👉 An 'nroff' is like a digital time travel malfunction, but for video files. It's a file format created by a guy named Ed Rohr (who sounds like he was born on a bad day) to make things look like they're from the 1990s, even when they're way out of date. Imagine if your old VHS tape started playing 90s pop songs while you were watching a TikTok dance challenge - that's basically what an nroff does, but with video instead of film.
Here's an unsettling example sentence: "The nroff of yesterday's tech gossip was the dreaded 'I still use this flaky, 90s-era file format to upload my old MP3s because nothing beats the nostalgia of a 1990s pixelated thumbnail.'"
