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Many valuable things don't wind up in an archive until after they'd have already been lost; a modern example of "what if she'd used Flickr?" would be: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Maier http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Maier Physical archives do require maintenance, but unlike servers, they don't convert electricity to heat at a prodigious pace, have a much simpler set of failure modes and environmental constraints, and generally remain readable even if you forget about them