Things we don't need in 2022 like we did 10 years ago

[kylie122]

Just a Sunday thought remembering how we used to get phone top ups

Yes, sat navs are excellent for the precise location finding at the end, but I'd be a bit at anyone unable to get to the general area from road signs and a summary of directions and no sat nav, especially when it's somewhere they've been a few times before.

But then I have people at work look at me as if I'm performing witchcraft, simply because I can do this, even though the directions are fairly simple, ie motorway 1, 2 then 3 in a fairly standard combination familiar to anyone in the area, leave motorway 3 at junction X, follow signs for town A that is a few miles from the motorway, then the signs for the industrial estate that the client is located on and there you are. And they know that I have been to that site a dozen times, and had to get there in the times before sat nav existed and yet they still can't believe it's possible to get there from memory alone.

I agree @BarbaraofSeville

Cameras, road maps, CDs, DVDs, as many smart work clothes.

Cash and a cheque book

I still use my camera occasionally because it has a much better zoom than my phone does.

I still use cash occasionally. We went out for a curry last week, and when I rang to book they told me that their card machine was out of action, so we ended up paying cash.

I love a road map. I will never totally rely on a satnav.

DS been at Leeds university for three years now. With all the road systems going through an upheaval, routes one way systems changing constantly the sat nav has been useful

@justasking111

DS been at Leeds university for three years now. With all the road systems going through an upheaval, routes one way systems changing constantly the sat nav has been useful

Thank you @justasking111. I visit Leeds a few times a year, and I can't keep up with the road systems. I tend to travel on the East side of Leeds, and the roadworks on York Road means that the route is different every time.

Sat Nav (specifically Google Maps) is great when you’re in the car because it uses live traffic data to let you know when there’s problems ahead. I check it every morning before driving to the station as it lets me know instantly if the local motorway is clear or if I should take the old A road.

It’s also up to speed with every temporary traffic work, and changes like new low traffic zone/school streets. The A-Z can’t do that.

I can’t see how it’s remotely safer to be referring to a list of instructions on the spare seat rather than glancing at a screen at wheel height.

Those banana hair clips that opened up and made your hair into a sort of weird vertical pony tail

@ouch321

People who said they didn't have DVDs in 2010- but Nerflix and Prime only became a thing circa 2015.

Netflix used to be a service that mailed you out dvds before 2010. That was in the USA though. I left there in 2008.

@CrimbleCrumble1

Picking up our own takeaways.

We still pick up our own. It gets to our house quicker.

10 years ago we still had an 'old fashioned TV' that was cathode ray. Getting rid of that was hard work but now we have a flat screen TV.

Haven't used cash for ages.

My phone is very important to me - it's far more than a phone. And it would be difficult if I lost it.

Surprised to hear people talking about USB sticks at work. We have an IT policy which disables USB sticks to stop people stealing data!

I don't use satnav except for maybe the last half mile of a route. As an example, it was useful for navigating to my son's hall of residence at his university, but I knew where the campus was. It was also useful on occasion for finding venues for his athletics events, or at least reassuring me I was on the right road.

People don't need satnav when they've got me in the car except for when there's a bad traffic jam and then it's useful for finding another route (though I often navigate my own using a road atlas).

I can remember routes quite easily. The only time it goes wrong is if something isn't signposted properly. This can happen if eg they want you to use a particular road for a particular destination but your route had a different road in mind so it signposts you in a different direction and it's confusing. Examples would be being kept on the M3 to J4 for Farnham (you can come off at J5 if you are not driving a HGV) and being kept on the M4/48 for Chepstow when the parallel A48 takes you right there via the scenic route.

@RampantIvy

Paper map in the car can't stand satnav

I can't stop and read a paper map when I am driving on my own in an unfamiiar city centre. I assume you never drive alone @Plantsandpuddlesuits?

If I am a bit unsure of a route, I do pull over and look at a map. There's usually somewhere safe to stop for a minute or two.

If I am a bit unsure of a route, I do pull over and look at a map. There's usually somewhere safe to stop for a minute or two.

No, not always - not in the middle of a busy city centre with roads with multiple lanes, one way systems and "no stopping" signs. I think you must drive in smaller quieter places than I do.

I tend to drive mostly in Sheffield, Leeds and Newcastle, and there are many parts of all three city centres where if you end up in the wrong lane you end up driving in the wrong direction and end up a long way out of your way before you can stop and look at a map.

People still use maps. Mind blown!

@D0lphine

People still use maps. Mind blown!

Still use my good old paper OS maps for walking.

Still use my good old paper OS maps for walking.

Same. Although I am thinking of buying some to download onto my phone. I'm a bit of an anorak though and just love looking at maps.

@RampantIvy, same here about the maps, love them.

You want the OS maps subscription. £24 a year for the entire country down to 1:25000 scale and you can view on laptop or mobile, plot routes, download sections as PDFs and print.

I use paper maps daily! They are a big part of my work, but also for walking, and route planning bike rides. You get a much bigger picture (literally!) on a paper map than a phone screen.

Sat nav is very useful, especially as others have said when road layouts change (although my sat at did go into meltdown in Bath - the traffic and one-way systems there are horrendous!).

Otoh I think that some now have simply no idea where places are. Eg you could get in the car, put in a postcode in say Peterborough, and have no clue whether Peterborough was south, north, east or west from your starting point.

Otoh I think that some now have simply no idea where places are. Eg you could get in the car, put in a postcode in say Peterborough, and have no clue whether Peterborough was south, north, east or west from your starting point.

To be fair to the digital generation, my brother went to X university. He knew how to get there from the train station 10 mins down the road from home, but couldn’t have shown you where X was on a map.

I agree that technology seems to be replacing the ability to use our brains in some respects.

I am excited about downloading the OS maps @BarbaraofSeville. We have loads of good walking country where we live and have probably exhausted most local options by now. We spent the summer and autumn of 2020 walking around as many Yorkshire reservoirs as we could. When the weather gets better we will do Winscar.

We still need to have a landline - reception is very poor here and I'd rather not make my phone calls whilst hanging out the window or down the bottom of the garden where the neighbours could hear everything.

We gave up Sky when we got Netflix around 6 or so years ago. We have other streaming services too.

Haven't used a chequebook in years, all banking is done online.

Still buy books, will never not buy them. But do also have a kindle. And use the library app to borrow ebooks and audiobooks.

Shopping is often done online but DH & I like to do a click and collect and grab a coffee whilst out. And still do a full shop in a supermarket from time to time, when we feel like it.

But, on the whole, agree with a lot of other posters that leaving the house is becoming less and less essential these days. Most things can be ordered online and delivered. I make myself leave the house regularly so I'm not in danger of becoming a hermit

So many of these suggestions stopped being the norm longer than 10 years ago! I think people may have a slightly distorted idea of how long ago 2012 was 😂
Netflix streaming was around in the mid 00s
Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy in 2010
Disposable cameras were long gone by 2012 and people were using digital cameras or smart phones.