Most portfolio websites don't usually stay up more than 3-5 years in my experience.
Someone graduates college, or is about to, they often throw up their resume on the internet or a personal portfolio site- a couple years later it's gone to cyber dust.
Family photos and videos, wedding photos and videos are all an amalgamation and mess of various media forms, usually.
Amazon, Google, iCloud, Dropbox, et. al, all offer their various forms of Cloud storage, some people utilize them for various purposes, some don't.
Usually, you need a good archiver in the family to keep track of these things all in one place to save it.
One person needs incentive, or wants to live digitally, relive moments. It's inevitable we relive more and more moments virtually in AR and VR. However, without an adequate, permanent- near-indestructible storage solution it's still going to be lost to cyber dust.
Eventually, most of the storage on the internet will likely be archived somewhere, but not all of it. Personal moments will likely, many will be lost.
There have been several projects to create digital, immortal footprints for the most interested people to participate in to create an avatar representation of themselves that will last while they're gone. Most of these projects are dead in the water.
I've contacted the MIT led project eterni.me, the project is on hold. Alethea is cool to interact with, but it's a GPT-3 mess that doesn't represent, at least what I would want left behind, anything talking on my behalf- as much of it is still nonsensical (just as my opinion, for my own avatar).
It seems the solution has to be multi-layered, and curated by human librarians, at least for now, or maybe forever into the future.
I would envision many cold-sites and many hot-sites readily available around the globe. For instance, a server hosted on the main server data sites with my digital avatar, connected and serving what I would define as my pre-supposed answers to questions- "Jim, what did you think about cryptocurrency getting close to breaking 1T market cap before the pandemic?" Someone could ask my digital avatar in the year 2250, and I would love for it to serve the answer, exactly how I'd answer the question today.
Some people choose to live their lives in the moment, respectfully so, and not worry about storing their lives in a measure of vanity in a living repository. It can be seen as a waste of time, arguably, why focus on later when I can focus on now?
But, I think it would be so cool to pose some of these answer/questions in a living avatar, sustainably somewhere, easily. Think of something you'd like to share to future generations, some life lesson, or something you feel defines you or an anecdote you hold dear? Tell your grandchildren's children about it should they inquire in 300 years. Get into the head of a coder who's working on level 3 and level 4 autonomous vehicles so we can crack level 5 and seemingly further insurmountable problems. Just start documenting the coolest things, our thoughts on the hardest problems and their possible solutions.
But how does it not get lost to cyber dust? It seems it has to be some kind of LLC or Corporation would need to be formed with people indefinitely employed to care after a 100% sustainable storage server, specifically for storing memories and notes, curating them, and serving them as the owners would intend as per their direction. Sure, Google/Alphabet can continue to store YouTube data, and Facebook/Meta can continue to store whatever you posted to your timeline. But maybe, some kind of on-death activate avatar, something maybe you can tie to a will springs to life when you go. I would garner to say, most don't post their most intimate thoughts on YouTube, instead- most are feeding an algorithm.
What if, there was a repository of your true self, how you would want it represented, and you easily set it accordingly. It wouldn't take too much of a time investment, maybe, to log your most inner thoughts that are not available elsewhere, deciphering your life. A rosetta stone that can gleam yourself to others in your own words, thoughts that guided you, your most useful inferences.
Microsoft made a patent for recreating memories, companies are looking at this. I think the best solution will always be the one that guarantees uptime, creates the best network infrastructure no matter any existential risk, and becomes a concierge for people who want to share their thoughts through time, agreeably and specifically how they would want. I think it would be possible, and I want to create personal digital avatars and portfolios that never die. Capture the best memories of someone's life, and share them as VR experiences too so when we're gone, our best and most triumphing moments live on- leaving more good in the world than bad, that's not lost to time... Imagine if your best moments lived forever, your most loving and awe-inspiring moments, and your best experiences and conjectures about our world can be expounded on by future generations, distinctly.