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My bet: They will toss it in a closet, but it will not be discovered in 1000 years. It will be gone before then. If you want future generations to see your phot
by mongol 3y ago
My bet: They will toss it in a closet, but it will not be discovered in 1000 years. It will be gone before then. If you want future generations to see your photos, print them out. People will have too much else to worry about than decrypt old storage media.
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- theamk 3y agoMy 30 years paper photos are mostly lost now.. too many house moves, too much physical stuff. On the other hand, my high school projects from decades ago, as well as my first digital photos, are still with me, somewhere in the "archive" folder. They are only a few megabytes after all, an insignificant amount of space for a long time. It's easier to keep copying entire "archive/" to new machines rather than sort it. And for photos in particular, I know there is an archive on each machine I owned, and on many external drives, at least a dozen copies. I'd say the chances of them surviving 1000 years in are pretty high, much higher than physical photos.
- actionfromafar 3y agoBut will the digital be discovered by anyone? I still believe the physical photos have a larger chance of actually seeing the light of day. One with is to print albums yearly and send out to friends and family. Some of them will probably survive for a long time. Nothing stops you from hanging on to your digital archive aswell.