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

Doing the general knowledge quiz in school.

We used to get 20 questions and had the weekend to answer them.
You'd be saving the newspapers, calling the neighbors, looking up atlases and encyclopedias. This was in 1999, so just about pre-internet.

Now you'd have them answered as quick as the teacher could write them down.

secondrowgal wrote: »

being thrown out of the house every day during the summer holidays and told not to come back til tea time/dark, etc.

I remember being thrown out in an actual blizzard, with a bin bag over my coat for extra waterproofing and socks for gloves. That's not monty python, that's an actual childhood memory / trauma:D


Or waking up in a fúcking fridge for 2 or 3 months of the year because there was no central heating and then having to get dressed for school under the covers in bed because it was so cold in the bedroom!

sbsquarepants wrote: »

I remember being thrown out in an actual blizzard, with a bin bag over my coat for extra waterproofing and socks for gloves. That's not monty python, that's an actual childhood memory / trauma:D


Or waking up in a fúcking fridge for 2 or 3 months of the year because there was no central heating and then having to get dressed for school under the covers in bed because it was so cold in the bedroom!

Yeah and frost on the INSIDE of the windows.

And in those old houses in those days you weren't allowed in the front room as it was only for best.

MikeOxsgreen wrote: »

Going to the video library , renting your video, getting it home to discover its crap

Or the first 30 seconds of the tape are filthy dirty and the playing heads become contaminated on video recorder, you go look for your cleaning tape and find you have no methylated spirits to drop into the little hole on the cleaner cassette to wet the cleaning tape, you try and try to clean with a dry cleaner tape but.....BULL$HIT, cant watch the tape you just rented.

Back to choosing from,

RTE 1
RTE 2
BBC 1
BBC 2
ITV
Channel four

Maybe, if your lucky living on the east coast, you picked up BBC wales as a novelty Via old fashioned aerial.

TheAsYLuMkeY wrote: »

We must have been neighbors, because that's 100% my childhood home, you see your breath in your room in the morning like your outside, no exaggeration, no bull$hit.

The insides of the windows were wet with condensation.
Hot water bottles were a necessity.

Then we upgraded to oil filled heaters in our bedrooms. No point just turning it on, the heat would leave the room just as quick, so we'd wheel the heater beside the bed and throw the duvet over it.

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

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

I remember the real floppy discs you mention, you could bend them as they were housed in flexible plastic.

The 'Hard' floppy disc was floppy inside, thus retaining the name.

The Disc drive becoming obsolete we can see now with the new PS5 having driveless option.

I think it will be a while before USB slots become obsolete, if only because in case a recovery of a drive is needed or diagnostics you need a way in to the OS

That used to be done via Disc media, but can be done just as handy via live USB, accessing the BIOS though being made increasingly more difficult to access by Microsoft systems, they dont want you fixing your own issues.

TheAsYLuMkeY wrote: »

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70's Ireland county council Engineering!

That technology was still being used in the 80's and probably the 90's too!

... watching the Four Yorkshiremen Sketch before it was the Monty Python Four Yorkshiremen Sketch.



First performed in 1967 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Yorkshiremen_sketch .

Ringing a girl you met to ask her if she wanted to go out and praying that she or her mother would answer the phone and not her father or brother. Ya needed nerves of steel.

TheAsYLuMkeY wrote: »

Or the first 30 seconds of the tape are filthy dirty and the playing heads become contaminated on video recorder, you go look for your cleaning tape and find you have no methylated spirits to drop into the little hole on the cleaner cassette to wet the cleaning tape, you try and try to clean with a dry cleaner tape but.....BULL$HIT, cant watch the tape you just rented.

Back to choosing from,

RTE 1
RTE 2
BBC 1
BBC 2
ITV
Channel four

Maybe, if your lucky living on the east coast, you picked up BBC wales as a novelty Via old fashioned aerial.

We got HTV . I can still remember how to say hello in Welsh.

One house having Cablelink (now virgin) and about 3 or 4 other houses illegally getting their tv feed from that connection.

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

I still use minidiscs. Mainly because the walkman runs off a single AA battery and uses so little power that I use old batteries discarded from the kids toys.

Floppybits wrote: »

One house having Cablelink (now virgin) and about 3 or 4 other houses illegally getting their tv feed from that connection.

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.

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 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 wrote: »

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

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

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 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.

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 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!

filbert the fox wrote: »

in no particular order:

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

+Burgundy