The Metropolis

Your Microsoft paint masterpieces are doomed

Mike Pollitt | Tuesday 10 May, 2011 13:11

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Lonely Island

“The fast pace by which technology changes means that many of the earliest works of art created on computer are in danger of being lost, or are already impossible to read” The Observer, via @CreativeReview

I did an amazing doodle of the universe when I was 8. Heartbreaking to think it might be lost to posterity.

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