A lot of families are cleaning out the homes of relatives who passed away a nd finding pictures, negatives, slides, reels of movie film and magnetic me dia. I came across a site in my Spam folder of a company that has the equip ment to turn all those old formats into digital format so it can be viewed on modern gear. I have no connection with these folks and I'm sure there ar e other companies providing the same sort of service but I found their site interesting and I can only imagine the old equipment they must keep runnin g in order to process all of the old formats.
My VHS tape player is long gone and I haven't used a film camera since the mid 1980's. When I see new doctors I hand them a thumb drive containing my medical records. Media formats seem to be ever changing and I save a lot of stuff to my Google Drive and One Drive accounts so I can access it whereve r I might be as long as there is WiFi. What's going to happen if people sav e everything to "The Cloud" and pass away with no one else having a passwor d to their accounts? I imagine a lot of memories will be lost. ?( ?)?