Ah, practising your payphone game in the mirror. Those were the days.
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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.
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!
Actually I was pretty lucky because we had a cordless phone for our selfies
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.
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.
