Remember when...

iamstop

Remember when some people would have a mode on their digital watches that would chime every hour? Just like two beeps or whatever. That's gone now. You never hear hourly chimes from people these days.

Bobblehats

I heard a blip. That’s all I recall

iamstop

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120099204#Comment_120099204

It's already too late...

Bobblehats

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120099240#Comment_120099240

That bastard Soundwave blew my hearing out

Strumms

every single person catching a flight at the airport, had to check in, at a check in desk. No app, no website, nothing, no way of self producing boarding passes.

you were always delayed by some gobshîtes that seemed to enjoy regaling the checkin agent with some series of anecdotes or general ‘chat’ , followed by 135 questions about the flight ….oblivious to the growing Q of 135+ people behind them, or if they weren’t oblivious, just didn’t care…

Gatling

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058279357/remember-when

Would you believe ive a beep set on my gshock watches,

Likely down to the fact everyone/ a large number of people relie on their phones or smart watches for time ,

Kids these days can't tell the time on a real analog watch

gameoverdude

Remember when there was conductors on buses and you could only smoke up stairs(actually used to happen a lot after that until the luas was implemented).

Larbre34

Now the scrotes smoke upstairs on double-decker buses AND on the Luas.

Gregor Samsa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120099481#Comment_120099481

There's apps for it now:

Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.caynax.hourlychime&hl=en_IE&gl=US&pli=1

Apple:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hourly-chime-hourly-reminder/id1547379117

But no-one uses them. And rightly so.

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120099514#Comment_120099514

Actually I've rarely seen anyone smoke on the bus for quite a while.

iamstop

Back in my day this was all fields!

I grew up in Old Bawn, Tallaght. Before the Square, it literally was all fields. No hotels, no hospital, no apartments. Just fields.

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120099637#Comment_120099637

Not far down the road from you. Same.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120099481#Comment_120099481

Oh god you’re one of those

I remember when we all looked forward to advancing technology rather than complaining about people using it.

Gone are the days..

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120099481#Comment_120099481

Oh for an analogue world. Writing letters, only having a wristwatch to tell the time, no such thing as social media, phonecalls instead of texts, and people talking to each other.

Wibbs

I remember a bloke in school that used to have his watch beep every hour. Sound lad, odd as two left feet(always a plus point), but the beep got old really quickly. If you save up lotsa money you can even buy a purely mechanical watch that chimes the hours and minutes at the touch of a button.

https://youtu.be/TZySPlAAtSA?t=39

And I do mean lotsa money. There's likely a Casio that can do similar with leccy beeps for 20 quid, and you could kick it up and down the road and it would keep working, so there's that.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120099664#Comment_120099664

It's an interesting one. There's been a trend in the last ten years or so for people(almost always men) to buy expensive "old fashioned" mechanical watches. Now on top of the social contagion/"investment"/male jewellery stuff I suspect part of the trend is not unlike in the late 19th century when industrialisation and The Future(tm) felt a little overwhelming for some/many and there was a trend then to look to more "natural" forms and tastes like the Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau* movements in design. Stuff that was hard to make by machine. Maybe some feel our always connected and always on society needs some of that and why you get trends like mechanical watches and hipsters paying mad money for 80 year old Levis and the like?

Though I do know a couple of guys who wear a mechanical "luxury" watch and a fitbit/apple watch on their other wrist. One is basically jewellry, and that's fine too. I couldn't do that two wrist thing. I've always worn a watch and an analogue watch since I was a kid, but for initially different reasons. Digitals were all the rage when I were a lad and I lusted after them with all their cool functions, but for some reason I find digital time requires my third braincell to kick in to read. Like an extra step. Just wired wrong I suppose. So I bought "old watches" before they were "vintage collectables" for that reason. And they were a lot cheaper than even the nice digitals I couldn't afford. Pocketmoney.

Then the collecting bug hit. The fascinating to me anyway historical/tech aspect to them and that you can wear that today and is still useful. Even right now on my laptop I wouldn't look to the menubar, but at my wrist if I want the time. It's just there and quicker for me.

Me. Being a hipster. As we speak. 😁

*even though it was also seen as Moderne..

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120100502#Comment_120100502

I don't wear watches, but I like.

Not as cool as my calculator watch but you might as well get your coat.

Ps. My arms are hairier.

One eyed Jack

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058279357/remember-when

I was one of those absolute nerds who used wear one of these beauties -

Used crack myself up standing in line in the bank and they’d the AERTEL markets index page showing on a tv, I’d switch up and down the volume, change channels, just being an arse basically 😂

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120099481#Comment_120099481

They don’t need to, my own young lad has never worn a watch, like you say they can just look at the phone. He does love the whole idea of making stuff though and tinkering with retro tech, like he got a 3D printer recently and I was reminded of how I used to make lead soldiers out of moulds, like this -

The underlying principles are still the same for most of the stuff people still use today, just that the technology has changed is all. I can remember watching shows like Knight Rider and Six Million Dollar Man thinking how cool would that be if it was actually possible! 😳

Analogue shhmanalogue.

iamstop

Be Kind, Please Rewind.

Actually leaving the house to scour rows and rows of video cassette boxes. Take the one you want to the counter. The clerk will go to the back vault and find the corresponding tape via a numbering system. Bring back the tape, log it into the computer and charge you based on how new the film was. Some newer vids were for one night, some older ones were for two nights. Bring them back late and you'd get a late fee. Too much late fee and your account would be locked until you paid it off.

Source: Worked at Xtravision for a year or so.

Bogwoppit

White dog poo

Gatling

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120100719#Comment_120100719

I was only showing my eldest(14) one of them recently when she was asking for the lastest apple watches ,

I like technical advances especially 3d printing it opens up the world of technical design to anyone, and model making,

But as I've gotten Older I'm finding I'm getting drawn to the astetics and art of proper macanical watches,

I do enjoy Digital too I've been through everything from pager watches similar to the Casio you posted and later Gshocks which have terrible tiny lcd digital elements which are next to impossible to read unless in perfect conditions,

Showing kids today phones that weren't always the same rectangle 6in screens they and we all enjoy now

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120100859#Comment_120100859

Vhs or betamax?

iamstop

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120100916#Comment_120100916

VHS but I was there when DVDs were burgeoning.

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120100926#Comment_120100926

Youngster.

gameoverdude

I remember the first time getting a CD as a present. Only one problem...

StupidLikeAFox

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120099467#Comment_120099467

Yeah, and your local travel agent would give you a book of tickets like a chequebook for the outgoing and return journey the week before your flight

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058279357/remember-when

My uncle's Apple Watch (possibly Series 7) dings every hour

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120101156#Comment_120101156

Series 7. Old school.

Deja Boo

Remember when .... you could only use the phone as far as the cord would reach?

Gatling

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120101173#Comment_120101173

Spiny dialing.

o1s1n

Remember when it cost 10p to send a text message on a mobile phone? I used to absolutely blitz through credit texting mates.

Or when T9 predictive text first came out and you didn't have to press numbers multiple times to get the letter you wanted.

It's actually amazing how fast people get at typing on different devices, I used to be incredible fast on my phone in the pre predictive text days. Actually continued to text like that for years after T9 came along.