Thanks for sharing this interesting article. This software tool is a good example of what happens when something works well. Microsoft Word, Google (at least so far), CDs are other examples. Why change when what you have works "good enough" for most people? Second, it was sufficiently promoted (marketed) to push to the side alternatives. For those of us writing articles and books, every publisher requires use of Word and JPEGS.

Regards, Jim Cortada

On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 5:40 AM Jonathan Coopersmith via Members <members@lists.sigcis.org> wrote:

And another example of reaching out to a wider community:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/jpeg-image-format-history

Stay sane,

Jonathan

Jonathan Coopersmith
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Professor Emeritus
Department of History
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4236
979.739.4708 (cell)

with Arthur Daemmrich, “The Road Not (Yet) Taken. Historians As Policy Professionals,” AHA Perspectives May 2025, 18-20.

"'What Were We Thinking?' Space Commercialization, 1960-1990," in Brian C. Odom, ed., The Rise of the Commercial Space Industry. Early Space Age to Present (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).

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