I used an app that let me download all my texts from my iphone and export them as a giant 8 gb PDF. Not ideal but at least then I had like ten years of chats out of the ether and into a different form. It included the images too. Some of those exchanges I’d rather not remember but maybe some day somebody will?
"So when Apple goes down, that all disappears, too. Suddenly wishing I were a Victorian lady keeping my correspondence in hat boxes…" Kyle Chaka writes about this in Filter World!! How current tech is so .... dissolvable. If Spotify changes, we don't have our collection of favorite songs anymore the way we used to buy records; how Tumblr posts are now broken links, something a physical journal couldn't do, etc.
I love people with strong opinions and I trust JLee - especially because he’s semi anonymous and not really here for the clout .
I used an app that let me download all my texts from my iphone and export them as a giant 8 gb PDF. Not ideal but at least then I had like ten years of chats out of the ether and into a different form. It included the images too. Some of those exchanges I’d rather not remember but maybe some day somebody will?
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wait can you tell me (a fellow text-hoarder) which app you used that worked?
oh sure! it's https://imazing.com
Wait...some people don't want every text message they've ever written to disappear?!?!?
I'd pay a stooge to burn all of them.
"So when Apple goes down, that all disappears, too. Suddenly wishing I were a Victorian lady keeping my correspondence in hat boxes…" Kyle Chaka writes about this in Filter World!! How current tech is so .... dissolvable. If Spotify changes, we don't have our collection of favorite songs anymore the way we used to buy records; how Tumblr posts are now broken links, something a physical journal couldn't do, etc.
The Hilma af Klint link is broken - thanks!
ah sorry!! It was just to the MOMA website fwiw https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5779