Two-Way Family Favourites
This radio programme is why British people taste the tang of Yorkshire puddings when they hear Doris Day. And sometimes vice versa.
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Phone numbers you had to remember
Nowadays, we have subcontracted out the memorising of numbers to our devices, not our brains. You used to have to know someone’s number to be able to dial it, or look it up in a phone directory or the soon-to-be extinct Yellow Pages.
Opt in to win!
Today’s the end of the opt-in-to-win strategy. How many emails have you culled from your inbox?
The Internet over your phone
Of course you have the Internet on your phone. (Well, you probably do. Although sales of dumb phones are on the rise, so maybe you don’t.) When we first had the Internet, we didn’t have the IEEE 802.11b Direct Sequence specification (for which Wi-Fi is the cute trademark) paradise we have today. Wi-fi is the…
Non-aspirational birthday cards
Birthday cards for girels once conveyed very different messages than they do today. (Even if the colours haven’t changed much.)
Friends Reunited
Once, it was everywhere. Then, it was gone. What happened to Friends Reunited? Did it run out of friends?
Rejection slips
In the days when you submitted stuff to magazines by post, the article would either get published or be returned to you with a little printed slip.
