Oh How Things Have Changed

[Bazile]

Just had a chat with a colleague about things that have disappeared / almost disappeared over very recent years -

Remember carbon paper ?

I remember writing a letter out long hand - sending it to the typing pool - receiving letter back - correcting typing errors - sending back to typing pool .

Oh how technology have come on a pace in a very short while .

What are your recalls

[delboy3]

The 'clunk' of a librarian's date-stamp.
The smell of a freshly-printed mail order catalogue (and secretly peeking at the lingerie section)
Circular dial telephones.
The days when chewing gum flavours were either mint...or mint.
Spangles!
Walkmans.
Floppy disks.
Vesta beef risotto.
The overpowering smell of kerosene at the airport.
My hair :-(

[BlackadderV]

Tracing paper was quite expensive. At school we used Izal toilet tissue which was just as effective and was free. The caretaker couldn't understand how we got through so much.

[Bazile]

Hc4361

//It's probably the same one, bazile. A philips, I think //

I'll have a look when i get home later

[New Judge]

Eight inch floppy discs (which really were floppy). Then came the five and a quarter versions and finally the three and a half "solid case" jobs. Fifty of these did not hold anything like the same amount of data as a mobile phone.

Library tickets which the librarian kept and filed in a big wooden tray when you borrowed a book.

Chopper bikes

"Dansette" record players.

Juke boxes where you could see the vinyl records selected from the collection and played vertically.

Green Line coaches (especially the single deck versions of "RF" style)

Telephone "Party Lines"

Meccano sets

Southend's "Kursaal"

[Svejk]

She should have stuck with it, samurian. The Wizard of Oz 'bursts' into Technicolor after 20 mins. Unless you've still got a black & white telly, of course. ;)

[Bazile]

The smell of parafin heaters

[BlackadderV]

Svejk is correct. The beginning and end scenes, set in Kansas, are in B/W. The majority of the film, set in Oz, is in colour. A rather clever way of separating reality from fantasy.

[Bazile]

//Telephone "Party Lines" //

Aaah yes

'' sccch- i think someone is listening in on our conversation ''
sound of receiver being hung up - lol

[tamborine]

Sniffing tippex ;)

[Bazile]

'high' would stop that if i were you

[tamborine]

Lol....best bit of a days work

[BlackadderV]

I remember in the 60s sniffing carbon tetrachloride, sold as a solvent for removing stubborn stains. It had an effect similar to chloroform.

[tamborine]

And getting hi on pink wax for gestetners.....only way to sex up the gaffer

[Canary42]

Ration books.

Utility Mark.

AA Gun practice (2 miles along the coast from where we lived).

Aircraft towing drogue for above doing a U-turn over the house for a return run.

Target drogues from above washed up on the beach.

Steam trains.

Gas street lamps.

Gasworks (pooo wot a stink).

Milk Bars

[tamborine]

And get a rise ;)

[EDDIE51]

Early computers where they were so big they had to be in a room or even a building on their own and only lofty 'gods' called 'computer operators' were allowed near them! I often wonder how they compare to a modern laptop for power.

[atalanta]

Not having deafening music in shops. Being greeted by shop assistants with a polite
"Good Morning, Madam/Miss/Sir"
rather than
"hi, There" in spite of the number of times I tell them my name is not "There".

[EDDIE51]

Record shops where you sat in a little booth and listened to the record on headphones to decide if you wanted to buy it.

[ll_billym]

Dial up internet. And worse still connection dropping, dialling back and getting an engaged tone because they had limited lines. Do not miss.

[trt]

Big Wagon Wheels.

Tipex.