Can you name things that youngsters of today won't know?

[midlife]

Or -

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Found boxes of these in the loft when we moved into current house.

Used to punch those at Hull Uni while at school doing computing..... Looked like this lol

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Opening doirs on trains when they were moving and getting on or off.

 

[robjh]

When I was in Job Club in 1993 everyone queued to put their disk in the word processor and print application letters.

I beat them all to bit hammering out my stuff on the mechanical typewriter that was ignored in the corner.

Is there even a Job Club nowadays?

When I was first applying for serious jobs in the 1980s, I was advised (by a much older person) to send only hand-written application letters, as anything typed would look too impersonal and be put at the bottom of the pile.

 

[Profpointy]

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I have actually used that in my first job - and it was an anachronism even then. We used about 4 foot of paper tape to fire the machine up, and it then got the rest of what it needed from its discs or downloaded from a seperate server. I wrote / modified some of (well a few lines really) the software to monitor a nuclear reactor. I dare say it's long since been retired, likely the reactor too.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

When I was first applying for serious jobs in the 1980s, I was advised (by a much older person) to send only hand-written application letters, as anything typed would look too impersonal and be put at the bottom of the pile.

Used to do a hand written covering letter and typed CV. Still have a copy of my very first CV.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

That sexting is not a goid idea.

 

[Jenkins]

Pernod and black.
God, what were we thinking?

In my youth, I wasn't capable of thinking after a few of those!

 

[Dirk]

6 o' chips.

 

[screenman]

Whitworth spanner sizes.

 

[jefmcg]

Conversing with a relative born in the 19th century, my grandfather was born in 1896 & my grandmother 1899, clearly I don't now, but hopefully you understand the sentiment.

I don't see anything special about that. Young people today, like every other generation, aren't going to end up spending much time with people born 80 years before them. I'm not sure I ever did.

But a related thought - young people may never know someone who lived through a world war.

Please! I hope that continues to be true - and will do anything I can think of to impeach Trump and make sure.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

A penny dabbity.

 

[screenman]

Street lights, but that may be a Lincolnshire thing.

 

[classic33]

Street lights, but that may be a Lincolnshire thing.

What you doing with them all?

 

[screenman]

What you doing with them all?

They are turning a lot of them off.

 

[slowmotion]

They are turning a lot of them off.

They did that on our street in Winchester when I was a kid, around midnight. It was a rather wonderful marking of "real night".