The Good Old Days V's Now

[Nicolette]

What do you remember to what happens now?

 

[Jen93]

You could get your mouth washed out with soap?? Gross??

Anybody else find it funny that the note was written using an iPod or iPhone? :D

 

[catjudo]

 

[Nicolette]

Yeah... the good old Floppy Disc.:laugh: They don't even build computers with those drives in them any more. So much for all my backups! :whistling:

 

[Trembling]

Remember the "blue paper" to make several copies of a document written on a HUGE typewriter?
And the correction fluid was only for rich people?? :laugh:

 

[Nicolette]

Just think... a lot of us wouldn't know each other due to the advancement over the years - that's one good aspect of time. I wouldn't have met and be friends with so many wonderful people all over the world.

 

[amethist]

When home baking and the kids licking the bowl out was part of every day life.

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[CraftyCath]

Streets so hot they melted the tar on the road and you could use a stick, dip it in the tar and write your name with it! (Cheap entertainment).

Old currency - pounds, shillings and pence.

Black and white TV with only 3 channels - BBC 1, BBC 2 and ITV.

Playing out all day and amusing ourselves without a PC, games console or i-pod.

1970's power cuts meant going to bed by candle light.

Having a party line. (Phone line shared by a few families).

Walking for miles just for the fun of it, walking to school instead of taking the bus.

Having to light the coal fire in the morning because we had no central heating.

Families only had 1 car per household.

The 'pop man' sold pop at your door.

Groceries were sold out of the back of a grocers van and not ordered over the internet.

Our local ice-cream man came on a 3 wheeler bike with a box on the front with the ice-cream in it!

We did our home work by researching a subject from an encyclopaedia, going to the library or racking our parents/grandparents brains! No internet then!

Standing up when the National Anthem was played at the end of a film at the cinema.

Going shopping every day because there wasn't any supermarkets (and no on-line shopping) and we didn't have a freezer. (Mum used to push an old fashioned pram to town with 'one in, one on and one next to.' Me in the pram, my brother sat on a seat fixed to the top of the pram and my sister walking along next to the pram).

Having to go into town to buy presents because there was no internet.

Sending letters to friends; no e-mail back then folks!

I'm sure I'll think of lots more later.

 

[KP the nut]

Families only had 1 car per household.

Oh my, you were posh - we never had a car ;).

Ice patterns on the inside of the windows as we didn't have central heating.

My Mum warming our clothes on the fireguard so we could get dressed by the fire in warm clothes.

We never had a phone either, so walking to the phone box to make a call.

 

[kimba]

Some of those hand santizers and soft soaps smell pretty good. Maybe I wouldn't mind getting my mouth washed out nowadays. Then again the language we had our mouths washed out for then has become pretty mainstream now so I am sure it probably isn't done now

 

[amethist]

Winters so cold you had icicles on the guttering for days on end, getting longer and longer.

 

[cherryblossom]

Playing 'chase' in the playground was fun, not banned (A friend told me that running is banned in his kids playground). What? :confused:

Playing conkers in the playground was fun, not banned.

A school I went to recently have banned 'skipping' (with a skipping rope), because it's too dangerous!

I used to carry a 5 pence piece - just in case I needed to get the bus home, but hello (!), I chose to walk because that 5p could buy me 5 (penny) sweets.

I remember when curly wurly's were really really long, and wagon wheels were huge!!