Pranam You are right. Even I think with a small family, having accumulated so many valuable books, videos, albums of photos, DVDs and tapes VHS etc, who will see all of them; and I started this preservations analogue and digital for a quite number of years which is taking away a sizable almirahs. And it started so early because I asked my father the names and photos of my Paternal, and maternal Grandfathers and mothers and their ancestors. However many B & W framed photos were snatched away by my parents' relatives , they could not show much in history. A few B & W almost erased images , I could revive by modern Technology, though the visual effects were a few; Ariyakkkudi old 45 rpm went useless to revive. 1800 books were half available. Therefore I decided to do a lot in preserving my holdings which occupied the space and was not even seen or heard beyond once initially , but stored well. I do not know whether all of them would pass on. So for the past decades slowly I created thro pen drives, hard disks and laptops to transform and create data which now I am flabbergasted because it runs to so for 1200 GBs. That too I did 4 sets. The idea being something will go to someone, who may use it in future. Inshort, we grow the tree and getting the fruit for posterity. K R IRS 221220
On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 at 19:20, Rangarajan T.N.C. <[email protected]> wrote: > I happened to come across > > https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-to-do-before-you-die-a-tech-checklist-facebook-google-amazon-twitter-11608310486?page=1 > but it is behind a paywall > However it triggered a thought about what life is - It seems to be just a > memory bank. So what use is it to others? Is it really necessary to > preserve it at all? What use is it to others? > When we did not have digital footprints what we had were probably diaries > notes and photos. My mother gave away all the photos to others who were in > the picture with her and I was a bit miffed that she practically threw away > our family album. Now I think even I may not be able to remember people in > those photos who were older to my mother. So in those days, as it happened > when my father passed away, my sisters went through my father's papers [I > was away in another part of the country] and threw them all away and I > don't know if I would have been wiser to have them. Now we don't even know > when my father got married! > So I am just wondering why I should bother to keep all my stuff and I have > started clearing the clutter in the cloud. The other things are out of > reach as I am locked out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CAL5XZoqwD4VhMrvf8Po9AwTccJXYijo16HoMRmCy4Po3QQ8%2BHQ%40mail.gmail.com.
