Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for August 10, 2015

At the risk of making Arlo lachrymose he is going to find there will be things other than pictures that won’t be "popping"up" in 20 years.

With the ever changing advancement of our media and its storage, Arlo is much more right than wrong.

Next on CNN: Why the comic strip “Arlo and Janis” attracts Dirty Old Men.

I have got tons of pictures floppy discs. Now what?

Why do people act as if you can’t like real books AND digital books? They are both great for different reasons. Stop this “with us or against us” crap already!

@ralphyork666And yet another good thing about my tablet…I can highlight lachrymose and get the EXACT definition, as opposed to what I assume it to mean, and not have to go get a huge dictionary to look it up in! And it takes seconds…not a good chunk of my morning!

In twenty years those pictures will have been uploaded into our cerebrums.

I’m with Arlo here. Someday we old dodderers will all die off, though, and the Millennials will have their digitized universe all to themselves. Wonder if they’ll cling to their old devices as 4D, 5D, . . .∞D upgrades replace them. (No, they can’t, because their old devices will be planned-obsolescent disabled.)

I’ve got a bunch of pictures here on a 5¼" floppy I can look at any time I want!

I have two books, 20+ booklets, and an unknown quantity of articles trapped in PageMaker V in a dying pizza box and I can’t rescue. QED.

I’ve read, but haven’t done it yet, that you should put a recurring appointment on your calendar to review and copy/update your picture and music collection every 10 years. Now, that assumes you will have the same calendar in 10 years.

It’s that thing Micro$oft started with changing the Format of Everything with every New Release..It was their way of trying to keep all Non Micro$oft software from being able to access anything created with M$ $oftware. .

I am reminded how the Department of Defense once had placed all records related to the Vietnam War on Hollerith cards..then they had to scrounge through museums to find a device to read them.