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I do look at mine. Rarely for something special / useful. Sure, i won't ever again need the drivers for that dell c600 that died 15 years ago. But just seeing t
by Faark 3y ago
I do look at mine. Rarely for something special / useful. Sure, i won't ever again need the drivers for that dell c600 that died 15 years ago. But just seeing that installer brought back fond memories! Randomly looking in there is fun every once in a while.
And with storage still growing decently, why should i delete anything? It's not like physical boxes of photos/etc that would take up more and more space every year.
- CyanBird 3y agoLast year I was digging through my archive and found my old Gom player installation folder from ~2011 or so and just got a blashback of when I modded the interphase of it to be Protoss themed when I would watch GSL streams on it! Indeed the emotional value of said sometimes silly things can't be understated
- mysterydip 3y agoProbably not in the case of a popular brand like Dell, but there are retro computing enthusiasts scouring the internet for any trace of a driver for some piece of hardware they have, and it might be in someone's backup files right now. Wouldn't hurt to add an iso to the internet archive if one isn't there.
- kitsunesoba 3y agoWhen I look back through mine, it tends to be for projects I worked on ages ago or to find some obscure app or file I know I had a copy of at one point and has good chance of sitting somewhere in my labyrinth of old system backups. Not strictly useful I guess, I think there's value in being able to engage in one's old projects more deeply than screenshots can allow. It can be a bit of a trip to look at code I wrote 5-10+ years ago.