These photos of outdated technology are simple and quiet

There's a silent, solemn dignity to the outdated tech in these photographs. In his Relics of Technology series, Jim of Jim Golden Studio states, "These photos are reminders that progress has a price and our efforts have an expiration date."

I can appreciate these extracts from the young fossil record. I see my formative PC gaming years reflecting back at me in the matte-black stillness of a 5.25" floppy disk. By the way, whoever named the floppy disk did a great job. I remember when games got so big that 720K floppies were no longer big enough, and during loading screens you had to flip between a couple of them. That's, like, 720K times two.

If you were born before 1985, then these images might punch you right in the nostalgia button.