My Father’s Death in 7 Gigabytes | WIRED
www.wired.com/story/my-fathers-death-in-7-gigabytes-internet-archive
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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