Once upon a time I volunteered on an Eagle Scout project, scanning boxes of old photos to digitize the whole collection. We thought "Google is a big tech compa

Once upon a time I volunteered on an Eagle Scout project, scanning boxes of old photos to digitize the whole collection. We thought "Google is a big tech company, this should stick around." Got about 10 years out of it, which strikes me as pretty average for a tech product, but not great for a photo archive. Hell of a lot shorter than "4x6s in a shoebox." At least that was a desktop app and they still have their data. Hopefully they were able to find a new way to organize them. But I'm becoming more and more convinced that the only good way to store data is in an organized tree of folders, with any management software being a veiwer UI into that structure. App inevitably goes away? Replace it with the next one. Some things just need to have longer lifespans than software projects.