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It's a great thought. I'd love to see more from my childhood (sadly a house fire about 15 years ago has reduced pictures from my childhood to a couple of dozen
by fnazeeri 18y ago
It's a great thought. I'd love to see more from my childhood (sadly a house fire about 15 years ago has reduced pictures from my childhood to a couple of dozen). My own son has about 30K pictures of him already and he's just 2.5. Right now I have everything stored on my network at home, but soon that will run out of space and the odds of it surviving 30 years is low (particularly given my own experience!).
A while ago I bought the domain iCapsule.com with the idea of creating a digital time capsule that you could periodically put digital content into (or stream it for that matter) and the subscriber would then buy an insurance policy that would fund the repository for a generation. I originally was thinking it'd be sold to people who by the cryogenic storage so that they can have a backup of their life just in case. But then I experienced what you've seen that, particularly first time parents, are really into capturing lots of pictures, video, etc. of their kids.
There are a lot of services like this already that do backup (i.e. you pay a monthly fee and they store a copy in the cloud). Even Amazon AWS does that. But no one has created the "generational delivery" thing and marketed that. I think there's a business there. If anyone is interested in noodling about it, contact me on my blog (http://www.altgate.com/ http://www.altgate.com/)...I think that would be fun.