Blast from the past - remind us of a thing
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DickyC said:
Creamola Foam. Two teaspoons of Creamola crystals in a glass of water made a refreshing fruit-flavour drink. Allegedly. Lots of flavours, not just fruit: ginger and bubblegum were available.
It was 100% chemicals- despite what the advertising would have you believe.
Popular in Scotland, less popular in England but Mrs C remembered it from her childhood in Newbury.
The scandal plagued company who made it were bought by Nestle and production ended in 1998.
loskie said:
DickyC said:
Creamola Foam. Two teaspoons of Creamola crystals in a glass of water made a refreshing fruit-flavour drink. Allegedly. Lots of flavours, not just fruit: ginger and bubblegum were available.
It was 100% chemicals- despite what the advertising would have you believe.
Popular in Scotland, less popular in England but Mrs C remembered it from her childhood in Newbury.
The scandal plagued company who made it were bought by Nestle and production ended in 1998.
t! Now I feel old...BT phonecards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_cQ8eRSbCg
My old man has been in hospital for almost 4 weeks now, something something in his lower back. It's 2024 now but we've been here before in the early 90's when he was in hospital for 6-7 weeks which resulted in discectomy and spinal fusion. During one of my recent visits we started reminiscing about that period 30 years ago. Whilst heaping praise on my Mum for travelling 150 miles everyday to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary with 4 kids under the age of 10 and keeping it together that whole summer we started discussing how much communications and technology have advanced since that time.
And I suddenly remembered the massive collection of spent BT phonecards I amassed during my daily visits to the old man on the ward! I can't remember the last time I saw or even used one but there seemed to be a time that some kids I knew carried one in lieu of mobile phones that came a few years later. Everyday I scanned the portable BT phones on each floor for spent cards the same way people used to check for change when passing public phoneboxes. My collection really started to kick on when other patients saw what I was up to and started leaving their spent ones for me, I was probably a bit gutted when the news came that Dad had been declared fit to return home!
But what a change in 30 years... sharing a single phone on the ward and enjoying only a handful of terrestrial television channels on the only TV available on the hospital floor which was often stuffed away in a small TV or family room, redundant if you were entirely bed bound for the summer! Now, my Dad has an iPad that he is using to watch any TV show or film he wants, live sport, keep up with family photos shared to the cloud and so on. He's able to update us on new information when Doc does the rounds and we're able to update him with photos and progress of his two month old grandaughter. It's truly remarkable just how in touch you can be these days and I don't think some people quite appreciate that sometimes. Saying that, there is something about disconnection and the tranquility it brings, something the old man has commented on enjoying just switching off the last few weeks and gathering his thoughts a bit on whether he should retire, change jobs, etc.
Anyway, I've digressed quite a bit but yeah, BT phonecards... a blast from the past! Are they or similar tech still in use anywhere?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_cQ8eRSbCg
My old man has been in hospital for almost 4 weeks now, something something in his lower back. It's 2024 now but we've been here before in the early 90's when he was in hospital for 6-7 weeks which resulted in discectomy and spinal fusion. During one of my recent visits we started reminiscing about that period 30 years ago. Whilst heaping praise on my Mum for travelling 150 miles everyday to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary with 4 kids under the age of 10 and keeping it together that whole summer we started discussing how much communications and technology have advanced since that time.
And I suddenly remembered the massive collection of spent BT phonecards I amassed during my daily visits to the old man on the ward! I can't remember the last time I saw or even used one but there seemed to be a time that some kids I knew carried one in lieu of mobile phones that came a few years later. Everyday I scanned the portable BT phones on each floor for spent cards the same way people used to check for change when passing public phoneboxes. My collection really started to kick on when other patients saw what I was up to and started leaving their spent ones for me, I was probably a bit gutted when the news came that Dad had been declared fit to return home!
But what a change in 30 years... sharing a single phone on the ward and enjoying only a handful of terrestrial television channels on the only TV available on the hospital floor which was often stuffed away in a small TV or family room, redundant if you were entirely bed bound for the summer! Now, my Dad has an iPad that he is using to watch any TV show or film he wants, live sport, keep up with family photos shared to the cloud and so on. He's able to update us on new information when Doc does the rounds and we're able to update him with photos and progress of his two month old grandaughter. It's truly remarkable just how in touch you can be these days and I don't think some people quite appreciate that sometimes. Saying that, there is something about disconnection and the tranquility it brings, something the old man has commented on enjoying just switching off the last few weeks and gathering his thoughts a bit on whether he should retire, change jobs, etc.
Anyway, I've digressed quite a bit but yeah, BT phonecards... a blast from the past! Are they or similar tech still in use anywhere?
Spare tyre said:
Bright Halo said:
Still get them in kids party bags, I have a few in my coat pocket …70s parents thinking it perfectly fine for me to climb out of my bedroom window onto the flat roof of the
extension in order to be able to
wolfracesonic said:
Spare tyre said:
Bright Halo said:
Still get them in kids party bags, I have a few in my coat pocket …70s parents thinking it perfectly fine for me to climb out of my bedroom window onto the flat roof of the
extension in order to be able to
Abbott said:
wolfracesonic said:
Spare tyre said:
Bright Halo said:
Still get them in kids party bags, I have a few in my coat pocket …70s parents thinking it perfectly fine for me to climb out of my bedroom window onto the flat roof of the
extension in order to be able to
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