Never used a phonebox.....

Never used a phonebox.....

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DWS

657 posts

224 months

Thursday 4th September 2014
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eight track tape players

Morningside

24,114 posts

235 months

Thursday 4th September 2014
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DWS said:
Pothole said:
xRIEx said:
DWS said:
or Telex
I'm 33 and have never used Telex
I'm 48 (until tomorrow) ditto.
Well I just turned 50 this year and used one for about 15 years when I started work. Whilst they wern't specific to my industry (shipping) they were quite common.

This was the baby!
http://www.samhallas.co.uk/bt_museum/cheetah.jpg

Edited by DWS on Thursday 4th September 13:47
bounceI am 49 and I HAVE! That exact model as well.

Worked for a computer company and the boss asked me to send a telex as the secretary had gone home. This would have been about 1987 so it's a while back hehe Cutting edge stuff. I remember talking (typing) to the operator and everything was like a SMS.


What about a RF cable or phono cable for video? I think everything will be via HDMI. SCART will slowly be phased out.



Moonhawk

10,730 posts

225 months

Thursday 4th September 2014
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DWS said:
eight track tape players
Not sure you have quite grasped the concept of this thread biggrin

I haven't seen, let alone used one of those and i'm pushing 40.

LordGrover

33,674 posts

218 months

Thursday 4th September 2014
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Desktop computers. We'll be wearing devices or have implants that do all that 'computers' are doing today.

Pit Pony

9,193 posts

127 months

Thursday 4th September 2014
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eltax91 said:
So why didn't you just text her? hehe
YOU know why.

CharlesAL

532 posts

130 months

Thursday 4th September 2014
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http://youtu.be/GSRG0TqxLWc

The sound of dial up internet.

DervVW

2,223 posts

145 months

Thursday 4th September 2014
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CharlesAL said:
http://youtu.be/GSRG0TqxLWc

The sound of dial up internet.
ha ha, takes me back

BHC

17,546 posts

185 months

Thursday 4th September 2014
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I know what Telex and eight-track are, but I've never used them.

Fax, I have used although not for a long time. We still have a fax machine at work, but I've never heard it start that stupid beeping routine.

I'm sure that people were less awkward when organising a meeting in the past, and I suspect because they couldn't just text and change details at the last moment. You used to work out when and where it was possible to meet, and people tended to stick to it more. If you were there before the other, you just waited and looked around you until you saw that person!

iantr

3,478 posts

245 months

Thursday 4th September 2014
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ikarl said:
...what do you think the answer will be when we be ask the young folk, in 15 years time, what they have never used?
The iCloud.

catso

14,851 posts

273 months

Thursday 4th September 2014
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Old school telephone with a dial.


Morningside

24,114 posts

235 months

Thursday 4th September 2014
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That snowy picture and hiss on a blank TV channel.

steveo3002

10,648 posts

180 months

Friday 5th September 2014
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looking at a paper map

collecting proper airline tickets from the travel agent ..or using a travel agent for that matter

iphonedyou

9,537 posts

163 months

Friday 5th September 2014
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StuntmanMike said:
TV? I have never watched much telly, the wife and daughters do, or did, now they watch Netflix and other services on tablets or computers, I cancelled sky, no one noticed, threw the box out, no one noticed, now the only person that uses a TV in our house is me.
So no, it is very rarely on.
I don't think that's typical though, so would disagree on that point.

TLandCruiser

2,809 posts

204 months

Friday 5th September 2014
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steveo3002 said:
looking at a paper map

collecting proper airline tickets from the travel agent ..or using a travel agent for that matter
No, paper maps will always be around.

TTmonkey

20,911 posts

253 months

Friday 5th September 2014
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Cash.


Dirty unhygienic stuff. Expensive to produce securely. It's end must be very close.



iphonedyou

9,537 posts

163 months

Friday 5th September 2014
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TTmonkey said:
Cash.


Dirty unhygienic stuff. Expensive to produce securely. It's end must be very close.
The move towards cleanable, hygienic notes would suggest this to be incorrect.

Bullett

10,962 posts

190 months

Friday 5th September 2014
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The associated language and image remains though like the floppy disc icon to save. I thought of this when the oldest (4yo) said they had pulled the chain. When was the last time you saw a toilet with a pull chain? I hardly remember them and I'm 40+
Can you 'tape' x-factor is another. It has to be at least 10 years since I actually taped anything.
I was also asked by my son if he could watch the movie that came with his book. It was a CD, he found it hard to grasp that it only had music on it because movies come on discs.

I'll add the yellow pages.

xRIEx

8,180 posts

154 months

Friday 5th September 2014
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Bullett said:
Can you 'tape' x-factor is another. It has to be at least 10 years since I actually taped anything.
Same as going to see a 'film'. I suppose it's like really old people talking about going to 'the flicks'.

FlossyThePig

4,097 posts

249 months

Friday 5th September 2014
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Bullett said:
When was the last time you saw a toilet with a pull chain?
This morning, in my shower room. The grandchildren love the idea of pulling the chain.

P.S. You can even get them at B&Q.

Morningside

24,114 posts

235 months

Friday 5th September 2014
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Pulling the choke out on cold wet mornings to start the car.