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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

From 2004. Wonder what they're doing now. Probably retired, right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Just a high score I got in a crummy mobile game I used to play where all you do is shout as a head and try to go as far as possible to the right. Circa 2018. Oldest saved photo I have on the phone I am currently using. Otherwise, it'd probably just be a picture from a school trip to Seattle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

And I'm still loving Deftones, over 20 years later

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I was disappointed to find out the oldest picture on my phone is a system icon file from 2017, two phones ago. I guess it tagged along on the external SD card.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Although if you include cloud backups that my device has access to...

That's from August 1979.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

1937, family photo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The oldest photo on my phone is about three weeks old because I often go through my photos and delete or archive them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I dont even speak Spanish lol

I guess it's something my friend who studies in Spain sent me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ahh, thanks. I wouldn't be able to tell the difference unless there's a ç in there

Edit: oh, there is. I should have known, oops

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Me, returning home after a night of drinking.

photo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

You're handsome

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Probably this scanned photo of my grandfather in WWII somewhere in France or Germany around 1943-44. He was a calculator for the 8th Armored Division 398th Armored Field Artillery Battalion M-7 tanks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

July 25th 2024

Edit: For clarity, my friends and I have some wild humor, I received a similar one in response lmao

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Not the oldest oldest, but the ones from that day that were the least bad. 2014 supposedly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I won't post it but it's a picture of my old roommate with her almost crawling out of bed. Her bedroom is a disaster with old food plates, clothes everywhere, fast food bags, etc. Just a disaster. It wasn't gross, just very messy. She had just woken up and had been drinking the night prior.

I took a photo of it all from like 45 degrees up and stylized it in an oil painting style. I printed it out in canvas and gave it to her as a gift and titled it, "depression" she loved it and still has it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

2016, apparently a screen cap from when I was playing Blackbox.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

March 14, 1999.

It appears to be the first photo I took on my Sony Mavica camera - the one you put a floppy disk in.

I think it was in the car park at the back of RetraVision in Bourke, NSW, Australia.

Camera still works.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

the quality is really quite good for that era and storage media.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've got the entire catalogue from the Royal photographic society 1870-1915 saved left over from my PhD. But the earliest of those are scans-of-sketches-of-photos because they pre-date the technology to easily duplicate photographs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Earliest native digital images looks like 2003

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Not easy to tell as I have a lot of old photo scans where I'm not sure of the original date. So let's try this terrible photo, which I think was the first on a roll taken sometime in the 1980s. I don't remember that bunny so I must have been very young.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I don't have my device with me, but it's my first cosplay one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

My friend's dog Greta. She was already an old lady when I took this picture in 2015 and passed a year or two ago.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (4 children)

A screenshot I took for whatever reason in 2006, it's quite a relic.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I wish websites were still laid out like this

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Wow. I love it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Avast antivirus spinning icon 😀 Ah memories!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

So much nostalgia in that screenshot

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

From Brooklyn, 2012

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

I changed my phone maybe 3 years ago so this is the oldest photo stored on it.

A picture that I send to my significant other when I’m going back home and missed the bus or tramway. It happens way to often to my taste.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

October 2005 is when I saved this and it has been through many phones.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I took this to mean the oldest picture in my cloud account, because my phone manages its storage automatically.

According to the metadata, it’s from Apr 6, 2007. It’s from a trip to my grandma’s house. I don’t know why I took a picture of it. Anyone want to make them and send me one?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

A white Birman cat sitting on top of an old boxy white computer monitor. The monitor's desktop background says "Black Mesa".

February 2011.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

I still want one

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

An etch-a-sketch art piece from 2018. I used to make etch-a-sketch drawings when I was younger, mostly of trains and buildings. I think I liked the limitations of the method. I drew them while waiting in the room where my sibling took lessons, and while I later got my own, it doesn't work very well so I no longer do them.

(This isn't the same drawing, but it's close to the first, and doesn't contain my face in the reflection)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

My now-deceased cat.

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