The world before the Internet.

[Will Heal]

I remember that game. Mine was broken tho as when you got to the long jump you could run And run for ages and he didn't jump. Could never work it out as I didn't have an Internet for to ask. Hey! Now I do! How do I get him to jump mark?

[SteveA]

The www is a great tool for all kinds of positive reasons.... it's also a bad thing for all kinds of negative reasons.

 

Personally, I've been finding myself doing too much screen staring; distracting oneself from doing real world activities; real-life exciting stuff like re-glueing & painting the tongue & groove bath panel.

 

cheers, steve

[njmusk]

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

 

Aahh!!! Fiesta, knave, razzle, readers wives, the letters page, I worked part time in a newsagents in my youth, used to take copies home and return when I had finished with them. Now it is just a finger tip away.

 

I could happily do without a mobile phone, don't do texts or voicemail. Like the internet for emailing my daughter.

[Will Heal]

The www is a great tool for all kinds of positive reasons.... it's also a bad thing for all kinds of negative reasons.

 

Personally, I've been finding myself doing too much screen staring; distracting oneself from doing real world activities; real-life exciting stuff like re-glueing & painting the tongue & groove bath panel.

 

cheers, steve

 

 

I made a bath panel once. It wasn't very exiting. Yep waste too much time too, should be working out a fencing quote now but I'm on here. Or I could just start a thread and ask you guys😀

Edited January 8, 2016 by Will Heal

[Mesterh]

I would rather live in these times than any other, exciting and interesting as the op said.

 

we only have a short time, I bet a bigger percentage of people are enjoying more of it more than any other time in history.

 

For you old timers the spekky 48k is back on sale, jet set Willy and chukkie egg tastic.

[Will Heal]

I would rather live in these times than any other, exciting and interesting as the op said.

 

 

 

we only have a short time, I bet a bigger percentage of people are enjoying more of it more than any other time in history.

 

 

 

For you old timers the spekky 48k is back on sale, jet set Willy and chukkie egg tastic.

 

 

I have always wanted to live the same time as my old grandad did from 1927 till 5 years ago. He grew up on a farm which was using horses but then went onto tractors and he built a farming business without having to worry too much about red tape and electronics two things I don't like. He had a mobile which was never switched on never went on the computer and just had to worry about simple tractor mechanics and his livestock. He was happy like that and I envy him

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

What is all this about porn?!

 

For me, that material is for losers, always has been, always will be.

 

Is it really that accepted now that those who speak so freely here as if it is, mean that it really is?

 

Happy in my blissful ignorance..

 

Genuine comment / query.

[Shane]

It strikes me as ironic in these days of saving time with abbreviations that the most commonly used TLA (three letter acronyn) uses 9 syllables yet the words it represent only use a total of three!

 

namely...

 

World Wide Web --> WWW bah humbug.

[NFG]

Some of that sounds familiar Noel.

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

 

Or waiting for an age for the cassette tape to load the programe?

 

quite enjoyed the odd frame of 'space invaders' now and again

 

 

N

[roseyweb]

I try and do no tech Tuesdays, once home phone upstairs ipad off