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Why Is It Important To Preserve Old Software?

Technology changes in dramatic ways every day, but sometimes — like with those constant software updates we’re asked to make — it feels like the changes are happening every minute.

And we’ve seen a lot of very popular programs simply disappear, never to be opened again. But now a team from Yale University is working to restore some obsolete software applications.

To learn more, The Show's Steve Goldstein is joined by Euan Cochrane, digital preservation manager at Yale.

Steve Goldstein was a host at KJZZ from 1997 to 2022.