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Post by Moose on Oct 3, 2013 20:11:37 GMT
we had a thriving nostalgia forum As it's my birthday would everyone indulge me and start one new thread on here?
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Post by raspberrybullets on Oct 3, 2013 20:42:37 GMT
I thought it wasn't your birthday?
Nostaligia....I remember a time when there was no internet.
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Post by tangent on Oct 3, 2013 23:52:05 GMT
I remember when... we had proper winters with snow lying on the ground for six weeks, the decent stuff that let us go sledging down the street.
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Post by Moose on Oct 3, 2013 23:54:59 GMT
RB - you probably don't you know It's been around in some form since before you were born
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Post by Alvamiga on Oct 4, 2013 6:45:11 GMT
As with most people, she probably means the World Wide Web, which started in 1990. The underlying technology has been there for decades and the first e-mails are about as old as I am (early 70s (the year, not my age ))!
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Post by raspberrybullets on Oct 4, 2013 8:04:00 GMT
Yes, I meant I remember before I used or heard of the internet.
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Post by tangent on Oct 4, 2013 8:14:03 GMT
I remember hearing the air raid sirens in Sheffield after the war, and ration books for boiled sweets.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Oct 4, 2013 8:43:09 GMT
I remember using typewriters.
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Post by Alvamiga on Oct 4, 2013 8:45:53 GMT
We still get something that sounds like an air raid siren each week. It is when they test the alarm system at Broadmoor Hospital which is a high-security psychiatric hospital. It can be heard for many many miles in all directions.
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Post by Alvamiga on Oct 4, 2013 8:47:04 GMT
Heh! We used to have a typewriter that had red and black, but you had to type l and O as there were no 1 or 0 keys! Quality!
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Post by charliebrown on Oct 4, 2013 10:16:42 GMT
I remember when I was young, we didn't have cars. My dad gave us rides on motorbike and bikes.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2013 10:17:01 GMT
I sometimes used a typewriter as a child. And we played computer games with joysticks. Where have those gone?
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Post by charliebrown on Oct 4, 2013 10:30:23 GMT
We've got a huge arcade machine in our first floor. My husband's parents used to own a small corner store and they had this machine in the place. It still works.
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Post by Alvamiga on Oct 4, 2013 18:35:08 GMT
I could spend a lot of time on Rampage, Defender and Joust alone! Come to that, I already have done!
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Post by tangent on Oct 4, 2013 18:48:49 GMT
Heh! We used to have a typewriter that had red and black, but you had to type l and O as there were no 1 or 0 keys! Quality! Yes, I remember those typewriters. You would type a lower case L for the number one. I remember using a mechanical calculator, which worked by turning a handle. I had to use one in my first job (not counting Saturday jobs delivering groceries). And I remember gramophone records that worked by clockwork and a large horn.
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Post by Alvamiga on Oct 4, 2013 18:59:26 GMT
I remember only two channels on the TV. BBC and ITA. All in glorious black and white! One of our TVs even had buttons to switch between 525 and 625 scanlines!
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Post by tangent on Oct 4, 2013 19:15:35 GMT
My dad made our first TV when the transmission only had 425 lines. France had 825 lines (I think). One very foggy day, we managed to receive a Tv reception all the way from France - my dad explained that water droplets acted as a conductor - and the picture was split into two, with one half on the left and the other half on the right. I was about 11 at the time.
I remember when the base frame rate was 425 x 25 = 10625 cycles per second, leading to a high pitch whistle that my grandma couldn't hear. [/tech mode]
Oh golly, please stop me reminiscing.
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Post by Kye on Oct 4, 2013 19:30:52 GMT
I remember a horse and wagon delivering our milk, and horse poop on the street after. And visiting the horses in the stable behind the dairy.
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Post by Alvamiga on Oct 4, 2013 19:37:09 GMT
The first computer I used had 1K of RAM and software had to be loaded from audio cassette at speeds of something like 300bits per second. Of course, the operating system was ready to go in less than a second in those days...
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Post by jayme on Oct 5, 2013 3:39:46 GMT
I remember knowing people who had 8-track tapes. I remember watching Sesame Street with no Elmo. (I hateses Elmo.) I remember Billy Beer.
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Post by Alvamiga on Oct 5, 2013 5:31:12 GMT
I have 8-track tapes, but not had a player in a while! I still have my Grundig TK-20 spool to spool tape player, waiting for me to link it up to newer tech to recover my old recordings.
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Post by jayme on Oct 5, 2013 6:22:44 GMT
You're old.
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Post by charliebrown on Oct 5, 2013 6:35:12 GMT
I have 8-track tapes, but not had a player in a while! I still have my Grundig TK-20 spool to spool tape player, waiting for me to link it up to newer tech to recover my old recordings. We have 8-track tape player, my husband listens to it occasionally. My house is full of items from my husband's childhood.
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Post by Alvamiga on Oct 5, 2013 8:48:37 GMT
No, the cutoff point for being old is "older than me!"
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Post by tangent on Oct 5, 2013 10:56:09 GMT
I remember when I used to punch my computer programmes onto paper tape.
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Post by whollygoats on Oct 5, 2013 14:05:15 GMT
Horse-drawn milk wagons? Wow...I remember milkmen and milk wagons and the little insulated box on the front porch for milk products. No horse-drawn milk wagons, though.
I also remember manual typewriters (a portable Brother got me through my bachelor's degree). I also remember paying $75 for my first calculator, a Texas Instrument.
Sugar Smacks (a breakfast cereal). Strawberry Nehi (a soft drink). Spam (an indeterminant tinned 'meat' product). Bonomo Turkish Taffy (a candy product).
Studebakers (an automobile). International Harvester (makers of farm equipment and one of the earliest SUVs). Oh, and the American Motors Rambler, which we snarkily referred to as 'The Blur' (another automobile). Of course, I also remember gasoline for less than 30 cents a gallon and 'gas wars' between service stations.
I was around for the initial release of hula hoops and of silly putty. I fondly remember Tonka Toys.
We watched the That Was The Week That Was, Smothers Brothers, and Laugh-In in their initial releases, in black and white.
I remember the "Cinderella Mets".
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Post by Alvamiga on Oct 5, 2013 17:31:47 GMT
I remember when everyone used milkmen, but then the garages, corner shops and so on undercut them heavily on price. They seem to be making a comeback recently by delivering other stuff, allowing you to place your order as late as the previous evening.
Also, a guy used to come from the insurance company to collect premiums and discuss policy issues.
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Post by Moose on Oct 6, 2013 17:51:30 GMT
I had spam the other day! Great stuff! We need a spam appreciation thread
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Post by JoeP on Oct 6, 2013 17:59:00 GMT
The first computer I used had 1K of RAM and software had to be loaded from audio cassette at speeds of something like 300bits per second. Of course, the operating system was ready to go in less than a second in those days... You must be 4 times as old as me ... my first computer had 4K of RAM!
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Post by JoeP on Oct 6, 2013 17:59:15 GMT
The old nostalgia thread was much better than this one.
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