If you grew up in the 70's / 80's you will get this and it may even bring a smile to your face, it brought smiles to my face.

ha ! ha! tc it sure does the days of three tv stations  also in the summer the picture was crap on beeb two 

You remember it well then deliverance, what fun we had. I wish things would be that simple and innocent again.

the seventies and eighties were just a blip in time, but out of the whole of eternity we lived that moment, how fortunate.

great mems their tc4

what is tele-texting - never heard of that term b4 - of course, don't have a smart phone yet either, so Nothing happen's via the internet unless using a desktop or laptop here

priceless...thanks for posting....heck remember the powercuts in the 70's

not a single one i didnt get there, and i was born in 83!

nnnnnineteen was possibly the smartest reference ive ever heard too!

nice find

I did remember things but as that little movie is based upon the UK it was somewhat different here but just as good!

Mmmm, time to invent a timemachine!

Teletext was a text based service you can get with your TV, so you can look up TV listings / some news etc. Below is a sample of what it looked like.

Ceefax was only switched of late last year.

Surely you wouldn't see this if there was a power cut?

You have to get up pppppppretty early in the morning to catch me out

shops closed on sundays..i remember that and it was like living in a ghost town

I remember that and I think that was good also January sales were actually in January.

I love it when I goto Munich and the shops are closed on Sundays, brings back the old times for me. When my friend comes over to England from Munich, she loves the fact that the shops are open on a Sunday.

Talking of time machines walkgirl,
How's the repairs going on your golf?

Well, I do not know much about cars and their technical bits!

but the mechanic tod me, and he knows because he was a vw mechanic for over 40 years!!

The shoks need replacing!, plus all the mathching gummy's or how you call them in English , plus the gummy's from the rear axle plus the front brakes!!

He also told me the gummy's what are on the car now are still the factory ones!

so thay are 29 years and +- 400.000 km old

what i miss most about the 80s is the way the women looked, big hair and big t**s to match it's hard to tell what a real woman is these days, think their a dying breed

Oh yes, I found an 1988 newspaper on the atic!, when the car is ready I will put the newspaper on the rear hat board!!, so peopels passing by will see that and think  

I remember i used to eat this healthy

snack-candy back in the 80s !!!

2 maybe 3 of them all in my mouth !

Talking about sparkling !!

Great post btw

i was quite surprised the first time i went in a 24 hr shop in London years ago,now they are everywhere,it used to be the all night garage on the way home from a club in those days

If you guys like the above clip, then you must check out this 3-part documentary that was on from BBC a while back called Electric Dreams (not the film).

Basically they took a family and put them in the 70’s then 80’s then 90’s, they can only use the tech from that era. It will bring back memories for most of you.

If you like to see them below are links to them on Youtube in the correct other, each program is about an hour long.

1970's

1980's

1990's

I remember it well, now most things are Open All Hours remember that program too.

great links TC,just watched half an hour of the seventies one,the parents in it must be from outer space they are that flumuxed by all the vintage tech..how old are they?

loving the cortina we had ours stolen in town my dad was only out of the car two minutes...

Watch the rest if you can, great documentary.

Nice one TC, always like a bit of retro.

Time-tunnel on Heart FM (London) this morning was 1985... loved every damn song  

& that Electric Dreams show was required viewing for me.

Somewhere in that YouTube clip is a Teletext screenshot of the Top 40 (pop charts) from Dec 16 1980. Would you just look at it: almost every song a corker. 

I remember so well, living & breathing the Top 40 singles. Nearly every week brought new & exciting music. Hell, it's why I wanted needed a boombox.

Music was everything, everything.

Smash Hits magazine was utterly compulsory (see http://likepunkneverhappened.blogspot.co.uk/), as was a walkman tucked in your bag at school.

IMHO, the Top 40 today is a woeful shadow of it's former years. 

I guess kids have so much more vying for their attention &also  it's just possible that at 43 years old, I'm too old to be in tune with alot of today's popular music.

Possibly...   

love that !

Well, I watched the electric dreams 1980s documentary!, and I have to say, those parents are them biggest idiots I have ever seen!, at first the television!, that idiot acted as he never seen a normal tv before , that panthead maybe is not aware that flat tv's are about for most peopelst afford  like 4 or 5 years!!, and the years before that and even before he was born just plain tube tv's where the norm!!

And then his reaction to the sony tps-l2!, what a fool!! , it is probably the best sounding portable he ever held in his bony hands ,(except for those cheap headphones the 'vintage specialists' provided )

And even about the stereo stack, like he never did see one before!!, I think he is about 40 to 45 years of age?, where did he hide all those years?, under the local rock?

and a whole lot of poop is that mother and daughter!!, Ooooh a new polaroid!, the daughter puls the picture from the camera and starts to wave it for it to develop!, a kid that age never in a 100 years could have know that!!

as kool as those 80s documentaries are, I still think it is a load of poop!

Post of the year....you crack me up sometimes lass

speaking of smash hits i bought this hardback book brand new in the shop about 7 year ago, it pays homage to all the smash hits mags and goes right through the 80's years. it's a great book with loads of interesting pics and great reads inside 

here's a pic..........

they should do an 1880s version give them something to really moan about

Just watched the 1970’s Electric Dreams again, when Adam went into work and had to work on a Commodore Pet. Wow I learned to program on a Commodore Pet. Wow simple pleasures.

 Hey Lav Loo wow looking at the Smash Hits, all those artist of years gone by the ones I like on the cover are Adam Ant and  Wham!. Did any one notice the name Neil Tennant (of Pet Shop Boys) at the bottom of the page?

Neil Tennant worked as an editor for Smash Hits before the PSBs. It was thru working for Smash hits that he got started with PSBs.

Here's the page from Smash Hits in 1982 where Neil Tennant interviews Marc Almond from Soft Cell:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/51106326@N00/7375566190/in/set-72157630135590496/

(paste into browser address bar - link doesn't work properly)

i remember the typing in of games that took for hours to do,and also loading them from cassette only for them to crash,it was an atari 800xl and the cassette deck was awful

FREEZE! MIAMI VICE!!!

here's a few more pics from the book, check out all the state of the art 80s electronics and the huge wham poster that came with it, and before anyone asks no i did'nt buy it for the poster lol just the nostalgia, anyway here's some pics......

trying not to go off track here does anyone have any idea if this bit of vinyl is worth anything? no i'm not a brossette lol, although i must admit they made a few catchy tracks i found it in a box of vinyl i bought at a bootsale years back.

just curious because it's a 1989 wembley souvenir, probably not worth owt but still worth keeping i reckon

no offence lav but it would make a good frisby

i just looked this up on discogs!  oh my god! the milky bars are on you, look how much its worth!

http://www.discogs.com/sell/li...id=1159441&ev=rb

i guess its because its super rare.  you lucky git!

ha ha ya not kiddin, thowt i would see how much it was worth 1st thow Andy

am i right in thinking that was 7 quid lol?

Although I'm not a Brit, I just happen to came across this odd British movie from the 70's... You can skip to around 2:35 after the poster had explained about this movie.

75p-£4!  you can buy milky bars, plural, with that.   imagine if you were the guy who could only buy 1 milky bar.  i wouldnt want to be him.

i'm quids in then ye, thowt not

It’s been raining most of the day here in the south of England, so stayed in and watch those Electric Dreams documentary very very interesting. Also for the boys or those who enjoyed computers and programming in the 80, I watched Micro Men which is really telling the story of British computer industry in the 80’s.

The battle between Sinclair and Acorn, Acorn is still going now and the are better known as ARM. You now have ARM chips in most mobile phones, portable hand held games , TV’s etc

Micro Men on YouTube    

thanks for that clip, fond memories of some stuff I hadn't though about in years could'nt cope with 3 or 4 TV channels and no internet though!

I can cope with no TV, in fact I have not had a TV in my flat for the last 11+ years. I mainly listen to music, but I am just off to the cinema now.

oh yes, another interesting documentairy for my leasure time. Thnx!

Glad there is somebody sain among us....ain't watched tv for at least 15 years now....who want's news (always bad) adds and repeats

Ha ha, five tv's in this house LOL!

haha....yea i have tv si.....but no Arial plugged in......it's just for my computer