> I got a picture of my great grandfather, thing took six hours to take your picture. [...] Every guy had one picture back then. And it's just him like, "[grimacing] I gotta get back, feed them hogs!" Now, in the future of course it'll be different. 50 years from now, people will be going like, "Hey! You wanna see a hundred thousand pictures of my great grandfather? I got 'em right here plus everything he did every day of his life." --Norm Macdonald[1]
There is certainly a quantity of stuff online that is absolutely worth saving, but there's a considerably larger proportion that's just redundant to the point of being unremarkable and pointless. The trick is filtering, which can be capital-H Hard. That's why some may want to err on the side of over-collecting to reduce the possibility of missing something that will actually be important someday.
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