I heard about this when chatting with friends tonight. It's weird but true and I bet you can think of a few more.
1. The relationship between a pencil and a tape.
2. They will never know the white fear you felt when you realised that you weren’t kind, you didn’t rewind the VHS you just handed back to the video store.
3. The art of recording the Sunday Top 40 chart show with minimal DJ chat over the song.
4. The excitement of flicking through your newly developed photos as you walk through the town centre only to find half of them have your thumb over the lens.
5. The simple act of winding down a car window.
6. The glory of a four-hour marathon of eye spy because there were no TV/DVD players in the back of cars in the ‘olden days’
7. Nails down the blackboard. Schools all use super-duper touch screens now.
8. Trolls on top of pencils – an iPad just doesn’t offer a stable place for them to sit.
9. The old shake and blow trick to get your SNES Mario Land game cartridge working again.
10. Rotary dial phones – yes it really did take more than five seconds to dial a number. A number that you also had to memorise.
11. With all the CRB/DBS/ISA child-minders need these days they will never set up their own ‘Babysitters Club’.
12. When arriving 10 minutes before your flight was considered early.
13. Waiting until Saturday morning for the decent cartoons.
14. Having that rare ability to successfully fold the car map.
15. The happiness that is circling what shows to watch in the TV magazine.
16. Leafing through the whole Encyclopaedia to find information on a rainforest – now it’s just a Google away.
17. The advert game – the first to guess the advert gets control of the remote. Now they just record and fast forward.
18. They’ll never know the true meaning of ‘WE WERE ON A BREAK’.
19. Loading a computer game via a tape recorder, which took ages. It was worth it though to get to the final level of Chuckie Egg.
20. Using reverse charges to call your mum and dad at a payphone. Actually, will they even know what a payphone is?
