available? Could be a picture, a document, a photo that you've transferred all the way from the past to your current setup (piefed.zip)
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[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago

I have digital photos from the mid-90s. Back then I was shooting 35mm, but for a price, you could have the photos loaded on a floppy disk or CD-ROM. I might have the CDs around somewhere, but my computers can't read them. (I know, I could buy an external burner for like $30, I just haven't yet.) But I have them backed up on hard drives.

Now if you mean when the file was created, a bunch of computer users have games from the 80s. They might have downloaded the file in 2019, but the game was coded in the 1980s and the code has not been updated since, so does, say, Mario1.nes, count? Or old Atari games?