[stackedinserter]

Not only for early 2000's, even now people routinely keep ALL their photos on their phones, without making any copies. Take a photo -> send to someone -> keep them forever -> delete when there's no space left, that's standard lifecycle, at least in my circle.

[iberator]

You must be extremely young.

[stackedinserter]

Dude I loaded programs into ferrite cubes from perforated tapes, gtfo.

[stavros]

Really? Most people I know have either iCloud or Google Photos. Not that I prefer that approach, but it sure beats losing everything when you swap phones.