Never used a phonebox.....
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Jader1973 said:
Not sure if it is in the UK already, but the Commonwealth Bank here has just started a service where you don't need a card to get cash out of an ATM. I think it uses the App on the phone (you can probably tell I haven't tried it).
yeah, Nat West have been doing that for a while, via their Android app. xRIEx said:
DWS said:
or Telex
I'm 33 and have never used TelexPothole said:
xRIEx said:
DWS said:
or Telex
I'm 33 and have never used TelexThis was the baby!
http://www.samhallas.co.uk/bt_museum/cheetah.jpg
Edited by DWS on Thursday 4th September 13:47
Moonhawk said:
An ethernet cable.
Disagree.Presumably you think wireless will take over. Wireless is by nature broadcast, and consequently has physical limits. Ethernet, not so much.
I've already been using 10gbit ethernet at work for ages (40gbit and 100gbit are also in the works - 40 in particular already in use in various places).
CraigyMc said:
Funkycoldribena said:
???? Am I missing out on some sort of new fangled opening gadget? or tins that open themselves?
Lots of tins come with a ringpull these days, I guess that's what's meant?CraigyMc said:
Disagree.
Presumably you think wireless will take over. Wireless is by nature broadcast, and consequently has physical limits. Ethernet, not so much.
I've already been using 10gbit ethernet at work for ages (40gbit and 100gbit are also in the works - 40 in particular already in use in various places).
True - but this subject isn't about what is technically still in use.Presumably you think wireless will take over. Wireless is by nature broadcast, and consequently has physical limits. Ethernet, not so much.
I've already been using 10gbit ethernet at work for ages (40gbit and 100gbit are also in the works - 40 in particular already in use in various places).
5 1/2 inch floppy disks are still in use in niche areas - but show one to your average spotty teen - and they probably won't have a clue.
It's the same with most of the suggestions on here. The criteria isn't that such things will be absolutely obsolete and unused in 15 years - just that your average kid won't know about or have ever used one.
My 12 year old daughter's moaning she doesn't have a mobile phone yet! I told her I had to wait for them to be invented, and THEN had to pay the bill myself....I was already in my 20s by then. 
Records: I've some original Bowie stuff, unmarked, from the late 60s-early 70s. My kids laugh at those "big clunky things", but only just know how a CD player works.
For the future, and not even too distant, the "Johnny Cabs" we saw in the original 'Total Recall', must be on their way. Driverless cars are already.
In our house, at least, I'm sure the children don't know how food's prepared and cooked. My wife's too bloody soft!
Records: I've some original Bowie stuff, unmarked, from the late 60s-early 70s. My kids laugh at those "big clunky things", but only just know how a CD player works.
For the future, and not even too distant, the "Johnny Cabs" we saw in the original 'Total Recall', must be on their way. Driverless cars are already.
In our house, at least, I'm sure the children don't know how food's prepared and cooked. My wife's too bloody soft!
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