I think I received a telegram in the 1990s... I don't remember what it was about. That's maybe the only telegram I ever got. I never sent one.
When was the last time?
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Sometime in the ninties when I learned to touch type.
First on my own computer was 1984 using an Osborne 1 (gray case) using WordStar.
Payphone? Probably the 1990s.
VHS? 2000 +- a few years
Typewriter? Typing class, 1970s High School.
Telegram? Closest is the time I received something like a telegram in the middle of the Indian Ocean, circa 1983, informing me that a grandmother had passed.
Any other tidbits, like when was the last time you used a film camera/had pictures developed?
VHS? 2000 +- a few years
Typewriter? Typing class, 1970s High School.
Telegram? Closest is the time I received something like a telegram in the middle of the Indian Ocean, circa 1983, informing me that a grandmother had passed.
Any other tidbits, like when was the last time you used a film camera/had pictures developed?
That was probably what they used to call a radiogram (assuming you were on a boat in the Indian Ocean rather than swimming in it.)
I have a Canon 35mm film camera. The last time I took pictures with it was more than twenty years ago. I believe it's still possible to get film for it, though.
I also have an early-1950s Kodak Brownie camera that used the old 620 size roll film. That film format hasn't been manufactured since 1995. I only keep the camera because my mother took baby pictures of me with it, so it has a certain sentimental value.
Strangely film cameras were not mentioned in the book. I think the last time I would have had a film developed was when my children were young so probably in the late 1980s.edited to add - my sister still has the Box Brownie we used as teenagers. It was second hand even then so must been from the 1960s or earlier.
Not in the book but I might as well ask - when was the last time you sent a handwritten letter (not a postcard nor Christmas/birthday card)?
I used to write to my sister but I stopped that when she got a computer and I could send her emails which was probably around 2004.
Not in the book but I might as well ask - when was the last time you sent a handwritten letter (not a postcard nor Christmas/birthday card)?
I used to write to my sister but I stopped that when she got a computer and I could send her emails which was probably around 2004.
I've been sending handwritten notes to friends during the lockdown times.
As for telegrams, out of curiosity I recently did a Google search and found that it's still possible to send one, though it's more like a letter that looks like a telegram. Some of these services can transmit to ships at sea via satellite for them to print onboard and deliver to the intended recipient.
Kor
As for telegrams, out of curiosity I recently did a Google search and found that it's still possible to send one, though it's more like a letter that looks like a telegram. Some of these services can transmit to ships at sea via satellite for them to print onboard and deliver to the intended recipient.
Kor
Film camera for me would have been the nineties.
Hand letters, possibly 1993ish, if not before. Last one received was 2012.
Hand letters, possibly 1993ish, if not before. Last one received was 2012.
The last time I used a slide rule: 1978.
I have never used a slide rule.
When I was in high school we used log tables.
When I was in high school we used log tables.
Yes, about the same for. me. The 35mm SLR camera body (from about 1994) is in the same camera case as the digital SLR I bought in 2003. I used the digital one up to the point that my phone's camera had more features and better sensitivity.
I haven't used a film camera since I was in college.
I don't even have any printed photos anymore...I had them all scanned into the computer.
I don't even have any printed photos anymore...I had them all scanned into the computer.
Payphone? Actually somewhat recently, I think 2019 or so.
VCR? 2008
VCR? 2008
Was it a booth? I haven't seen a payphone booth in ages!!
I've seen a few around (UK), but most have gone locally at least.
A couple of the ones near me that remain tend to be pop up libraries instead of phone booths.
Don't they have public "phone" booths now that are basically WiFi hotspots?
I got rid of my VCR and dozens of home recorded wrestling VHS tapes when I moved house last year. Simply didn't have the space here. It took me a really long time to decide to do that.
I used to play with a typewriter which I think came from my dad's work (he owned a printing company) when I was a child. My sisters used to write a fake newspaper on it to amuse me.
I feel nostalgic and sad.
I used to play with a typewriter which I think came from my dad's work (he owned a printing company) when I was a child. My sisters used to write a fake newspaper on it to amuse me.
I feel nostalgic and sad.
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Personally, I wouldn't throw something away unless it's broken or in the case of the tapes unless I have nothing to view it with.
Last time I used a pay phone and by that time no box to go with it I was in my early 20's and dating my husband. I called my folks so they would not worry about an awful wind storm in our area.
We still own many VHS tapes so we watch them every once in a while.
We still own many VHS tapes so we watch them every once in a while.
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