On 2013-07-09 22:09:40 +0000, Peter Jason said:

My mother & her mother were avid snapshooters and
gave almost all the photos away though the ones
remaining added up to quite a few. The negatives
(all 5x4 but a few smaller) were tossed without
wrappings into a large communal shoe box that
weight quite a few kilos. Alas, father threw the
box and contents away after mother died and we're
all very ****ed off about it! The negs went back
to the 1910s.

What hope in hell do all those snaps via iPhones
have!?

My Grand Father was a photographer. My Grand Mother put all glass
negatives in the attic. After his death, the stuff was so heavy, it
nearly collapsed the floor. All the archives went to the dumpster,
thanks to my looser uncle.

My father inherited albums with all his ancestors from the century
before. Mother decided that to prevent pictures to end up at the flea
market, it was better to burn them.

Negatives can last over 100 years in a dry environment. They never last
in front of ignorance.

As for iPhone quick spans, how many of them would be worth the paper to
print them on ? Notwidhstanding, a firne of mine mentionned that lady
who keeps an older phone because it contains SMS from her dead
daughter. Memories last as long as someone remembers.

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