I have information at my fingertips at all times.
I couldn't imagine having to drive to a library to research something.
Or phone around everywhere asking questions
Or going out with pals and someone gets separated and having no means to message them.
Or going to a travel agent to book a flight that I can do in 3 minutes online.
The 90s must have been endlessly running errands. No thank you.
Aww, Diddums. 👶
shareit was kinda magical being at a festival or huge party separated from those you arrived with only to reunite before some epic moment.
shareOr going to a travel agent to book a flight that I can do in 3 minutes online.
My brother is doint this right now
I dont get it
its not like he's I.T. illiterate . quite the opposite.
He seem to think he'll get somethjing from the travel agent you wont get from pakage holiday websites .
I dont know what that woulod be except higher prices
Yeah man they got their overheads.
Guys...I'd love to tell you what I know about certain analog methods but when it comes to travel it's Ancient Chinese Secret.
shareis this the secret?
https://youtu.be/diFDBNNmnnU
You wouldn't have liked the 60's then. No internet, no mobile phones and all stores closed by 6:00pm. If you worked you did your shopping on Saturday between 9:00am and 1:00pm (when the shops closed) along with just about everyone else, and with a hangover if you'd had the previous night on the grog. And in those days the shops were separate. So you went to the butcher, the baker, the fruit and vegetable store and the grocery store queuing up at each one to take your turn. Paying bills was the same by going to each place and queuing up.
As far as knowledge went it was either the library or if you were lucky you might have someone to ask that knew what they were talking about. But most of the time you just remained in ignorance and winged it.
The good old days.
Yeah that's crazy bro.
My grandad told me about those days, no banks open on the weekends, no ATMs, you gotta always have cash on hand for the weekend and people are always trying to borrow money until next payday. Sounds annoying.
Yep banks were a real problem because they closed early weekdays and weren't open on Saturday which is why people were paid in cash.
banks were taking the fking piss for decades , its only just recently they've managed to get into the office for a full days work instead of that 10:00 till 16:00 bullshit .
Just in time when we dont need them to do that anymore because we can use the website now .
banks were a real pain back then. now they have longer hours and i have no reason to go to a bank anymore.
shareYes. I remember early '90s banks closed at 3:pm.
To this day and I don't know why, I consider that bank closing time.
If I need to do in house banking I will try to get there before 3. LOL.
1960s were fun! I was there.
Groovy music. Hippies everywhere walking barefooted. Chicks in micro-minis. Long hair. Square parents going nuts. The Twist, Funky Chicken, Swim, Monkee. Star Trek, Batman, Laugh-In, Flying Nun, My Mother the Car. Bongos playing in the park. Marches. Beetle car. Daisies. Peace symbols everywhere.
Safe for children to play outside without parents around. Doctors made house calls. Rotary phones. Milk men. Phone numbers began with the alphabet. Typewriters. Cameras which cost $1. Foot-long hero sandwiches. Strangers talked to each other - a lot. Trick or Treating without parents. Bell bottoms. Roman sandals. Keds and Converse. GI Joe and Barbie. Hula Hoops and Marbles. Metal roller skates with a key. 5 cent potato chips. 12 cent comics. Double-feature movies for 75 cents. Horse-driven vegetable and fruit man. Banana bikes. Neighborhood kids' mega snowball wars. Water pistols. Open fire hydrants. Culottes and hotpants. Food was made from food. Uncle Walter Cronkite. Ed Sullivan. First man on the moon. Nation mourns Kennedy.
Not everyone kept money in banks. We had encyclopedias, the yellow pages and the library for info. Seriously, you missed a multi-year fun party.
BTW, people still ask to borrow money.
Australia is not America.
i have a friend who's been to australia several times. he calls it america without the guns and religion.
shareThe resemblance is superficial. Stephen Fry said to Michael Parkinson " If you think the English and Australians are different put them together in a room with an American ".
We were in Australia for 3 weeks just before covid, starting in Brisbane, driving down the east coast and ending up in Sydney and we had the time of our lives.
It’s like the best bits of Britain and America mixed together.
I was partially responding to your earlier post. I experienced what you wrote about re: bank and store hours as well as specialized stores, etc..
Things were slower paced, but people were friendlier. For instance, a stop at the butcher meant striking up conversations with strangers while waiting or catching up on the latest gossip with friends who happened to be there, too. That made waiting very pleasant.
I'm pretty sure encyclopedias and telephone books existed in Australia. Not everyone kept their money in a bank since adults were less trusting of them because the banks failed and people lost their bank savings during the 1930s.
I could walk outside with a ball and get a game going with kids I never met within 15 minutes. Today, kids are in their homes playing video games.
Of course, there are cultural differences among countries, but there are similarities in experiences based on the era in which you lived.
If you didn't live in Australia in the 1960's then you don't know what you're talking about. But then not knowing what you're talking about is no barrier for you is it, you just plough on regardless.
You're arguing just to argue.
Other than you guys talk funny, there isn't that much of a difference.
See when you make those kinds of blatantly ridiculous statements you closely resemble a troll. And if it looks like a troll and talks like a troll...
You really do talk funny.
shareYou really do talk funny.
And there weren't 369 flavors of chips!! Hell, Doritos didn't exist until 1965.
shareIt is not like we had any choice but to use only the technology, that we had back then.
But I'm glad that the pandemic didn't hit us until now.
Oh hell yeah. I guess everyone would be on the landline and phone dating would be big.
shareIt would have had only a fraction of the impact on the economy because we wouldn't have locked down. it would probably be remembered as "that really bad flu that killed more people." Also no internet boards for people to use instead of their own judgement and reason. Life would have gone on.
share^This.
shareYou would be fine and it was a great time to be alive.
You could go hang out at the comic book store, or record store(or from your home on Napster), hardware store still the same, theaters were still around, go to a sports game, appliances lasted 20 years, VHS wasn't bad and it wasn't that hard to time your recordings, the dollar went a lot longer, you could mail in checks to pay your bills, plus in the late 90's you still had the internet including AOL messenger to chat with friends and Mapquest to help you get around. You were just on dial up which wasn't that bad unless you were trying to download pictures or videos because that was an all day event. Also the outdoors hasn't changed much.
Ah yes good old dial up. And if someone called the landline you would lose the internet and whatever you were downloading. lol
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