**** things about the 70s,80s,90s...that don't happen now!

If you lived in a small regional town that was on the main Dublin road you had terrible traffic especially on Friday evenings. Now our major cities are all connected by motorways.

Shopping is another one. Lots of small towns had local shops and maybe an independent style supermarket. You might occasional travel to Dunnes/etc. Now most of these towns have Lidl/Aldi and a Dunnes/Tesco or both or even more.

Your parents reading the small ads in the paper, to book some accommodation for the summer holiday in the West, using the pay phone in the filling station.

Using modems before broadband the internet was mainly blogs gifs news even downloading mp3s took a long time using Napster a pc cost 1000 pounds .you used maybe a large 15 ,inch crt monitor before flat screen tv existed .

Taping films or music videos off MTV or top of the pops on big VHS tapes A bloke would go around the estate with a van renting illegal films on VHS

A local video library might have only a 100 videos to rent before extravision was invented

Extravision would rent out console games cartridges for a few pounds

Most tv had maybe 30 channels which had to be tuned in

People would put large aerials on the roof in order to pick up the UHF signal to watch BBC it free .

Before the internet you could go to certain video shops and rent xxx porn films on VHS there would be a book with a list of porn movies to rent

You could not even buy playboy magazine in the shops

I knew a friend he fixed old crt type televisions for cash in his flat

If a tv breaks down now people would bring it back to the shop or else just buy a new TV .

Loading games off audio tapes it was a tedious process

There was a wide range of magazines in the shops about films music computer games eg Xbox or PC gamer

If you wanted to listen to pop music the choice was BBC radio or Luxembourg on medium wave or local pirate radio stations before 2fm q102 etc were setup

Pirate radio stations were very popular but they would be raided and the transmitter would be taken away in a van by the dept of post telegraphs

If you put up a satellite dish you could watch 100 s of tv channels free or get a sky dish and pay the subscription fee

Polio kids with mangled legs

I remember finding a porn mag in a hedge around age 11. I can still remember the excitement. There was a half pack of Major with it aswell. Me and the boys smoked the Major, we reckoned we were then smokers so asked the local pork butcher for some wrap paper and instead rolled that into the shape of the Major and smoking that instead.

A big one for me: Having to be extremely careful that you don't go overboard with your mobile data, especially back in Germany. I still remember how paranoid I was to not go above the 300MB limit, because I'd end up paying and arm and a leg, as well as an assortment of firstborns, for the privilege.

Cars getting robbed. At least a couple of times a year, someone would try and rob your car at night while it was sitting in your driveway. If they succeeded, you'd spend the following morning roaming around nearby council estates to find it - usually parked up somewhere with a broken lock or window.

Ask Jeeves

Entering codes from the game manual or the game wouldn't load.

Come to think of it, my rear windows are actually manual, relatively new car.