£2 coins.
Every time I get one I still make a little "ooh" sound in my head.
EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
Every time I get one I still make a little "ooh" sound in my head.
EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
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The idea of wireless broadband still delights me.
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28.8?! Luxury. We had a 14.4 and I don't remember anyone complaining.Comment
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When I were a lad, I ran up a £100 phone bill on a 2400 baud modem and was glad to do so.Comment
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And I used to think 256k was the devil.Comment
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Downloading a single mp3 would take half an hour and block all incoming and outgoing calls. Times have truly changed.Comment
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You're going to go doolally when the new £1 coin comes in then!Trois Fois Un Rouge wrote: £2 coins.
Every time I get one I still make a little "ooh" sound in my head.
EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.Comment
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The first time someone showed me a memory stick I was annoyed, because they called it a "flash disk". It's clearly not a disk. Then I worked with an Irish lady who called them "thumb sticks" except she pronounced it "tom sticks" which was much more interesting.
I remember reading out a list of code for two and a half hours to,my mate as he keyed them into his BBC Model B. We pressed "Run" and there was a multi-coloured sphere, turning on the screen before our very eyes!
And don't get me started on these:
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So, Super Pong then? Pong not good enough for you?Sits wrote:
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The £2 coin is delightful, 'tis true. (But then again, I still derive minor pleasure from the 50p and £1 coins.)
As for the internet and its associated jiggery-pokery, it's all still mindbending voodoo magic to me.Comment
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My mate had it in colour, FFS.Stumpy Pepys wrote:So, Super Pong then? Pong not good enough for you?Originally posted by SitsComment
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it's data sticks for me (see upthread)Jah Womble wrote: The £2 coin is delightful, 'tis true. (But then again, I still derive minor pleasure from the 50p and £1 coins.)
As for the internet and its associated jiggery-pokery, it's all still mindbending voodoo magic to me.
How do they work? There's no magnetized iron oxide surface in there.Comment
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I'm still amazed by tellies, especially cathode ray tube ones. Every time I read about how they work it sounds like a mix of sci-fi and black magic to me.Comment
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The real Heath-Robinson ones are the "Baird" ones with the Nipkow discs.Fussbudget wrote: I'm still amazed by tellies, especially cathode ray tube ones. Every time I read about how they work it sounds like a mix of sci-fi and black magic to me.Comment
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My own personal obsession at the moment is visiting new countries. Not new countries in the sense of South Sudan - although that would be one - but countries I've never visited before. It started when I turned 40 and realised I'd only ever been to 10 (and two of them were the UK and Ireland), which didn't exactly qualify me as a world traveller. In the last four years I've visited 21 more, and I'll be going to 5 more in the next eight weeks. Every time I get off a plane/boat/train/bus I get that thrill of "I'm in [insert country name here] for the first time ever!". I want to have visited all the EU countries before Britain exits (after this summer I'll only be "missing" Luxembourg, Lithuania, Romania and Bulgaria).Comment
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When I was a kid we went on a family trip to the USA. I bought some baseball cards and remember being captivated by the team names and the player names who were all new to me, as well as the stats and terminology.
I had no idea what it meant but I kind of loved it.
I still get a thrill opening a pack of baseball cards, 30+ years later.Comment
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You know me better than I know myself... twelve sides!Guy Profumo wrote: You're going to go doolally when the new £1 coin comes in then!Comment
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Not only that, bimetallic too!Trois Fois Un Rouge wrote:You know me better than I know myself... twelve sides!Originally posted by Guy Profumo
(It's only missing a [square] hole in the middle, isn't it?)Comment
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I teach a class on print technologies once a year. Every time I explain offset lithography it does my head in. I get that oil and water don't mix, but to take that and develop a process of such clarity and precision is brilliant. It reinforces my capacity for wonder every time.Comment
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The wheel. Round thing on an axle, hey presto you can make things move. It's still got it, however many thousands of years later. Yay for caveman Ug, or whoever the idiot was who didn't think to patent that little beauty.Comment
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Ug may have invented the wheel, but it took another 500 years before Gak came up with the idea of the axle and made it work!Various Artists wrote: The wheel. Round thing on an axle, hey presto you can make things move. It's still got it, however many thousands of years later. Yay for caveman Ug, or whoever the idiot was who didn't think to patent that little beauty.Comment
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D'oh!! Yes, presumably it just made a novelty Neolithic coffee-table prior to that. You know, I think there might actually be a Far Side cartoon to that effect out there somewhere...Comment
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I know it's now widely regarded as the Worst Thing That Ever Happened, but I still get a small thrill when I get a handful of Euro coins in change at the baker's and notice that one of them's from somewhere like Latvia.Comment
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Like Latvia, or Latvia itself?Comment
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Latvia or its ilk.
Or elk. That'll do as well.Comment
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