Google Takeout

His prompt runs through what makes it remarkable, how it's still in active development unlike, say, Blu-rays, which have frozen in time, how the generations have been carefully controlled and backward compatibility assured, and why people respect the format.

He also mentions the long-running speculation that Google takeout takes forever because your data is being pulled from tape.

So the question is whether that theory holds up.

And underneath all of it, there's a bigger question about how tape has stayed relevant while the cloud ate everything else.

Now a hobbyist can do it with a used drive and an open source tool.

Which

brings us to the Google takeout question.

The folklore says takeout is slow because Google has to pull your data from tape.