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

[BobcatDreams]

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

@Nanny0gg that is fabulous!

-Sitting on a desktop chatting away on MSN messenger all night.
-Chain emails to send and forward memes.
-Teletext.
-Wired landlines with no caller ID.
-Writing love notes in class.
-Going over to a mates to listen to a new album they bought.
-Those credit/debit card triplicate books and slider things where they would emboss your card on 3 copies of paper as proof of payment, someone must know the real name of this lol
-Going to a cashpoint every time you went out.
-Door to door vacuum cleaner salesmen. The demos they'd do in your home were so amazing to me as a kid.
-Betterware cataloge! - is that still a thing?

Collecting Green Shield Stamps and sticking them into a booklet and then looking in the catalogue to see what you can get.

Petrol hitting 70p a gallon.

Clambering over the all the stones at Stonehenge.

Going to school in the snow.

Remember you felt really special if you got the front seat 'Giddy up Black Beauty / Red Rum!'

@ghostyslovesheets
Yes! Proper children's programs. Slow and thoughtful not loud , quick and in your face.

Listening to a Walkman

Rotary dial phones. Such fun as a young child!

Telephone boxes and putting money into the slot

Dial up broadband

Rape in marriage being legal

Oh yes do you remember the furore when they had to add a digit to petrol station display screens when it went over a pound?

Omg I had totally forgotten about Video Plus! I thought it was the highest of high tech at the time!

Crossed lines

Arranging to meet a friend and just hoping they turn up. No way of contacting each other if the train is delayed or something.

Heating (at these rates being so high)

Having a mortgage

Milk delivered to your door (depending on areas of course)

Library?

'Knocking' for your mates and hoping they are in

Sharing bath water (thankfully)

Owning a petrol supercar :)

Peanut Treets
Nutty bars
Bar Six
Roller ball lipgloss (cola, spearmint, pineapple etc)
Bahama Blue No7 mascara
Buying 1 cigarette for 10p from 'the outdoor' and smoking it on the way to school....
Rainbow Mauve or Iced Champink lipstick
Exclamation perfume

I haven’t read the whole thread, so sorry if these have already been mentioned:
reversing charges in a phone box so mum could refuse, but know to come and pick me up.
Whole family singing in the car when we went out of radio signal
Opening car doors to cool down the interior, then still screaming as you sat on red-hot seat vinyl with 70’s, very skimpy, shorts. Coming out of the car with the seat pattern branded on your legs.
going to the corner shop just to look at Cornettos, because you knew, at 45p, you were never, in your whole lifetime, going to be rich enough to actually buy one.
Whole family discussions regarding choosing gites, based on one black and white photo and how many ears of corn they had as a rating. Some ‘interesting’ surprises resulted.

OMG you'd have some funny/ strange ones

Making plans with someone and then standing in town not knowing when they left and if they're still coming (no mobiles!).

Born in 91....

The sound of connecting to the dial up internet

The sound of the nudge on MSN

SEGAAAA

the classic Nokia text message tone

Snake game on Nokia

Recording 30 second clips of songs on phone to listen to

Sending photos by Bluetooth (and also being able to scan other people's photos and videos via Bluetooth!)

MP3 players

Having to write in exercise books at school.. and decorating them with wallpaper

Watching the teacher write on a blackboard with chalk!

Nintendo game boy

Having to frantically and repeatedly type on buttons on a mobile phone to create text!

Chris Moyels on radio one

Big Brother

Crystal Maze, Takeshi's Castle

Omg I'm sure there's tons more, and I haven't read the thread so some of these could even be repetitive but wow how I miss some of those things!

All paid earning from a MN side hustle. Brilliant isnt it. Thanks MN!!

Looking up your friends phone number in the phone book.

@Neverknowinglysensible My gran had a mini and when you got out you left half your skin behind.

Teletext I think there was a game on there called Bamboozled or something like that, used to love it!

Also looking for holidays on teletext

Phoning friends from phone box 2 streets away, We were the only family without a phone at home.
The operator asking "Number Please"

White dog poo

Lots of people crammed in a car, usually in the boot.