>Long before the existence of the internet and Facebook in the days of film photography, hosts would torture their dinner guests by having them gather in the li

>Long before the existence of the internet and Facebook in the days of film photography, hosts would torture their dinner guests by having them gather in the living room and flip through slides[1] of the hosts' vacation. Yep, I do remember some of the most fierce fights against falling asleep in those occasions. But - to give some sociological insight - those terrible after dinners came out because of sheer convenience. Till then there were "pictures" (not slides) that costed a lot of money to print in a decently large format, so typically you took less shots, then had them printed in a very small format, and only reprinted a handful out of each roll. With slides the costs were a fraction, even considering the cost (rather high for today's standards) of the projector and of the carousels. Now what if someone (not the government as it would be anti-democratic, not google as it would be a dominant position abuse, etc.) would put a minimal cost for publishing on the net these images (let's say 0.50 US$/apiece, of course devolved entirely to a non-profit/humanitariaon association)? I would bet that in no time we would have the amount of those photos reduced to 1/20th or less.