Memory Diaries Long-term Archiving Solution

Your Mother plays the central role in
passing culture and family identity from one generation to the next.
Help her out with a long-term digital archive.

Your family has photos, documents,
videos, sounds and other digital files that need to last for
generations. Current storage technologies for digital documents only
last for decades. One solution is a Memory
Diary – long-term storage for individuals.

"I remember going to my
grandmother’s attic and finding a potato chip can filled with film
negatives. Good plan, but I wonder where that potato chip can is
now," said artist Kate Borcherding. "There are files
that are priceless that you do not want to lose: voice recordings of
your children, interviews of your parents, special photos and video,
your life project, wedding photos, baby photos, genealogical records.
Everyone has the same problem that I faced, zero affordable solutions
for digital archival storage for individuals."

A Memory Diary is 100GB of digital
storage for 100 years for $100. The key is the length of
storage, one hundred years for $100. That’s it, a
one-time fee and it is done for 100 years. In contrast, other storage
services according to their published price of $9.95 per month will
cost $10,000 over the same length of time. The difference between
these two options is cold durable archival storage verses warm
storage. A Memory Diary is for DR like losing a phone, a HDD,
changing mobile vendors. Think of the priceless things you never want
to lose. These are the things to put into your Mother’s Memory Diary.

Until May 26, 2013 Memory Diaries is a
project
funding at Kickstarter, Inc.

On May 27, 2013 it will
become available for
pre-order.