Been setting up the new Photos app, which includes synchronizing a bunch of old photo albums. I stumbled over a bunch of old scans of analog photos from the 90s and wanted to share… I’ve tried to clean the pictures somewhat, but couldn’t be bothered to do much more than half-assedly improve the colors and worst blemishes.
The first 3 are from Viborg (clicky for map), where I lived from 1989-1993. The first is from a Britmas probably around 1990 or ’91. Despite applying filters to remove the worst Instagram effects, I’m surprised by how much the early 90s really resemble what I think about the 70s…
The next two are from just before moving out in the summer of 1993. One is my room. It was not normally that neat – it was already half-packed. Features: My first computer, a Commodore PC 10-II with a post-purchase mounted harddrive (20 MB FTW!). The second picture is the garden outside my room. My room is at the bottom right.
The next two pictures are from Skelhøje (clicky for map). where I lived from 1993 until I moved on my own in 1999 I’m guessing Spring 1995 or thereabouts. View from my room. A bit more rural. Guess who had to mow that lawn in the second picture every week? And when I started doing that it looked as wild or wilder as the fields in the first picture. Fun times.
I also got around to looking at some of the ancient pictures I snapped when Nokia was the king of smart-phones. My first Britney concert in May 2004. Phone cameras were much shittier then and also my spot much shittier than what I later came to be used to.
The next couple are from my flat in Århus (clicky for map), where I lived 2001-2010. The pictures are from the summer of 2005. Kitchen featuring lots of beer crates and couple of my computers of the time (an IBM Netfinity 5500 server and a DEC Alpha thing). The 70s feel comes from the fact that the apartment was build then and instead of modernizing it when needed, the owners didn’t.
Living room featuring my laptop, floppy disks, a shitty stationary bike and a shittier rowing machine, a beautiful view from the 4th floor dulled by the fact I never cleaned the windows and bad lighting, and a first-generation Mac Mini used for media center along with a (for the time) majestic 23″ Apple Cinema display.
Bed, bath, and beyond (aka hallway).
Around 2005 we were the bad-behaving jerks on campus. The department put up a bunch of posters with some technology stuff and a question like “Who mows your lawn?” for a robotic lawnmower, and the slogan “Computer Scientists – we’re part of everything.” We made an alternative poster, posing the question “Who serves your fries?” and the answer “Liberal Arts – we’re parts of what we can.” It was frowned upon.
We also found the building names dumb, so we real-life photoshopped them. They had names like “The Hopper Building” (named after Grace Hopper), but which in Danish can be read as “Does the building jump,” which made us add question marks on all public signs.
I’ve saved the best ((Not best.)) for last: a picture of me from (I think) Spring 1994 during a school trip to Tønder. Somebody ((Anette I want to say, but it’s more than 20 years ago…)) stole my camera and snapped a picture of me trying to get it back.
Also, me at a party in the early 2000s. Pretty.
