To want to know something you've experienced that current/future generations won't.

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I'm throwing in the disgusting smell of telephone boxes.
Smoking and/or drinking at work

I've got a disability that just isn't a thing anymore, medical advances mean people nowadays with cataracts have day surgery and can see pretty much fine afterwards.

Also ordering band merch by sending a cheque to a PO box with a filled in slip from a magazine. just hoping they will send something back in the next 6 weeks. I also remember paying for things and receiving cheques as payment from Ebay in the early days.

I climbed Uluru (Ayers Rock). Not permitted now

Phonecards, not just the ones that had an amount on them that reduced when you used them in any call box, but the ones that represented an account on a local network that could tot up both calls and internet connection. They required you to ring an international number, then enter around 53 different digits in the form of long number and PIN before eventually you could dial the number you were intending.

A lesson in precision!

Oh, and Little Chef and Happy Eater being most of your options if you were driving on holiday or a long trip. Turn off for the pancakes, stay for the scary plastic tree play equipment...

That sounds amazing! On a similar theme I have wslked inside stonehenge and touched the stones.

Black and white TVs

Rotary telephone

Nokia mobile

6 day work week

First computer at school with a green screen

the whirr of aol dial-up, which i can still hear in my head to this day.

Being hit by teachers.

Kids TV being on for only 1 hour a day!
Trying to record songs off the radio without the DJ's voice interrupting at the end.
Hanging around outside a phone box to make a call,pre mobile phones.
Having to do that thing with debit or credit card payments when you worked in a shop,where you had to put it in that machine to take a copy of it,rather than the customer just tapping it on the reader.
Writing a cheque!

Milk being delivered by horse and cart. The milkman got a transit After the 62/3 winter when the horses died in the field.

Shops closing half day on Wednesday, and not being open at all on Sunday.

Working in an office with a pile of work on one side of your desk and an ashtray on the other. Smoking on the top deck of a double decker bus. Smoking at the cinema.

How did anyone survive the 1970s?

The staff canteen at my husband's first employers was licenced, meaning anyone could (and some did) drink at lunchtime - then went back to work on their huge dangerous engineering machines 😳

The fug of smoke at the cinema but it was ok because you could only smoke in one side of the auditorium

TV ending at 11pm

Jamboree bags from the corner shop

The mini printer

Scratched vinyl

Getting served in the pub at 15

1/2 p pieces.
Fruit polos.
Not having to worry about getting parking rules wrong everywhere we go.

Going into the headmasters office to see him smoking a cigar with his feet up.
Indoor smoking in general and smoking rooms at work.

@ContentedAlpaca our Maths teacher used to smoke in the lesson

Buying a weekly copy of Disco45 with all the current chart songs lyrics.
Radio Caroline
Free university education and maintenance grants

Cigarette burns on your going out clothes from everyone smoking in night clubs

We had smoking rooms at school for the 6th form.

Nightingale, firecrest, lesser spotted woodpecker, green woodpecker, nightjar, corn buntings, huge flocks of lapwing and golden plover (all now vanished in my little bit of England).

Backpacking without a mobile phone or any real access to the internet - having to use travel books and printed timetables instead.