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.

When televisions had only one channel - BBC.

Catching butterflies in jars. So many in our garden when I was young. We did release them. SW UK

Butterflies :o with Wendy something

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
That sounds like a Banda machine to me.
We used telex a lot when I first started work. I remember when we got our first fax machine in the office and it used that weird heat sensitive paper that never uncurled properly. Oh the joy when fax machines that used normal A4 paper were invented!

StealthPolarBear Wendy Craig was in Butterflies

A man driving a horse and cart, crying "any old iron?"
The strangeness of decimal coins.
Excitement at school about the moon landing.
Champion the Wonder Horse.
Nobody jumping a queue.
The national anthem at the cinema and being told to stand for that.
Seeing the Queen riding on horseback on the Mall.

Three channels on the TV
VCR
Legs and Co on Top of the Pops
Children being caned at school
Having a TV with no remote control
Video games that you would play on your tv, were painfully slow
Hippies, skinheads, and punks

Ceefax! I recently had to explain to a 21yo colleague WTF Ceefax was. Like the internet, but on your telly!!

3 TV channels
Vinyl

We used to have a beta max video

My dad had a carphone. It looked like the bloke off Bread with his brick of a mobile!

Dial up internet
Wired remote controls

Having to wait for something to actually be on the telly - None of this sky on demand my kids are spoiled with!

The bread van!

DOS

01 for London typing with carbon paper smoking everywhere

Commodore 64
Spectrum
Halfpenny especially
Pound coins
Phone boxes
Paying 10p for a bus ride
Milk being delivered in glass bottles
Maggie Thatcher winning the election
Walking everywhere
Playing outside

But also receiving racial insults on the bus
'Mind your language'
Being told brown people weren't British
There was good and bad obvs...

Knowing lots of phone numbers off by heart.

I remember having to go into your own bank branch if you needed to get cash out of your account as holes in the wall had not yet been invented. And banks had funny, short hours back in the day, none of this opening on a Saturday malarky!

Wooden escalators
Presentations done with OHP transparencies
Being taught how to send a telegram at Brownies

Watch With Mother
Having coal delivered
First fitted carpet . Previously had Lino with a carpet square over it .
North Sea Gas
A single record was 6s 8d - 3 for a pound .

Getting postal orders for Christmas.

Dad getting Green Shield stamps at the garage.

The man from Radio Rentals coming with a new rental TV.

Rose hip syrup.
Proper Lucazade.
Atrixy hand cream. (mam always used it)

Marathon bars (now called Snicker bars)

Anne French Cleansing lotion and Ponds Moisturiser.

Writing your address on the back of cheques before bank cards were invented
Toilet paper like grease proof paper in squares

Telly only having 3 channels (2 for a longish period in 1979 when ITV went on strike), and having to walk across the room to change them over.

Computer punch cards

I remember M&S not taking credit cards but would take cheques which they printed for you.

Sputnik
I can remember what I was doing when JFK was shot
Milk delivered by horse-drawn cart
Rag and bone men
Banda machines for producing teaching materials