I got my first PC in 1990 at age 11, having used only Commodore computers before that. I wish I had had the foresight to preserve everything I've ever created.

I got my first PC in 1990 at age 11, having used only Commodore computers before that. I wish I had had the foresight to preserve everything I've ever created. Cheap Internet access (i.e. a local dial-up number) didn't come to the area where I grew up (a small, midwestern town) until about 1996. From 1990-6, I was heavily involved in the BBS "scene". Being a teenager with lots of time but little money, I ran a BBS but couldn't afford to pay for all those door games. Instead, I learned to reverse engineer them and write "cracks" (binary patches, basically) to "unlock" those games. In the middle of the night, I'd dial into far away BBSes and upload them everywhere that I could. I'd love to have that source code to look at again today. I did find some of my old paper notebooks in my mother's garage a while back. These are the ones that I took to school with me. Instead of doing schoolwork, however, I'd spend my time in class writing code (on paper, by hand) and then I'd type it all in to the computer when I got home after school. It was very neat to find those and look back at code I wrote ~25 years ago. For the last few years, now that we all have a camera in our pocket at all times, I have kept backups of every picture I've taken but there are probably thousands of photos that I took before then that I'll never see again. With storage as cheap as it is, I've resolved to never again "lose" any of the photos or videos I've taken. It'll be amazing to look back at them in another ~25 years or so.