Never used a phonebox.....
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soad said:
I completely forgot about the Ceefax.
Pagers, do these still get used in the hospitals/nursing homes?
God yes, pagers! I remember being on standby duty with search and rescue in the 90s and having to carry a pager. If it said "recall" you had to leg it back, if it had a phone number you had to find a phonebox and call in Pagers, do these still get used in the hospitals/nursing homes?
Chlamydia said:
soad said:
I completely forgot about the Ceefax.
Pagers, do these still get used in the hospitals/nursing homes?
God yes, pagers! I remember being on standby duty with search and rescue in the 90s and having to carry a pager. If it said "recall" you had to leg it back, if it had a phone number you had to find a phonebox and call in Pagers, do these still get used in the hospitals/nursing homes?
Teletext. What about the phone based one Prestel?
MoggieMinor said:
Good thread. Heres one to ponder on, how many people can still light a coal fire? Ive been in one or two pubs that still have one and earned a pint by getting it going well..
Easy! We always had them when I was growing up and one of my jobs was lighting it each day. I haven't done one for a few years but I'm sure I easily could.Ownership of media will be sorely missed, I predict.
In the future music and film will be leased, encrypted, compressed and device specific so it cannot be owned, transferred and broadcast at will. The sonic quality of music will be limited. Profiling details of music 'purchases' will be used by the internet media companies to bombard us with unwanted advertising. Choice will diminish as the media companies use this profiling to continually streamline what they offer.
In the future music and film will be leased, encrypted, compressed and device specific so it cannot be owned, transferred and broadcast at will. The sonic quality of music will be limited. Profiling details of music 'purchases' will be used by the internet media companies to bombard us with unwanted advertising. Choice will diminish as the media companies use this profiling to continually streamline what they offer.
Sorry, don't mean to be negative! Just look at the way Youtube is going, how Facebook went, how restrictive iTunes is, it's entirely the right of the companies to do as they please with their services, however I personally think they will go too far in their desire to corner and control the market, to the point that what we end up being able to buy, watch and listen to will be rather grey in comparison to what we've been able to get for the last thirty years - all for the sake of convenience!
ikarl said:
One of the graduates in work has admitted that he's never used a phonebox. Not massively unsurprising nowadays but got me thinking....
In the same context, what do you think the answer will be when we be ask the young folk, in 15 years time, what they have never used?
PetrolIn the same context, what do you think the answer will be when we be ask the young folk, in 15 years time, what they have never used?
LucreLout said:
Books.
I have an annoying child for a colleague who seems proud of the fact that he's "never read a book".
Apparently everything worth knowing is on youtube or some bogcast or other.
So sad. And so wrong.
One Christmas years ago my family were gently ribbing my brother for not knowing some general knowledge fact and my dad made the comment that was because he got all of his facts from Scooby Doo cartoons. At that point my brother lost it and shouted, "I've read a book"! A book; one. He couldn't understand why we were laughing so much. He was in his twenties at the time I have an annoying child for a colleague who seems proud of the fact that he's "never read a book".
Apparently everything worth knowing is on youtube or some bogcast or other.
So sad. And so wrong.
After a long stay in hospital in his thirties though he became a prolific reader.
backwoodsman said:
MoggieMinor said:
Good thread. Heres one to ponder on, how many people can still light a coal fire? Ive been in one or two pubs that still have one and earned a pint by getting it going well..
We have 2 open coal fires in our house, so I'm quite good at it.The radiators are thermostatically controlled so the lounge one shuts off, have the rest of the house a couple of degree's cooler, it saves a lot of money in winter.
backwoodsman said:
MoggieMinor said:
Good thread. Heres one to ponder on, how many people can still light a coal fire? Ive been in one or two pubs that still have one and earned a pint by getting it going well..
We have 2 open coal fires in our house, so I'm quite good at it.Most houses in our village have them to supplement the heating oil which is expensive. We tend to burn smokeless fuel briquettes + wood.
ccr32 said:
Bungleaio said:
I know, everything and far more is available on tinterweb these days, but there was something just so simple and effective about Ceefax/Teletext (until it froze on you).
Mind you, I don't miss having to look for last minute holiday deals on there (and dealing with my mum when she gets the phone bill at the end of the month).
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