Stuff that didn’t seem weird at the time but when you tell someone younger they think it’s nuts

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Just that really.

The other day I explained to my 11 year old niece that when I was at junior school we used to have a small bottle of milk with a straw every morning, and she looked at me like I’d lost my mind.

Email round robins in the late 90’s to 2000’s - sending multiple recipients lame jokes or (usually hoax) ‘warnings’ by email.

I look back and cringe at using my work email account to send the kind of thing that you see on scammy social media posts these days. The distribution list would be huge 😱

The free sex line you could call for info.

Does anyone remember this? We used to stop at the phone box every day to call it, put on deeper voices and say things like 'hello madam, I'm 25 and my boyfriend asked me for a blow job, could you please explain how to do it?' 😂

In the sixties there were no gyms for fitness. Public gyms were exclusively for men and boys learning to box. Secondary school gyms were only used to teach gymnastics. And the only time people ever ran was if they were late for the bus or were running downstairs to answer the phone before it stopped ringing. But we were actually quite fit because we walked so much and did so much incidental exercise such as walking over to the TV to change channels, hanging washing on the line etc.

When I was 6, we used to say the Lord's Prayer every morning at school.

Going to gigs for 1 pound (or less)

no seat back in-flight entertainment on intercontinental flights
people smoking on flights

wall-mounted can openers

telex machines

Twin tubs instead of washing machines.
Being able to speak to the BT operator.
Only having 3 TV channels and children's programmes only on at a set time.
Looking for jobs in the local newspaper.
Bus conductors.

Gas at the dentist and fillings without injections.

I had totally forgotten about waiting until 6pm to use the phone.

At my school I had a weekly shift in the library doing cuttings. I had to look through the times and cut out articles on common topics and file them so someone wanting to read about a topic could look through relevant newspaper stories.

Internet cafes

Floppy disks, and MP3 players. seems so outdated now.

PE kit bags - drawstring bags made out of your old curtains or suchlike.
Having to cover your schoolbooks in brown paper/ old wallpaper/ whatever you had available to keep them in better nick.

Think of it more like being able to cook on the radiator rather than having an oven always on.

A colleague asked if anyone has any use for CDRoms after finding a box in a cupboard, and young, very IT savvy, colleague didn't know what she meant

I'm a flight attendant and when I started flying, everyone smoked. We would even have our own cigarettes and lighter & ashtray on the trolley and smoke whilst serving.
Weird AF now but normal at the time.

Being chuffed to be promoted from typist to VDU operator

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Chokes and ashtrays in cars.
And being told never to touch the cigarette lighter.

I remember phoning my friend in the school holiday to wish her happy birthday on the landline. I called during the day and because she lived in the next town it was classed as "long distance". We talked for maybe half an hour and it cost my dad £30. He hit the roof. Amazing you can just call anywhere in the wolrld now.

Agony aunts in teenage magazines.
No wonder we had no idea of boundaries in relationships etc when that was pretty much your only go-to for finding out stuff a teenage girl needs to know.

Yes, so true.

That's weird, I know times have moved on but you can still buy CDs.

My local cinema still does this! (Not the smoking bit)

That the computing power of The Apollo Guidance computer used for the moon landings was less that of a pocket calculator I used for schoolwork. Mindblowing.

Only having 4 TV channels and childrens shows were only on for a couple of hours before and after school, didn't have Internet and only had mobile phones from when I was a teenager with no cameras on them and no Internet, they asked me how I coped when I told my kids about that one haha

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