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AspergianMutantt
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18 Oct 2016, 6:52 pm

This generation takes for granted the Internet,


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23 Oct 2016, 4:24 am

Mobile phones. I remember call boxes and never having the right coins!



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23 Oct 2016, 7:06 am

In relatively affluent countries, water in the home. Anyone remember emergency standpipes? And yes, public call boxes were vital, but those coins you had to feed them!! Plus of course buttons A and B. :lol:



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23 Oct 2016, 10:12 am

microwave ovens.



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26 Oct 2016, 5:28 am

electricity


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26 Oct 2016, 6:11 am

In my youth and childhood not everyone had a fridge.

Or an indoor lavatory.


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26 Oct 2016, 11:27 am

cars.



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27 Oct 2016, 7:42 pm

Radio
Airplanes
modern toilets -v- outhouses
clean hot and cold running water.


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27 Oct 2016, 8:21 pm

television
washing machines
clothes dryers
dishwashers



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27 Oct 2016, 9:23 pm

sandwich presses
apple turnovers
dramatic entrances



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28 Oct 2016, 3:42 am

Light bulb
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28 Oct 2016, 5:58 am

Ready access to porn. I remember the days of having a few vhs tapes and was lucky to have that...

Kids today have no idea how good they have it.