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Nostalgia

I have thousands of slides from my stusies in Rome and Europe and hundreds and hundreds of overheads from all those pre-Power Point presentations....no one is going to want any of this shit.
 
rareboy said:
I have thousands of slides from my stusies in Rome and Europe and hundreds and hundreds of overheads from all those pre-Power Point presentations....no one is going to want any of this shit.
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Have you looked at them lately? I went through my dad’s slides from the 70’s to transfer them to digital and most of them had degraded to a point you couldn’t see them
 
"That 70's" Fashion or Halloween Costume?

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LilBit said:
I finally threw out my overhead slides in 2013. Up until then, I still occasionally had classrooms without any technology more advanced than an overhead projector.

And I had a professor in grad school who would still use the old carousel-style projector to show slides of artwork. She insisted that digital images couldn't capture the richness of the original work the way photographic slides could.
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Oh I forgot to mention the time one of her slides started burning in the middle of class. She damn near broke down weeping, she was so fond of those slides. She didn't even seem to care that they had taken on a distinct sepia hue over the decades.
 
I seldom saw slides used in school. They had the projectors, and it did happen--but not that often. The one teacher I remember using them apparently kept them loaded in a carousel tray permanently, which seems in retrospect a bit wasteful for a slideshow used once a year.

But filmstrips were quite commonly used.

I remember one teacher tellng me with glee how he'd taken one old outdated filmstrip and left it sitting in a hot projector to see what would happen. I can't remember the gory details, but it was destroyed.
 
^I certainly remember AOL. I remember all those disks that were everywhere. I remember hearing stories about people who didn't buy floppy disks--they just took all the free AOL install disks that came their way and reformatted. Of course, that got foiled when they started shipping CDs.

I never had AOL--or any other early on-line service. Those services of various types were available even in the early 1980s. I never had a modem with my first computer--I got started with what I needed (or thought I needed) for the moment, and then didn't really make major changes. Internet interested me in the mid-1990s, and I remember reading that my computer could--in theory--be used on the Internet if I had more memory, a modem, and an upgraded OS. But it was hard to justify and I was not in a position then to do it. I have to wonder in retrospect if that computer would have worked very well for the Internet. It served me well, but it was getting older. Plus I only had a monochrome screen.
 
Alistair said:
Have you looked at them lately? I went through my dad’s slides from the 70’s to transfer them to digital and most of them had degraded to a point you couldn’t see them
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I have not. I suspect the reality is that they have become unwatchable.
 
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