Yeah all these concepts would be fairly easy to explain to someone from 100 years ago. Sure they would be amazed of how much more compact and affordable modern photography had gotten, but the concept is unchanged. Icecream is nothing new, masks are nothing new.
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NewDark@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
Ah yes, things people weren’t aware of in the 90s: masks, respiratory illness, mobile phones, cameras, and ice cream.
Granted that exact form factor of combination phone/camera is novel but come on.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Until the very late 90’s you might have to explain the concept of a digital camera. Sony introduced their first Mavica digital camera in 1997 and it took awhile for the tech to catch on with the general public.
Thorry@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
That’s mostly because digital cameras were known at the time to be extremely shit. I remember having a webcam in the 90s. It kinda sorta worked, but even in high res picture mode is was 640x480 and the images looked like shit. So it would be more a case of convincing people a digital camera can be as good as an old school one. The concept itself would be familiar. In fact, calling it a webcam instead of a digital camera would be a lot easier for a 90s person to understand.
ronl2k@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
One thing that getting old has taught me is that young people tend to think that life before them was prehistoric. Technology tends to advance gradually. The only consumer invention that ever shocked me was the introduction of the microwave oven in the early 1970’s. Didn’t see that one coming.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
webcam? 90s? how the T1 fuck did you find the bandwidth
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Take a single 640x480 jpeg and spend a minute and a half uploading it to Geocities.