As a result, there was a lot of this type of content: barely edited, poorly performed, honest moments of real life, amateurish creations of any kind, be that digital animation, music, acting, etc. I feel these IMG_xxxx videos reflect some of the vibe of the era. Now, sharing videos with people is easy enough in group chats, and youtube content feels so manufactured that people feel it's less appropriate to share this sort of thing via youtube.
Say we colonize Mars. Streaming anything from Earth takes hours (well 3-22 light minutes). Martians may invent their own planetary social network and share their own weird Martian memes for a while.
Or interstellar colony ships traveling for decades between the stars, and then practically cut off from Earth at whatever new exoplanet we land on.
There will definitely be lots of "golden eras of creativity" still to come, if we survive that long.
There's something borderline "voyeuristic" (for want of a better term) about it. There are all these videos that are public, I'm allowed to watch them, but they were clearly not meant for me to watch. It's like when you see a family photo at a Goodwill or something.
It's definitely worth trying out if you get bored; it's a proper time capsule. There's absolutely nothing cynical about it; these videos weren't made for profit, they weren't made to sell you something. They're candid videos of people as they were in ~2010.
IMG_0416 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42102506 - Nov 2024 (324 comments)
I am aware screen size has increased tremendously, even then I think the buttons were still quite huge compared to the size of today's tappable links.
Being able to detect the middle-point of a fat finger wasn't a 1.0 feature
Of course not. It's actually way simpler: smartphones became taller and heavier and you no longer can use it with one hand anymore even if you are 2m tall man. So the main mode of interaction changed to a two-hand mode and one-hand is relegated for the doom scrolling, selfies and quick replies.
Hell, my Moto has a special one-handed mode!
>> Use one-handed mode
>> Want to use one thumb to navigate your phone? Turn on One-handed mode.
>> This mode is only available if you're using Gesture navigation.
https://en-us.support.motorola.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1...
Trivia game: try to guess to which smartphone these dimensions belongs to:
115.2 mm 58.6 mm 9.3 mm 137 g
130.7 mm 68.9 mm 8.99 mm 145 g
146.7 mm 71.5 mm 7.4 mm 162 g
163.0 × 77.6 × 8.25 mm 227 g