It's not just that the process is different, faster and cheaper. I had a darkroom in the house in about my 4th grade. So, I experienced working with film and chemicals to "develop" pictures using photographic "film". I went to the drugstore to buy the film, Kodak film. I don't remember where I got the chemicals, developer and fixer. Developer made the image emerge on the paper. Putting the paper in a 2nd liquid filled tray "fixed" the image in an more permanent state. The paper needed to be dried in the air.
Here is a recent photo taken with something called a "smartphone", something you are probably quite familiar with.
Bowls and mugs that my potter partner made recently. She used her phone, which she and most people carry in a pocket and keep handy to photograph all sorts of things, at a moments notice. Not like when I was a kid.
