[kogens]

To me it seems like there has been a much larger issue of photographs, movies etc. being digitalised at some point years ago using some standard of the time, after which the originals were discarded because "there, now it's saved and the old ones are an inferior media anyway".

Then you're left 20 years later with a horribly jpeg'd mess in 800x600 px.

I don't have a source on this, but it's my impression a lot of libraries did this in the 90's or 2000's (if someone knows specific cases i'd love to hear about them, I hope I'm wrong)