Never lived in a world without....

Nikon_Nick said:
Sat Nav.

I remember the days when the family would all jump in the car and my Dad would be studying his AA Road Atlas, plotting a route to our destination. Really good/accurate sat nav on mobile phones these days (I use it myself). My Daughter will never have to learn to read a map.
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I drove my mum from Bromley in Kent all the way to Swindon to a hospital to see her friend for a couple of hours and then i went off to a nature reserve water park type thing then found my way back to her to pick her up and drove home all without the need for the SatNav that she insisted on us bringing with us.

I used to be a delivery driver in central London in a nice big lorry and needed satnav then. Before that i used to drive a lorry all over the place with the aid of paper map books.

85% of the time i never need satnav because i look on Google maps to see where it is and then just drive there.

Kids today are bloody spoiled and don't know any of the suffering we had to endure hahaha

I'm 45 and worked out that in my first 20 odd years nothing changed at all but in the last 20 odd years everything has.
 
Mark Dell said:
Xylophone (forget Rolf)
Etcha sketch
Meccano
Chopper bike
Action man
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Etch a Sketch and Meccano are still available!
Fill ya boots!! :-)
 
nilagin said:
I still do although I plot my route on Google maps now. .
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Still using an electronic gadget to find your way around though :p

When I was driving for a living I had an A-Z of London, a Map of the UK and used to by the local street maps of towns I used to visit.
Luckily a truck steering wheel was large enough in those days, to spread a map out on it :D
 
The fax machine was and odd thing. I've only used one in our office once or twice. Horrible experience. Some people even had them at home.

56k modem? I bailed out at 14.4k and went over to ISDN. Which has now been replaced by DSL.

The biggie with DSL was Flat rate and not pay per minute. So no more logging on, download your emails, then logoff again quick. Before reading the emails. I could suddenly walk away from the PC with it still logged in for the first time.
 
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ianp5a said:
The fax machine was and odd thing. I've only used one in our office once or twice. Horrible experience. Some people even had them at home.

56k modem? I bailed out at 14.4k and went over to ISDN. Which has now been replaced by DSL.

The biggie with DSL was Flat rate and not pay per minute. So no more logging on, download your emails, then logoff again quick. Before reading the emails.
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Still have a regularly used fax machine in our office, and a telex machine that still gets the occasional dusting off!
 
I call that "communicating with the past". As the people on the other end have monacles and top hats.
 
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ianp5a said:
I call that "communicating with the past". As the people on the other end have monacles and top hats.
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Feels like it sometimes! :-)
 
viv1969 said:
Home made go-carts made of wood, rope and pram wheels.
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Built a few of them in my time, and bikes from scrapped bits. Nowt like riding downhill on a diy bike and the brakes don't work :)
 
jakeblu said:
Nowt like riding downhill on a diy bike and the brakes don't work :)
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We had a bush at the bottom of our "go carting" hill, better than any modern brakes :D

Oh and a roller skate with a last years annual to sit on, the bush came in handy for stopping that too :D
 
I had to explain what "downloading" meant to my 5 year old the other day - it dawned on me that the word wasn't even invented when I was her age!

I also find it really shocking/surprising that there are kids at secondary school who were born after the 9/11 attacks!
 
viv1969 said:
Home made go-carts made of wood, rope and pram wheels.
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I'm 53 next month and we used to make those as kids. Airfix kits too, they would be bought on a Saturday morning and would be completed a few hours later, my mother invariably telling me off for getting glue on the carpet or table.

My dad had an eight track cartridge player in the car, the height of sophistication in 1973!

On a different tack, when was the last time anybody saw a Blue Tit on a pint of milk? A fairly common site in my youth especially on the gold top.
 
My dad used to make me fill in the football results in the paper every Saturday. Do they still read them out in the same way?
 
ianp5a said:
My dad used to make me fill in the football results in the paper every Saturday. Do they still read them out in the same way?
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Yes, but the guy from our childhood has sadly passed away. I always liked the very mildly surprised tone if a score was 4 or more.
 
Cartus said:
'm 53 next month ..
My dad had an eight track cartridge player in the car, the height of sophistication in 1973!
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I'm not hugely older than you, but I had an 8 track in my P1800S ( the saint) Volvo :thumbs:
Cartus said:
On a different tack, when was the last time anybody saw a Blue Tit on a pint of milk? A fairly common site in my youth especially on the gold top.
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Ah yes go to get the milk off the step especially in the winter and find the milk top missing, or at least it had a hole punched in it :D


Cg_Girl said:
10p back on pop bottles :D
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And then nip out the back of the shop and present the bottles again, while the shop keeper was serving
(Did I really say that out loud? :D )
 
Cobra said:
Luckily a truck steering wheel was large enough in those days, to spread a map out on it :D
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I forget the amount times i've nearly missed a turning while doing that and yanking the wheel of the lorry i was driving round and the map book going flying across the cab haha
 
grove39 said:
I forget the amount times i've nearly missed a turning while doing that and yanking the wheel of the lorry i was driving round and the map book going flying across the cab haha
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Turning your head through 45 degrees as the wheel turns is not easy either :D
 
dizidav said:
Corona van coming round with the pop.
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Going to the gates of the corona on a Friday and getting free pop!
(Granted, the factory was nearby so the number of people with those memories will be limited! ) :-)
 
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