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So, I have been thinking ...
What do we take for granted now that we didn't have in the "olden days"?
I remember not having a tv. My mother says the first time I saw a tv I was 2 and a half (I was born in 1970)
We always had a phone but didn't get cordless phones till I was well over 20.
I remember my Dad getting a VCR player when I was about 12 ... that was cool!
I worked for a 'mobile' phone hire and repair firm in my Uni Holidays ... they were mostly those brick like car phones
My Dad had a telex machine when I was about 8 ... a great big thing the size of an electic keyboard that clattered INSTANT messages to him from colleagues in America ... ...
I remember an american friend of ours showing us this amazing new innovation called BAR CODES on the label of his peanut butter jar that he travelled everywhere with ....
What else, Oh, being the first in the school to use the brand new Electric Typewriters in my typing lessons and the dizzy heights of BBC computers in the computer room at school (state of the art technology in 1984) and Amstrad Word Processor ... my Dad was so proud of his in 1986!
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Did they have telly in the olden days when you were young Mum?
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ghosty · 22/10/2006 23:21
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