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| Remembering when Toronto, ON November 2018 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
That smartphone you stood in line to get and showed off to your friends eventually ended up being slipped quietly into a drawer. Your VCR was unceremoniously dumped onto the back of a dusty garage shelf after the video store closed and Netflix took over the entertainment part of our brains.
Sprocket-feed paper and the dot matrix printers they spilled out of? Same thing.
Sometimes old tech pops up where you least expect it, like here at the gate of the forgotten section of Toronto's major airport where the poor-cousin commuter turboprops hang out. In an airport that's gone largely paperless, I couldn't understand why one gate alone had its very own dot matrix printer.
But it was 6:37 a.m. on a Saturday, and the place was empty, so out came my phone. Except I had barely started shooting when the gate attendant showed up and asked what I was doing.
We ended up having a friendly discussion about tech's temporary nature, and how we don't do enough to preserve it. I'm guessing I started her day with a bright moment, which I'll chalk up as a small win for the universe. Perhaps even humdrum photos have a higher purpose, after all.
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