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Post by whothingie on Mar 16, 2016 12:36:33 GMT -5
The sales advertisement for the latest phone system shows a plug/cord switchboard with winking tin eyes. The 20 year old thought it belongs in a museum. Maybe I should be there also as I used one for the first few years of my working life.
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Post by Liiisa on Mar 16, 2016 12:48:33 GMT -5
I'm up for the 8 a.m. clubbing idea too. I'd also like live music to start at 7:00 or 7:30 p.m. at the latest, thanks. If I go to a concert, I'd like the main act to take the stage by 8pm. I don't care if you have 4 preview acts, main act mounts the stage and gets started by 8am. Also, it would be good if these things didn't cost hundreds of dollars. I know! The last show we went to, the main act came onstage at 12:30 a.m... fucks sake. whothingie, I had a job that used a switchboard with cords and stuff too (1977)
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Post by whothingie on Mar 16, 2016 13:02:05 GMT -5
[quote author=" Liiisa " whothingie, I had a job that used a switchboard with cords and stuff too (1977) [/quote] Mine was a few years before that but good to know I'll have company in the museum Also used thing such as a telex, an Ohdner (a multiplication calculator) early bookkeeping machines and carbon paper was the bane of my life with 6 copies of anything that had to be typed. I can still recall the thrill of my first electric typewriter and even better the first electric 10 digit calculator. My arm used to get really tired adding on a pull handle calculator.
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Post by kingcnut on Mar 16, 2016 13:04:49 GMT -5
Why does the party start so late?
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Post by cakemonkey on Mar 16, 2016 13:22:34 GMT -5
You lot rock. I feel younger already.
Lisa, the carbon pad is a receipt so both parties have one copy. It's the only thing we have like that. Honest.
There are clubs in London, apparently that start at 6am on weekdays. The idea is that you dance and get energised for work at 8am or something.
Last time I went to a club I got there at 1am. I was so cross. Seriously, who goes out at 1am? Me, apparently. I wanted a nap in the lead up but was fine when I got there.
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Post by Liiisa on Mar 16, 2016 14:00:53 GMT -5
phew, cake. I remember very clearly when a friend showed up in 11th grade advanced algebra with a pocket calculator! It was twice the size of my phone and only performed very basic functions and probably cost $200, but in 1974 that was very exciting. Here's another old thing that I used to use a lot, and no one who's young enough to have grown up with computers could possibly have had any use for: Letraset. Huh, they still make it!
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Post by Phar Lap on Mar 16, 2016 14:34:01 GMT -5
You ask for half a dozen slices of something at the deli section of the supermarket and have to repeat yourself (and say 6). I usually ask for $4 worth and invariably the girl behind the counter at some stage says, "Was that 400 grams?" Happens every time.
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Post by Phar Lap on Mar 16, 2016 14:44:24 GMT -5
Why must I be old? I don't think of myself as old. When I was in my 20's, anybody over thirty was over the hill and anybody who was 40 or more was ancient! I realised with horror I am the age my grandma was when I was born. Shit, but she looked like a grandma - iron grey hair in a bun and she wore grandma clothes.
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Post by cakemonkey on Mar 16, 2016 14:44:24 GMT -5
Liiisa, I loved letraset. I feel like I need it in my life. I studied graphics the year I left school and we used letraset for so many things. We didn't have computers though.
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Post by mox on Mar 16, 2016 15:21:41 GMT -5
I worked in an art store in high school and remember selling letraset and all the different burnishing tools that went with it. I figured I could steal 25% of their business by selling bootleg sheets of vowels. My first illicit venture...
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Post by Phar Lap on Mar 16, 2016 15:27:26 GMT -5
Some say your belt determines your (old) age.
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Post by jimm on Mar 16, 2016 15:43:32 GMT -5
When someone talks about U2 as an old band, but you think it's a new band.
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Post by Bastet on Mar 16, 2016 16:01:46 GMT -5
So many...
The girl who had never heard of Guns 'n Roses.
Having to explain that the reason I lost contact with friends from high school was because it was before the Internet / FB.
Having a silver wedding anniversary in a few years is really freaking me out. Only old people have those.
Explaining to a group of girls that colour photography wasn't invented in the 80/90s so greyscale baby pics in the competition didn't necessarily mean the person in the picture was old (40+).
Seeing music I liked in my teens in the golden oldies section.
People thinking the latest remake is the original film.
That look you get when you recognise and comment on the original sample in a rap song.
The perplexed look when you explain you buy CDs and comments "I didn't think anyone didn't that anymore, I stream my music".
Muttering to myself that the trainee nurses are so young. Surely I didn't look like that!
My mum told me about my niece seeing a landline phone attached the the wall. She struggled to understand the concept of it and why it and the handset was attached to the wall.
My nieces brother (toddler) trying to zoom in the magazine page with his hands.
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Post by libbyh on Mar 16, 2016 16:46:10 GMT -5
Once upon a time when I went to a museum I would say "Oh look, my grandmother had one of those". Then it became "Gee, my mum had one of those". Now it's "huh, we got one of those for a wedding present".
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Post by Webs on Mar 16, 2016 16:57:25 GMT -5
At the salon, listening to a cover of a Whitney Houston song and remembering when it first came out when I was college
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Mar 16, 2016 19:09:55 GMT -5
The money chain charity fundraising thing for LC's school is asking for gold coins ($1 and $2) and notes for the day next week. I remember doing the same thing when I was at school and it was 1,2 and 5 cents! (A line is drawn on the playground and the kids put the money down on the trail)
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Post by libbyh on Mar 16, 2016 19:59:52 GMT -5
Once upon a time charities were grateful for any donation - when I tried to donate a decent amount of actual cash to a charity stall in the local shopping centre (had just had an unexpected windfall) they refused to take it, were only interested in signing me up for a monthly credit card contribution (not going to happen).
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Post by scicaro on Mar 17, 2016 0:54:47 GMT -5
My dad had letraset at his office, he used to let us use it for party invites.
Also spending hours lining up pre-printed templates on the photocopier because it only did black and white printing.
Actually using and old fashioned DOS based mail merge programme and then making copies of house details and envelope stuffing for my dad (he was an estate agent).
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Post by scicaro on Mar 17, 2016 0:59:41 GMT -5
Actually come to think of it, watching and listening to, my dad dictate everything (including punctuation) for his secretary to type with a (fancy) electric type writer.
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Post by whothingie on Mar 17, 2016 2:05:50 GMT -5
Actually come to think of it, watching and listening to, my dad dictate everything (including punctuation) for his secretary to type with a (fancy) electric type writer. Ah ha. Someone who has been taught to dictate and does it well. In my mind I can still hear one of my bosses very fluently and succinctly dictating. New Paragraph, ....... comma, ..... comma. Vitally important in the days when there was no memory on typewriters (that came later) and no photocopiers so multiple carbons and if it wasn't right it had to be redone. A really good dicta/typist was often top of the tree money wise. At one stage I could do about 50 words a minute error free on a manual typewriter if the person dictating knew how to visualise a letter layout and knew the subject. Might I add - those days are long gone.
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Post by poppy on Mar 17, 2016 2:30:40 GMT -5
I know my son was being a smartie but when I said, I didn't have many photos of his baptism as getting films developed was expensive - replied, you didn't use your phone! I quickly replied, nope it was a bit hard to take off the wall.
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Post by Liiisa on Mar 17, 2016 5:09:04 GMT -5
Dictaphones! I never used one, but definitely the execs in my office did. I took a shorthand course once, though, which is even older tech. (Don't ask me how to do it - I never did end up ever using it.)
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Post by romily on Mar 17, 2016 5:18:11 GMT -5
If you talk to grownups who don’t remember the cold war. And as they celebrated the 20 year anniversary of the fall of the wall in berlin – how can that be? It was just yesterday!
People who can’t imagine life without a mobile phone and the internet, and are baffled how we managed to travel without these tools, and how we managed to stay in touch. (Clue – we didn’t, and it was great!)
One of the reasons I got the tickets for Springsteen is that the concert starts at 16:30. Very civilised I thought!
When did colour photos become normal? Confused about Rias post, we had them in the mid 70s?
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Mar 17, 2016 5:29:32 GMT -5
The first computer I used was programmed by punch cards, and filled the basement of the physics department at Sydney university.
I'm now counselling the third generation of a family with histrionic personality disorder.
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Post by jimm on Mar 17, 2016 9:07:19 GMT -5
When you have to explain to someone how long a yard is.
Now, let's see --- 100 links to the chain, 10 chains to the furlong, 8 furlongs to the mile ...
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Post by kingcnut on Mar 17, 2016 9:20:00 GMT -5
My mates kid has never driven a car where the Windows had to be wound by hand, the lights had to be switched on and off or the windscreen wipers weren't automatic.
My first car had a starting handle.
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Post by viv on Mar 17, 2016 9:26:31 GMT -5
Yep, my parents have plenty of colour photos from the 70's. It certainly existed pre-WW1, but wasn't common amongst the populace until the 1960's.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2016 9:54:42 GMT -5
Yep, my parents have plenty of colour photos from the 70's. It certainly existed pre-WW1, but wasn't common amongst the populace until the 1960's. Yup all my baby photos and parent's wedding photos etc are colour (early- mid 70s, Australia)
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Post by romily on Mar 17, 2016 10:18:56 GMT -5
My windscreen wipers are still not automatic, and I manually have to turn on the lights - although they automatically turn off when I take the key out, so it's progress to old days when they drained the battery if you forgot. And yes, I still have a car key!!!
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Post by brodiebruce on Mar 17, 2016 10:45:41 GMT -5
When your Grade 6 photo turns up on Facebook (it honestly just turned up in my Facebook feed......). Attachment Deleted
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