Have you ever used them

over 2 years ago

Hello awesome Hivers and Silver Bloggers

This month's #BOM is an invitation to go down memory lane and look back and remember so many things we used in our younger years that have fallen into disuse. Things technology and the passing of time have left behind, but which are still there in our memories.

To illustrate my post, I looked in the cupboard for one of those boxes of my husband's that have still survived all my decluttering attempts. I was looking for some music cassettes, but I didn't find any. However, I did find a lot of Betamax and VHS cassettes. My husband still has a few, most of them recorded by materials from when he was a film student.

In the box, I found a couple of phone cards of the kind we used to call in the phone boxes in those days when we didn't have a mobile phone. I had my first mobile phone in the mid-1990s when I started working, but I remember very well the first models of mobile phones that were called bricks that were used in the early 90s.

I also found slides, and although these are also of my husband and his audiovisual works. I remember seeing in my house, next to the Super 8 film projector, a slide projector where we saw the photos my father took of us as children.

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Taking photos ...

At home, we have a small collection of old cameras, and one of them is a Minolta that belonged to my father. I remember that this camera was a novelty in its time because it used 110 mm film that was used by the simplest cameras and that it was much cheaper, but the camera had a good lens.

At that time, we didn't take photos as we do now. We had to choose carefully what pictures to take because it was expensive to develop the photos.

Listening to music ...

In the 70s, for me, it was the time of the vinyl records that we played on a record player, which here in Venezuela we called Picó. In the 80s, the cassette craze with the launch of the Walkman and how sometimes we used pencils to rewind them forwards or backward.

In the '80s, when I was a teenager and started going to parties, it was trendy to have them with a Miniteca. And I also remember a time when jukeboxes became fashionable, and people used to rent them for parties.

And computers came along...

In my first years of doing homework in school, I remember doing some work using a typewriter. And although I remember that I used an electric typewriter that my aunt had, more than once, I used the old typewriter that is in the picture, and that was in my grandmother's house.

But in the late '70s, computers came along. The first computer in my house was an Apple IIe that my father bought for work. They used floppy disks on which information and software were stored.

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However, at that time, we used to do our homework by researching books in the library, and at home, there was an encyclopedia.

We use to send letters and postcards. And although, there is no doubt that this new era in communication makes it easier for us to stay connected with friends and family in other parts of the world, sending and receiving letters and postcards was very nice.

The old generations always say that the old days were better. I will not fall into that cliche, but I will say that I liked the time I lived in my youth.

This is my out-of-competition post for the Silver Bloggers community #BOM, this month about Things, or memories, from (y)our youth that today's youth will not understand or have seen.

Remember you have until next Tuesday, July, 19 at midnight UTC. You can check instructions and prizes at Blog of the Month - New theme for Tuesday 19 July.

Thank you very much for reading!

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July 17, 2022

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@livinguktaiwan 80

over 2 years ago

That's a travel down memory lane!!

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