 They say that most people are forgotten after they die, after probably two generations. So basically after you die, unless you did something spectacular that the world knows of, in 40 or 50 years you're just going to be forgotten. And I wonder how much that's going to change. So for example, just looking back at my lineage. My father who's 65 now I think, maybe 66. His father died at the age of 25, I believe, 24. He was very young. My father was only five years old when his father passed away. I know very little about my grandfather. My mother's side, her parents, my mother, her brother and sister are about 20 years old and her parents were elderly, even when she was younger. They died before I was born as well. My grandmother on my father's side just had her 90th birthday. She's still kicking. I know her very well. But those other grandparents, I know that my mom's father's name was John. I don't know what her mother's name was. I know that he was a cop. That's about all I know about them. My dad's dad, I'm pretty sure his name was Vincent. I've seen, I have one picture of him and my dad when my dad was like, I don't know, two years old. That's the only picture I have. Now my dad has some old black and white films of family stuff that I've seen. My grandfather was probably in that, but they're very few films. The camera's moving around a lot. I've watched it with one or two of them with my dad where he's like, oh, that's so and so, that's so and so. But I don't know any of these people. I don't remember any of these people. How much is that going to change now? For example, right now I'm recording this video, you're all watching it. It's up online. Will it be up online in 50 years or 100 years? Who knows? Who knows? But there is so much video of me in the last couple of years. And that's true of everybody, not just people who do YouTube videos. We all have cell phones. We all take pictures and videos all the time. Growing up, my dad was big into taking pictures and videos. So I have a good amount, or my dad has a good amount of pictures and videos of me as a child. I have a good amount, but I need to get the rest from him. But they're all on these tapes that he's converted some over. But even someone like my dad, who was filming a lot growing up, they're so limited about. But my kids, there's not a day goes by that there's not a picture taken of them. In fact, their kids are hard to get hold of still. So when my wife takes pictures of them, usually she takes three to five pictures of everything she takes pictures of. And they're taking pictures and videos all day long. And what's making me think about this right now, although I've thought about this before, is come to the end of the year, I do regular automatic backups. So my phone and my computer is automatically back up to different servers. My phone backs up to my desktop computer and one of my servers. And then my desktop computer gets backed up to another server in the house and to some storage online. I do yearly backups of all that information, so I take all my pictures and videos and I put them on a drive and I put them in the fireproof safe. So everything is on my desktop, two different servers, as far as photos and videos. My desktop, two different local servers, multiple cloud servers and they're backed up to in my safe, my fireproof safe. And when the hard drives on my servers get full, for example, there was, I had a terabyte drive on one of them and I ended up, I don't even think I really filled that up. I kind of doubled everything up because I just, storage is so cheap now, I just pile on everything on there. And then I backed all that up to the new four terabyte drive I have and put that one in the safe. So, I mean all this video, just so, so much data and the thing is, I know so little about my grandparents, but my grandkids, if they're interested, there's going to be so much video of me. They're not just going to know if they want, they're not just going to know who I am. They're going to know a lot about me. There's only so much I can get from a picture and my dad talking about my dad, which, again, my dad was only five when his father passed away, so there's, how much does he have memory of him? It's a sad thing. Are we going to be forgotten like we are? It's like, it's just so weird to think, I don't know anything about any great-grandparents of mine. I can tell you the names, what they did, what they looked like. I don't know anything and I can ask and learn a little bit, but am I really going to know that person? Now, if you're one of my grandkids or great-grandkids and you're watching this, I love you guys. And you may not be able to sit here and talk to me, but you probably couldn't know so much about me just from watching these videos. You know what I sound like, although I'm still getting over laryngeitis here. You know my mannerisms, things I like, I talk about how I act. You know so much about me and am I going to be forgotten? But then again, there's so much information. Maybe I'll go a couple of generations, but then you go 10 generations down the line. There's just so much history, but all this stuff is going to be available. I mean, the odds of all these videos and pictures of me getting lost, they're up online, they're store multiple places. My kids have copies. When my kids get older, they're going to get copies of all these drives of my ideas. If I pass away, they're going to have access to it. It's just, it's there. People don't know. It would be awesome if I could go back and look at my grandparents, my great-grandparents, my great-great-grandparents, you know, and know so much about them. Again, it's kind of a bounce because a thousand years from now, these videos of me still probably exist, I would think. I mean, unless there's some world catastrophe, but if they are around, there's a lot of information around. There's a lot of things around. It's just a matter of sorting through it all, but all they would really need to know, especially for me. I mean, if your name's John Smith, you know, might be hard for kids, your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great great grandkids to find information out. There's a lot of John Smith's, but how many Chris Akapintes, Christopher Akapintes, spelt with a K and an F are there out there. It's going to be so easy for my kids to find me online and find information about me. And hopefully these files I'm saving are passing out at least a couple generations. I mean, photo albums get passed out, but even photo albums ... I mean how do go back you go back 50 years there's some photos you go back a hundred years do you think there's any photos of my relatives I mean how often people have photos taken of them a hundred years ago there were cameras but not everybody had them it's kind of a luxury to have and even then you know you only took so many photos it's just a weird concept to think about the stuff we're recording now and how different lineage is knowing your your your past then it has been up to this point I mean in the past it's like maybe you're lucky maybe your ancestors kept family trees and maybe they kept diaries and journals and you can read their thoughts but it's not the same video like this clear photos and videos and knowing me and who I am and how I am you can decide whether you hate me or love me a hundred years later a thousand years later again who knows it's gonna be a thousand years later but there's a good chance this this information is still gonna be around you know ignoring some sort of catastrophe that just wipes all information out of the majority of information out there's so much information in storage is so cheap now and yeah I don't expect my great great great great great grandkids to be watching videos of me regularly but at some point in life they might be curious about their their their you know history and where their family came from and and if they wanted to they could find these videos and they could talk to me but there's so many of them out here they're gonna watch and are they gonna be good ones I don't know it's just such a weird thought about how different memories of you are going to be after you pass away now then your ancestors anyway what do you think about this comment below have a great day