Well, yes, didn't we all?

December 31, 2009 11:32 AM

I Used To Be Younger (single link tumblr post)
posted by Caduceus (40 comments total)

That was fun. Thanks!
posted by kbanas at 11:36 AM on December 31, 2009

Also, I really liked this picture for some reason. It's great.

A lot of these are very cool to look at. Some of them where it's two pictures of someone mildly famous... eh, less so.
posted by kbanas at 11:38 AM on December 31, 2009

that was pretty cool thanks
posted by My Social Relevance at 11:39 AM on December 31, 2009

We've been watching a lot of Humphrey Bogart movies lately (DVR'd from TCM Bogart festival) and marveling at learning what he (and people like Bette Davis) looked like when they were brand new to film. Don't know why the ability to see the aging process in film over time is so fascinating, but it is.
posted by bearwife at 11:40 AM on December 31, 2009

This was way better than I'd think the internet could muster for something like this.
posted by cmoj at 11:40 AM on December 31, 2009

Bill Gates has actually gotten less geeky-looking. Weird.
posted by mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey at 11:51 AM on December 31, 2009

You know who else used to be younger?
posted by Joe Beese at 11:52 AM on December 31, 2009

Bill Gates has actually gotten less geeky-looking. Weird.

The image of him draping himself across his desk in a sultry manner is oddly scarring.
posted by Think_Long at 12:05 PM on December 31, 2009 [1 favorite]

That "sexy bill gates" picture never gets old.
posted by delmoi at 12:09 PM on December 31, 2009 [4 favorites]

Bill Gates should not try to be sexy. Ever. My eyeballs hurt now.

The rest of the pictures are oddly awesome, however.
posted by pecknpah at 12:15 PM on December 31, 2009

kbanas, that picture jumped out at me too. The vivid, saturated color and contrast between the blue and reds is amazing.
posted by Miko at 12:22 PM on December 31, 2009

I just came here to say that I'm pretty sure that Anthony rules. That is all.
posted by tractorfeed at 12:25 PM on December 31, 2009 [4 favorites]

I can't remember which stand up comic said it, but a joke about people saying "here is a photo of me when I was younger.............well unless you've invented a very special new camera, EVERY picture is of you when you were younger."
posted by lemonfridge at 12:26 PM on December 31, 2009 [2 favorites]

That was surprisingly engaging. Go ahead and play on my lawn.
posted by Babblesort at 12:27 PM on December 31, 2009

I totally have a crush of Suzi. I can't tell if that's a costume, or how awesomely people dressed in the 70s.
posted by elmer benson at 12:33 PM on December 31, 2009

I can't remember which stand up comic said it, but a joke about people saying "here is a photo of me when I was younger.............well unless you've invented a very special new camera, EVERY picture is of you when you were younger."

It's the dearly-departed Mitch Hedberg. The tumblr references it at the first post.
posted by elmer benson at 12:36 PM on December 31, 2009 [1 favorite]

I love young Einstein's dad sweater.
posted by reenum at 12:38 PM on December 31, 2009

I love young Einstein's hair. Here's an earlier picture of him, hair in place. He was pretty cute when he was a young professor.
posted by bearwife at 12:47 PM on December 31, 2009

I was pretty meh on the famous people ones, but most of the rest were pretty awesome. (Especially Anthony and Allen.)
posted by shakespeherian at 12:48 PM on December 31, 2009

A nice addition to the My Parents Were Awesome that was linked to a little while ago, in which this photo exists.
posted by Corduroy at 12:56 PM on December 31, 2009

There is a reason I destroyed all the photos of me my Mom had the last time I was over. There is a very good reason.
posted by The Whelk at 12:56 PM on December 31, 2009

@ 50 i used to be everything i now am not

Whelk, On inheriting this mansion i destroyed all pics of me...
who wants to be reminded
Oh gentile or jew
those who turn the wheel and look to windward
consider phlebas, who was one handsome and tall as you.
posted by Joachim at 1:21 PM on December 31, 2009

Hmm. With picture quality being about as good as you could want it these days I wonder if we're going to lose that nostalgic photograph look. I can't imagine it will be the same looking at digital photos 30 years from now as it is looking at old black and white photos or washed-out polaroids.
posted by ekroh at 1:25 PM on December 31, 2009

Whelk, On inheriting this mansion i destroyed all pics of me...
who wants to be reminded
Oh gentile or jew
those who turn the wheel and look to windward
consider phlebas, who was one handsome and tall as you.

Burma-shave.
posted by shakespeherian at 1:26 PM on December 31, 2009 [3 favorites]

Hey...that's Dudley from Different Strokes!
posted by jrossi4r at 1:26 PM on December 31, 2009

Who needs photos when you have an orginal Basil Hallward?
posted by The Whelk at 1:29 PM on December 31, 2009

I feel like I could be good pals with Suzi (and not just because of the Ferengi). And young Jennifer is marvelous. These are fun; I'd like to see more. You can see the change in their eyes from little kids, all with that completely unselfconscious look; teens seem simultaneously awkward and defiant, and most of the adults looking just a little uncomfortable (and Allan shows us that it can always swing back around to the who-cares joy of childhood). (And I want that shirt.)
posted by TochterAusElysium at 1:29 PM on December 31, 2009

This is so much cooler than you'd think it would be.
posted by A Terrible Llama at 1:59 PM on December 31, 2009

Peripheral, I know, but I recall seeing a woman wheeling her very young child in a carriage. A
passerby looked at the young infant and said What a cute baby. The mother said: That's nothing. You should see the picture I have of her.
posted by Postroad at 2:47 PM on December 31, 2009

I love the about statement at the end:

If you’ve ever been younger before, you’ll love it.

“One time, this guy handed me a picture of him, he said,”Here’s a picture of me when I was younger.” Every picture is of you when you were younger. “Here’s a picture of me when I’m older.” “You son-of-a-bitch! How’d you pull that off? Lemme see that camera… what’s it look like? ”

-Mitch Hedberg

Thanks for the wonderful link! Will stop back again-
posted by localhuman at 2:49 PM on December 31, 2009

“One time, this guy handed me a picture of him, he said,”Here’s a picture of me when I was younger.”

local...gawff.. thats a good one
posted by Joachim at 3:17 PM on December 31, 2009

Do you think Chad was dressed like Lou Reed ?
posted by Sailormom at 3:39 PM on December 31, 2009

Stuff like this makes me sad and melancholy.

Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I was nine years old. I had a brother and a sister, a cat and a dog, and a mother and a father and uncles and aunts. And there's no way I can get there again.
posted by uncanny hengeman at 8:39 PM on December 31, 2009 [4 favorites]

Total derail, but thanks, uncanny hengeman, for that quote, which led me to this thread, and then, sadly, to this one.
posted by Anderson_Localized at 6:31 AM on January 1, 2010

Whelk, On inheriting this mansion i destroyed all pics of me...
who wants to be reminded
Oh gentile or jew
those who turn the wheel and look to windward
consider phlebas, who was one handsome and tall as you.

Paging ROU_Xenophobe.
posted by The Bellman at 8:03 AM on January 1, 2010

Cute!

Reminds me of when people's parents submit their baby pictures to the HS yearbook.
posted by grapefruitmoon at 8:13 AM on January 1, 2010

Have you ever been younger than you are right now?

Sadly, no.
posted by blue_beetle at 10:14 AM on January 1, 2010

I'm half-tempted to send in pictures of me now (bald, goatee), when I was in library school (clean-shaven, glasses, ponytail) and one that I'm looking at right now that I can't be older than four or so (suit and bow tie).
posted by Halloween Jack at 1:15 PM on January 1, 2010 [1 favorite]

Are there like ten entries? Thin, I used to be thinner.
posted by fixedgear at 9:44 AM on January 2, 2010

I was a bitter old man by the time I was twelve. Before that, I don't remember.
posted by Limiter at 7:01 AM on January 3, 2010 [1 favorite]