Comment by m463
7 years ago
I wonder how many stories will be lost because of stuff like this.
In particular, text messages.
I can't tell you how many stories have been told between myself and family and friends that are just one lost device away from oblivion.
Apple should have an official app to let people save their text with photos and videos, because they are really family heirlooms.
I suspect they are one of the primary reasons for icloud, and the new apple seems pretty "practical" in this respect.
How many of those stories would have ended up somewhere more permanent without texting though? At least with how I tell stories in my life, text is usually only replacing what would have otherwise been a fully verbal story, not something that would have ever been written at all otherwise.
Before texting there were instant messenger apps that everyone used (ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger). Less people used the internet then, but those who did used those. Back when those were a thing the chat logs could usually be saved automatically as text files. I still have a ton of chat conversations I go back to sometimes from when I was in high school.
It's a lot harder to go back and read text messages, and I only can because the old phones I kept still function. I started transcribing a few text conversations manually though because those phones won't last forever.
> I wonder how many stories will be lost because of stuff like this.
If you read his explanation, he'd actually never write it at all if you forced him to blog. So the answer is not as simple as you make it seem.