Cool things today that weren't around when you where young

[MissGull]

wifi! We got the internet when I was 11 (3rd in my class) and you could go for computer classes at the Library. DIAL UP internet was the only way....and if someone had to make a phone call (cause no one you knew had a mobile phone) that was the end of that. How primitive!!

 

[BrianWade4]

The internet

 

[daveybgtt]

Amateur big cock sex videos on redtube.

 

[Drebin]

In car DVD players for long journeys. Just spent two days in the car driving across Norway with my 2 and 4 year old daughters. Not sure I could have done it without the little mermaid and peppa pig.

For those posters saying the internet, I count my blessings that the internet didn't exist in mainstream culture until I became an adult. As a teacher I've seen loads of my pupils have 'issues' with social media, either through their own stupidity or others.

It was so much easier when people communicated face to face or in private.

 

[Bladders]

I don't miss the shit they wear or the bollocks music they listen to

I was happy in my own era with my half mast chinos, terry towel socks and white slip-ons

 

[WhingForPresident]

Vibrating love eggs.
Tropical scented lubricant.
Sliced bread.

 

[catfish]

Digital radio.

 

[Superphil]

Digital radio.

We still dream of DAB in the Pulborough area #timewarp

 

[Dunk]

5th gear,
more than 4 channels,
unleaded petrol,
The Simpsons,
Debit Cards,
Excel Spreadsheets and, or course, internet pornography.

 

[Worthingite]

Kids today wouldn't understand the concept of not owning a mobile phone, I got my first payg one when I was 19 and at college- it was a Motorola startac and it was shit because if you wanted to send a text you couldn't access to phone book for the number to send it to- you had to write the number down first, then type the text, then enter the number manually!!

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

Kids today wouldn't understand the concept of not owning a mobile phone, I got my first payg one when I was 19 and at college- it was a Motorola startac and it was shit because if you wanted to send a text you couldn't access to phone book for the number to send it to- you had to write the number down first, then type the text, then enter the number manually!!

They would think you were from another planet,besides my first phone was back in 1999 like a house brick and had the same problem,i thought it would be good to be able to access the phone book somehow,however,at the time though i thought it was the business.

 

[Seagull on the wing]

It was very 'cool' if your house had a 405 line Black and White televsion,as for a phone,well, you were considered very advanced in technology,we had one car in the street, petrol was 2s (10p) a gallon....sweets were rationed.Kids made their own entertainment,,4 wheelers,pram wheels and a plank from the building site,made dens in the wood,never bored,in fact,not enough hours in the day.
On the downside,trying to keep up with modern technology is not easy...as soon as I get used to a phone or computer,they update and change them...oh well,I suppose we all get there someday.

 

[Rogero]

We had a larder not a fridge.
We had a television with only one black and white channel.On a Sunday TV only worked a few hours.
No Central heating so we had ice on the inside of windows in the winter.
On the rare occasions we went out as a family We would wear school uniform as we did not have any other clothes.
We only had 3 or 4 books in the house.
We did have a proper bath.I know someone just had a tin bath.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Digital radio.

More than 3 radio programmes. Radio 1,2, 3 & 4 didn't start until 1967. When the atmospherics were right, we could pick up Radio Luxembourg just so that we could listen to pop music. That's why the pirate ships radio started.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

The ability to stay in touch with people so easily, I cannot think how different my life would have been. Dug out some letters from girls I met on holiday etc, really made me think..... I don't think people in their 20s could realise quite how remarkably different the world they grew up in is to those of us in our late 30s and (for me) early 40s.....

Quite.

 

[MattBackHome]

Kids movies are SO much better now. Quality and quantity.

 

[crasher]

I'd say tolerance. I grew up when not only was it socially acceptable to make jokes about black people, the Irish, homosexuals - it was mainstream TV entertainment.

Prejudice hasn't vanished of course but as a society we're a lot more relaxed about difference and the world's a better place for it.

 

[Brighton Mod]

Tattoos, maybe

 

[Dan Aitch]

My wife.

 

[Notters]

Heelys!