>Because the the welter of proprietary, undocumented formats, media bitrot and the like we are actually moving away from such a point.
The best we can probably say is that it's different. We're capable of saving far more but, in practice, a lot of digital media is locked up in walled gardens and accounts that have to be paid for and require logins.
It's presumably easier to save a bunch of photographs or videos in a way that they'll be accessible so long as key Internet sites or their successors are. A fire or flood probably won't destroy them. OTOH, unless you've taken affirmative steps to upload that media to the right place, it won't be serendipitously discovered in a shoebox some day in the future.
The best we can probably say is that it's different. We're capable of saving far more but, in practice, a lot of digital media is locked up in walled gardens and accounts that have to be paid for and require logins.
It's presumably easier to save a bunch of photographs or videos in a way that they'll be accessible so long as key Internet sites or their successors are. A fire or flood probably won't destroy them. OTOH, unless you've taken affirmative steps to upload that media to the right place, it won't be serendipitously discovered in a shoebox some day in the future.