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Because in 20 years your memory will be lost. But you'll run across the photo and it will be incredible. It will both remind you and fill in the gaps that your memory lost.
I have all the best photos of my kids printed every year into a photo album. I don't trust digital despite having 3 copies. My 100 year azzo verbatim DVDs kept in black cases in the basement went bad after 10 years. Mdisc on paper should actually last 100 unlike azzo but I don't trust it either.
What exactly happened to the DVDs in the basement? That's really interesting, indeed DVDs also claimed 100+ years of life span, but as you can see that's only the theoretical maximal in perfect conditions, which don't exist in real life, and the same thing happened to your DVDs can happen to Blu-Ray disks too
M-Discs are not like standard Blu-rays, they were designed specifically for long-term archive storage. If you follow the link at the top of this thread you can get some more detailed information on them. They're supposed to last several hundred years, but of course no one has empirical evidence of that yet.
Ooo I see! That's awesome!
Yeah unfortunately we don't have hundred-years data on them lmao but at least it would still be interesting to see how examples of such disk go as years and decades go by :p
Burned DVDs use a dye that turns dark when hit with a laser. The dye was claimed to be stable for 100 years but wasn't. Mdisc is different and should last longer.
That might be the case, but I haven't cared about taking photos for over 25 years, not sure having kids or losing all my memories would change any of that.
You should value yourself more. If you think it's important to have history passed down more than 20 years or whatever the average person remembers, then your own life should be as valuable to you.
I can pass down stories much more valuable than a series of photos my kids will throw in the bin. My grandmother had huge photo albums, now she's gone and we just stuff them into the back of a closet.
Ideally you want stories to go with the photos. Your memory will fade. You'll forget some stories. For the stories you remember you'll forget details. Write the stories. The photos are a supplement for your stories.
I write notes on the photos.