Wholesome Merging Of Old & New Tech Would Warm Your Heart

When you’re agitated, scrolling the depths of the internet and find something that brings a huge smile to your face and calms your nerves, you know you must share it with others. Today, I came across an old tweet by Marti Woolford who shared a picture that her mother had mailed her which was a photocopy of an image on her phone. How meta! It even had a hand-written note from her, what’s there not to love?

She wanted to share a picture that was on her phone, so she photocopied the screen and sent it through mail. A physical mail! I mean… 😭

Today I received in the mail a letter from my mom. It was a photocopy of her phone-she wanted to share a picture that is on her phone with me. A picture that is on her phone. She photocopied her phone and mailed this to me. pic.twitter.com/aOFpPuv5Sp
— Marti Woolford (@FordMwool) September 24, 2021

My mom just informed me that she did not consider any other way to share this photo except to photocopy it and mail it 🤣.
— Marti Woolford (@FordMwool) September 28, 2021

People had their own heartwarming stories to share and some very sweet things to say to Marti.

So beautiful, Marti! The heart of it is the desire to share. I have countless articles sent to me by my father, a heart attack & 2 time stroke survivor. They're underlined & annotated, always. Very precious. This one, from 1997 is about Masala Chai & includes my Dad's recipe. ❤ pic.twitter.com/sUHnNJIWQl
— Indira Feustel 🇨🇦🇨🇿 🇮🇳🇺🇸 (@IndiraFeustel) September 27, 2021

One thing I miss most about my dad was the articles he would send me. He would meticulously cut them out of the newspaper, take them to Kinkos to have them copied and then mail them along with his notes re the article(s). He was fascinated by so many things and wanted to share.
— Emily (@emilygreer65) September 26, 2021

The first time my mother (a secretary in her working life) was typing on a wordprocessor (1980s) she saw the cursor had reached the end of the line and gave the monitor a godalmighty whack on the side to get to the next line. Ah well, she was in her 80s.
Older folk might get it.
— Eeyore'smum🇵🇸 (@eeyoresmother) September 26, 2021

My 84 year old father in law and I run a meeting together once a month. He takes notes on pen and paper during the meeting. He goes to the office and types them. Then he prints the typed notes. Then he scans the printed document as a PDF and emails the PDF with no subject line.
— Erin Fouberg (@ErinFouberg) September 26, 2021

My mother switches her phone off when she goes out to save the battery.

That’s right. You can only get her on her mobile phone when she’s at home.
— John Richardson 🇺🇦 (@rubrick) September 26, 2021

Your mom is like me. My kids call my landline to tell me to check my texts.
— quiltingpolitic (@quiltingpolitic) September 26, 2021

I just had a person at work reply to a Google form by printing the form out, writing the answers down by hand with pen, then email me a scanned copy of the responses. I just laughed out loud for real. lol
— Just Jerri. (@jsolvey) September 26, 2021

This is beautiful. My Dad copies and pastes interesting articles from websites into word docs and then emails me the word docs so I can read them too.
— Judith Kingston (@JudithKingston) September 26, 2021

https://twitter.com/PeterHoskinsTV/status/1442011904700923904?s=20

That is awesome! My mom still works part-time on a computer in an IT department. But she also does really cute things like this 😂. It’s a lovely merging of old and new technology.
— Marti Woolford (@FordMwool) September 27, 2021

Lmao my mom did the same thing, she wanted to send me a poem she found, so she printed it and mailed it, even colored it for me. 😂 pic.twitter.com/lDkraFLodS
— The Kenpachi🕷 (@MsD_Wallace) September 26, 2021

Doh! My 80 year old dad sent me a video of something on his phone. pic.twitter.com/GlMOP3BtuC
— Al Fajores (@Gooner_Lopez) September 26, 2021

Artwork! You should hang it on the fridge. ❤️
— Liz Rizzo (@lizriz) September 26, 2021

Omg this could be my mom
— nihal (@nihalmehta) September 26, 2021

You should print a screenshot of all the engagement on this tweet & mail it to her ❤️
— Jaime Schmidt (@jaimeschmidt) September 26, 2021

That is like the sweetest 80 yo thing ever. I don’t even know your mom but I love her problem solving skills!
— Dr. Kate Maloney (@KMaloneySTEM) September 25, 2021

That's actually really cool. A mash-up of digital and old school, hand-written, went-to-the-effort-of-mailing-something that ends with, "Love You, Mom." Delightful.
— Blue Cat Votes (@BlueCatTwo) September 26, 2021

I, for one, would have cherished these for life. It’s just… beautiful.

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