Experiences and stuff that won't happen again....

B.A._Baracus

You know, the dumb or random things.

• Like missing a movie when it was in the cinema. So you go to Xtra-Vision on the Friday it comes out on VHS but you left it too late in the day. All the copies are rented out. So you go balls I wanted to watch that tonight and either go home empty handed or rent something else.
• Going to the local shop to buy your ma smokes. They wouldn't sell them to you if you are a teenager but something like 5? sure here's 20 Rothmans for you. lol.
• Recording stuff off the tele on blank videos. You would jump up to hit stop when the ads started and be on a razors edge ready to hit record when it should be coming back off the ads.
• Dial up internet. Looking at a celebrities nude picture as each line draws on the screen.. one line... after the other. lol.

https://gfycat.com/gifs/search/janeway%2Bsimpsons

Ah memories. Time is a harsh mistress. Care to add any?

silliussoddius

Using a fax machine or paper map.

Mister Vain

Decent music.

The Woke Man Bun

A dominant or uniform culture that everyone can adapt to and participate in.

Archeron

Agreed on the fax machine, used to work in sales and the horrible brrrrr noise of the fax usually meant a purchase order so was a good unpleasant noise.

Waiting for cassette based video games to load, like the spectrum and commodore 64. Some games had more loading on later levels and you'd be bricking it that it might crash.

Handing over your money to buy a plastic card to use in a small plastic phone cabin on the street in order to talk to somebody.

BrianD3

"Watching" football games on Ceefax on a Saturday afternoon. Also flicking between Sports Stadium and Grandstand.

In areas without cable "piped" TV, having a massive aerial in the back garden or on the roof of the house to go from 2 channel land to 6 channel land (with sh*te reception)

silliussoddius

Getting off the couch to change the television station.

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119854317#Comment_119854317

And using Function, 6, 6 & Set to make sure the bloody thing was sent!

Engaging in an act of self-help while watching Eurotrash on Channel 4 on a Friday night.

Allinall

I got married.

That certainly won’t be happening again.

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119854359#Comment_119854359

You didn't have a TV stick?

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119854430#Comment_119854430

We only had a wireless stick.

Sardonicat

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119854440#Comment_119854440

Bloody luxury! We just has a stick.

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119854440#Comment_119854440

Ladi-feckin-da.

knucklehead6

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119854455#Comment_119854455

In our house I was the stick

TooTired123

Making arrangements to meet someone maybe a week or more in advance and having to stick to it because you had no way of letting them know that you wouldn’t be able to make it.

KilOit

Kids allowed to be kids without helicopter parents. I was out at 11am till near midnight when I was 8-12 during the summer months.

the_amazing_raisin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119854253#Comment_119854253

Stay away from Japan in that case, they're still mad for fax machines over there apparently

A friend of mine was over there a few years ago and he was telling me that immigration in the airport wouldn't accept a printout of the hotel booking and had to get it faxed over

Also in the US they still fax prescriptions apparently

the_amazing_raisin

Programming the video recorder with the video plus codes from the TV guide

And then realising that the football match went into extra time, so the movie was delayed and you failed to record the last 30 mins of Star Trek 2

I was really f**king confused when I saw the start of Star Trek 3 😂

Travelling through US customs and immigration December 26 1996.

The only phrase I remember from the single official at the desk is"Have a nice trip" with a smile on his face.

y0ssar1an22

blowing into the old video game cartridge's.

making mix tapes from atlantic 252, raging when they would start talking as the song winded down

checking scores on teletext.

my 1st date had to call their landline (number gotten from phone book of course) and speak to the auld fella 1st before he would let me speak with the girl.

god be with the days

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119854590#Comment_119854590

Sellotape to allow you record over previous recorded films on vhs tapes!

Feisar

The likes of Feeky McGee.

recording playing the piano on tape recorder cassette tape: poor output.

Changing the tv channels by pressing the buttons to the right hand side of the tv screen.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119854518#Comment_119854518

Some places still use faxes here for prescriptions too. It's because faxes can't be hacked.

walshb

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119854359#Comment_119854359

To this day I still feel the remote control for a tv is history’s greatest invention.

the_amazing_raisin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119854720#Comment_119854720

I feel like there's a division of Russian hackers who are saying "challenge accepted" right now 😁

But yes, faxes are generally secure enough to be used for things like medical data.

I think there's also a lot of legacy thinking involved in that, like there's other methods of communication that are secure but pharmacies and doctors don't see any reason to use anything newer

If it ain't broken then don't fix it, and continue to torture anyone using it 😂

standardg60

Boiling milk over/kettle boiling dry cos you'd forgotten to keep an eye on them.

Manually tuning in TV stations and the video recorder.

Copying tapes on twin decks.

Waking up and seeing your breath on Winter mornings.

Neighbours calling in to use the phone cos they didn't have one.

Piling into a friend's parents car for a lift home after they'd been lucky enough to have been collected from school on a wet day, at least six doubled up on laps in the back seat.

BrianD3

Having a file on a floppy disk and getting the dreaded "the disk is not formatted" error when trying to read from it.

Or if using DOS, the dreaded "Abort Retry Ignore Fail" error message.

standardg60

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119854723#Comment_119854723

Greatest joke ever.

'I bought a universal remote control'

'I said this changes everything'

Atlantic Dawn

Every weekend in 4th class we had to write a summary of a news related story that occured over the weekend. I was lucky enough to have got a TV with teletext on it early on, I would pretty much just copy a story word for word off Aertel at 8.55pm of a Sunday, never was sussed out by anyone, how I loved that TV 😁

Renting non-legit/replica/pirated videos from a man who would arrive in to the estate once a week with a van and 'rent' these videos for £1.50 for the week...This was at a time when a blank tape would cost £1, I could never figure out why he didn't go the next level and sell the the recording for £4 and flog lots at once.