How it used to be, Sharing the Hobby online
Bit of a Throwback Thursday post, harking to a time when things were apparently, simpler.
For instance, these photos I uncovered today when looking up old Necromunda notes:
Why back in the 90’s, we had to photograph our minis with an actual camera, get the film processed by riding my bicycle to the shopping centre and wait an hour (I usually rode further to the shops where my local GW store was); ride home, scan each slowly, use MicrosoftPaint on my pentium PC to edit the size, upload via FTP, HTML code it on my website. Then email friends around the world as a mail group or BBCode forum; to notify them what I painted that week.
We’re a ridiculously spoilt lot today. 😛
I don’t think I was zen-like patient kid back then, I simply had a lot to do to keep my mind off the time it took to post onto the Internet 😀
Wow… You’ve got me and my 11 years of blogging beat by a mile! I remember the first minis I posted online were photographed with a Mavica digital camera from work, that saved 640×480 pix directly to a floppy disk… Ugh. I never had any luck taking mini pics with a film camera, that’s for sure; even my wife’s dSLR never produces pics as good as the ones from my old $100 point-and-shoot.
Did you make that terrain wall thing in the one photo?
Hi Hi 🙂 Yeah, I was a dedicated bike riding kid haha. A Mavica? Wow.. that was a decent digital, good first buy. My mother bought a Sony digital camera in 1999, which took okay photos, but super small. I should probably do a post about that too 😀
I was estatic no more photo printing etc! Terrain wise? Everything in the photos was made by me back then, I should dredge up my photos to show more of the scenery I made as a teenager 😀
Thanks for reading and posting your thoughts! Great to hear from a veteran blogger.
Sometimes those old days are NOT quite as good as they may have seemed at the time.
it would be nice to have the time and energy of my youth back…
Amen brother, on both counts. Thanks for dropping by again! 🙂
I am thoroughly impressed by your amazing committment and of course your content, as always. Cheers Seb 🙂
Thanks Daxio! Had the good fortune to move a lot as a kid, so had friends all over the show. Internet was a great new thing ™. That first bicycle was better than a Harley Davidson! Rode everywhere ‘Strange Things” style 😀