There are several forms of legacy media that I’ve used and still use in my life.  The main one being books.  From the moment i was conceived to now I’m still reading books (my dad used to read to me while I was still in the womb).  I don’t feel like they’ll ever completely disappear or be replaced by eBooks or the internet mostly because of the “sentimental” value that they have.  Physical books can be passed down or held onto for generations; my family has kept my dad’s children’s bible forever even though its falling apart, and I’m pretty sure my brother tried to eat it when he was a baby, but it still sits on our bookshelf, along with a lot of other books we read as children.

Today, most the books that I am reading are textbooks that I’ve been assigned, but I still prefer physical books over online textbooks.  I feel like they allow for a better way of learning and retaining information as opposed to reading information off of a screen.

The other form of legacy media that had a huge impact on my life was VHS tapes.  Growing up, that’s all I would watch, and I could sit there and watch the same movie again and again if I wanted to.  Every Disney movie and sesame street movie you can think of is somewhere in a basket in my parents’ closet.  There’s still times now when someone will ask, “Have you seen (any classic movie)?” and my mom will respond, “Yeah!!! We have it on VHS!” and then she’ll sadly come to the realization that it really doesn’t matter because we don’t even have a VHS player anymore.