With your powers combined you can take and store a photo. I hope you have a third sibling who inherited the dark room.

Are you from the 19th century or something?

I know that camera very well i high poly 3d modelled it as part a midterm project and its by far my most favourite thing i ever modelled.

I am not sure if i still have an easily accessible pic of it though since i long deleted my fb.

The aughts?? Surely that must have been a particularly ignorant teen, or they were messing with you. High quality phone cameras were far from ubiquitous then. My phone had a camera but I was still buying disposable ones at CVS before going on trips so I could get high quality photos all the way through the aughts. And if that teen is in their mid 30s now, I'm still younger than them...

Polaroid is actually a genericization for instant print camera film though o doubt he would have known it by the proper term either.

We do. They were printed from a print service that ships them to you. We do physical albums because I find it easier to hand to visitors than handing them my phone or trying to curate albums I can share digitally. Also don't have to manage who has access to my digital albums.

Wait till you guys hear of Christmas cards.

Jokes beside i know a few stores with a terminal to print pictures on photo paper cheaply.

Almost no one does film (outside professional/ artists) and i doubt develop many people know how to manually develop their own anymore, even during the golden days of film my dad just brought them to the store who developed the film professionally for you. Thats one store still exists.

I remember being given a camera on summer camp. It had 20 pictures i could take and it cost just as much for a failed or good picture.

it seems you don't know it either what is a photo album.

printing pictures does not solve the problem. the problem comes after printing them: you need to store them somewhere. and that's what the album is for.

*while shoplifting at Target

Yeah this is how I feel.

I get that the world is moving forward and I might be okd and whatever but I think that a physical photo album is still part of assumed general knowledge in 2025.

More likely that monica is dumb. The photo labs are usually next to the electronics sections.

nobody should use pictures to decorate, that's what sculptures are for

nothingeverhappens

Physical photos have a different feel. You wouldn't look at a piece of art in a museum and think it'd be better digital. It's personal. It's a feeling to open up a book and see the past. You take the time and experience it when you have to flip the pages. Idk, maybe in my 30s, I'm just an old fart

With albums you get to have a moment to organise memories, and share them with loved ones.

with digital albums? i take pictures and forget they exist.

I have an old Mac mini that I installed Ubuntu on to work as a digital frame. It works great and runs its own file server so it is easy to add pictures to.

Have you ever looked through a photo album with pictures from your grandparents' grandparents?

Now imagine your relatives looking through a photo album from your life and being able to hold the same photograph that you held when you put it in the album. Imagine them looking at the back of the photograph and seeing the handwritten note that indicates who is in the photo and the date, maybe with a comment on the photo.

Digital picture frames are decorative e-waste, photo albums are a gift to the future.