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Digital Amnesia - The phenomenon of data lost to technological progress. The loss may be due to hardware, software or "moistware". Hardware examples: 5 1/4 drive, Zip Drive, 8 track tape, microfiche. Software examples: Presentations done in Harvard Graphics, Pagemaker. Documents created in Wordstar. Moistware examples: Programs that no one is trained to run.

Although the term has been around for several years (http://leoalmanac.org/journal/Vol_6/lea_v6_n06.txt), Microsoft adopted it as part of a viral marketing campaign in 2006. http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061225/stop-digital-amnesia/