The thread to REMINISCE

i had a bit of a laught today with one of the riggers on site and thought it would be a great topic for on here and maybe bring a few smiles!!!

we were talking about how much technology had changed and simplified our lives (and we are both only 36 so we are not that far away from growing up with it compared to some) and this brought some laughs...

here is a couple of topics we came up with...

Mobile phones!!
firstly like most we used to walk, ride our bikes down to the local phone and hope it had not been vandalised to ring our friends no matter what the weather and then have to deal with their parents answering phones and wanting to know why we were ringing them.

Camera's
and another was the cameras with film that needed developing, so often we would buy a 24 or 36 exposure, after taking all the pics (sometimes over a few months) then go to the camera shop to get them developed to find out sometimes only 4 or 5 worked and never the ones we wanted, the amount of out of focus, heads cut off pictures!!!

i am interested in other stories where technology has changed your life...for better or worse

happy writing or reading

Scotty

I was discussing this with a mate just recently post watching a show on it ... the essence was "is anything ever truly a new idea".

Here's the example they used:

Isn't it awesome how many apps are available on the iPhone etc to do random tasks for us ... like an alarm clock (none of us had one of them before) to wake us up, and of course there's games - on a tiny 2" screen with no controls, and don't forget the ability to carry music around with us (just like a walkman, but more expensive, more theft attractive, and more detrimental if lost/broken due to containing all our worldly networks on it), and not to mention things like being able to order a pizza via an app on the phone that you have to type into rather than talk - how awesome is that???!!! Pick up the phone and you can order a pizza!!! Who would have ever thought it?? Truly amazing stuff!!!! lmao

Not quite what you're after, but similar concept - we find technology 'funky' but once the hype cycle dies off on each new advancement, we quickly realise its not a 'technological advancement' as much as an 'alternative' to the methods already tried and trusted!! The marketing obviously works though - just ask the owners of Apple, Microsoft, etc!!

Just wondering how would it like to be without the internet these days. How are we going to even know how to fix our troll..??

see!!! just reading these already brings a small chuckle.... all so true!!!!

Scotty

p.s and as for the size of the mobile phones we would happily carry around... "the bricks"

Yeah..am smiling to the computer and missus asking why was I..?? hehehehe...

I am struggling here guys, I remember the old 286 computers at school and how we used to play 'Where in the world in Carmen Santiago', I had my first mobile phone when I was 15, I don't remember a world without internet or ever using a phone box. However I have learnt to apprechiate that I was lucky enough to grow up with these things. My mother often tells me how she did not get black and white TV until she was late teens (I don't remember telly being anything but colour).
However I do remember sitting around a cassette player with my friends recording ourselves which is now hard to do with CD's. I do remember film for the camera however have used digital most of my life.

I barely touch a computer until I was 26..hahahaha

Never really in to this internet things, not until I own Nissans especially the Safari

I find it hilarious that the most popular ring tone on an iPhone4 is the "Old Phone" LMAO, It drives me nuts that every man and his dog reckons is the most pleasing tone, i should find a different tone, every time i hear it is watch as everyone checks their own phone. lol

Ah I remeber having to learn how to sew a badge on my own scout scout uniform by hand, wash the uniform by hand, was aloowed to iron it with electri iron though. Put up a teht that could sleep ten kids using canvass tent, three poles, two lashing hemp ropes, to hemp guy ropes and I thinl from memory ten pegs belted in with a steel hammer.

Boiled a billy of tea at the age of 13, geez could actually collect and chop firewood so i could build the fire to start with. And knew how to clear around it to prevent grass from catching on fire. Could cook brekky and dinner on it.

I was a poor kid,sheesh still am, but anyway, had "grand prix" slot car track not the "scale electrix", had a hand me down haminex tv game not an Atari, and remember writing a program on the apple computer at high school to create a price list, now called a "table".

When all the kids had "redlines" I had a friggin motorcross push bike, as heavy as with front suspension forks (motorbike style) motor bike type handle bars and coil spring over shockie suspension mid mounted in the frame. Didn't fly real far! But I grew up with my feet planted on the ground and my nose smelling the real life, not with my head up...............!

And these days, I'm probably in the middle of the modern technology world, I don't buy the latest new gadgets, but I do watch the process of them and get something I've researched and am happy with about two years after it was released.

Tim

ice blocks 3 cents, paddle pops 5, bags of mixed lollies for a few cents - and all at the school tuck shop :-)

Ha, 20 Rothmans filters fer four and threepence!!
Didn't even know how to turn a computer on till 2007!!

Atari..not a Nintendo. These day kids plays on line games with play mates from around the whole world. I play real combats game with home made wood rifle and sling shot..

I know my Dad had about 20 gings he had confiscated lol.
Cheers, the ferret.

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Ha, 20 Rothmans filters fer four and threepence!!
Didn't even know how to turn a computer on till 2007!!

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viscount and fiesta turf corktip black andwhite ciggies 2shillings and sixpence

Rothmans. hehe..long time no hear. do you guys still have it there? We still have Lucky Strike (Chuck Norris) and Benson & Hedges (the wealthy) here though..hahaha

How much does a pack of 20's cigarette cost you in Australia these day? Here it'll cost you AUD3.10 (RM10) a pack of 20's Marlboro now compared to 20 years ago it'll only cost us Aud70 cents (RM2.30)..

Yep, still get them, $20 for 20 Thank you Juliar!

:jawdrop: $20 for 20's..??!!

I'll be smoking pipes then, cheaper I reckon

going to school with a kit bag then progressed to a satchel

I was talking to my wifes grandad in the mid 80's, he was alive when the Wright brothers first flew, and at that time NASA was using the space shuttle.
Often wondered what change would happen in my lifetime....
When our youngest was born I had all the phone numbers of the customers I would be working for that day by the phone so my wife could track me down when she went into labour.
Then we used a pager, a brick that stayed in the car and who knows how many mobiles, was looking at a smart phone yesterday so I can have internet access on the job, what next?

We used to knock on the front door, not sit in the car and text our friends to come out.

My olds bought their property back in 1975 for $8000. Dad earn't a decent wage back then with computer engineering roughly $250 a week. They moved to France for work for a year and had the property paid off in just over a year to build their mudbrick house when they returned.

Now, in my generation I would like to see anyone buy a block of land and pay it off in one year...LMAO

If expenses and wages are supposed to incline together then I would go buy a block for around $200,000-$400,000 and pay it off in one year I would need to be on around $450,000....LMAO

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ice blocks 3 cents, paddle pops 5, bags of mixed lollies for a few cents - and all at the school tuck shop :-)

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A box of matches- 2 cents.

2011 = Ice blocks $4, Paddle Pops $2.50, bag of mixed lollies = $1.50 (you get about 5 lollies not a "bag"

Box of matches = 80 cents...

Loving it!

One that MOST of you won't remember.....decimal currency...1966 !!!!

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One that MOST of you won't remember.....decimal currency...1966 !!!!

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1 Pound = $2

10 Shillings = $1

5 Shillings = 50c

Six Pence = 5 c


I can remember when we had Kero Lamps (No Electricity)
Black & White Cigarettes 10 Pennies for a packet of 10
Beer 10 Pence (10c a Glass)
My first Mobile Phone the size of a small Briefcase
Tax Returns were 4 Pages
No Television (Listened to Radio) Dad & Dave was a great serial

My first Wage was 13 Pounds a fortnight ( That is $26)

God i am old

10cents a beer...lol

I went to RSL last night $4 a pot...You beauty!!!!

Our treat for the week was a roast on Sundays

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My olds bought their property back in 1975 for $8000. Dad earn't a decent wage back then with computer engineering roughly $250 a week. They moved to France for work for a year and had the property paid off in just over a year to build their mudbrick house when they returned.

Now, in my generation I would like to see anyone buy a block of land and pay it off in one year...LMAO

If expenses and wages are supposed to incline together then I would go buy a block for around $200,000-$400,000 and pay it off in one year I would need to be on around $450,000....LMAO

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Dad and mum bought the house I (mostly) grew up in in 1976 for $63000 - just after that, dad had an opportunity to buy a "couple of acres" in a place called Bli Bli in Queensland (those who know the area will know where I'm going!!). He simply couldn't even afford the deposit having just bought the house, but was interested. Long and short of it was they decided not to 'waste' money on a potential investment in what was then remote bush land, and subsequently didn't buy it. That same parcel of land today has houses on it on standard 800 square metre blocks and each one (land alone) is worth about $450-500K!! 5 of them to an acre, just under 3 acres equates to about $6-7 million in value!!!

Those fools!!!!!!!!!!!! lmao

I remember the days when on a weekend we would go knock on peoples doors to see if they wanted there car washed for a few dollars.... i dont think i have ever had someone knock on my door to wash the patrol..... or do they see the size if it and just skip my house???

Scotty

I used to watch a few geek mates back in the 80's set up to play a games on there back then pearler of a computer, the Commodore Vic 20 (I pretty sure thats what they were called) They put the tape in, write 30 minutes of code then we would go outside and create a bit of havoc on our fibreglass and u-beaut flash as ply skateboards for another half hour. We'd go back inside to see how it was going, still not finished, quick bite to eat and finally the game had loaded. Damn, time to go home see ya later. lol

Ok for those who can remember BASIC (Begginners allpurpose symbolic instruction code)

What does the following code do


10 For A = 1 TO 500
20 Print A
30 NEXT A
40 ENd

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i remember the days when on a weekend we would go knock on peoples doors to see if they wanted there car washed for a few dollars.... I dont think i have ever had someone knock on my door to wash the patrol..... Or do they see the size if it and just skip my house???

Scotty

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i would think that kids these days are not motivated enough to wash cars mow lawns

with all there gadgets apps and stranger danger and keeping up with there idole

i remember years ago going out and leaving the door unlocked
askids we would leave the house at say 8am and didnt return till dinner
time

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our treat for the week was a roast on sundays

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our treat now is fish+chips every now and then

Going out on ya pushy with your friends/cousins and not coming home till it was dark - no mobile phone for Mum & Dad to check up on you.

Got my first computer at 15 - a green screen Commodore64!!! Thought I was king dick LOL

And when you had the "latest" computer system with a whopping 4gb hard drive LMFAO boat anchors now...

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Originally Posted by gruntlet

One that MOST of you won't remember.....decimal currency...1966 !!!!

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Yep, 14th Feb, 1966.
Cheers, the ferret.

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:jawdrop: $20 for 20's..??!!

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Welllll, I might have exagerated a smidgen, but ya only get small change when ya hand over a $20
On the bright side tho, once you turn 60, you get FREE public transport on weekends, but us oldies can't have to much exitement as they have the FUN police here.!!
Diesel fuel heading for $2 a litre.
We ARE the lucky country ya know!

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Ok for those who can remember BASIC (Begginners allpurpose symbolic instruction code)

What does the following code do


10 For A = 1 TO 500
20 Print A
30 NEXT A
40 ENd

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Its an old Dos command but its been so long I'd have to look it up to know what it did.