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

riclad wrote: »

This generation is the first to expect all media on demand eg all TV programs will be on streaming services every TV station can be viewed live online

The next generation won't expect that because there'll be 47 different streaming platforms, all with different exclusive content.

The Continental Op wrote: »

Having to wire a 13 amp plug on every new electrical appliance you bought and having to decide which appliance you use the least to "borrow" a plug from.

My ma used to plug out the radio, then poke the wires of the iron into the socket and plug the radio back in to iron. This went on literally for years!

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

The current generation is going to get a shock when they realise that they do not own the content they are paying for. Even when they pay to "own" a downloaded movie they don't actually own anything.

I don't think people mind.
I definitely don't miss the stacks of DVDs that I'll never watch again.

joe40 wrote: »

How to use a turning handle to start a car, or get water from a well.

The previous two generations haven't grown up with that either.

This generation will never know a pre internet, pre social media world.

sbsquarepants wrote: »

My ma used to plug out the radio, then poke the wires of the iron into the socket and plug the radio back in to iron. This went on literally for years!

I remember seeing electric irons plugged into the light socket.
wall sockets were rare and for years consumers referred to the bill as the "Light Bill"

McGaggs wrote: »

I hear rumours that MS want to get rid of Control Panel even. Can't have pesky users changing settings.

I have a horde of old Motherboards, processors, RAM, PSU's, Disc Drives and cables, one thing that the advancement in internet has which works against MS is a pirated copy of windows XP, Vista, 7 or 8 is very easily obtainable and retains all those features. (Piracy not condoned)

sbsquarepants wrote: »

My ma used to plug out the radio, then poke the wires of the iron into the socket and plug the radio back in to iron. This went on literally for years!

When i think back about it now, using something in the earth slot to push down the pin and open the gates to the live and grounds slots so you could put the two bare cables of the piece of equipment to be used into it then releasing the earth pin which would then clamp the cables in position was absolute madness.

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

The current generation is going to get a shock when they realise that they do not own the content they are paying for. Even when they pay to "own" a downloaded movie they don't actually own anything.

Fuuk DRM. Better to stick to the auld pirate bay

New generation is much more used to paying for bytes and pixels than the one before it. The RIAA and that other sueing crowd must be rubbing their hands

bodhrandude wrote: »

I posted this in the 70's thread a good while back, but timely enough here too, do you remember the frustrations having to make a long distance call with this yoke.

Never knew what the A and B button did. Remember dialling long numbers on the rotary phone and some one would say something to you in the middle of it and you would forget where you were and have to start again.🤣

iamstop wrote: »

Was thinking about how I used to carry a big honking Walkman with me every time I was getting a bus to town. Usually a few extra tapes to swap out and sometimes even spare batteries. The ratio volume of what I needed to the minutes of music it could hold is vastly different to nowadays. I just put a 512GB memory card in to my phone.
Say on average it's 100MB for an album. Can easily fit over 5000 albums on the card and still have room left for the artwork and photos or whatever. The phone is maybe half the volume of a Walkman. Most tapes were 60 or 90 minutes. I'd usually record an album on to tape and then fill the rest of the blank space at the end of each side with random tracks of a similar ilk.

Remember upgrading to a disc man from the walkman. Jaysus the disc man ate the batteries, the strap to go over your shoulder so you bring it with you and any sort of bump and the cd would skip.

The Continental Op wrote: »

I'll see your Stacking Hi-Fi system and raise you a Radiogram

With stations like "Athlone' listed on the dial.

Padre_Pio wrote: »

I don't think people mind.
I definitely don't miss the stacks of DVDs that I'll never watch again.

I think you're correct that most don't mind; It will result in a lot of "lost media" in the future, as things get pulled from streaming services.

However, one thing that is never pointed out - kids are growing up without passive exposure to the past outside of school - not to mention to things they're not necessarily interested about.

It's very simple: back when I was a kid in the '80s, if our parents wanted to watch that movie from the '50s which was on TV tonight, our choices were simple: watch it with them, or go to bed. Most of the times, we'd chose to watch, if not only to avoid being sent to bed at like 8pm. That would expose us to "how things were before we were around". I remember asking a lot of question - and sometimes having my leg pulled spectacularly by my parents about them (e.g. having me think the world used to be black and white ).

You'd see old "operator" telephones, huge, room filling tape-reel (or perforated cards!) operated computers, cars that looked more like an horseless carriage than a Ford Fiesta, a world without airplanes and so on. Not all the time, but you'd have exposure. It wasn't really about knowing "how to fix a valve radio" or how to "drive a Model T", but just about knowing this stuff used to exist and was different from what we use today.

Today, by virtue of "content on demand", people can completely skip over it all. The parents are watching a movie from the 1970s? Their kids will watch PewDiePie on the iPad and so on. They'll see stuff from the past - in school, on history books, usually presented in the most boring, "bite-size" way possible.

I've actually experienced this myself a while ago - I'd basically only watch stuff I would look for, only look for news about things and fields I'd be interested about, only listen to music I already knew and liked. Suddenly, I realized I wasn't really up-to-date with anything, from world events to songs.

The Continental Op wrote: »

There she is

All of those exotic places and Athlone in the mix.

Up Westmeath or should that read Roscommon....

The Continental Op wrote: »

I'll see your Stacking Hi-Fi system and raise you a Radiogram

Still one of those in the loft here

filbert the fox wrote: »

Stacking a Hi-Fi with tape deck, radio, amp and turntable.

Spaghetti wiring to contend with but hey they looked great.

http://www.tvfilmprops.co.uk/det/1702/Akai-Silver-Stack-System-Hi-Fi/

Still got a similar setup I bought 40 years ago, silver Pioneer tuner and amp, silver Akai tape deck and Sansui turntable along with a black CD player. All still going strong

Typing ringtones into a Nokia phone.
My cousin was great at it, fingers flying all over the keypad.
I remember I got the ringtone for Smooth Criminal, but I never heard the actual song and I had the tempo set way too low.

Then polyphonic ringtones came out, gamechanger.
Then, one of the lads had a phone with a voice recorder and a light. Amazing technology back then. A phone with a light! Handy.

I think it was 2005 when I my first "good" phone, a Sony Ericsson V800, which had an amazing 1.3 megapixel camera, that spun around so you could do video calls, not that I could afford a video call.

iamstop wrote: »

I skipped the discman and went straight to minidisc player/recorder. It was pretty nifty for about 2 years until it got usurped by the ipods.

It's amazing how well the iPod did, despite being one of the more awkward MP3 players available at the time

Floppybits wrote: »

Never knew what the A and B button did. Remember dialling long numbers on the rotary phone and some one would say something to you in the middle of it and you would forget where you were and have to start again.🤣

I don't know how many times we pushed button B
as kids and a coins came out.

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

you put the coins in, dialled the number and waited for the other party to answer. you then pressed button A. if there was no response you pressed button B and got your money back. I am old enough to have used them but even by that stage they were an anachronism. There was one in an old pub across the road from where my dad worked.

Does anyone remember ‘tapping’ pay phones . It’s where you literally tapped the thing where you hang up for the number ie. 7 taps for a 7 etc . It did work from time to time

The stove with the kettle always on the boil.

If it wasn't it could take at least 10 minutes to get a quick cup of tea.

Sardonicat wrote: »

Still one of those in the loft here

would you not think of refurbishing it and build in current tech?

Padre_Pio wrote: »

I think it was 2005 when I my first "good" phone, a Sony Ericsson V800, which had an amazing 1.3 megapixel camera, that spun around so you could do video calls, not that I could afford a video call.

This was the first Nokia phone with a camera built in and also internet enabled, I bought this on release.

This was a really cool phone then, and still would be now, the handset used to slide up behind the screen and make it a really compact phone with just screen on view.

Don’t know where it ever went on me.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_7650#:~:text=It%20was%20introduced%20in%20Barcelona,imaging%20capabilities%20was%20widely%20marketed.

Wap... The mobile phone version of dial up, absolutely dreadful.

Padre_Pio wrote: »

Is that from the Matrix?

well now, it is and it isn't. He does use a phone like that in The Matrix BUT the one in the movie flicks open. the real one had to be opened manually. The 7710 looked a bit like it and that did flick open and it is usually called the Matrix phone but is not the one used in the movie.

Edgware wrote: »

"a Quinn Martin production"

like this?