There is a generation that has not grown up with .......

Kaybaykwah

Putting 20 pence in the public phone in the hallway, and pushing the A button if you got through or the B if you wanted your money back.

Also remember I had to answer the same phone and go outside to tell a neighbo(u)r in the basement flat to come up and get the call.

TheAsYLuMkeY

McGaggs wrote: »

Or moving into a rented gaff and just plugging your TV in to get 17 channels because they couldn't turn off the analogue feed.

Now there a task, how many of those 17 can you name?

RTE 1
RTE 2
BBC 1
BBC 2
ITV
UTV
Channel four
Super
Sky
MTV
Eurosport
Euronews (I think, i do recall watching this years ago every morning but cant be sure it was via old cablelink)

Thats all i can recall.

ednwireland

rn wrote: »

5 1/4 inch floppy disks
3 1/2 inch floppy (physically hard) disks
Zip drives, mini disks
And rapidly heading that way, CD /DVD disks.
And following closely behind that is USB drives

meh , when i started work one office still used 8 inch floppy disks !

the computer centre still had a man who walked around putting massive reels of magnetic tape onto tape readers when you requested a file on the mainframe

TheAsYLuMkeY

ednwireland wrote: »

meh , when i started work one office still used 8 inch floppy disks !

the computer centre still had a man who walked around putting massive reels of magnetic tape onto tape readers when you requested a file on the mainframe

And isnt it amazing that with all the leaps forward in technology, the original magnetic tape (albeit with a lot of R&D gone into advancement of the technology) can still Outperform HDD’s for capacity, have a read of this below,

https://www.backupworks.com/magnetic-tape-data-storage-breakthrough.aspx

Data not instantly accessible, but far more capacity achievable, Tapes never went away you know,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_tape_data_storage#High-density_magnetic_media

whisky_galore

Fights between kids that didn't end in a stabbing.

Floppybits

whisky_galore wrote: »

Fights between kids that didn't end in a stabbing.

And more often than not the 2 fighting end up mates.

Graces7

Enjoying my second childhood here and living happily as I did over 70 years ago..

Hot water bottles are still bliss, and the coal/turf fire..

Although I would never be without the internet......;)

Best of both worlds really.

CoBo55

Stateofyou wrote: »

Reading maps and memorising routes to get from A to B. Cursing the lack of road signs and bad directions!

I still do that. I hate being led on a string by satnav as it gives you no sense of your surroundings.

Floppybits

Getting a mixed breed dog (mongrel) without having to fork over a small fortune.

TheAsYLuMkeY

Floppybits wrote: »

Getting a mixed breed dog (mongrel) without having to fork over a small fortune.

With no license, microchip, collar or awareness where said dog takes a dump.

whisky_galore

TheAsYLuMkeY wrote: »

With no license, microchip, collar or awareness where said dog takes a dump.

That still happens!

weldoninhio

PGE1970 wrote: »

I was 50 this year. It makes you think.

I look at my kids.

For me they they are a generation that has not grown up with nor know.......

The Smiths

Only Fools and Horses

Abject Unemployment

Anyone else?

1. Available on Spotify.
2. Available on Netflix and UK Gold.
3. Coming in 2021.

its_steve116

Channel 6 and its awesome music shows Popscene and Nightshift.

Graces7

and no TV yet.

filbert the fox

RandomViewer wrote: »

I know a few houses with an avocado bathroom still, there's a brown shade as well, 1970s really were colour blind

in no particular order:

Royal Blue
Chocolate (dark)
Butterscotch
Primrose
Raspberryade
Avocado
Man City blue

filbert the fox

208 Radio Luxembourg on the Trannie (transistor radio) only available after 8:12pm

B sides

Clock radio

polishing shoes

kissing in the lane

Hammer house of horror

Sardonicat

filbert the fox wrote: »

in no particular order:

Royal Blue
Chocolate (dark)
Butterscotch
Primrose
Raspberryade
Avocado
Man City blue

Is raspberryade the one that was the same shade pink of children's antibiotic suspension? Not hangover/migraine friendly!

filbert the fox

Sardonicat wrote: »

Is raspberryade the one that was the same shade pink of children's antibiotic suspension? Not hangover/migraine friendly!

I was trying to describe that colour which, well only the 70s could produce.

let's see......

I forgot baby pink...omg!

Floppybits

whisky_galore wrote: »

That still happens!

Only they pay a small fortune for the dog.

Accidentally

filbert the fox wrote: »

in no particular order:

Royal Blue
Chocolate (dark)
Butterscotch
Primrose
Raspberryade
Avocado
Man City blue

+Burgundy

filbert the fox

You're absolutely right - except it looks more like some sugary drinks concoction than the fruit of the vine!!:eek:

whysobecause

Watching snooker on a Black and White TV.
Trying to make out the colour of the balls.
When it wasn't there turn, the players would be sitting down, drinking beer and smoking.

McGinniesta

I used to **** off to skinny mags.

Shortwave Radio.

When Dalymount Park hosted Ireland Matches.

bullpost

whysobecause wrote: »

Watching snooker on a Black and White TV.
Trying to make out the colour of the balls.
When it wasn't there turn, the players would be sitting down, drinking beer and smoking.

Snooker commentator, the late Ted Lowe, uttered the immortal phrase, "and for those of you who are watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green" during one of his commentaries.

Little did we think, in the future the noodi ladies would just be there in an instant . Not arriving pixilated line by pixilated line, until 3 mins later you had your image, only to find out in the last few lines, she had a willy.

Floppybits

MikeOxsgreen wrote: »

Little did we think, in the future the noodi ladies would just be there in an instant . Not arriving pixilated line by pixilated line, until 3 mins later you had your image, only to find out in the last few lines, she had a willy.

Ah but they are missing out on the suspense.

RandomViewer

storker wrote: »

Yeah, but, ones that work...

Renault were world leaders in electric accessories that didn't work, must be a French thing, wire it up, it doesn't work, shrug shoulders

Sardonicat

Listening to the charts on a Sunday waiting for what the number 1 would be.

Edgware

Fingering

There is a generation that has just not grown up..