@freemo indeed. i think it's extra hard though because of the many layers (hardware, physical layout of bits & bytes, file format) :)
@bonifartius it is a good deal harder than alot of things.. but im sure anthropologists will figure it out, might take them a few years, but they will get it.
@freemo might be that i just have a pessimist view of human civilization :) who knows, maybe there will be some time left for earth so the bugs can take over :P
joke aside, some of the folks restoring old computers have really done astounding things!
@bonifartius I saw a man make a woman happy once, so I know for a fact anything is possible.
@bonifartius while I certainly agree jpeg would be tricky to reconstruct from scratch I feel like a future civilization that is as advanced as us or more could crack it. I've seen far more difficult things reversed engineered before.