Remember when we had to save every project on a floppy disk?

I was cleaning out my old desk and found a box of them from around 2003. I tried to open a piece I made for a class project, but the disk was corrupted and the file was just gone. That whole piece, maybe 20 hours of work on a really old version of Paint Shop Pro, just vanished. It made me think about how easy we have it now with cloud saves and automatic backups. Has anyone else lost a big piece of work from the early days because of bad tech?

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stellabennett5mo ago

Honestly I still get nervous about cloud services going down.

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jessefoster5mo ago

Yeah @stellabennett, that's a totally fair worry to have.

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