The Way Things Were, but Not Too Long Ago

The Blue Angels won't be here for Fleet Week due to the government shutdown. To the right is a 2003 picture of the Angels near Alcatraz. It was taken by my Canon point-and-shoot camera from my old Embarcadero Center office, four years before the first iPhone was released.

Speaking of the way things used to be, Young People Are Falling in Love With Old Technology.

Driven by a desire to escape screens and reclaim a sense of control, [teens and twenty-somethings] are resurrecting digital cameras, flip phones and CDs. It’s not unusual to see them roaming the aisles of a record store or doing sidewalk photo shoots with digital cameras, as if they had traveled back to the early 2000s.

The Luddite Club, a nonprofit group that supports taking smartphone breaks, has 26 chapters, nearly all of them at high schools or colleges.

You know you're really old when stuff you once marvelled as new (digital cameras, CD players, AOL dial-up e-mail) is now thought of as ancient history.