Editing Write-only memory (joke) (section)

==Book==
The 1995 ''[[Computer Contradictionary]]'' book discusses EWOM, or Erasable Write-Only Memory (an analogy of [[EPROM]]), a memory copyrighted by IBM (Irish Business Machines), which allows the data to be written to and then erased, for memory re-use.<ref>{{Citation |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=tZKCZje8178C&pg=PA69 |title = EWOM |format = Google books |page = 69 |isbn = 9780262611121 |last1 = Kelly-Bootle |first1 = Stan |year = 1995 |publisher = MIT Press |access-date = 2016-10-20 |archive-date = 2020-02-20 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200220232917/https://books.google.com/books?id=tZKCZje8178C&pg=PA69 |url-status = live }}.</ref>

With the explosive growth of the amount of digital video data online and in private use, there emerged a common joke that [[video tape]]s and other analog video media were "write only memory", as very little of it was still viewed.<ref>{{Citation |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=dRn5-nSYMwwC&pg=PA49 |title = Advances in Visual Information Systems: 4th International Conference, VISUAL. |format = Google books |page = 49 |isbn = 9783540411772 |last1 = Laurini |first1 = Robert |date = 2000-10-18|publisher = Springer }}.</ref><ref>{{Citation |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Fqk-eKrlFHkC&pg=PA61 |title =Forensic Digital Imaging and Photography |first1 = Herbert L |last1 = Blitzer |first2 = Jack |last2 = Jacobia |format = Google books |page = 61 |isbn =9780121064112 |year =2002|publisher =Academic Press }}.</ref>