What have you seen developed, delivered and redundant in your lifetime ?

[Bry Nylon]

Sunroofs in cars.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Jimmy Saville
Rolf Harris
doctor Foxx

Good riddance to the lot of them.

 

[beorhthelm]

a lot of shouts for DVD which surprises me when ive brought several in the past months.

Annoyingly yes, they are. I asked HMRC to email me some information for a client recently and they said "we can't email it but we can fax it to you". After asking if it was 1995 I set up a fax to email account and gave them the number.

i believe they persist with it as it has tamperproof timestamps. many digitial alternatives dont, or are complex.

 

[scooter1]

Mini Disc. For those who don't know, they were to be the greatest digital recording device ever. I put most of my vinyl collection, around 5000 7" singles, onto mini disc. Year later we had MP3 and then itunes.http://www.minidisc.org/images/sony_mdsje330.jpg

I've still got one, and still use it but not often

 

[LlcoolJ]

I haven't owned a DVD player for years, I don't understand the point of them anymore. But each to their own.

As far as the fax thing goes though, nonsense.

Virtually every tax form is now done online. Information encrypted etc. It actually works quite well.

HMRC have things totally backwards as they want to stop people sending them anything on paper but refuse to communicate via email. And then take six months to reply to letters. And don't have enough staff to answer the phone. And if they do answer it's some phone monkey rather than someone who knows what they're talking about. Who tells you to send a fax.

 

[Tarpon]

5 1/4 inch floppy disks

Repeat: Someone's already said Knob.


Edit: this gag is a repeat too. Arse

 

[Binney on acid]

Hovercraft
&
Gus Poyet's managerial career.

 

[LlcoolJ]

Self-Assessment Tax Returns.

?

Unless you're falling for Gideon's bullshit of course.

 

[Pavilionaire]

?

Unless you're falling for Gideon's bullshit of course.

HMRC are already developing the infrastructure for DIgital Tax Accounts, the closure of 170 tax offices and creation of 13 super hubs is another step. It's the beginning of the end.

 

[Bladders]

 

[Bladders]

..........as well as lots of other cars

 

[LlcoolJ]

HMRC are already developing the infrastructure for DIgital Tax Accounts, the closure of 170 tax offices and creation of 13 super hubs is another step. It's the beginning of the end.

Have you any idea what those sound bites actually mean though?

More job losses at HMRC? Yes. The end of the Self Assessment tax return? Not in the next 20 years.

They'll call it something different but if you're self employed you'll still be filling in a return. As will many other people.

 

[Doctor Crawley]

Crawley Town

Born before 1896 then were we?Muppet.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

Rushden & Diamonds FC

 

[Gwylan]

Marco Polo House - it was BSB satellites not the Observer originally I thought?

It was BSB: I remember visiting there just prior to the launch of BSB to interview some big nob there. Definitely not stinted on the fittings - these days I'd recognise that as an indication that a new company was going nowhere but I was young and innocent then

 

[Eeyore]

Sinclair C5.

Although the thread title could have '1985' added and that would still be an appropriate answer.

 

[W.C.]

The space shuttle. I remember the whole school being allowed to watch the early launches because it was something so new and amazing. Now gone.

Re cassettes, they've actually made a big comeback thanks to hipsters. Can't see the same happening with DVDs or CDs somehow but fashion is a strange thing.

Really really don't get the cassette thing. Can you shed any light on it? Is it simply a retro thing? Cos they sound shit.

 

[W.C.]

I remember saving up all my weekend job money to buy a Sony Minidisc and thought I was the dogs bollocks flashing it around at School

They were brilliant though. Superb sound. Still got mine.

 

[pastafarian]

peadophiles working on Top Of The Pops and finger puppets

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Governments that care for workers rights, the less well off and the vulnerable.