Things that are now obsolete or were easier years ago

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?

Parents
  • Being 53 now and being a child in the 1970’s, a teenager in the 1980’s growing up in Rural Ireland, only moving to Manchester U.K. in 2002 (21 years ago) I totally can relate to this - for all their faults the 1980’s (40 years ago) things were far better, simpler and easier compared to today - the first 23 years of the 21st century has been a complete nightmare, especially during and after Covid in 2020 and where I’d worked in supermarkets for 30 years (not by choice) but I’ve seen all the changes and I’ve come to realise that many of these changes are not good at all - as I get older, I cling to tradition as much as I do to my Catholic faith and even within retailing, I’ve seen how Christmas has utterly changed for the worse, which is so far removed from what Christmas is really supposed to be about 

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  • Being 53 now and being a child in the 1970’s, a teenager in the 1980’s growing up in Rural Ireland, only moving to Manchester U.K. in 2002 (21 years ago) I totally can relate to this - for all their faults the 1980’s (40 years ago) things were far better, simpler and easier compared to today - the first 23 years of the 21st century has been a complete nightmare, especially during and after Covid in 2020 and where I’d worked in supermarkets for 30 years (not by choice) but I’ve seen all the changes and I’ve come to realise that many of these changes are not good at all - as I get older, I cling to tradition as much as I do to my Catholic faith and even within retailing, I’ve seen how Christmas has utterly changed for the worse, which is so far removed from what Christmas is really supposed to be about 

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