A collection of my postcards: Travel memories

In ancient times, someone would say in the time of "prehistory", when the Internet was just entering our homes, while the mobile phone was still only used for calling and sending SMS, when you wanted to send greetings from the annual vacation, you could do it in only two ways.
Either by calling a landline number (because roaming was to expensive and a minute of the call cost as much as a day of vacation for a family of four 🙂) or by sending a letter.
We took photos with cameras with film that we developed only after returning from vacation.
There was no possibility, like today, to click on the camera with a mobile phone, take a photo and send it over a hundred applications to someone on the other side of the world.
Someone had a Polaroid, but that would mean putting a photo in an envelope and mailing it to the desired address.
"Kill two birds with one stone" - the solution was: sending postcards.

A nice photo of the place where you spent your summer, a picture of a mountain, sea or lake (or a woman's buttocks and breasts) on one side and on the other side a space for a message of a not overly personal nature, because they could be read by anyone on the journey of the postcard from the hand of the sender to the hand of the one to whom it is addressed.

When I went on vacations as a young man, postcards were the way I communicated with my parents, and it was also the way my friends greeted me from some distant destinations.
Not so rarely would it happen that I would receive a postcard after a few days had passed since the return of the person who sent it to me.

The mail traveled on the same planes as us, and we didn't need to be sorted and transported to the mailboxes, we knew how to find our way home by ourselves 😀 so we didn't often arrive faster than the mail.
And so, while I was flipping through the lexicon that is in my display case, the keeper of my memories and collections, I looked through the postcards that I sent to my parents and brother, as well as those sent to me by my friends.

All those in the pile represent my collection of memories and as such I present them to the #Hivecollectors community and on #Throwbackthursday, and this Friday to the #TBF community.

The period of time when I sent and received these postcards coincides with the beginnings of my travels (and the travels of my friends and peers), from 1996, until the first mobile phones that had a camera and to which it was possible to send a photo with a short text greeting, at least via MMS message, sometime in 2003, 2004.
Most often, these are postcards from the Montenegrin coast.

I sent the vast majority to my parents (brother, mother and father), addressing them alternately to everyone from another city, so that no one would feel forgotten.

And there are also those that I received from others, friends, family and parents.

As time passed, some other destinations were discovered, so I also have postcards from Egypt, Turkey, Portugal, Italy, Hungary, Austria, Slovenia, Spain.

In addition to those from the vacation, I also have several New Year's greetings, which were also sent in postcard format, until we got FB, Skype, Messinger, Viber and Whatsapp on computers and mobile phones, which we switched to every time we needed to send someone a greeting and a greeting.

Then paper postcards and greeting cards lost the battle with technology. Welcome to modern times.

I remember that "prehistoric" time, as a slowed-down time, a time of socializing, when a lot more books were read, when a lot more time was spent in the company of friends (today we call it offline socializing), when in order to send greetings from vacation to someone, we had to have a small logistical undertaking. From choosing and buying a postcard, through designing and writing an invitation message, to looking for the nearest post office where it was possible to deliver the postcard to be sent.

Although some would say that this is a pile of old paper, I have fond memories of every moment from the period of these postcards and I will keep them for the rest of my life. It's my #Hive collection of postcards, and a collection of my memories, which I'm sharing with you in December, while I'm still looking for "Light" for the December #Hivecollector theme, given to us by @mipiano.
As promised, due to skipping last month's topic, I am now adding this post with my collection that brings back a lot of memories.
Do you have your postcards and greetings saved?