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

[classic33]

They are turning a lot of them off.

They did start doing that here, to save money. Then the person who was in charge of it crashed his car, minor damage with the lampost winning, whilst parking up on one such street.

 

[screenman]

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

I

Were they gas?

 

[slowmotion]

I

Were they gas?

I would love to say that they were sewer gas, and that humble lamplighters came and fired and snuffed them each day, but that would be telling a porkie.

BTW, it's quite amazing that country folk manage to park their cars without the benefit of street lighting, isn't it?

 

[Deleted member 26715]

I don't see anything special about that./QUOTE]
That's sad.

 

[raleighnut]

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.

My Dad worked on the programs for Hartlepool and Heysham nuclear power stations, based at English Electric (and its many offshoots) in Whetstone.

 

[Profpointy]

My Dad worked on the programs for Hartlepool and Heysham nuclear power stations, based at English Electric (and its many offshoots) in Whetstone.

I did some work for Heysham: the monitoring of the switching gear rather than the nuclear or generarion bit.

 

[raleighnut]

I did some work for Heysham: the monitoring of the switching gear rather than the nuclear or generarion bit.

Probably after my Dads time, by the time the power station was working their job was finished (I hope)

 

[jefmcg]

That's sad.

Why?

You're excited that you knew someone who was born in a different century to you. That was pretty exciting if for us born in the 3rd quarter of the 20th century, but it's pretty mundane to a teenager/twenty-something now. They all know people born in a different century to them.

 

[Proto]

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.

CNC lathe, Fanuc control, mid 80's. Older machines had tape readers built in, newer ones could use a portable reader via an RS232 interface. Internal 'bubble' memory was very limited and described in terms of metres (of tape), not how many bits.

Very early NC machines ran on tape only, with no built in editing facility, so if you wanted to edit something, then it was a new tape. Painfully slow.

These days all new machines have USB ports for loading programmes, or even WiFi, and massive amounts of internal storage. Kids today just wouldn't believe what we had to use!

 

[jefmcg]

That sexting is not a goid idea.

I don't think you know what sexting is.

 

[youngoldbloke]

Pubs - as we knew them, 'snugs', and 'men only' bars.

 

[gavroche]

Dick Emery, Dave Allen, Tommy Cooper, The Black and White Minstrel Show.

 

[Oldbloke]

Pubs - as we knew them, 'snugs', and 'men only' bars.

and the lounge, public (for those wearing dirty boots) and saloon bars.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

and the lounge, public (for those wearing dirty boots) and saloon bars.

and the Children's Room.

 

[petek]

" T'tap room" was the men-only room in our local back in the day.
The Woodbine-fug was so thick in there that it was sometimes hard to see the dartboard.