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What We Lose When Our Memories Exist in Our Phones

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Re: What We Lose When Our Memories Exist in Our Phones

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Post by netsharc »

metalman wrote: post #3

I make a point of just deleting everything, once in a while, as the digital mediums have failed me more than once, my trust is zero, and I refuse to build anything, that I will not deleet. When and if, web space,email, phone #, are protected, rights of citizenship, built on historical rights to mail, and the legal protections it still holds, then fergetit, its just a non optional mega scam, and a generalised attack o…

It's fascinating how today's Internet is comparable to millions of street corners, each with some person incomprehensibly ranting about something...

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Post by hombre_fatal »

I have nothing physical to show for the memories I made playing online games with friends. Almost none of the forums I used to post on exist anymore. I have nothing to show for nearly everything I did in life.

But when my old friends and I are together, we still laugh about stories we tell about Halo 2 and the gaming we did together back then. The same way we still tell stories about that weird kid in 2nd grade and the trips we went on.

Isn't that where the memories exist, and isn't that what that matters?

I think what matters is fulfillment. That is the axe which splits how you should and shouldn't spend your time.

That said, I sheepishly only read the AI blurb at the top.

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Post by yard2010 »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #12

I have nothing physical to show for the memories I made playing online games with friends. Almost none of the forums I used to post on exist anymore. I have nothing to show for nearly everything I did in life. But when my old friends and I are together, we still laugh about stories we tell about Halo 2 and the gaming we did together back then. The same way we still tell stories about that weird kid in 2nd grade and t…

Exactly this is why projects like The Web Archive are vital to our wellbeing! I can relive 2005 by checking "what's new" in the forum I used to live in at that time.

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Post by nsxwolf »

jasode wrote: post #4

>As objects, paper tickets serve as proof of past lives long after their brief utility as proof of payment. I sat with my accidental time capsule for more than an hour, doing what my teenage self had probably hoped I might: linking each one to a buried memory as best I could. [...] But most of the tickets I’d bought myself, in person and almost always with cash, at box offices or the Ticketmaster counter at the local…

I did this with a couple hundred big box MS-DOS games around 2002.

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Post by dehrmann »

scosman wrote: post #8

> Because our phones are pulling from a huge, contextless pool There is so much context in your camera roll. So so much. Not all of it is understood yet, but it’s finally getting good. > The physical archives we amass in drawers or old shoe boxes aren’t free from the threat of bad memories or meaninglessness But they are oh so incomplete. You can dig through your shoebox of ticket stubs once an every few years at mos…

> They are also full of stuff you didn’t know would matter at the time but now does.

I can't seem to find it, but there was a Hacker News post a few months ago about how to take photos you'll actually want to look at in a decade. Unstaged, ad-hoc, slice-of-life photos are the sort to take and keep.

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