A reminder that our industry is very young still, and many who laid its foundations are still with us today, but won’t be forever.
There is no better time than now for collecting oral history, interviewing people, asking them about their stories, etc. All of this knowledge and stories can get lost very very fast.
And, pretty basic, but thank them for their contribution. Plenty of the stuff we take for granted should not be taken for granted at all, it took a lot of dedicated people working on machines that were severely limited to give us the luxuries we have today and believe that it has always been so. It wasn't.
There is no better time than now for collecting oral history, interviewing people, asking them about their stories, etc. All of this knowledge and stories can get lost very very fast.