Got my slides back in the mail yesterday from my old publisher that is going out of business. Slides, really, yes, really!
So, we took photos with cameras that were not doubling as phones. There were polaroids that made an instant image and slides and prints that needed to be developed.
You couldn’t delete them on the film until after they were developed and then you could throw the worst of them away.
With music, we had records, 45’s with a song on each side that you had to manually flip and then albums that played longer. Then cassettes, 8 tracks, reel to reel, CD’s and then streaming. You could get the same Beatles song in all these different formats.
Format changes barely changed the content.
But I did notice that you could get new friends with a fax, or a cell phone or a YouTube channel. I was definitely not a first adapter. By the time I accepted the email challenge, a lot of people were already there waiting to email and then text instead of calling or meeting in person.
What were some of your favorite formats?
For a long phone conversation, I still love my cordless AT&T landline. For texting and now inputting here, I love my camera cell phone.
Joyce Lieberman 