Meme, photo of something, whatever! Bonus points if you’re brave enough to share it.
The oldest photo on my phone is about three weeks old because I often go through my photos and delete or archive them.
1937, family photo
From Brooklyn, 2012
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.
Earliest native digital images looks like 2003
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.
the quality is really quite good for that era and storage media.
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.
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.
2016, apparently a screen cap from when I was playing Blackbox.
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.
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.
And I’m still loving Deftones, over 20 years later
Not the oldest oldest, but the ones from that day that were the least bad. 2014 supposedly.
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.
July 25th 2024
Edit: For clarity, my friends and I have some wild humor, I received a similar one in response lmao
