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Lots. I was born in the 80ies and my parents took lots of pictures when I was a baby. My sister was born a few years later, and there was also lots of pictures. We have albums full of pictures that I ended up scanning and digitizing. My father was also somewhat of an enthusiast for video cameras and he bought a BetaCam by the end of the 80ies, and a few other ones until the beginning of the 2000s.
So I have videos of my childhood from my first years of school to being a teenager. He was filming at Christmas, at birthdays, and sometimes at random events. He often just set the camera in a corner and filmed for the length of a Beta tape.
I digitized all of the Beta cassettes into mp4s during the pandemic and now I offer USB drives to people of the family that don't have any videos of when my grandparents were alive.
Plus, my maternal grandfather also filmed some gatherings and events. So I also have digitized videos of them in the 60ies and 70ies.
Ironically most of us never liked to be taken in photos, or filmed, but I'm kind of glad we still have them. If I compare to my friends, apparently, I have a "treasure trove" of videos and pictures.
Damn, I wish my life was this documented...
I don't even have a journal, don't even remember what exactly 8 year old me was thinking at the time... ironically I didnt write because privacy reasons... now I'm not sure if I should regret it or not...
I should've just used a cipher to write...
but I was too paranoid... or maybe just too lazy...
In the end though, it's not making much of a difference aside from nostalgic value. There's a minimal maintenance to it too. My parents still have the cassettes and the Betamax VCR stored somewhere. Physical photo albums also have to be stored. We don't want to get rid of them but they're kind of useless now. It's around 200 GBs of files to be kept.
It's also a bit cringe to see yourself being a stupid kid on video. Or read what you wrote in a journal on a floppy disk in the mid 90ies. I went to watch a few minutes because we mentioned it but it's not something any of my family members return to regularly. It's just stuff that now sits there. Nice and nostalgic to watch every few years or decade, but not healthy to keep returning to it.