--- title: The digital legacy problem: what happens to the people... description: Eternal Memory founders Israel Elgamil and Itamar Evgey are building a digital time capsule platform where people curate meaningful photos, videos, and stories... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-digital-legacy-problem-what-happens-to-the-people-behind-the-memories--fffou825p twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The digital legacy problem: what happens to the people behind the memories? | daily.dev og:description: Eternal Memory founders Israel Elgamil and Itamar Evgey are building a digital time capsule platform where people curate meaningful photos, videos, and stories... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-digital-legacy-problem-what-happens-to-the-people-behind-the-memories--fffou825p og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/fFfOU825P.png og:image:alt: The digital legacy problem: what happens to the people behind the memories? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The digital legacy problem: what happens to the people behind the memories? **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Eternal Memory founders Israel Elgamil and Itamar Evgey are building a digital time capsule platform where people curate meaningful photos, videos, and stories rather than accumulating everything indiscriminately across scattered social platforms. They cite Pew Research data showing 84% of US adults use YouTube and 71% use Facebook, plus Library of Congress preservation guidance, to argue that digital archives lack context for future viewers. The free platform positions itself as complementary to social media, focused on deliberate preservation rather than ongoing social interaction, aiming to help future generations understand what mattered to someone. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [A digital dark age? 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