[sokoloff]

I have friends who have died and for whom I’ve lost our chat logs (some back from the AIM days). I also carelessly lost my home dir from college with my thesis and thesis code/data in it. (Tar, gzip, ftp in ascii mode, don’t check for months.)

Is my life meaningfully worse for those losses? No, not really. Have there been several times when it would have been better (even just temporary happiness/comfort) if I had access to the data? Definitely yes.