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over a year ago
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I remember my first Walkman then CD player.. who knew then you will have wireless headphones and music streaming from internet.. Anything you want. Anytime. |
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"I remember my first Walkman then CD player.. who knew then you will have wireless headphones and music streaming from internet.. Anything you want. Anytime. "
you had to carry the Walkman carefully so it didn't jump songs.
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I remember all of these
For me the biggest change in everyday life was at work.... left my desk in a Friday typewriter in situ, returned Monday tw gone and a computer on its place and a manual, lost so much bloody work  |
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"Having to use a slide rule in ma maths exam  I could never figure them out, guess that's why I failed first time. "
How about the old trigonometry set that contained a pencil, a compass and some funny shaped pieces of plastic  |
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Really confession time now. I'm that old I remember all of the above as well as decimalisation and when a pound bought you quite a lot.
Oh, and of course when everything didn't come with a 'chip' and you could actually repair something yourself instead of having to get someone in?
Good luck millennials??!! |
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"I remember all of these
For me the biggest change in everyday life was at work.... left my desk in a Friday typewriter in situ, returned Monday tw gone and a computer on its place and a manual, lost so much bloody work "
you'll be too young remember banda/gastetner machines being replaced by photocopiers |
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"I remember all of these
For me the biggest change in everyday life was at work.... left my desk in a Friday typewriter in situ, returned Monday tw gone and a computer on its place and a manual, lost so much bloody work you'll be too young remember banda/gastetner machines being replaced by photocopiers "
I actually don’t remember photocopiers arriving.... typing was always four sheets of different coloured paper with a sheet of carbon in between each, that was my copying |
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"I remember all of these
For me the biggest change in everyday life was at work.... left my desk in a Friday typewriter in situ, returned Monday tw gone and a computer on its place and a manual, lost so much bloody work you'll be too young remember banda/gastetner machines being replaced by photocopiers
I actually don’t remember photocopiers arriving.... typing was always four sheets of different coloured paper with a sheet of carbon in between each, that was my copying "
I remember fax machines being introduced. I thought they were going to change the world. It was mind blowing at the time! |
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"I remember all of these
For me the biggest change in everyday life was at work.... left my desk in a Friday typewriter in situ, returned Monday tw gone and a computer on its place and a manual, lost so much bloody work you'll be too young remember banda/gastetner machines being replaced by photocopiers
I actually don’t remember photocopiers arriving.... typing was always four sheets of different coloured paper with a sheet of carbon in between each, that was my copying "
and didn't you swear when after all that typing, you realised the carbon was in back to front. |
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"I remember all of these
For me the biggest change in everyday life was at work.... left my desk in a Friday typewriter in situ, returned Monday tw gone and a computer on its place and a manual, lost so much bloody work you'll be too young remember banda/gastetner machines being replaced by photocopiers
I actually don’t remember photocopiers arriving.... typing was always four sheets of different coloured paper with a sheet of carbon in between each, that was my copying and didn't you swear when after all that typing, you realised the carbon was in back to front. "
Happened a few times  |
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Remember buying the kids their first computer game box.
The one where you could play 'tennis' in black and white and you could change the speed of the ball and the size of the racket.
If you were on your own, you could switch it to a squash game.
Played it for bloody hours...!
Happy days... |
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over a year ago
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When a public telephone had an A button and a B button. When I could fix my own car. Post office workers riding around on
BSA bantoms and coppers riding lambrettas. Flares, Oxford bags,stack heels and a ten bob note... just for starters. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Remember buying the kids their first computer game box.
The one where you could play 'tennis' in black and white and you could change the speed of the ball and the size of the racket.
If you were on your own, you could switch it to a squash game.
Played it for bloody hours...!
Happy days..."
My sister still has our Binatone console. I found a connector to plug it into a new flat screen tv. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The life and death of Top Deck and it's subsequent resurrection in the form of low alcohol craft beer."
Talking of top deck: getting on a bus going upstairs and not being able to see the back of the bus for smoke |
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By *hloevtTV/TS
over a year ago
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Saying I was staying around a mates, then going down the offy and buying a bottle of cider and three single cigarette, we would go down the rec and get d*unk, no one asked for age I.D. I loved the 80s , and we had Maggie Thatcher, a woman with real balls !!! X |
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"The life and death of Top Deck and it's subsequent resurrection in the form of low alcohol craft beer.
Talking of top deck: getting on a bus going upstairs and not being able to see the back of the bus for smoke "
Oh God yeah, my mum was a smoker so was ways the top deck for us. Urgh.
In wet weather condensation used to form on the ceiling of the bus and the nicotine used to drip down the walls.
Lovely |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Three tv channels black and white no remote.
No internet at all
No phone in Mum and dads house
Def no mobile phones
CB radio
To mention just a few.
Oh and for me sat nav in cars love them I am terrible at directions and wife never liked reading maps in the car |
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By *hloevtTV/TS
over a year ago
norwich |
"Three tv channels black and white no remote.
No internet at all
No phone in Mum and dads house
Def no mobile phones
CB radio
To mention just a few.
Oh and for me sat nav in cars love them I am terrible at directions and wife never liked reading maps in the car "
All of this, and having to go out side to use the toilet, scary stuff x |
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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago
Dubai & Nottingham |
A few years ago I took on apprentice , very smart 16yrold all straight A*s. We were taking the piss in the office , I asked her if she knew what vinyl was. Of course I do she said, feeling all smug, those big CDs you use for scratching.... |
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In fact, I could also include fax machines here, and shell suits, and I remember one year every male in my family from my dad through to my uncles, all had perms done! There were a lot of people walking around with dodgy hair. A little later Bros arrived and kids wanted spikey hair.. haha |
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By *sGivesWoodWoman
over a year ago
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"A few years ago I took on apprentice , very smart 16yrold all straight A*s. We were taking the piss in the office , I asked her if she knew what vinyl was. Of course I do she said, feeling all smug, those big CDs you use for scratching...."
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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago
Dubai & Nottingham |
"ZX Spectrum - rubber keys "
I bought one recently , complete with the box, charger, original polystyrene, Basic programming manual and even a printer. 40 years that manual probably taught me more about problem solving than any degree or course has since |
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Music was on tapes when I was young. Remember when cd's came out and then when everyone was risking a computer ending virus to download via limewire haha.
Msn messenger and then BBM and qwerty keyboard on a phone being revolutionary and so fast to type rather than hitting numbers 2 or 3 times for letters.
When the internet came out and was dial up and if the phone went that was you off haha. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Black and white TV, coal-fired central heating, a grammarphone and wireless. No telephone at home, outside toilets, using a mangle to wring out clothes, no freezers, just small fridges, no showers just a bath, being bathed in a sink. Using an upside down coffee table as a toy boat. Crimplene shorts in winter. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Having no debts.
Once your in control you can quit your horrible job, tell people what you really think of them and not have sleepless nights worrying about bills. |
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Going off with your mates to build a den in the woods and spending days hanging around in there during the school holidays, or building rope swings over a nearby river etc, it was our escape from adults and chores. Kids these days have a meltdown if they have to go outside of a WiFi signal |
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Going to the wee shop and getting a qtr of rhubarb and custard sweets.
Going all the way to your mates and chapping on their door to see if they are coming out. Sometimes they wouldn't be in. Sometimes they would be at their dinner haha. Kids these days will never know. |
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