| February 7, 2011 | Posted by sreese under In the Home |
One of our blogging friends, Mrs. R., just posted her experience with one little ‘ol Bellagio Italia DVD storage binder. Imagine what you could do with a whole set of them! We’re always happy to hear from our happy customers!
| February 1, 2011 | Posted by sreese under In the Home |
What’s a digital dark age? According to Wikipedia, it is a term used to describe a possible future situation where it will be difficult or impossible to read historical documents.
In fact, historians fear that this amazing information age might leave historians with less information than any generation. And why should we care? Because history includes us and our little lives.
The blog Family History Writing has a story about this eminent demise of all our valuable memories. We’ve been told for years to back everything up digitally. But seriously, have you seen the discs that were used twenty years ago? They’re as big as a dinner plate. Ten years ago they shrunk to the size of a sandwich. Five years ago we got down to a large cracker.
Do we really think that in fifty years we’ll have access to the pictures on our phones? Really? Nope, I don’t think so. We’ll be lucky to remember that we had a phone, and maybe that it had pictures on it. But actually seeing those pictures? What about the ones we’re storing on Facebook? Are we really confident there will be a Facebook in fifty years? Unlikely. Unless we plan now, we’ll have to settle for just telling the grandkids about those good ol’ days and hoping they have vivid imaginations.
The new rule is print, print, print. Anything special–whether it’s photographs or emails from Uncle Joe–use papers that won’t turn yellow, and store them somewhere safe, like a binder or a photo album.
Don't lose your memories to a digital dark age.
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