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stevieraveonstevieraveon Posts: 413
edited July 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
Do you ever curse that there wasn't technology around in our early years to document our growing up?

Just wondering because I just found a bunch of old Super 8's and a projector as I was moving my dad from his current house into an old folks home. My mom died when I was 10 and we lost all our pictures moving when I was 12 so I had about 3 pictures of my mom to remember her.

I turn on these Super 8's that I didn't know existed and BAM! there she is is video (no sound on those of course). It's so surreal watching just a few frames of me playing baseball, on vacation, on a xmas in the late 70's when I had no pictures of any of this stuff.

To think how my sister is getting so much footage of my nephews now on an HD video...the thousands of photographs they'll have and videos they'll see.
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  • libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    Yeah my parent had all old movies of my sister and when we were kids. They had it converted to VHS in the Mid-ninties. :D
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  • StateOfLoveBoatCptn.StateOfLoveBoatCptn. Posts: 904
    stevieraveon wrote:
    Do you ever curse that there wasn't technology around in our early years to document our growing up?

    Just wondering because I just found a bunch of old Super 8's and a projector as I was moving my dad from his current house into an old folks home. My mom died when I was 10 and we lost all our pictures moving when I was 12 so I had about 3 pictures of my mom to remember her.

    I turn on these Super 8's that I didn't know existed and BAM! there she is is video (no sound on those of course). It's so surreal watching just a few frames of me playing baseball, on vacation, on a xmas in the late 70's when I had no pictures of any of this stuff.

    To think how my sister is getting so much footage of my nephews now on an HD video...the thousands of photographs they'll have and videos they'll see.
    I'd have to say I'm torn. Yes it would be nice to have more 'memories' from back then. But at the same time I think with so much now, the appreciation isn't there. I like seeinng random pictures from the 'good ol days'. Now with digital cameras, we have 67 pictures of the same damn pose.....I don't know.
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  • smarcheesmarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    I think my dad has like 15 boxes of slides of us growing up in the late 1970s and really early 1980s, so there should be lots of memories to look at for us, but it is definitly way more easier today
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  • the wolfthe wolf Posts: 7,027
    libragirl wrote:
    Yeah my parent had all old movies of my sister and when we were kids. They had it converted to VHS in the Mid-ninties. :D


    same here!! the person that converted it put some cheesy music to it too !!

    lol.
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  • the wolfthe wolf Posts: 7,027
    StateOfLoveBoatCptn. wrote:
    I'd have to say I'm torn. Yes it would be nice to have more 'memories' from back then. But at the same time I think with so much now, the appreciation isn't there. I like seeinng random pictures from the 'good ol days'. Now with digital cameras, we have 67 pictures of the same damn pose.....I don't know.

    agreed!
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  • libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    the wolf wrote:
    same here!! the person that converted it put some cheesy music to it too !!

    lol.


    I know..ours has cheesy music too... :D
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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    i wouldn't have had it any other way....although technology is great i much prefer the simpler times....7 tv channels that you had to go to the tv to change....one phone at home and if you're not there they'll have to call back...and actual photographs and film movies without sound...:)


    one thing i don't want back....my dad coming into our bedrooms on christmas day with his super8 camera and THE BRIGHTEST FUCKING SPOTLIGHT EVER blinding our still asleep asses....he of course thought it was hilarious but i'm convinced he ruined our eyes with that damn thing :D:D
  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    libragirl wrote:
    They had it converted to VHS in the Mid-ninties. :D


    we've done that too...now i have to convert them to dvd :)
  • libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    cutback wrote:
    we've done that too...now i have to convert them to dvd :)

    how do they do that?..cuz I was thinking that would be better.
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  • blackredyellowblackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    It would be cool... We have VHS videos from the time I was in like junior high school, but really no movies before that (but a TON of pictures).

    We have a 6 month old son, and we already have more video clips of him than my whole childhood.
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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    libragirl wrote:
    how do they do that?..cuz I was thinking that would be better.


    i have a vcr/dvd recorder so it's as easy as putting the tape in and recording to a dvd :)
  • the wolfthe wolf Posts: 7,027
    libragirl wrote:
    I know..ours has cheesy music too... :D


    thats too funny! :D
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  • CityMouseCityMouse Posts: 1,010
    my parents had a good video camera by early-80s standards, but they had no idea how to use it and rarely did!

    my mother found home movies from the 30s when my grandparents *just* got married. those were pretty amazing! no sound but b&w picture quality is fine.
  • decides2dreamdecides2dream Posts: 14,977
    i was the last child, even if video and all existed, my mother never would've bothered. :p i am lucky there are photos of me as a child, a less than half-full baby book and some of my childhood artwork. so yes, technology wouldn't have improved that. :D


    honestly, while i LOVe all the amazing gadgets out there now and fully embrace technology and all it's possibilities, i don't think like that. it was a different time, period.....and i kind of enjoy thinking of just how MUCH it's all changed in my short lifetime thus far. hell, vinyl was IT when i first started to listen to music - sure tape followed not long after - and it's amazing ALL the changes. i kinda like that i know what life was like before computers, VCRs, cell phones, answering machines, etc. i think i have far more appreciation for em.


    besides, i take enough pictures all on my own now. i was a photo major in grad school. :) not so much into video tho....but i LOVE film DVDs! :cool: it's ALL good.
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  • LizardLizard So Cal Posts: 12,091
    cutback wrote:
    i wouldn't have had it any other way....although technology is great i much prefer the simpler times....7 tv channels that you had to go to the tv to change....one phone at home and if you're not there they'll have to call back...and actual photographs and film movies without sound...:)


    o still asleep asses....he of course thought it was hilarious but i'm convinced he ruined our eyes with that damn thing :D:D
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    Agreed.

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  • LizardLizard So Cal Posts: 12,091
    eyedclaar wrote:
    I wish we were still painting pictures on cave walls and running from saber-tooth tigers.

    Hell yeah!!!
    and dragged by my hair too! ;)
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  • eyedclaareyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    Lizard wrote:
    Hell yeah!!!
    and dragged by my hair too! ;)

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  • meisteredermeistereder Posts: 1,577
    Yeah, we have Super 8 stuff too and it is hilarious. My dad converted them all to DVD. I see me digging in the sand at the beach, our old dog, (RIP), etc. It is awesome.
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  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    cool...
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  • libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    cutback wrote:
    i have a vcr/dvd recorder so it's as easy as putting the tape in and recording to a dvd :)


    duh...of course..yeah I don't have one of those...:P
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  • just tinajust tina Posts: 277
    cutback wrote:
    i wouldn't have had it any other way....although technology is great i much prefer the simpler times....7 tv channels that you had to go to the tv to change....one phone at home and if you're not there they'll have to call back...and actual photographs and film movies without sound...:)

    i agree, i miss the simpler times. kids actually played outside more. they were free to go blocks and blocks away on their bikes at ages that now still have to be watched closely with all the psychos out there. we used to disappear for hours. as long as we were home for dinner--and then we were back out again right after until dark.
  • brain of cbrain of c Posts: 5,213
    fuck, no.
    d'oh!!!!!!

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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    There's nothing of me to document my pre-school years, except an "official" photo, circa 1975. And even in that photo I've got my hands on my goolies.
  • libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    Doesnt like the view wrote:
    i agree, i miss the simpler times. kids actually played outside more. they were free to go blocks and blocks away on their bikes at ages that now still have to be watched closely with all the psychos out there. we used to disappear for hours. as long as we were home for dinner--and then we were back out again right after until dark.

    yeah i was always outside..now kids have computers and they don't go out as much well i guess that's good because of the psychos.
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  • Vedd HeddVedd Hedd Posts: 4,608
    Yes.

    Porn was really pain in the ass before VHS.
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  • PatrickBatemanPatrickBateman Posts: 2,243
    I remember our first cable tv box....some clunky ugly ass box with a row of push button tethered to the tv...then playing Astroids on Atari with my dad until 11pm....my uncle got the intellivsion and we were damnnnnn....

    I think we had 2 computers in high school and we didn't give a crap about what they did or why we had them.


    now I fix them for a living!
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  • libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    PatrickBateman wrote:
    I remember our first cable tv box....some clunky ugly ass box with a row of push button tethered to the tv...quote]

    ha..I remember that....
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  • pjhawkspjhawks Posts: 12,617
    PatrickBateman wrote:
    I remember our first cable tv box....some clunky ugly ass box with a row of push button tethered to the tv...then playing Astroids on Atari with my dad until 11pm....my uncle got the intellivsion and we were damnnnnn....

    I think we had 2 computers in high school and we didn't give a crap about what they did or why we had them.


    now I fix them for a living!


    and if you held two of the buttons down at the same time you could get the porn channel to come in for like 10 seconds - ahh the good ole days. kids today get their porn so much easier!
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