[Misc] How did we do without ?

[Weststander]

The telephone.

 

[father_and_son]

The telephone.

Home Phones will be the ultimate 'WTF' in the future.
Nobody had one, then for a very short period everyone had one, now no one has them again. Can't have been much more than a 25year window in history when they were used.

 

[vegster]

Home Phones will be the ultimate 'WTF' in the future.
Nobody had one, then for a very short period everyone had one, now no one has them again. Can't have been much more than a 25year window in history when they were used.

Er ? the telephone was patented in 1876, although expensive for many early on, I think it was quite commonplace for 100 years or so.

 

[studio150]

Comfortable chairs

 

[Questions]

Er ? the telephone was patented in 1876, although expensive for many early on, I think it was quite commonplace for 100 years or so.

We got our first phone around 74I think...

 

[vegster]

We got our first phone around 74I think...

Always remember having one in my house from my earliest memories..... 1965 ish.

 

[father_and_son]

Er ? the telephone was patented in 1876, although expensive for many early on, I think it was quite commonplace for 100 years or so.

Stats are from the US, but give some worldwide view...

By 1948, the 30 millionth phone was connected in the United States; by the 1960s, there were more than 80 million phone hookups in the U.S. and 160 million in the world; by 1980, there were more than 175 million telephone subscriber lines in the U.S. In 1993, the first digital cellular network went online in Orlando, Florida; by 1995 there were 25 million cellular phone subscribers, and that number exploded at the turn of the century

They weren't in average homes until late 60s/early 70s and then rapidly replaced by mobiles between early 90s and 2000. Phones will have been in public places for a while but were unusual in all but the most grand domestic homes for nearly 100 years.

 

[Fungus]

Every other toilet?? Up north we make do with just the one.

You have seats up there?

 

[Questions]

Always remember having one in my house from my earliest memories..... 1965 ish.

Yeah well the middle classes

 

[vegster]

Stats are from the US, but give some worldwide view...

By 1948, the 30 millionth phone was connected in the United States; by the 1960s, there were more than 80 million phone hookups in the U.S. and 160 million in the world; by 1980, there were more than 175 million telephone subscriber lines in the U.S. In 1993, the first digital cellular network went online in Orlando, Florida; by 1995 there were 25 million cellular phone subscribers, and that number exploded at the turn of the century

They weren't in average homes until late 60s/early 70s and then rapidly replaced by mobiles between early 90s and 2000. Phones will have been in public places for a while but were unusual in all but the most grand domestic homes for nearly 100 years.

I'll get me coat then ?

 

[Sussexscots]

Varifocals

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I always wondered what the smell was emitting from number 76!!

 

[papajaff]

Wet wipes for yer arris. Can't have a muddy arse these days.

 

[drew]

Stats are from the US, but give some worldwide view...

By 1948, the 30 millionth phone was connected in the United States; by the 1960s, there were more than 80 million phone hookups in the U.S. and 160 million in the world; by 1980, there were more than 17 million telephone subscriber lines in the U.S. In 1993, the first digital cellular network went online in Orlando, Florida; by 1995 there were 25 million cellular phone subscribers, and that number exploded at the turn of the century

They weren't in average homes until late 60s/early 70s and then rapidly replaced by mobiles between early 90s and 2000. Phones will have been in public places for a while but were unusual in all but the most grand domestic homes for nearly 100 years.

Landlines weren't replaced by mobiles in the 90s and 2000s. People didn't get a mobile and chuck out the landline. I would even suggest that most people have a landline phone still although the numbers are diminishing.

 

[drew]

The wheel.

Important component of so many indispensable things, the pizza cutter for example.

 

[el punal]

Flasks . . . . have I got that right?

 

[BN9 BHA]

Wet wipes for yer arris. Can't have a muddy arse these days.

Good for blocking drains

 

[dazzer6666]

We got our first phone around 74I think...

81 for us, when my old man went self employed and needed to be able to have people call him. Until then it was the old red phone box up the road.

 

[Bodian]

Mobile phones whilst shopping. I just cannot believe that we used to make do with a list and a working knowledge of the supermarket layout or indeed the ability to ask someone where something is. To phone someone miles away, preferably on speakerphone so everyone can hear how clever you are, is just a brilliant innovation.

Haven't got one yet. Still surviving!

 

[METALMICKY]

Good for blocking drains

Only two at a time and you'll be fine.