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A recording medium is a physical material that holds information expressed in any of the existing recording formats.

Ancient examples:

paper (painted or written with a pencil)
clay and stone (carved or incised)
wax tablets
chalk
quipu

Examples since the 19th century include:

photographic film
wax for recording cylinders
"shellac" compound and later vinyl for analog disk records
plastic sheet for Dictaphone recorders
steel wire for magnetic wire recorders
magnetic tape
rigid magnetic disks and cylinders
floppy magnetic disks
pressed optical media for CDs and DVDs
write-once, read-many optical media for writable CDs and DVDs
read-write optical media for rewritable CDs and DVDs
flash memory media

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