The world before the Internet.

[matelot]

Does anyone else remember getting ready to go to the newsagent to buy a porno mag?

 

For me i would have to go to a newsagent a bit far away (so I wouldn't face him the next time I bought a newspaper). I would also have to get my money ready so I wasn't messing about with my wallet with a copy of Fiesta on the counter. Before I went into the shop I also had to check behind me to make sure no one else would enter the shop.

 

The amount of pints of milk I bought was unreal

[Mark Bolam]

Good thread Mick.

Last night I picked up a good old fashioned 6x4 photograph of my eldest on a climbing frame with her pals.

I touched two fingers on her face and tried to enlarge the image by separating them.

I'm losing it....

All this time saving tech should have us enjoying 4-day weekends, right?

[aspenarb]

:001_smile:Kaleidoscope, that's the other thing about the Internet, predictive text

 

The guy that invented predictive text recently died, I received a message stating his "funnel will be hell neck weak".

 

Bob

[Mark Bolam]

The guy that invented predictive text recently died, I received a message stating his "funnel will be hell neck weak".

 

 

 

Bob

 

 

That's sad news Bob.

Follows hard on the heels of the death of the man who wrote 'The Hokey Cokey'.

Undertakers had a hell of a job.

They put the left leg in, and that's when the bother started....

[Mick Dempsey]

Good thread Mick.

Last night I picked up a good old fashioned 6x4 photograph of my eldest on a climbing frame with her pals.

I touched two fingers on her face and tried to enlarge the image by separating them.

I'm losing it....

All this time saving tech should have us enjoying 4-day weekends, right?

 

I took a old fahioned photo to show my dad a couple of years ago, and, like you, he tried to enlarge it with his fingers, he was 85.

Edited January 8, 2016 by Mick Dempsey

[NFG]

Yes,

 

Our first computer was a Vic20 which I learnt to programme in basic & was actually quite a decent machine. My O/H being a teacher was mainly BBC micro based & everything I got involved with was Microsoft or Novell Netware 3.11 - I wouldnt be surprised if theres still the odd box chuntering away in a forgotten dusty cupboard.

 

The Internet in those early days via 9600 baud modem and Windows 3 or dos was a bit tricky as it invoved editing config.sys & autoexec.bat files but it all seemed like a great adventure & a lot of the problems nowadays just diddnt exist.

 

But its very good to keep in touch, friends, family & the daily Arbtalk fix

 

N

[Mark Bolam]

Yes,

 

 

 

Our first computer was a Vic20 which I learnt to programme in basic & was actually quite a decent machine. My O/H being a teacher was mainly BBC micro based & everything I got involved with was Microsoft or Novell Netware 3.11 - I wouldnt be surprised if theres still the odd box chuntering away in a forgotten dusty cupboard.

 

 

 

The Internet in those early days via 9600 baud modem and Windows 3 or dos was a bit tricky as it invoved editing config.sys & autoexec.bat files but it all seemed like a great adventure & a lot of the problems nowadays just diddnt exist.

 

 

 

But its very good to keep in touch, friends, family & the daily Arbtalk fix

 

 

 

N

 

 

Some of that sounds familiar Noel.

Anyone else remember hammering away at the keyboard of a ZX Spectrum playing Daley Thompsons Decathlon game?

[TIMON]

I had a colidascope rather than an X box

 

 

Was that a Hadron colidascope by any chance?

[Gray git]

Good thread Mick.

Last night I picked up a good old fashioned 6x4 photograph of my eldest on a climbing frame with her pals.

I touched two fingers on her face and tried to enlarge the image by separating them.

I'm losing it....

All this time saving tech should have us enjoying 4-day weekends, right?

 

Don't worry, one of my groundsmen did that on the map book while we were rushing out to a call out, should have seen his face when he realized I had seen him do it, classic!

[Stubby]

:001_smile:Kaleidoscope, that's the other thing about the Internet, predictive text

 

Also I can't spell .......