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Things that are now obsolete or were easier years ago

Homebird

A recent thread got me thinking about a couple of things.

The first one is instructions. I find things like mobiles frustrating as they don't come with instruction manuals. Then other things have to be researched on the internet. If I have flat packed furniture to build I lay it out and follow the instructions at my own pace. That's what I liked about Lego unless that has changed now.

The other thing I was thinking about recently is things we used to use that young people would have never seen. I was thinking of the phrase being a carbon copy which I guess comes from the use of carbon paper. In my first office job the typists did two copies of letters using this which went in different files. Some shops used it for receipts so they had a copy. I wonder if anyone uses it today.

Are there things that others can think of that aren't in use now?

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  • i find mobiles easier now, they are simplified...
    i remember the older mobiles were much more difficult and had bad menus tiny screens and everything being black and white and pixelated made it hard to navigate. the new smart phones are very simplified and big screens different colours easy navigation.

    flat pack furniture though, they come with instructions but they are usually pictures and the pictures can sometimes be drawn badly so as not to differentiate parts when multiple parts look the same.

    fax machines no longer in use, i remember always putting using fax machine on my cv for office jobs even though i never used one lol my nan had this really old landline phone, the old type which you had to spin the circle ring thing around.

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  • i find mobiles easier now, they are simplified...
    i remember the older mobiles were much more difficult and had bad menus tiny screens and everything being black and white and pixelated made it hard to navigate. the new smart phones are very simplified and big screens different colours easy navigation.

    flat pack furniture though, they come with instructions but they are usually pictures and the pictures can sometimes be drawn badly so as not to differentiate parts when multiple parts look the same.

    fax machines no longer in use, i remember always putting using fax machine on my cv for office jobs even though i never used one lol my nan had this really old landline phone, the old type which you had to spin the circle ring thing around.

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