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Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)

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458 points turrini | 1 comments | 06 Dec 25 21:55 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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gentooflux ◴[06 Dec 25 23:37 UTC] No.46177636[source]▶
RMS could have taken a photo of his screen, or done something cheeky like dump his screen to a padded ASCII text file and submitted that. Stick in the mud.
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pmontra ◴[07 Dec 25 09:45 UTC] No.46180470[source]▶
Most likely that photo would have been on film in 2002. Shoot it, then wait to shoot all the pictures on the roll, bring the roll to a shop, get the prints, either scan the screenshot or mail it, with a stamp. A Polaroid would cut most of the wait time to zero. Anyway, still a lot of trouble compared to a few years later.

By the way, I think RMS doesn't have a mobile phone even now. Somebody's else could have taken a picture for him. Phones with cameras were not common back then because what would you do with it on GSM?

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1. quesera ◴[07 Dec 25 13:47 UTC] No.46181656[source]▶
Maybe not... Digital cameras were well-established in 1998.

I bought one around that time (Olympus I think, sub-1MP), and used a script on Linux to extract the images. I was not a terribly early adopter.