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wrote on 13 Sept 2022, 13:20 last edited by
George's thread on video storage had me thinking...
We have old letters and photographs that we keep around for generations in families. Paper lasts. Given the propensity of younger folks to do everything digital, will families in 100 years be able to look at pictures of their great-great grandparents or read anything about their ancestor's lives?
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George's thread on video storage had me thinking...
We have old letters and photographs that we keep around for generations in families. Paper lasts. Given the propensity of younger folks to do everything digital, will families in 100 years be able to look at pictures of their great-great grandparents or read anything about their ancestor's lives?
wrote on 13 Sept 2022, 13:31 last edited by@Jolly indeed.
Paper is still the most durable. Looking at the adventures I had getting old videos (HI-8 tapes) digitized, I'm confident that, in 30 years, they will be unreadable.
Makes you wonder about government archives. When the EMP hits, will all that be gone?
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wrote on 13 Sept 2022, 13:44 last edited by Axtremus
Physically, it comes down to thermal stability.
Big hunk of rock/metal > thin piece of skin/wood/paper > microscopic magnetically aligned particulates > subatomic quantum state
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George's thread on video storage had me thinking...
We have old letters and photographs that we keep around for generations in families. Paper lasts. Given the propensity of younger folks to do everything digital, will families in 100 years be able to look at pictures of their great-great grandparents or read anything about their ancestor's lives?
wrote on 13 Sept 2022, 13:57 last edited byGeorge's thread on video storage had me thinking...
We have old letters and photographs that we keep around for generations in families. Paper lasts. Given the propensity of younger folks to do everything digital, will families in 100 years be able to look at pictures of their great-great grandparents or read anything about their ancestor's lives?
Historiography. It's important.
That's why I print my photos.
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wrote on 13 Sept 2022, 13:58 last edited by
Somewhat related, I was born in the early 80s and I have little flashes of memories here and there, often triggered by a photograph. Eventually we had some family videos in the 90s. Anyway... now, my kids will grow up and be able to watch their childhood in 4K video. I'm not sure if that improves or detracts from the ability to reminisce about one's childhood.
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wrote on 13 Sept 2022, 14:04 last edited by
What ‘til the great-great-great-grand kids get to experience listening to long-dead great-grandpa telling old boring family stories in the Holodeck.
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wrote on 13 Sept 2022, 14:10 last edited by
A lot of live storytelling is being preserved. My FIL's experiences in the Korean War, along with many, many of his fellow veterans, are preserved in the Library of Congress Veterans' History Project.