Old photo's

Anyone still have old photo's of themselves ? Or has the digital age ,my cloud etc removed the need for physical prints ...
We can now scan and store everything electronically.

So in 50 years
Money
Books
And much more will become obscure odities much like LP's
8 track tapes
And sending letters through the post...

What do remember from your youth that was cutting edge technology but is now gathering dust in a corner of your storage unit ?

Lol
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Blue that is so true but some people are " collectors" or " resellers".
If you collect or sell anything when you aren't busy at work or the gym

What would you treasure.dunno
P.S. Blue my old photos of family give me comfort because I can hold on to their memories,literally.
Looking at them on a computer doesn't evoke a sentimental feeling in me.
I have no "gathering dust" space, Blue. I'm the queen of the downsize. laugh
i have some floppy disks
I'm so tempted to go there.rolling on the floor laughing B 'Bye Ladies.


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laugh floppy disks are not something that I'd be putting out there for all to know about, Free.grin
Gypsy! tongue
i just got a rotary dial phone in avocado green. a classic from the '70's. i'm boasting.
I have an old stereo receiver. Still works pretty well though some of the internal parts might be a bit dried up.grin
oh god.....
Ash...it may just need a bit of lubrication dancing
coconut oil? dunno
Maybe, Free! It'll have to be really rubbed into all the nooks and crannies before I can tell whether that's all it needs.
Gypsy, make sure the needle is sharp for the best sound.
Except for the old photos, i get rid of everything that i don't touch in two years. That's how my husband has finally gone.
OB - I remember getting my first record-player! What a thrill. It was made by that now completed buried by the Japanese explosion' british electrical company 'Bush'
It had a neat auto arm reset when the record had finished and it had an amazing 10 record stacker...that dropped the next disc to play on top of the previous one ( which always failed miserably if you piled more than 3 records on it!)
The first record that I bought to play on it was a 45 single.'Night of the Long Grass' by the Troggs...haha

Happy Days!
I've got lots of old photos, records, in fact got a new record player so I can play them. Also a elephant toy that's over 50 years old and very very tatty but it holds so many memories and belonged to my husband so it stays. The other old/vintage thing gathering dust is me rolling on the floor laughing
Very true Blue.
we have become tech dependent in many ways.
Not sure if I like the idea of a moneyless future,
It has become synonymous with being tracked and monitored dunno
As for the books I still prefer paperbacks over Reading them on a pad or tablet.
But I think that is one thing that sets the divide in our generation gap with our kids and grand kids.

On a shelf in my parents house sit all the old photos and albums,
I personally have none.

I have an old tape cassette player at home somewhere
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Oldblue54 / you are not old fashioned, only smart. Your grandchildren will enjoy your fantastic photo prints from another age, while the rest who are too caught up in the marketing hypes of technology will lose theirs to format change and storage media degradation.

Also, the obvious point is that a photographic print is not like an LP or 8 track tape. It does not need a device to play back. Same goes for paper books. They can last more than 500 years and need no stupid gizmo to read.

banana
A bottle of Tippex, once hailed as the greatest thing in an office. It was [as you probably know?] a bottle of white liquid for blanking out typing errors, and like a bottle of nail polish you dabbed it on to the typing error.

It was a terrific invention, then some years later, the Word processing Typewriter came in where you could back space and delete, and the rest is history.typing
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