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Crimson Dynamo
11-07-2018, 11:54 AM
When the last England semi was



e-Mail (Corporate and Personal) – we talked more or wrote letters to people.
Internet/Google – we used encyclopedias or went to the library.
Mobile phones – we used phone boxes or land lines.
Facebook/Twitter/Linkedin – we met people in person.
e-Bay/Amazon/Marketplaces – we went to jumble sales, had garage sales or held on to it!
MP3 music/i-Pods – we bought vinyl or tape cassettes.
i-Pads/e-readers -we read paper books.
Youtube – we watched wrestling on World of Sport.
Wireless networks – we accessed computer networks at the office, not at home or out and about.
LCD displays/Plasma Televisions – we used huge clunky CRT’s and TV’s needed a full corner of a room.
DVD’s – we used video.
CD’s, CD players in cars – we listened to vinyl LP’s or the radio/cassette in cars. I didn’t get a CD player in my car until around 1996 from memory.
Sky TV – we only had BBC1, BBC2, ITV, Channel 4 and later Channel 5.
Dab Radio – we listened to conventional radio, often on Longwave.
PVR (Personal Video Recorders like Sky+) – we set times on video recorders.
SatNav – we used maps in atlases.
Skype – we used a normal phone.
Blogs – we kept secret diaries.
Digital Cameras – we used film and didn’t see the pictures until they were developed after a week or so.
Texting – seriously, we didn’t have text then. We talked.


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Donald Trump in 1990 with unknown fan

Denver
11-07-2018, 12:00 PM
Sky TV came out in 1990

Crimson Dynamo
11-07-2018, 12:01 PM
Sky TV came out in 1990

and 99.9% of people did not have it

Smithy
11-07-2018, 12:34 PM
Mobile phones have been around since the 70’s

Crimson Dynamo
11-07-2018, 12:38 PM
Mobile phones have been around since the 70’s

its not about when they were necessarily invented. No one had a mobile phone in 1990 save the odd millionaire

computers were invented in the 50s but in 1990 no one had one at home etc

Smithy
11-07-2018, 12:40 PM
Maybe you should change the thread title to: things most of us didn’t have in 1990 :hee:

Ashley.
11-07-2018, 12:44 PM
Thanks

Nicky91
11-07-2018, 12:45 PM
Maybe you should change the thread title to: things most of us didn’t have in 1990 :hee:

exactly :thumbs: that would be a better title for this thread then

Crimson Dynamo
11-07-2018, 12:46 PM
Maybe you should change the thread title to: things most of us didn’t have in 1990 :hee:

no

Crimson Dynamo
11-07-2018, 12:47 PM
exactly :thumbs: that would be a better title for this thread then

:facepalm:

MTVN
11-07-2018, 12:53 PM
CDs were around in the 80s

Crimson Dynamo
11-07-2018, 01:00 PM
CDs were around in the 80s

You will go to your room in a minute

:fist:

Nicky91
11-07-2018, 01:02 PM
You will go to your room in a minute

:fist:

are you his dad then? :facepalm:



:fan:

Crimson Dynamo
11-07-2018, 01:04 PM
Nicky give up and go and dust the beagle shrine

Shaun
11-07-2018, 01:10 PM
Croatia didn't exist in 1990.

bots
11-07-2018, 01:12 PM
I had a CD player in the 80's, and Sky, which i also had was also around in the 80's. It merged with British Satellite Broadcasting in 1990 .... the squarial ...:fist:

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Livia
11-07-2018, 01:26 PM
Tits. I didn't have them in 1990.

Nicky91
11-07-2018, 01:28 PM
I had a CD player in the 80's, and Sky, which i also had was also around in the 80's. It merged with British Satellite Broadcasting in 1990 .... the squariel ...:fist:

not LT giving us the wrong information then D:

RileyH
11-07-2018, 02:36 PM
21. RileyH

Greg!
11-07-2018, 02:40 PM
The unnecessary use of commas and dashes in the OP are giving me the fear.

Mystic Mock
11-07-2018, 03:00 PM
No Sonic The Hedgehog.

Strictly Jake
11-07-2018, 03:21 PM
In all fairness it wasnt just in 1990 we didnt have these things in my house we were so behind with the times. My mum and dad still are to be fair, its only when i left home i got things like a good phone, ipad, sky and wifi, a tv thst wasnt a massive box, etc. Suppose it depends on how much money you had as to when you caught up with the times and as soon as we did there had been like 5 upgrades of everything

Crimson Dynamo
11-07-2018, 03:38 PM
It's like a, list of things Nicky isn't allowed after 6pm

:fan:

Maru
11-07-2018, 03:58 PM
I remember satellite in early 90's, but maybe not 1990... I was only 5 :laugh:

Crimson Dynamo
11-07-2018, 04:02 PM
I remember satellite in early 90's, but maybe not 1990... I was only 5 :laugh:

Me too

Mystic Mock
12-07-2018, 07:29 PM
Me too

You were 5 in 1990?:hehe: