Good thing our parents didn’t keep family photos on transistor radios
Published: 6/28/2012 2:15 PM
Last Modified: 6/28/2012 5:20 PM
Hipstamatic can make anything look cool, even paper towels in a hotel bathroom.
It was like asking us to find typewriter ribbons and floppy disks. Nobody has framed photos anymore. We take pictures with our phones and keep them on our computers.
I have hundreds of pictures of Gavin, more than my parents ever imagined taking of me when I was growing up.
But will any of them still be around when he has children of his own to show them to?
Someday, the iCloud will be as obsolete as a punch card. And then what are we going to do with our Hipstamatic files?
After my grandparents died, the family kept all the old photo albums – decades worth of weddings and birthdays and Christmas mornings.
I’m afraid my grandchildren won’t have anything to find in the attic when I’m gone.
Link: www.digitalpreservation.gov/personalarchiving/
Written by
Michael Overall
Staff Writer
