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

GMSA

Edgware wrote: »

Fingering

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPF0pPaVRWk

Pauliedragon

Searching for Pamela Anderson pics on diall up internet which took about 5 mins to download with a massive horn.

ohnonotgmail

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.

we found our pictures of nudey ladies in hedges.

ohnonotgmail

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

we found our pictures of nudey ladies in hedges.

Stiff with what you hoped was dew

ohnonotgmail

MikeOxsgreen wrote: »

Stiff with what you hoped was dew

but you knew it wasn't.

wexwitch

8 kids all piled into a Escort estate, not a seat belt in sight. All survived.

Camping in a canvas tent, when it was lashing you woke up wet.

Swinging on the pole at the back of bus, while the bus was moving.

Getting stuck in the old diesel train, too small to reach the handle.

Tarzan, football, snooker etc. in black and white.

Pirate radio.

Recording music off the TV, Top of the Pops, begging your Ma to not talk while recording.

CiarraiAbu2

Robbing Orchards

Mechanical non electric Slot machines

String Percussion Pianos / organs / keyboards

RandomViewer

wexwitch wrote: »

8 kids all piled into a Escort estate, not a seat belt in sight. All survived.

Camping in a canvas tent, when it was lashing you woke up wet.

Swinging on the pole at the back of bus, while the bus was moving.

Getting stuck in the old diesel train, too small to reach the handle.

Tarzan, football, snooker etc. in black and white.

Pirate radio.

Recording music off the TV, Top of the Pops, begging your Ma to not talk while recording.

CA Bedford van, still smelling of sheep from earlier

Capt'n Midnight

TheAsYLuMkeY wrote: »

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,

It just means that a roll of tape has a much larger surface area than a disk.

And on proper OS's you can even boot from tape which can come as a surprise to anyone who has ever encountered difficulties setting one up.

If you drop a tape it probably won't die.
And in theory you could restore data off a 30 year old tape.


[RANT]
The reality is that unless you have lots of data, hard drives are cheaper because tape drives are really expensive and tapes aren't cheap. And good luck trying to restore a 30 year old tape in the Microsoft world unless you have the right software and right service pack and right firmware on a working drive which is likely to be SCSI so good luck getting a working cable. Any working old IDE or SATA drive can be read with a cheap adaptor. But it's much easier to copy all the stuff off an old drive onto a bigger new one.

Tape is obsolete unless you have a robotic storage library and way too much data. [/RANT]

Capt'n Midnight

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.

"Steve is going for the pink ball - and for those of you who are watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green.".
- Ted Lowe

lawred2

Used to like only fools and horses when I was a kid

Don't know why really because it's fcking crap

spurious

Kerry Creams.

I don't know where they went, but you can't get them and their psychedelic pink coloured filling anymore.

Oberkon

lawred2 wrote: »

Used to like only fools and horses when I was a kid

Don't know why really because it's fcking crap

Ah here it was bloody brilliant , don’t let non stop reruns ruin it either . I remember the very first episode when it was aired all them years ago too weirdly .

Bonnet de douche My good friend !

SouthWesterly

Golly wogs

Ekerot

Corporal Punishment

ILoveYourVibes

Ekerot wrote: »

Corporal Punishment

True and they don't seem more mis behaved or spoiled..yet they don't seem more secure and happy either.

CoBo55

Pushing cars in the morning.

lawred2

Homestead

Aglomerado

CoBo55 wrote: »

Pushing cars in the morning.

Was talking about this with my mum at the weekend, pushing my dad's old clapped out bangers down the hill from our house to get them started, being swathed in plumes of stinky smoke... my mum swears the pushing of the cars was the cause of various gynae problems she's had since!!!!

whisky_galore

Cars that needed a choke to start.

Frequent breakdowns, cars actually falling apart on the road with rust.

Those little rubber strips that were supposed to stop car sickness.

AXE TAX stickers.

Adults smoking in the car with kids on board.

Montage of Feck

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Leaving the radio on at night

Closed down at 2am and silent until 6:30am when there was a fanfare. Who needed alarm clocks ?
Had to be to leaving the house when the horoscopes came on to catch the bus.

Wasn't there a time rte did live 24hr radio on 2fm ?

ohnonotgmail

TAX IN POST written on a piece of cardboard in a car window

Ash.J.Williams

Your Face wrote: »

Count themselves lucky if they never hear The Smiths.
A band for cunts.

only a proper cnt would say that

Ash.J.Williams

McGinniesta wrote: »

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

Shortwave Radio.

When Dalymount Park hosted Ireland Matches.

and the biggest bands of the 90's

Aglomerado

whisky_galore wrote: »

AXE TAX stickers.

I remember those. "Axe the Tax: Don't be driven off the road" was the full text.

COVID

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

TAX IN POST written on a piece of cardboard in a car window

The first laugh of the day is usually the best one!
Thanks.

JimmyVik

whisky_galore wrote: »

Cars that needed a choke to start.

Frequent breakdowns, cars actually falling apart on the road with rust.

Those little rubber strips that were supposed to stop car sickness.

AXE TAX stickers.

Adults smoking in the car with kids on board.

My dad had a car where if you sat in the front seat you could see the road under you between your feet. You had to put your feet either side of the giant hole from rust.

Or the 6 hour drives to Kerry with all of us sitting on the back of a flat bed truck.

friendlyfun

Tesco vouchers. We used to get them for our school to get a computer.

ohnonotgmail

The EEC butter and cheese mountains