Digital Archiving Mugs

"And to Nathan, I bequeath 200 terabytes of photos."

"I'm scanning these old photos we're afraid of losing into my computer so I can lose them there."

"Meet the scribe"

Historical memory is on life support.

"I imagined the Library of Congress would be much bigger."

Video Henge: made from melting and molding 3,000,000 obsolete VCR tapes.

'The definition of OBSOLETE: old fashioned dictionaries.'

'...then Johannes Gutenberg built the first bookcase'

'You're right. Our old safety files have become a safety concern.'

"Oops! I just deleted all your files. Can you repeat everything you've ever told me?"

Letter Collecting Nerd

"Don’t you eyeball me, Ed! That’s right, look down at the table. Only technicians who remember to back up the data can look at me! And if you start to cry I will fire you!"

'From albums to 8-tracks to cassettes to CD's...What a long, loud trip it's been!'

Office worker pushing a pile of papers on trolley.

(No caption. Signs on file cabinets drawers read, "Files Saved to Hard Drive," "Files Saved to Disk," "Files Saved to Traveldrive," "Trash.")

Early Programmers.

Catalogue of little books.

"I think I'll keep a diary..."

We have a nice selection of office artifacts, a typewriter, carbon paper, ashtrays, our CEO's last handwritten memo...

"My Gmail account is full. I can't get any more email." "So?" "I'll miss email. It was so old-timey. You could write hundreds or even thousands of words, with actual paragraphs." "People didn't see any little animations to show them you were typing. They had to actually wonder if you were going to reply." "And the spam was fun. You never got to hear from Nigerian princes while you're checking your texts." "Just delete stuff." "If you delete a few gigs of old emails, you'll be able to get n

Attic of hopes and dreams...

Wow, Ernie, another previously undiscovered tomb. And it has some unusual images. Is that a picture of the first sandwich? A thumbs up is next to it. The first "like"! Here's a drawing of a family and a heart has been added. The first emoji! This bird looks exactly like one we saw in the last tomb. The first retweet. Could this be the first social media? Yes! And this is how they scrolled!

'Does anyone know where we keep the unwritten rules?'

Megabyte Information Processing Center.

"There's no money in your uncle's will. You are, however, directed to maintain his 5 cats and Facebook account."

"Could you speak a little louder? I'm recording this."

Today's alpha-lesson is "Keep a journal." The average person lets life pass them by. The events of their lives fade into nothingness. An alpha knows that long after they're gone, their thoughts and experiences will be of great interest to historians. That's not an original thought. I read it in the papyrus Randus Maximus XIV left in a safe deposit box after he helped conquer Judea.

'Lost Diary'

"I've recorded every noise my baby makes, so that when he's older I can play it back and he can tell me what he was trying to say. . .!"

Archeologists discover Egyptian Computers.

Honour Being Served 'Apps at Dawn'.

'The last Doctor to go into medical records has still not been found.'

Magic Ring to gain entry into Tolkien Archive

How to create a password you can remember...

''The Thinker' is an outdated concept.'