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I tend to keep my phone's photo reel fairly empty to stay under Apple's free limit for backups.

But this photo has been with me for a few years:

It is a photo of Arlanda airport, the busiest airport in Sweden, taken at about 08:00 on a workday during the early stages of the pandemic.

I had to go on a domestic trip to set up a computer for a VIP at an external location, and had to fly.

It was such a bizzare experience that I had to take a few photos...

My guitar <3 photo from 2012

Saved pic I used as reference for my Oath of Ancients Paladin idea from waaaaaaaay back that started out as basically Dinidan of the round table and The Green Knight and eventually turned into a tree.

My phone started freaking out after a recent update and I was just about to go on a trip. So I hurriedly factory reset to get it functional and hoped all automatic backups were good. The critical ones were for sure, but stuff like camera roll I don't care about as much.

I haven't even tried to load and check the camera roll backup yet, meaning the oldest photo on my phone is a whopping two weeks old and is of my parking space number at the airport. It's a grey Camry, just about the most common color and the most common car. Man, I would never find it if I forgot where I parked it.

If we expand "devices" to my laptop and storage drives, the oldest photo is early 1900s. A shot of my great grandmother as a little girl standing outside the sod house she grew up in.

When I got my new phone I immediately got a call if I want to go out for a couple of drinks.

Quick shots from the roof of my student CO-OP back when I bought my first digital camera in 2002

The tennis court in the second photo turned into a parking structure something like 20y ago, afaik FORT AWESOME is still there

2/2/2021 - A spring roll recipe...

I think they were okay. I used a recipe once that used chestnuts for texture and it was freaking amazing!

I've not been able to find the same recipe again.

This is on my phone. I will post again tomorrow from my computer.

me skiing in Russia in the early 90s just after the dissolution of the Soviet Union

2012

Impromptu memorial on Las Vegas Blvd less than a week after the shooting in 2017. I was attending a conference that week, which they chose not to reschedule, because 'we can't let terrorism win!'

It was an eerie feeling being there so soon after.

Oldest photo that was taken? Or photo of the oldest photo?

Me in 2015 in a box seat at Lincoln Financial Field. It was an Eagles preseason game and I had been doing an internship at a law firm that owned the box.

It was a fun few months but it convinced me not to go to law school. I still remember when one of the partners at the firm looked me dead in the eye and said “you know we have one of the highest suicide rates of any profession, right?”

Edit: second oldest photo is an article someone sent me over a year later, titled “Is communism cool? Ask a millennial.” Pretty sure it was written by some Heritage Foundation hack or something and I got into a spirited discussion with a family member over it.

Oldest thing saved to my phone; is from 2021. My cloud storage, OTOH, can go all the way back to 2008.

Scan of a print photograph from, I want to say 1985? 1986? Something like that. My grandparents cat losing her damn mind because a fly got in the house.

I've got something from at least 2012 on my phone. Just a picture of me in a suit. Not a good picture either.

2015