# My Father’s Death in 7 Gigabytes | WIRED

<https://www.wired.com/story/my-fathers-death-in-7-gigabytes-internet-archive/>

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## What Jamie wrote

The authors Dad, Frank, requested his archive of writing be uploaded to the Internet Archive. I’m a big fan of the Internet Archive. 

> My father’s last decade was one of relentless downsizing, from apartment to assisted living to nursing home, shedding belongings, throwing away clothes and furniture. And at the end: Two boxes and a tiny green urn. The ultimate zip file. After I parsed and processed and batched his digital legacy, it came to 7,382 files and around 7 gigabytes. 

Storing legacy digital content with the Internet Archive is a good strategy. I have work to do to figure out how I’m going to preserve my blog and newsletter archive. I want them to stay online for as long as I can figure out how to do it.

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