Charleston, S.C.
According to WIRED Magazine these are Things Your Kids May Never Know:
Gadgets
- Typewriters.
- Putting film in your camera: 35mm may have some life still, but what about APS or disk?
- Sending that film away to be processed.
- Having physical prints of photographs come back to you.
- CB radios.
- Getting lost. With GPS coming to more and more phones, your location is only a click away.
- Rotary-dial telephones.
- Answering machines.
- Using a stick to point at information on a wallchart
- Pay phones.
- Phones with actual bells in them.
- Fax machines.
- Vacuum cleaners with bags in them.
We are talking about YOUR kids, not mine. I am happily old.
Last year I had a busload of teenagers being mentored in the hospital for Groundhog Job Shadow day. The students were assigned to surgery, the nursery, physical therapy etc., but of all the excited tales told at lunch the girl who saw her first typewriter in the Administrative Office was the most thrilled. She'd seen them on tv but never in real life.
9 comments:
Mostly true, Joan. Although I think film may be coming back somewhat. I'm shooting film some now and plan to do a lot more...digital cannot quite match no matter how good it is...in fact, I'm buying some film cameras - some good deals out there. And you get the film processed, and scanned (if the store has a really good scanner) or scan it yourself...then it's on your computer and you can print what you wish.
Fortunately, I have a pretty good scanner, but will still send some slide film out to be processed and scanned.
I'll probably do some comparisons in the days ahead on Ocala DP...
A few years ago, my then 11-year-old son saw a rotary phone at one of the Smithonian museums in Washington, D.C. He tried to figure out how you made a call, so he stuck his finger into one of the rings and tried to push down on the number. LOL.
Oh - re: what Jacob said, I just read an article in a German newspaper about film making some sort of a comeback!
I can't go back. I was one of those impatient people who thought an hour was too long to wait. I'd want a discount if it took over an hour.
I was kinda bummed when Polaroid went out of business although I think someone has tried to save them as well.
Looking forward to seeing your comparisons, Jacob.
I'm 32, and the whole notion of the fax machine has kind of passed me by. I find them difficult to use, even though I can reformat your hard drive, fix your lap top, synch your i-phone etc.
I do like that photo, by the by. The trees look great.
My kids definitely wont...when I eventually have them that is! Is it just me who wants to move into that gorgeous looking house?
Kris - They are fussy but wow, what a difference they made when they first came out. It was incredible. You either had to mail or hand carry a single sheet of paper everywhere. We used to have couriers around a hospital just to get orders and slips of paper delivered. It all seems completely unaceptable now. The first fax machines made a huge difference.
Fiona - Isn't it great? It always catches my eye.
I don't think my non-existent children's lives will be affected much by not seeing a typewriter or a rotary dial phone.
It would be sad not to see a phone booth though. Although who uses pay phones anymore with everyone owning mobiles.
Do you remember having to WAIT for your prints to come back? My dad went through a phase where we had to send all of our film to Seattle to be developed...so not only did we have to wait for pictures, but we had to wait a long time!
Halcyon - I try to take pictures of building that still have payphones. They are going to be such period pieces soon. We don't even have any left in the hospital.
Shadow - I couldn't stand it! I remember Seattle Film Works though. I sent some there. I think they had prepaid envelopes of some handy gimmick.
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