TIFU by being young and stupid by throwing away family photos

Obligatory statement that this didn’t happen today or last year, but actually many, many years ago.

Roll back 2010’s my family just got introduced to computers and me being just a silly 10 year old who only had flash games in mind and nothing else didn’t really think out certain things. If you remember there was a Picasa 3 app thingy and my family made me the tech head at that time as I helped with uploading pictures to the computer and on some social media sites. Well I remember there being about 5000 photos and videos on that hard drive, I don’t think I knew what cloud service even was back then and whether or not I even had it activated.

Anyways FF to 2015, I’m 15 and the PC died, and what did my dumbass do at that time? I didn’t even think about photos, nor did my family its just something I wish I would’ve kept, but basically I took the hard drive, opened it as a fun science experiment and later just threw it in the garbage, though it was dead as soon as I opened the cover. As if that wasn’t bad enough, those social media accounts? I didn’t backup those either and just deleted them because why would I care about some random photos.

Now we just have physical photo albums till about 2008, a large gap and resuming from like 2016. What I wouldn’t give to view those photos again just for the memories. I still hate myself.

TL;DR Was young, didn’t care about a thing as photos, didn’t know what a cloud service was or backups even. Opened and destroyed a hard drive worth something more than money can buy.