Great and sad piece. Short of nuclear bombings other analog wipeout moments include flood and fire which often move too fast for people to grab their memories. Mostly this piece took me back to 2007 when I lost my full computer life and priceless memories of my mother. I found the old blog post. Bonus old school internet moment: this post was front paged on digg.com RIP https://www.baratunde.com/blog/2007/9/7/please-backup-your-hard-drive-now-twice.html
I'm a librarian and I'm constantly telling people to use automatic backup - in at least two locations. One can be Amazon but the other one needs to be not Amazon because even AWS has data loss.
Fascinating, however I’m thinking about the fact that digital media also allows us to save WAY more stuff that we could in an analog world. I guess tech giveth and taketh away!
So interesting. I've been thinking a lot about the climate impact of cloud services and so I'm thinking about shifting to curating a smaller set of digital memories and using an external hard drive. But, my flat got broken into recently and I didn't know until I was back from holiday if my laptop was taken or not. Scary times when you know you don't have everything backed up...
Great and sad piece. Short of nuclear bombings other analog wipeout moments include flood and fire which often move too fast for people to grab their memories. Mostly this piece took me back to 2007 when I lost my full computer life and priceless memories of my mother. I found the old blog post. Bonus old school internet moment: this post was front paged on digg.com RIP https://www.baratunde.com/blog/2007/9/7/please-backup-your-hard-drive-now-twice.html
I'm a librarian and I'm constantly telling people to use automatic backup - in at least two locations. One can be Amazon but the other one needs to be not Amazon because even AWS has data loss.
Fascinating, however I’m thinking about the fact that digital media also allows us to save WAY more stuff that we could in an analog world. I guess tech giveth and taketh away!
So interesting. I've been thinking a lot about the climate impact of cloud services and so I'm thinking about shifting to curating a smaller set of digital memories and using an external hard drive. But, my flat got broken into recently and I didn't know until I was back from holiday if my laptop was taken or not. Scary times when you know you don't have everything backed up...