Things we all used to do.

[Bernie]

Still:
listen to CDs
write in cursive
use a paper map
use a real dictionary
use a real encyclopaedia

To explain:
1. I buy 2nd hand CDs at 3 Euros which works out cheaper than digital downloads. I have a car with a CD player and listen to them there.
2. I was taught to write with a fountain pen at school and use it when I'm writing a long letter be sent by post. Biros tend to write poorly as they skid over the paper and there's a tendency to lift off the pen while writing.
3 phone maps are about 2 inches by three, inadequate for a route.
4 real dictionaries I trust.
5 definitions in encyclopaedias change with the cultural and political climate and I find it interesting and useful to put certain things into context.

 

[jof]

All of them except 1
Ok I replaced the aol with something UK centric.

But what is the Columbia house. I have no idea, so maybe I'll substitute in green shield stamps & say all of them

 

[Chippy_Tea]

phone maps are about 2 inches by three, inadequate for a route.

Are you still using one of these?

I use google maps on my smartphone -

 

[jof]

Are you still using one of these?

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Looking at the camera, that is a recent phone made to look vintage so the style conscious can have retro accessories

 

[Bernie]

Are you still using one of these?

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I use google maps on my smartphone -

Google maps works for point to point navigation but I like to see smaller scale mapping on a large piece of paper.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Looking at the camera, that is a recent phone made to look vintage so the style conscious can have retro accessories

It was the first example of a mobile with a small screen i found i didn't mean he had that phone

 

[Clint]

I got loads of retro accessories.
Mrs Clint calls it being a scruffy b@5£@5d.

 

[chrissyr63]

Think I got to 22
Never heard of Columbia thing and can't remember if I had AOL account but have heard of it.

 

[foxy]

Missed off having to get up off your backside to walk across the room and press a button to change channel on the TV. That just blows the minds of my kids when I tell them that. nd the fact that TV wasn't 24hours and we had to wait watching the test card after coming in from school before the programmes started.

The first time we took the kids to the UK they were enthralled by a black-and-white TV.
I send and receive faxes, don't think that is overly outdated.

 

[jof]

Think I got to 22
Never heard of Columbia thing and can't remember if I had AOL account but have heard of it.

Replace AOL with early (pre gmail) internet email like excite or yahoo. Or browsing with Netscape.
Personally I remember 2400 baud dial up to local bulleten boards.
Real Internet dialup wasn't really viable until we got more than us robotics sportster 14400 modems

 

[fluketamer]

22 i never had a myspace account im too old. that started with my kids.
i remember columbia house but never ordered from them.

btw i still have aol account
and the atari question is one we regularly use to assess a persons age/ sanity. ( anyone born about 10 years after the invention of atari is basically insane)

 

[matt.]

Friends reunited. Gobbled up by Facebook I believe.

 

[Cheyne_brewer]

22 - never had a boom box or Atari

 

[Twostage]

I can raise you.. 1/2 inch tape or 80 col punch cards?

Never used 1/2 inch tape but punch cards, yes.

 

[jof]

22 - never had a boom box or Atari

Boom box = radio cassette player that in theory would work from batteries, but in reality ate then in 2 hours, so they were always left in your bedroom plugged into the mains.

The list doesn't say own an Atari, you went round your rich mates house to play his Atari.

 

[Fezzer]

Only 1 I've not done is Columbia house. 39. 40 in December

 

[Pete9586]

23 for me!

 

[MashBag]

Replace AOL with early (pre gmail) internet email like excite or yahoo. Or browsing with Netscape.
Personally I remember 2400 baud dial up to local bulleten boards.
Real Internet dialup wasn't really viable until we got more than us robotics sportster 14400 modems

Anyone still got an AOL CD?

 

[Twostage]

Replace AOL with early (pre gmail) internet email like excite or yahoo. Or browsing with Netscape.
Personally I remember 2400 baud dial up to local bulleten boards.
Real Internet dialup wasn't really viable until we got more than us robotics sportster 14400 modems

At college we used to connect our teletype (electric typewriter thing) to another college's computer using an 'acoustic coupler' which was the pre-modem way of computers talking to each other. You literally rang it up and then put the handset into a thing with rubber cups and they talked to each other with beeps. 8 baud (no missing zeros).

The dialup/modem theme has reminded me of a story a mate told me. During those days when modems and faxes were common someone must have miss-dialed his house on a fax machine. When he got home from work his mother said "You got a call today, I think it was the internet".

 

[Victor Churchill]

Not Columbia House but I did sub to Britannia Record Club, same sort of thing. Get mailed the Record Of The Month plus freebiesafter you bought enough stuff.

Also:
used a Silent 700 teletype terminal(dial out on the phone then stick the receiver on the rubber cups when you hear the modem screech)

load & unload removable hard disk packs:

(PS Whoops - sorry, TwoStage I had not seen your post! (I still have a roll of that thermal paper with a transcript of us playing an adventure game on the computer! "N" 'You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike' "W" 'You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike' etc etc!)