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Lanolin

Lanolin

Some things that used to be common when I was growing up have totally disappeared. I'm thinking of how fast technology has evolved and wonder what lies in the future..people say driverless cars perhaps. I'm still waiting on flying cars...

So just for fun let list all those items once popular but now are no more....

Walkmans
i-pods
internet cafes
video rental stores
phonecards
postage stamps
glass milk bottle delivery
yellow pages directory
blackberrys
personal pagers
fax machines
CRT monitors
floppy disks
dial up modems
phones with actual dials
cameras with film
wind up windows in cars
keys in cars
reel projectors
paper money and pay packets...
 
There are still postage stamps, paper money, well it's not actually paper, fax machines, phone cards, and CRT monitors. And there remains open one Blockbuster in Bend Oregon.
 
I wonder if I can email a fax machine?
I have an SD card in my phone, but there are no longer any public telephones or phone cards being sold.
I haven't used a postage stamp in years. And they are no longer stamps if you do find them but stickers with no prices on them.
All our CRT monitors got dumped in the e-waste, and every tv now has to be a 'smart tv'. I don't think you can buy the old ones anymore or connect them as nobody is making them.
If you do have paper money, ie cash it's actually plastic. You can't tell if e-money is counterfeit or not. I bet people are probably scamming the system with fake bank accounts, and making money out of thin air. Well I don't gamble but you know what I mean. Its just fiat money everyone uses so you can't even check if it's real. All banknotes had to be legal tender. You couldn't photocopy them, but with an credit card, who knows where your money is. It's in the little digits or the magnetic swipy thing on your EFTPOS card.
 
In the 1960s people used to talk about what kinds of things to expect by the year 2000. They talked about flying cars, video phones, personal computers, self-driving cars, personal jet packs, etc. Some of those things happened while we still await others. I am a long-time Star Trek fan, so I have renamed my Amazon Alexa "Computer" because I use it to control a lot of household things as well as a personal assistant. Interestingly enough, the smart phone in my hand is a computer 100 times more powerful than the one NASA used in 1969 to put Apollo 11 on the moon!
 
Personal jet-pack what is that??

I don't know about Alexa is this the same kind of thing as Siri? We don't have that here.
Chimneys and open fireplaces in houses are now a thing of the past too. We now have the whirr of air conditioning or heat pump
Candles are generally only the scented kind, nobody bothers with candlesticks or silverware anymore. Unless they are wealthy and want to live in the past with all their family heirlooms lol
 
CDs now are old - everything is streamed.
Ditto with VHS, and DVDs.
Typewriters!

Instead of blackboards and chalk, classrooms have whiteboards and whiteboard markers..but I always found whiteboard markers horrible once they ran out. And waste of plastic. I think I prefer blackboards as white writing on black background is easier on the eyes.
 
On your keyboard, if its still
QWERTYUIOP
ASDFGHJKL
ZXCVBNM

Then you haven't upgraded to the new alphabetical order keyboard lol.
That one goes
ABCDEFJHI
JKLMNOPQ
RSTUVWXYZ

I'll be having a word with the keyboard manufacturers in China about that one.
 
Many in my class loved the freshly printed copies of blue ink for tests and study guides back when I was in elementary school in the 70's. I forget what that was called, but we loved to smell the newly printed papers. I'm sure we killed some brain cells doing that, but it was great.
 
Big Moose said:
Many in my class loved the freshly printed copies of blue ink for tests and study guides back when I was in elementary school in the 70's. I forget what that was called, but we loved to smell the newly printed papers. I'm sure we killed some brain cells doing that, but it was great.
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It was called ......"Getting High" from the mimeograph ink process. It had methanol and isopropanol in it.
 
BibleLover said:
In the 1960s people used to talk about what kinds of things to expect by the year 2000. They talked about flying cars, video phones, personal computers, self-driving cars, personal jet packs, etc. Some of those things happened while we still await others. I am a long-time Star Trek fan, so I have renamed my Amazon Alexa "Computer" because I use it to control a lot of household things as well as a personal assistant. Interestingly enough, the smart phone in my hand is a computer 100 times more powerful than the one NASA used in 1969 to put Apollo 11 on the moon!
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In the country in the 40's & 50's the talk was about something calle "Toielet Paper" and how it might replace the Sears catalog!
 
Twink, or as others called it 'liquid paper' or 'white out' seems to be a thing of the past. It came in a bottle with a brush kind of like white nail polish. But you could write on it once it dried. There's now correction tape that comes in a plastic dispenser but nobody is using typewriters anymore.

People would sniff Twink as well as it had volatile chemicals in it too.
Vivid markers and Sharpies have that same strong smell.
 
plastic bags that suffocate fish and small children...now for the most part banned...but they were the bane of life a few years ago. Every shop gave you them till you had a huge mountain of them stuffed into your kitchen/wardrobe
 
Lanolin said:
Some things that used to be common when I was growing up have totally disappeared. I'm thinking of how fast technology has evolved and wonder what lies in the future..people say driverless cars perhaps. I'm still waiting on flying cars...

So just for fun let list all those items once popular but now are no more....

Walkmans
i-pods
internet cafes
video rental stores
phonecards
postage stamps
glass milk bottle delivery
yellow pages directory
blackberrys
personal pagers
fax machines
CRT monitors
floppy disks
dial up modems
phones with actual dials
cameras with film
wind up windows in cars
keys in cars
reel projectors
paper money and pay packets...
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Walkmans - I remember both cassettes and later CDs.

i-pods - I remember my late sister in law had one that was tiny with a corded earphone jack.

internet cafes - The one I went to with my brother in law cost us a fee to do a quick online business transaction.

video rental stores - There was the chain of Blockbuster but also mom and pop video rentals of VHS and Betamax movie cassettes

phonecards - I heard of them but never used them. By 1992 I purchased my first cell phone.

postage stamps - I remember when they are 6 cents to mail a letter.

glass milk bottle delivery - We had milk delivery in England and collected the aluminum caps for some reason.

yellow pages directory - I used them quite a bit but also memorized phone numbers.

blackberrys - I heard of them but never used one

personal pagers - My uncle used his for work religiously and didn't like my use of a cell phone. lol!

fax machines - I used them a lot in the workplace. I had one at home too.

CRT monitors - my first monitor used was a green monochrome. Color had not come out yet but didn't take long.

floppy disks - I used 8", 5 1/2 and 3 1/2, or was it 5 1/4 and 3 1/4? I don't remember

dial up modems - Yuck! We had no choice in some workplaces.

phones with actual dials - We had rotary in the 60s and keypad in the 70s

cameras with film - Yes, I had a cool pocket camera that only cost $99.00

wind up windows in cars - We had those until 1971

keys in cars - They still exist in cars with no electronics today like a Chevy Cobalt.

reel projectors - In high school there was a class where students were assigned to setup the projector for class lectures.

paper money and pay packets...Paper money I still have, but pay packets? Pray tell, what's that?
 
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