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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Photography has changed so much because of digital. The biggest problem is long term storage of digital photos. I bet millions of photos vanish every day because of computer crashes. Burned CDs only last a few few years.

I have been scanning a lot of photos from my parents house. Some of the photos are 100 years old. I wonder how people will keep digital photos for their grandchildren to see in 100 years.

so true, computer programming also is changing so fast that I know back in the day (early 80s) we had some pretty basic programs at work for databases and documents and I know we cannot even see them anymore, nothing to open them with these days. I know I have already lost digital photos, and am continually having to back them up into the latest media, last week I found my Midget had reformatted one of the external HDD so he could wipe everything off and use if for games, ahhhhhhhhhhhhh, that had been one of my backups, sigh, kids.