<p>Published: Monday, August 26, 2013 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, August 23, 2013 at 5:29 p.m.</p><p>Excuse me while I rewind the tech clock a few years. Remember the proverbial shoebox of photos that grandma keeps under the bed? You know, tucked between the mothballs and the crochet needles? That little box of old prints no doubt contains more memories of your life than Facebook could ever imagine. You can count on that box being there for the long haul, which is more than you can say about the bounty of memories that are a delete button away from oblivion.</p><p>Let's face it, smartphone-ography is alive and well. Photographs are being snapped at a historic rate. We have the apps, we have the digital albums, we have the social media and we can even throw in some vintage "insta-filters" to make even grandma happy. What we haven't figured out is the legacy part.</p><p>How many images have we lost already between software crashes or hardware disasters? Shoeboxes don't self-destruct like hard drives do. If you're like me you might have storage devices like zip disks or floppy disks with images that very well might never be retrieved. More computers are being shipped without CD/DVD drives these days. Think those USB flash drives will do the trick? Beware, guessing what technology will look like in the future is a losing proposition.</p><p><a href="http://www.gainesville.com/article/20130826/COLUMNISTS/130829790">Keep reading...</a></p>