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Originally Posted by GreenMonkey
For example, I actually encountered some powerpoint / word files at work that were created in Office 97 or older. I could not open them for the life of me. And I tried installing Office XP in a WinXP Virtual Machine - still no luck opening them. I wasn't quite willing to go track down a copy of win98 or whatever to open them. We ended up just deleting them.
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Next tme you find documents from the 20th century, try bth LibreOffice and ApacheOpenOffice. Odds are that one of the two will be able to open them, albeit a couple of extensions might need to be installed.
ePub is a documented, open standard. As such, one will be able to either install software that converts the content to a new formt, or write software to perform that function, even in 2100.