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02 Jul 2015, 6:57 am

You could also include etiquette, that was pretty much mandatory, back-in-the-day, and other things.....

Carbon Copies (Carbon paper, as well as the copies it produced.)










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02 Jul 2015, 8:21 am

Typewriter, non-electric in particular.



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02 Jul 2015, 9:41 am

Rotary-dial telephones.












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02 Jul 2015, 9:52 am

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02 Jul 2015, 9:53 am

That fleeting schoolboy high that only a freshly mimeographed handout can provide. :D



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02 Jul 2015, 10:43 am

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02 Jul 2015, 10:56 am

I don't know if they're "material" per say, but lot of old and/or obscure cartoons from the 1930's-50's are lost on today's generation. One time I watched Popeye vs. Sinbad on YouTube, which I saw on video and was one of my favorite Popeye cartoons as a kid, and people were comparing Popeye to Luffy or whatever that anime pirate guy's name is. Are you kidding me?! :roll:

Thanks to Toonpedia, I'm able to learn about cartoon characters that are both famous and not so famous. :)



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02 Jul 2015, 12:01 pm

Marky9 wrote:
That fleeting schoolboy high that only a freshly mimeographed handout can provide. :D

HA! I remember that smell! There was actually something quite "nice" about it----it signified that it was NEW----that you were the FIRST one, to get that paper. I actually, kind-of, miss it, to-this-day----the other day, I, seemingly, habitually, smelled a paper, and wondered why it didn't smell (which was silly, cuz I KNOW why it didn't LOL).







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02 Jul 2015, 12:39 pm

Gibbs Dentifrice Tooth Powder from the 70s, then someone discovered it removed the enamel from users' teeth. :mrgreen:


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02 Jul 2015, 12:49 pm

Discrete Electronic Components
Mimeograph Copiers
Ozalid Photocopiers
Pickett Slide Rules
Telegraph Keys
Thermionic Valves
Wire-Wrapping tools



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02 Jul 2015, 1:21 pm

TV antennas----either on the roof, or on the set, itself (i.e. "rabbit ears", that would only "bring-in" Ed Sullivan if your sister was standing on her head, and your brother was holding her foot, and the antenna, at-the-same-time, and facing north! LOL).










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02 Jul 2015, 3:25 pm

Movie Projectors (school, or the theatre) - where the film would sometimes break, and you'd have to wait for the projectionist to splice it back together.











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02 Jul 2015, 5:54 pm

5 1/4" floppy drives. :D



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02 Jul 2015, 6:42 pm

audio cassettes.


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02 Jul 2015, 6:50 pm

The Radio Shack TRS-80 used cassette tapes for storage.
The DEC PDP-11 used 8 inch floppy drives.

Wind up clocks!



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02 Jul 2015, 6:57 pm

TVs that to change channel or volume, you had to walk over to the TV and turn knob.

Black and white TVs. I remember when color TVs came out.


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