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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Was having a conversation with my grandfather earlier on and he wondered if i'd always grown up with a mobile phone. I told him i had my first Nokia 3310 when i was about 14 or 15 years old.

I remember the massive Packard Bell pc with only a Floppy Drive and being one of the first families out of the people we knew to have a home pc.. Microsoft Encarta or Encyclopedia's were the way to find out information. Only game console id really experienced was my dads Amiga Commodore until the Playstation came out when i was about 12. Music was released on a cassette not a CD, and the VHS was what i watched films from not DVD's or Blu Rays.

My question is, a lot has changed in my short 23years on this planet, Where do you think technology will advance too? and Are all these changes for the best?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

oooo get you miss look how young i am i had the phone box on the corner

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"oooo get you miss look how young i am i had the phone box on the corner

And then the war broke out x

*runs away really really fast before I get shouted at*

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By *etillanteWoman
over a year ago

"oooo get you miss look how young i am i had the phone box on the corner

And then the war broke out x

*runs away really really fast before I get shouted at*"

Yes young man and quick cos thats all we had

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By *ushroom7Man
over a year ago

Bradford

"oooo get you miss look how young i am i had the phone box on the corner

And then the war broke out x

*runs away really really fast before I get shouted at*

Yes young man and quick cos thats all we had"

hee hee , us on the reet side of the border had spoil heaps to play on.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"oooo get you miss look how young i am i had the phone box on the corner

And then the war broke out x

*runs away really really fast before I get shouted at*

Yes young man and quick cos thats all we had

hee hee , us on the reet side of the border had spoil heaps to play on."

hang on hang on you lot i'm not THAT old

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By *aceytopWoman
over a year ago

from a town near you

and we took pop bottles back to the shop for pennies

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By *ushroom7Man
over a year ago

Bradford

"and we took pop bottles back to the shop for pennies"

casting no aspersions, but rumour had it that my sis took 'em back for penises

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When I left school in 1973 we didn't have calculators, let alone computers.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"and we took pop bottles back to the shop for pennies"

I must be old as well , as I did this also!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"oooo get you miss look how young i am i had the phone box on the corner

And then the war broke out x

*runs away really really fast before I get shouted at*

Yes young man and quick cos thats all we had

hee hee , us on the reet side of the border had spoil heaps to play on.

hang on hang on you lot i'm not THAT old

bet they were GPO ones...

Wolf

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By *andKCouple
over a year ago

Norfolk

"oooo get you miss look how young i am i had the phone box on the corner

my phone box on the corner used to cost 4d

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We had an outside toilet and had to go to the public baths for a bath. Thank god for inside plumbing

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By *enithWoman
over a year ago

closer than you think

and we ate fish n chips out of old newspaper mmmmmmmm

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By *aceytopWoman
over a year ago

from a town near you

"and we took pop bottles back to the shop for pennies

casting no aspersions, but rumour had it that my sis took 'em back for penises"
that was cider bottles you got more for them

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've got a candlestick phone and bellset No1 which were both made in 1929 - and they still work, in fact they work better than this modern plastic junk which is maunfactured today

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By *uby In StockingsTV/TS
over a year ago

Cheadle

I used to live in a shoe box in't middle of the road etc etc etc, xxxxx ahhh the good old days, xxx

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By *orestersCouple
over a year ago

The Forest

"I used to live in a shoe box in't middle of the road etc etc etc, xxxxx ahhh the good old days, xxx

A shoebox??? You was lucky!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I used to live in a shoe box in't middle of the road etc etc etc, xxxxx ahhh the good old days, xxx

A shoebox??? You was lucky!

We used to live int swamp and each day Father used to wake us up before we went to sleep and murder us in cold blood ...

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

I sold my first handheld mobile phone to a customer for £1995 plus line rental

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My first one was an NEC car phone which comprised of a handset with a curley wire just like a house phone, connected to a termintion box in the footwell then a bloody thick cable leading to a square box about a foot square and 3 inches thick mounted in the boot. The aerial was drilled through the roof of my car ! Shortly after that, capacitively coupled glass mount aerials became available which meant that you didn't have to drill your car (mind you, they wern't quite as good ...)

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville

i used to love tomorrows world....fascinating at the time

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

"My first one was an NEC car phone which comprised of a handset with a curley wire just like a house phone, connected to a termintion box in the footwell then a bloody thick cable leading to a square box about a foot square and 3 inches thick mounted in the boot. The aerial was drilled through the roof of my car ! Shortly after that, capacitively coupled glass mount aerials became available which meant that you didn't have to drill your car (mind you, they wern't quite as good ...)

think that was the transportable

I sold car installed, the transportable and then the handheld...

oh those were the days.

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

all on Cellnet of course

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"i used to love tomorrows world....fascinating at the time

I remember the episode when they first talked about 'on demand tv' being able to fast forward and rewinf live television ......

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I can remember when you had to wait an eternity to get a BT landline.

Way things are going we will soon do everything on our tablets. Keep taking em!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No View, this one wasn't transportable, it was fixed and that was that. The handset could be unplugged for security but that was it lol.

I also had a 'mobile' handset, it was a Nokia Cityman and I had the ESN cloned so that I could use the car phone or the 'mobile' on the same number ... unheard of in them days, but it goes to prove, hacking and phreaking was alive and well all those years ago.

Yep, it was on Cellnet, 0780 if I'm not mistaken lol ... happy days

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

"No View, this one wasn't transportable, it was fixed and that was that. The handset could be unplugged for security but that was it lol.

Yep, it was on Cellnet, 0780 if I'm not mistaken lol ... happy days"

happy happy days....

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

I remember my grandma getting a telephone. She was the first in the family. You used to pick it up and it was a party line.

My grandma again was the first person in the village to have a television (aquired secondhand from lord of the manor) my mum used to invite all the kids around after sunday school to watch the lone ranger.

When i was born, my dad had to fight his way through the snow to the nearest telephone box to see if i had arrived yet and then wait until the next day until he could see me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"No View, this one wasn't transportable, it was fixed and that was that. The handset could be unplugged for security but that was it lol.

Yep, it was on Cellnet, 0780 if I'm not mistaken lol ... happy days

happy happy days...."

Thing is, there was no CLI, SMS, Internet, camera or any of that bolony. Literally all you could do was make and receive a phone call and you paid through the nose for it. How boring was that pmsl

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

"No View, this one wasn't transportable, it was fixed and that was that. The handset could be unplugged for security but that was it lol.

Yep, it was on Cellnet, 0780 if I'm not mistaken lol ... happy days

happy happy days....

Thing is, there was no CLI, SMS, Internet, camera or any of that bolony. Literally all you could do was make and receive a phone call and you paid through the nose for it. How boring was that pmsl

well make several calls as you never completed one without being cut off and redialling.... as the signal was shite

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You could go down town, get totally blathered, bus home, fish & chips, & still have change from a farthing!

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By *herokee18Couple
over a year ago

Carlisle

"I used to live in a shoe box in't middle of the road etc etc etc, xxxxx ahhh the good old days, xxx

A shoebox??? You was lucky!

We used to live int swamp and each day Father used to wake us up before we went to sleep and murder us in cold blood ...

Right I used to get up in a morning, half an hour before I went to bed and had to pay t mill owner for permission to go to work!!

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By *herokee18Couple
over a year ago

Carlisle

In the early eighties we had a mate who had an early carphone. When he took it out of the car it was attached to a battery the size of a car battery and around the same weight.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

on the question of where it will advance to...

I think it will completely change from the electronic to the organic. Our technology will be embedded in the growing science of biotech and so will be much more flexible.

Looking forward to the rabbits mesel.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"You could go down town, get totally blathered, bus home, fish & chips, & still have change from a farthing!

tch, me old mam is always going on bout that.

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By *thwalescplCouple
over a year ago

brecon

"oooo get you miss look how young i am i had the phone box on the corner

Blimey... I think the nearest box to us was about 1/2 mile away!!

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By *uby In StockingsTV/TS
over a year ago

Cheadle

"I used to live in a shoe box in't middle of the road etc etc etc, xxxxx ahhh the good old days, xxx

A shoebox??? You was lucky!

We used to live int swamp and each day Father used to wake us up before we went to sleep and murder us in cold blood ...

Right I used to get up in a morning, half an hour before I went to bed and had to pay t mill owner for permission to go to work!!

Oh dear!!!! we're really showing our age here aren't we darlings, xxxx

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By *irty_bhamMan
over a year ago

birmingham

if its technology that interests you have a look at the eden project. well i think thats what its called

they embrace it and see it as the way to free humanity from capitalism. a new kind of communism where the work is done by the machines so we can expand and express ourselves freely,

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"if its technology that interests you have a look at the eden project. well i think thats what its called

they embrace it and see it as the way to free humanity from capitalism. a new kind of communism where the work is done by the machines so we can expand and express ourselves freely,"

nice

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

In the not too distant future everyone will carry an internal chip

This will include all things such as Internet,tv and leisure stuff as well as all ya information

It will of course be voluntary at first xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I remember my first PC, we werent well off so not the first family to have it, but do remember the components and the software. Encarter was google at the time, click what you want and it appeared.

In terms of advancing technlogy, things will progress so fast you wont know what happend. For instance, the internet, we grew up with dial up and now we use broadband. Play the dial up tune in 10 years time and only a handfull of people will listen and smile, the others will think they are being invaded by aliens. Then there is 3d tv, oned with glasses, there are roumours out that samsung or the likes have cracked 3d tv without glasses!!!! the futuer for technology is bright and will continue to be as long as there is competition.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"In the not too distant future everyone will carry an internal chip

This will include all things such as Internet,tv and leisure stuff as well as all ya information

It will of course be voluntary at first xx

I had a big bag of um for me dinner

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville

a robot to do the housework!!...thats one tomorrows world i remember......never frigging happened though eh? *femme disapearing under a pile of ironing*

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