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One of my fondest childhood memories is sitting with my grandmother and going through an amazing cardboard box filled with hundreds and hundreds of old photographs. I would scan each one for relatives and people I knew and my grandmother would point out the ones I didn’t know and tell me who they were. Her parents, her grandparents, great uncles and aunts, distant cousins, old cars of a style I had never seen, and more filled those photos. We spent hours sitting together this way.

Some of those photos were easily thirty or forty years old when I was a small child. Those pictures are still just as much fun to look at today as they were then. They were, of course, taken the old-fashioned way, with film that had to be developed in a dark room, by a qualified expert. It was a tedious process that wasn’t exactly convenient. Today of course, we have it easier.

We can take pictures with a digital camera and view them on any computer screen instantly. We can email them to distant relatives who receive them hundreds or thousands of miles away in just seconds. We can even print them out, make enlargements or reductions and put them away in a giant cardboard box in a closet. There’s only one problem. They most likely won’t last.

We can buy photo paper for our ink jet printers and print out the photos, but the ink fades over time unless we buy special paper and ink that costs much more and claims to be of archival quality. Few of us do. We can store the photos on our computers, but hard drives fail and then all the pictures can be lost. We can make copies on CD’s, or DVD’s, but these become scratched and unreadable over time, and may even fade until they are unreadable. If disk technology changes, then we won’t even have computer capable of reading the old disks. Does anybody still have a floppy drive that will handle the old Kodak picture discs?

Some say the new technology is better, but I shall always remain a fan of the big old cardboard box filled with chemically developed photographs from a bygone era. Of course, if you do lose your photographs to a hard drive failure or an unreadable disk or CD, you can quite probably recover them by using the services of a data recovery house. Data recovery houses specialize in taking defective media and retrieving files, data, and yes, pictures from the damaged disk and storing them on a new fresh disk.

Of course, this is only needed if you don’t regularly back up your important files. Some people think important files are tax records, financial spreadsheets and the like. Me, I think the most important files any of us have are photographs. In five years or seven, the financial files will be meaningless and discarded, but the photographs will be even more valuable to us than they were when we took them. I know what it meant to me to sit with my grandmother and look through those old photos, I can only imagine how much she must have enjoyed sitting with her rapt young grandson and talking about them.