Things that quietly disappeared in the last 20 years

[Gough]

It's a scary thing still being able to remember your childhood home's phone number but now I lose trains of thoughts or words in the middle of a sentence.

 

[Xtreme]

I still use my AOL emails that I set up in 2000.

On SM-A135F using BigFooty.com mobile app

I still use my original hotmail email (00/01) as my main email.

 

[Tadpole]

It's a scary thing still being able to remember your childhood home's phone number but now I lose trains of thoughts or words in the middle of a sentence.

I haven't quite lost all my marbles yet, but there's definitely a small hole in the bag somewhere.

 

[Cruyff14]

I still use my original hotmail email (00/01) as my main email.

Me too!

 

[cats_09]

I can remember my original ICQ email handle - that's long been closed down

I'm still using my Yahoo email from 2005 as a generic email and then got a more professional sounding Gmail address I also use

 

[Teagueeee15]

The little local delis or milk bars have mostly all disappeared and have been replaced by petrol station mini marts and 7-Elevens.




Yeah I miss the old CD stores, that was one of the few places I wanted to go to in shopping centres.

Most of them would have bargain bins which you could rifle through and pick up some genuine bargains amongst the shit CDs.




Our video store had a 7 weekly videos for 7 dollars, you would usually get a few shit ones but at a dollar a pop it didn't matter.

If you forked out the big bucks for an overnight video and it was a dud that was more of a problem so you had to be more picky.

In Melbourne at least, even 7-Elevens seem to be disappearing, with the convenience only stores becoming Ezymarts and the petrol stations becoming Reddys.

 

[Pistol Night]

Not sure about the printer at home one. My kids are always bugging me to print something off for them.

Yeah i need an extra ream of A4 a month to keep up with my kids printing "needs"

 

[Pistol Night]

Comedy

 

[cats_09]

Not sure about the printer at home one. My kids are always bugging me to print something off for them.

I got rid of my home printer at one stage and really missed the convenience of when I needed to print the odd random thing - now got a wireless laser printer and good for when needed

 

[Upstart Swan]

There used to be pay phones everywhere, and some even worked. Then there were pay phones but none worked. And now there are no pay phones.

Still on phones, the White Pages and the Yellow Pages. It seems bizarre now to think that once upon a time almost everyone's private phone number was in a book kept in every household.

I don't buy newspapers anymore, but I imagine that the weekly TV guide liftout has now disappeared.

And at the newsagents there seemed to be magazines on every available subject. Just the sports section took up an entire wall. Now my local newsagent sells literally a handful of newspapers and a small range of magazines to supplement the main business of selling lottery tickets .

 

[Ivelisse]

I don't buy newspapers anymore, but I imagine that the weekly TV guide liftout has now disappeared.

As a kid we got The West Australian (Saturday) and The Sunday Times delivered to our house. One year we got back from an overseas holiday on Sunday night. It was really annoying not knowing what was on TV for almost a week.

 

[Gough]

As a kid we got The West Australian (Saturday) and The Sunday Times delivered to our house. One year we got back from an overseas holiday on Sunday night. It was really annoying not knowing what was on TV for almost a week.

I was backpacking in Africa when Senna died and only found out when I got back to England and was watching a GP and asked where he was.

 

[Upstart Swan]

I was backpacking in Africa when Senna died and only found out when I got back to England and was watching a GP and asked where he was.

I was living in Europe when South Melbourne announced their move to Sydney. Found out about it through a letter from my mum a couple of months later.

That reminds me, remember the special lightweight airmail paper we all used, to save on postage costs?

 

[Gough]

I was living in Europe when South Melbourne announced their move to Sydney. Found out about it through a letter from my mum a couple of months later.

That reminds me, remember the special lightweight airmail paper we all used, to save on postage costs?

Blue aerograms. When my granny died I found that she'd kept all of the ones that I'd written to her when I'd been traveling.

 

[Frank Bunn]

There used to be pay phones everywhere, and some even worked. Then there were pay phones but none worked. And now there are no pay phones.

Payphones used to always smell like piss because people wandering round after the pub used them as public toilets.

In central London, phone booths always had a bunch of cards for people offering kinky sex for a price.

 

[Plugger35]

I bought phone cards when I was overseas to call home from phone boxes in the UK and the US, it was only about 25 years ago.

Comedy

Comedy died when Hoges decided to go to Hollywood when Crocodile Dundee made it big, The Paul Hogan Show was the best.