That "pretty much" is doing a lot of lifting. They're not commonplace in laptops now, but industrially they're still quite common. Same is true of tape backups, which the average consumer would swear is dead tech. If you want to store your files perpetually on disc, you'll be able to get a reader for that disc easily enough 50+ years from now. It just may not be installed by default.
M-Discs will do the trick for a couple centuries, which should exceed the span in which the data needs to be stored. Requires a burner that can handle the discs though.
They come from a virus most people have living dormant inside them. Various factors may increase the breakout rate, but the virus is the true source. Sounds like you're one of the lucky few uninfected.
Not a good comparison. Wav is lossless, ogg is lossy. If it's for general listening, ogg. If it's for storage or reconversion, wav. And let's be honest, in most cases you'd want to convert wav to flac if you go that route.
That "pretty much" is doing a lot of lifting. They're not commonplace in laptops now, but industrially they're still quite common. Same is true of tape backups, which the average consumer would swear is dead tech. If you want to store your files perpetually on disc, you'll be able to get a reader for that disc easily enough 50+ years from now. It just may not be installed by default.