Driving through the Dutch countryside near the town of Hilversum, I have an overwhelming feeling that the surrounding water will wash out the road, given that my car is almost level with it. So it’s ...

It’s all there on vinyl, tape, film, and paper–your memories, your creations, your collections–all your media memorabilia. But in analog form, the content is difficult and time-consuming to organize ...

With digital imagery we don’t have to worry about limited shots, whether we put the film in correctly, or what will come back from the drugstore. The cloud holds all, ready to share on a screen near ...

Good news, everyone: My bar mitzvah videos from the mid-1990s are now digitized for the ages. While I have no intention of actually watching them — oy, the embarrassment — I recently received the ...

Digitizing vinyl is a lot harder than ripping a CD. An external CD drive costs $26 on Amazon; a record player with a digital output costs $250 or more. Plus you have to use special software, specify ...

Before smartphones and Instagram feeds, photographs were printed and stored in shoeboxes and albums. These tangible snapshots were the best way to revisit old memories: photos of great grandparents, ...