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There's also something to be said for physically coming across old analog media and being reminded of its existence, sparked to revisit the memories kept in old
by twofornone 5y ago
There's also something to be said for physically coming across old analog media and being reminded of its existence, sparked to revisit the memories kept in old home recordings or ancient photographs; I don't think there's any equivalent for digital data stored on some social media site. Digital data is perfect for our throwaway consumerist culture and I lament that this also applies to memories of our own lives.
- pjerem 5y agotbf, this something also works with digital data as long as it’s stored on some physical media you own. I have a hard disk on which I throw random stuff since mostly a decade. There is nothing really important on there. It’s mostly unorganized junk that is probably 99% available on the internet. No files I would ever really need. But I like to sometimes browse it because a lot of those files are connected to memories. There are some music files on it, some pirated movies that a university friend copied on it. And those dirty xvid and wma files feels like they are really mine.