Big change in a few hours with President Trump back!

So am I Terry and like Dada WA it took my mother to become a widow before we could explain why her children needed her to get a telephone. We even persuaded her that she wouldn't kill herself if we got her to learn to use a "modern" car that had less effort for her to change gears and she could take herself on holidays if she wanted or just down to the supermarket if she wanted some groceries!

Smacking is a big one. My Mum talks about being hit with the ruler at school. It's a touchy subject, but for my sake am glad this one is gone! Let's just saying I wasn't an A grade student... Edited 18-Jan-25 06:06am

The speed of change varies in different parts of the World....from what I'm told people in Queensland of my age...had things around them that my parents might have had....but I have never used...horse drawn milk carts...little blackboards and chalk for the kids to write on in school...instead of pen and exercise books...so everything here had to catch up much faster...and in contrast...Australia has one driver/operator Garbage trucks...very efficient...whereas Glasgow still has teams of garbage men...whistling clicking and shouting as they manually load the truck (do you remember that?)..they sound happy......and make loads of noise...and wake people up because its all done first thing in the morning...and a ticket inspector goes around your train asking for tickets and selling them too..it was like going back in a time machine...but I really loved it and realised just how much I miss simple things like this...I remember...as a kid.. hitching a lift on the electric milk float to get home in the early hours of the morning..because I missed the last bus..and couldn't afford a taxi...and it was too far to walk....simpler times...and there is a bit of sadness that my kids will never experience some of the strange and wonderful things that I have...because none of it exists anymore....crossing the English Channel in a hovercraft...visiting places that aren't there anymore...that sort of thing Edited 17-Jan-25 22:22pm

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lamants alot of things that are now gone forever. Home phones are almost all gone, phone boxes in your neighborhood, home stereo units. mini disk players came in & went out almost just as quick, Whitegoods that last more than 10 yrs, overhead machines with transparencies you presented work on. Glass bottled milk. (home deliveries) - staples - milk, bread, etc Mr Whippy icecream. Daily post mail delivered to your house. Cold Cream face makeup remover. Wrist watches (are all but becoming obsolete). 'Snip' ice blocks. Milk at school. Allowable fishing spots along the coast at jetties and the like eg Pt Adelaide and Outer Harbour (all gone) Just some quick ones I can remb.

Just in the last 5 years been so many changes I miss my life and nothing I can do to change things or the outcome and I didn't have any way to get it to go better

Perhaps one of the biggest things that has changed is the unrepairability of almost everything these days. Big business simply isn't interested in letting you repair anything, they want you to throw it out and buy the new latest one instead. 🙁

Carbon paper is still used in some businesses. Video rentals still exist, although these days it's not a VHS tape, but either a DVD (e.g. from some libraries) or a time-limited digital download. Faxes still exist, but mainly in important workplaces like medical, legal, banking, etc. because faxes are more secure than emails (assuming you send the fax to the correct recipient!!).

beepers or pagers

library card catalogs

cursive writing - I learned it at school, but since then have always used block letters - other than my signature.

polaroid cameras

Slide projectors - anyone still have one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq3n2sJ43Hg

Dot matrix printers (still remember the noise)

Getting film developed.

my oldest son,,,

1000s of species due to man's need to need destroy planet earth.spit on that mascara

We had lots of things in them days we don't have now....diphtheria...Hitler...and eee...didn't we all look grand going off to school with ours little heads painted purple because we all had ringworm.... Edited 15-Jan-25 21:53pm

Our children no doubt keep us updated as they tell us about all the "newest" things out there.They look at us in amazement when we tell them the milkman used to come with his horse and sulky to deliver the milk from a big metal Jug into our carefully washed milk containers - all gone in a flash now. Try finding milk late on a Sunday afternoon these days if you don't live near a supermarket!

Morse code telegraphs

Video stores where you used to go and browse to find something to watch on a weekend ,it was an event! Recording your favourite songs you'd heard on countdown and waiting to hear them on the radio station..lining up your tape decks and pressing play and record at the same time then hoping to dear God the D.J wouldn't cut in to the ending ! Sitting around the corner in the hallway on the phone table chair to speak to someone over the phone ,. The only distraction one had was doodling on the teledex papers or twirling the cord on the phone ..and being alert to the sounds of anyone else in the house picking up the other line in mum and dad's bedroom ...We also had no clue who was calling either ..no ID back then but it was always exciting if the phone rang . Edited 15-Jan-25 15:26pm

milk man ,paper boy ,bread and soft drink home deliveries. 20 cent mix lollie bags ,home fire works,typewriters,home phones that dial .Brown paper bags for food shopping Edited 17-Jan-25 10:39am

I remember taking Shorthand in my third year of high school. I never used it after that but got an "A" in the class and had a very nice teacher, a sweet little old lady. I took typing class the same year, and Office Machines the final year of high school. Lots have changed..

Common sense.

Drive in movies, I think there are 2 left( in my state) in Australia unsure. Sweet shops where you could buy all sorts of jellies,candies,chocolates and toffees individually( I used to get a big bag full for 20cents) as well as assorted lollipop of all shapes,sizes and flavours. And does anyone know if Brownies/ Girl guides still operates,I know of a few scout groups about but not the girls groups.

Microfish files at libraries and offices. Clock cards at work places to mark when you start/ finish your shift. Switchboard operators,typewriters both old school and electric,milkman with the glass bottles/ silver tops delivering to home.8 track players,cassette recorders,full service petrol stations with attendants.

I can remember the days when I was smarter than my phone…..lol