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Suppose instead your great grandfather had an iPhone back then and you now had access to his library of 10s of thousands of food pics and random selfies in bars

Suppose instead your great grandfather had an iPhone back then and you now had access to his library of 10s of thousands of food pics and random selfies in bars, on vacation, etc. Would you still be as excited?

adregan 2y ago
Oh my god, yes! I would love to not only understand my great grandfather as a real life person but also to have context of the world in which he lived. Hell, I wish I had home movies of myself with my parents as a toddler/child that included audio. All our home movies were on soundless 8mm film.
belval 2y ago
I'd go through them faster for sure but absolutely. Things changed so much in the last 100 years, even just the car pictures would be super cool to see. Might be cultural or even a me thing though, I grew up with a grand-aunt that loved talking about how they survived the winter every year.
jvidalv 2y ago
I never thought about that, but honestly that sounds super cool, imagine our grand grand children 300 hundred years from now, if somehow they have access to our cloud images they can basically check out how their ancestor fully lived their lives, a true door to the past. Sounds super cool for them, of course, we have been born to early for this, so from our perspective we still shouldn't give a dam. As probably we won't be ghost behind checking how they enjoy that portal to the past.
- troebr 2y ago
  It's cool conceptually, but I think for family I haven't known, for family I have known and is aging/deceased that would make me pretty sad so I probably wouldn't use it.
prepend 2y ago
Me? Even more so. I’d feed them into iPhoto and separate out photos of people and common things. Then I would look at the metadata to see what geolocations and dates reveal hai vacation patterns. Finally, I’d just randomly browse through to see what he was up to. I wouldn’t do it all the time, but I’d definitely spend a few hours over the course of my life looking through them. I’d love to see what random life was like from 1910-1950.

adregan 2y ago

Oh my god, yes! I would love to not only understand my great grandfather as a real life person but also to have context of the world in which he lived. Hell, I wish I had home movies of myself with my parents as a toddler/child that included audio. All our home movies were on soundless 8mm film.

belval 2y ago

I'd go through them faster for sure but absolutely. Things changed so much in the last 100 years, even just the car pictures would be super cool to see. Might be cultural or even a me thing though, I grew up with a grand-aunt that loved talking about how they survived the winter every year.

jvidalv 2y ago

I never thought about that, but honestly that sounds super cool, imagine our grand grand children 300 hundred years from now, if somehow they have access to our cloud images they can basically check out how their ancestor fully lived their lives, a true door to the past. Sounds super cool for them, of course, we have been born to early for this, so from our perspective we still shouldn't give a dam. As probably we won't be ghost behind checking how they enjoy that portal to the past.

troebr 2y ago
It's cool conceptually, but I think for family I haven't known, for family I have known and is aging/deceased that would make me pretty sad so I probably wouldn't use it.

prepend 2y ago

Me? Even more so. I’d feed them into iPhoto and separate out photos of people and common things. Then I would look at the metadata to see what geolocations and dates reveal hai vacation patterns. Finally, I’d just randomly browse through to see what he was up to. I wouldn’t do it all the time, but I’d definitely spend a few hours over the course of my life looking through them. I’d love to see what random life was like from 1910-1950.