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

[Ming the Merciless]

Cycling to school in the snow. Because the school is still open!

 

[classic33]

Has anyone had Pop deliveries and the Fish Van?

We'd the mobile store in a van.

 

[Dirk]

The Seafood man selling in pubs.

Always met with the shout - 'Oi mate - you got crabs?'

 

[cyberknight]

looking forward to the mobile library lorry coming around as
1 you didnt have a car or money for the bus to town to go
2 the internet hadnt been invented so you couldnt download

 

[Bollo]

One for the geeks - Digital Equipment Corporation and Vax computers.

 

[Drago]

Honda step thru's.

Police 5.

Texan bars.

 

[Dirk]

Strowger telephone exchanges.

 

[BoldonLad]

One for the geeks - Digital Equipment Corporation and Vax computers.

That is new stuff, what about IBM360, ICL1900, DEC PDP-11

 

[Drago]

Mud huts.

Cave painting.

Human sacrifice.

 

[swansonj]

Strowger telephone exchanges.

There's a museum in, if I recall, Berwick, where they have a Strowger on display opened up, with a couple of telephones connected tomake it work. You may rest assured that there at least some young people, to wit my two daughters and all the nephews and neices I could rustle up, who have been thoroughly indoctrinated in the wonders of Strowgers.

 

[Drago]

The Roman occupation of Britain.

Stonehenge before the Druids nicked it.

Witches.

 

[screenman]

looking forward to the mobile library lorry coming around as
1 you didnt have a car or money for the bus to town to go
2 the internet hadnt been invented so you couldnt download

Still get the mobile library here, also I think the mobile bank.

 

[Drago]

Leeches.

Crapping in the gutter.

The Spanish Armada.

 

[tyred]

To have a teacher throw a chalk-dust laden duster at you from 20 feet with perfect aim.

 

[Drago]

At prep school I had to take my turn as ink monitor, keeping the desk inkwells replenished.