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My oldest photo in Google Photos is from 1994.

My oldest email in Gmail is from 1996.

My oldest file in Google Drive is from 1998.

All of which pre-date their current storage (and some of which pre-date the company that created the current storage).

None of which is as important as anything in a VCS in terms of wanting to keep history intact.

BTW: If any Google engineer is present: Gmail search over mail older than a decade is terrible. Just terrible.