What can you remember that makes you seem ancient?

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I remember us getting our very first colour TV.

I can remember a rag and bone man coming up my granny’s street - can’t remember if it was a horse drawn trailer or not.

Granny had an Anderson shelter.

I remember not having to wear seatbelts.

When everyone used to smoke at work and in pubs.

Phoning from a telephone box and pushing the coins through the slots when the pips went.

Glam rock, punk rock, ska revival and new romantics.

Power cuts.

TV repair man

Abba winning Eurovision song contest

Rag and Bone man

Shops closed Sundays and half day Wednesdays

4 blackjacks or tutti frutti sweets for 1p

Smoking on buses, trains, in pubs and cafes and at work

The Viking probes landing on Mars and the first space shuttle launch

Margaret Thatcher becoming prime minister

Phonecards!

Modems!

I do remember the horse drawn rag and bone cart.

I was aware of the chat around decimalisation but only remember modern coins. "Sixpences" being worth 2 and a 1/2 pence until they were withdrawn.

If you had longish hair ( boy or girl) my name would tell you it needed cutting!

My nan! Terrible autocorrect.

The sound of a 54k dial up modem, and my mum going ballistic as I was on it downloading music off Napster 24/7. I lent her my mobile when on a really good speed for an album i really wanted which tipped her over the edge.
I remember our first video player
I remember our first remote control telly
I remember when our family got duvets instead of sheets and blankets.
I used to be able to go underage drinking as long as I knew my date of birth and star sign.
Holograms were magic

Bounty and Mars bars came in a little black cardboard tray with waxed paper round them.

Yes! They were huge and I could spend my 20p pocket money on a Mars bar and still have change.

56k dial up modem I meant!

10p bottle back on glass pop bottles.
London weekend television. Thames television kids programmes. Friday film specials.
Waiting 28 days for something from a catalogue to be delivered.
All milk in glass bottles.
Radio times only showing the bbc and tv times showing itv - what the actual fuck?

Channel 5 starting.

Friends starting and ending.

No one having a mobile. Only posh people having a cordless phone.

Christ only posh people had a remote control for the tv!

The miners strike and my parents collecting toys and clothes for the striking families.

My primary school getting its 1st bbc computer and it being in the paper.

Being able to go in the local paper office and buy a print of your kid featured in the paper. I can remember that right up until about 2006 and there was a little shop in armada way to get them.

Rotary telephones
No seatbelts in cars and sleeping in the boot of my dad's estate car when we were out late at night
Test cards on the tv and them playing them playing the National Anthem at night

I watched Nixon’s resignation on TV. I was six and I remember it very clearly because my parents told me it was very important.

I was also plunked in front of the TV to watch the moon landing, but only being about 18 months old, I don’t remember that one.

Oh yes. Ice inside the windows, sewing my own breath inside my bedroom!

My teacher make copies of songs for a show on this machine that made all the ink purple. I don't know what it's called but this was about 1987

Black and white TVs.
RadioRentals.
Only 3 TV channels.
Our Dansette record player that played 33s, 45s, and 78s.
Only 3 homes in the village having a BT phone - and two of those were on a party line, so if we were on the phone, our neighbours couldn’t make or receive calls.

10p packet of snaps crisps !!
1/p was used
Landline, also calls were booked with operator to make international calls 'trunk call'
4 tv channels. Saturday night film was recorded on vhs to watch next day, would look forward to it all week especially during Halloween Xmas. Board games, pretend play, books and crafts were activities. Was rarely bored

When I was very small the milk was delivered by horse and cart.
I had a lovely trip down memory lane today as I used to love Marks and Spencer's beef chipsticks.
It turns out Aldi sell some which taste just the same!
I can remember black and white tv, and children's programmes only being on at a certain time of the day. (Anyone for 'Mary, Mungo and Midge'?)

The test card and count down clocks on TV when there were gaps between TV programs or long periods when there were no programs on at all.

BBC2 was full of Open University programs

There were only 3 TV channels - BBC1, BBC2, ITV

Smoking on the top deck of buses being allowed (gran used to drag little me up there with her)

Ceefax and Oracle

Show cable being a thing and if you wanted listings, you had to go to that channel and wait for it to scroll through to your channel

Jelly bags

Tv-am and Thames Television

Loved Mary Mungo and Midge.

Bt calling cards. If I try hard I can remember our number.

Anyone else remember collecting scraps? They were little paper angels you collected in an album.

Record players, cassette tapes, video players

Milk delivered to our doorstep

The insurance man came round the house once a week to get payment of premiums

The pools

Moon landing. Death of Franco. End of the Vietnam War.

Posters from magazines, covering binders with them or swapping with friends. Recording songs on tape from radio, or on video from top of the pops. Looking through card catalogue in library, card pockets for books borrowed. Nothing open on Sunday or beyond 5/6pm other than off license/paper shop

The first mobile phones. My dad had one, it was like a tool box with a phone with a wire that you answered. So big!
I remember the pop truck that drove round with fizzy drinks.