Remember these?
If not, enjoy your relative youth. If you’re old, like me, you’ll remember that you put the dial into the View Finder and use that little blue lever to move the images forward. Sometimes they’d be of spots like the Grand Canyon, or cities from afar. Other times, like below, it could be a cartoon ‘episode’.
I used to revel in the fact that older generations had been alive to watch the television being created, or even automobiles going back farther. I’m not sure exactly what the perfect analog is for me, but I went from using these as a kid to the new world being … this:
Sure, we don’t have jetpacks yet (and I’d love to know why not), but sometimes it’s easy to forget just how much technology has rushed into our lives. I’m not ready to buy a Vision Pro (though I do have a rarely used Oculus Quest 2), but things move very fast. I saw this last weekend and legitimately wondered if my kid would know what it was for:
That’s an old rotary phone, up on the roof of a seafood restaurant for no reason I could figure out. But my expectations of my cellphone today compared to using these and all the limitations to needing to find a pay phone, or calling someone and it ringing forever, because they didn’t have an answering machine or voicemail, because those didn’t exist.
Life moves fast.