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   CaveDave (engravecavedave@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 23:39:05 JST CaveDave

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs so sending nudes predated phone sex

   Yes, that is all that I took from that information

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     John Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺 (johnlogic@sfba.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 23:40:25 JST John Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs

     I recall attending a presentation in 1989 at which Kodak described a product line with three digital cameras.

     I also recall them looking more like camcorders than today's small portable cameras.

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     Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK (vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 00:01:26 JST Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs I've had digital cameras since late 1990s, and have used the 1-hour photo places, but its more the take that these kind of resources *and* the facility to share hi res photos at low cost are now widely available to everyday folk.

     You certainly could have viewed aurora pics within hours in 80s/90s, but would have had to be friends with someone who was really into astronomy and had an SLR camera, tripod and suitable lenses (or waited for a colour magazine to be published)

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     Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK (vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 00:18:57 JST Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs in Britain something like this would have been shown on "Newsround" for kids and "The Sky at Night" for adults, although I used to watch both and never saw an aurora featured on there (I guess there simply weren't that many geomagnetic storms since early 1980s!) Local and national newspapers were black and white here until 1990s (although it would be the sort of thing that appeared in the Sunday colour supplement, so you wouldn't have had to wait that long)

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     Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK (vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 00:30:24 JST Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs I do sometimes get the years mixed up, but it would also make sense why there weren't any aurora pics in mid 90s as sunspot activity was relatively low, it didn't pick up until late 90s (I do a lot of radio monitoring so keep an eye on this as it has some interesting effects such as being able to listen to broadcasters hundreds of km away)