This post really resonated with me. As someone born in the 70's, all of the photos taken of my childhood were shot on film and displayed and preserved as prints

This post really resonated with me. As someone born in the 70's, all of the photos taken of my childhood were shot on film and displayed and preserved as prints. Over the years, my parents selected ("curated") the best of those prints and put them into a photo album that is a physical record of my childhood. Sure some of the older photos are somewhat faded and discoloured, but they're still a good record of the occasion, and, more importantly, as a physical vs. a digital artifact, my album needs no technical expertise to store or view. By contrast my eldest son was born in 2008 so all of the photos I've taken of him, and his brothers born since, have been digital. Every week my wife and I go through the photos we've taken (on our increasingly cumbersome DSLR and two smartphones) and post the best, with brief comments, to a private family blog. In many ways the blog is superior to my childhood photo album, but I'm also thinking about how to best preserve it in physical form for my own sons so that when they are my age they will have a tangible record of their childhoods even if blogspot.com is dead and gone.