Things that are now obsolete or were easier years ago

"Evening all"

Jack Warner, The Blue Lamp 

Roy said:

olice actually walking ‘The Beat’.

.....carrying truncheons.

Police actually walking ‘The Beat’.

I lost three fingers at the first joint about 15 years ago, they were crushed off, the nerves are quite destroyed, the Consultant said that I would have to be aware of frostbite in the winter. My mother brought me some heated gloves, it was obviously a very kind thought. The technology then meant that they used two big D size batteries in each glove , I tried the gloves but looked like an Orangutan walking down the road.

Typewriters; telephones with dials; bus conductors; half-crowns and sixpences.

Ben

Rock n Roll lifestyle!

I have a pair of glasses that I sometimes wear over my reading glasses. 160% magnification, with USB-rechargeable LEDS. Such an exciting life I lead.

I really worry about people (particularly the elderly) who use Big Button landline phones. Let's hope the telecommunication companies are taking things like that into account. For people who don't have broadband, and who currently use older landline phones that will need to be replaced, I can imagine it being an expense they could do without. 

I sometimes wear two pairs of glasses for intricate work!  Why not?
The struggle I have is when I use books for reference, I often put thumb and first finger on page and try to expand a diagram, I forget that I can’t magnify a paper page. Doh!

I relate to having issues when instructions are in what seems like a ridiculously small font... much like when reading Terms and Conditions. I have reading glasses, but sometimes I end up needing a magnifying glass as well. 

My house had fibre optic fitted by BT a few weeks ago, we don’t have a landline telephone as we do use iPhones. The hub is fitted at the front of the house downstairs, our bedroom is upstairs and gets a low signal strength for steaming tv, it worked fine when it was a normal hub in the living room. If telephones do need connecting to the fibre optic system, they have to be wireless and sold by BT, it’s called Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP, it’s apparently how the phone network will be by 2025, that is a goal never achieved by 2025.

Having the internet for looking up instructions is very handy, but yes I do get your point.
However, if you have lost the instructions, then the internet is your friend.

What I find though is that when things do come with instructions (like my recently bought earbuds), the instruction leaflets have the instructions in 101 different languages and the print is tiny. Maybe I'm getting old and my eyesight is failing.
Handy tip - use your phone camera to zoom in or take a photo of the instructions.

So, I'll see your instructions and raise with "the good old simple days!" - they are obsolete, forgotten, long lost!
LIFE was easier / simpler back then 

I loved carbon paper. I once wrote an entire story (about 15a4 pages) on a typewriter with no ribbon by using carbon paper. 

I'm sure that when I learnt to drive roundabouts all had the same rules for lanes. Now you have to look at signs and check several times because every one is different. I may, however, be remembering incorrectly!! 

I can relate to what you say about the TV channels. I have a cable TV package, but approximately three-quarters of the channels just don't interest me or no longer appeal to me. In an ideal world, I would love it if I could literally pick and choose the channels I actually want. Oh, and don't get me started on so-called Reality TV, which is supposedly considered to be entertainment. 

Whilst there are aspects of technology I love, I dislike the fact that people are now being forced into using technology that they may not want to use. I recently heard that people with landline telephones will need to have broadband. I dislike the assumption these days that EVERYONE has a smartphone, and that some services can now only be accessed via a smartphone app. Grrr!

Cheese Fondue... Now there's a blast from the past. I can remember a time when fondue sets were all the rage.

I find TV obsolete, as a child it was my life. Today there is 100 channels of nothingness, the cheap reality Tv is inane. Driving anywhere is now much harder, I drove into London today with mother, I bought a Luton van which isn’t ULEZ, I spent 20 minutes tonight paying the charge to take a vehicle out of London. I just wanted to pay the £12.50, no I had to setup an account and have validation codes sent to my email account and set up passwords.  While I’m moaning, car parks had ticket machines that took coins, now I need an app and debit card.

Meccano seems to be obsolete now, it was another childhood love, I could build whatever I wanted and never had to kill zombies on a computer screen. I forgot blotting paper and cheese fondue.

I always use the phrase carbon copy. I hadn't realised it had gone out of fashion but thinking about it I guess it has

I agree about instruction manuals. Its part of the reason I stopped playing Playstation games. In my day, PS1 games came with a thick instruction manual the size of the encyclopedia whereas now they have no instructions at all and I don't have the time or energy to research them on the internet 

I find that even when things do come with instructions, the instructions can sometimes be too vague to understand.

As for carbon copies, they still exist for some things. I know that if I'd had repairs or annual gas/electrical inspections, the contractor keeps the top copy of the paperwork, with carbon copies for both myself and my landlord.