Kids nowadays honestly have no idea how much work it was to get a photo then compared to now. We had to go out, buy a roll of film with like 24 photos on it, take the photos without having a clue what they looked like, and knowing we only had a limited amount, then we mailed them off and waited like a week for them to come back. If someone was blinking or your dumbass kid (me) was pulling a stupid face then you were stuck with it.
The flashes were also limited use, and even more expensive than the film.
Wow, I feel like we go back further in time with every comment
My dad had magnesium flash bulbs, but by the time I had a camera they were all electric flashes. It was still film that needed to be developed, but at least there weren’t bulbs you had to replace
There was a lot of overlap between the two. Expensive cameras had electric flashes, but cheap cameras would have a spot to hook up a disposable flash instead. I had a cheap camera. I could basically only take pictures outdoors in the daytime.
I might have been too-young when they transitioned; i had a children’s camera that didn’t have a flash at all, and by the time I was in middle-school everything had switched to electric flashes and disposable cameras (which we enjoyed abusing by charging the flash and then smacking the camera to short the flimsy flash circuit without exposing the film).
Yea even in the early to mid 90s I remember those disposable camera with the flash packs you could buy separately. I used to take a bunch of pictures but almost never got them developed since i enjoyed taking the photos more than seeing the results.
The hardest parts were setting up the tripod and then getting the subjects to hold still for so long. That Lincoln guy was the worst.
Oh, and you forgot the next steps if you wanted it on your computer: Find some one with a scanner and copy it to a floppy disk or wait 10-20 minutes to email it.
Digital cameras were a revelation! They removed those stepsSHIT I FORGOT THE DAMN PROPRIETARY DATA TRANSFER CABLE!
That’s why you get one that can take a floppy disk.
Good old Sony Mavicas 🥲
Remember photo cds?
It never even occurred to me that people may have had to mail them. I live in a fairly small town, and even we had a 24hr photo shop.
“Please insert .50 to continue the call.”
in my childhood it was only $0.10.
something something pepperidge farm
[silence]
[beeping noises] “Please insert .50 to continue the call.”
I’m putting way to much thought in this, but I am seeing a payphone and no camera, but I’m also seeing an anatomically correct hand and a properly mirrored Champion logo.
Don’t think too hard. Just enjoy this smug motherfucker KNOWING he has the shot and the joke.
The smartphone /w camera is in their right hand, being blocked from view by the white frame of the mirror.
Hell this meme is old enough that they probably used a point and shoot to take the photo instead of a smart phone.
But if it was that old, they wouldn’t have known that future phones would be able to take pictures. Therefore they wouldn’t have made the joke in the first place.
True hadn’t thought about that. You’re probably right but there was a significant overlap between the release of the iPhone and when people stopped using small digital cameras. Plus mirror selfies with flip phones was a thing.
Ha if you’re hinting at AI this is an elder millennial meme that’s been around for a while.
As an elder millennial myself though, gotta love it. Assuming phones are a thing when my kids are older will def bust this out in 5-10yrs
Yeah, I’m just appreciating the artistry in setting up a shot like this for a domb visual gag. This would have taken actual effort, bravo
Smartphone in his right Hand. Thats why the angle is a bit of.
could also be a picture of them behind a mirror frame being photographed by someone else. photo was mirrored in post-processing.
Sent by 1-800-Collect
Bobwehadababyitsaboy
“This is a collect call from ‘HiMomBandPracticeIsOverCanYouPickMeUp’ Do you accept the charges?”
That’s C-O-L-L-E-C-T
Actually I was pretty lucky because we had a cordless phone for our selfies
Ah, practising your payphone game in the mirror. Those were the days.
