Oh I Feel Old

[mallyh]

they have just released the 100th now that's what I call music, we bought our daughter the first in 1983.

[Arksided]

is that like the empty tins with a bit of string.

[albaqwerty]

strings had to be taut, jeez, the younger generation !
Arky, honestly, if they were slack you got a party line :-D x

[Arksided]

I know listening to the spiders in mid converse.... scary.

[ferlew]

Did anyone else dial T-I-M to get the accurate time?

On the third stroke, it will be...........

[maggiebee]

Sometimes feel old when I can sing along to a song on the radio - word perfect - then the presenter says "can you believe that was first released 50 years ago?"

[albaqwerty]

was that 1 2 3 Ferlew?

oh gawd, ye old bakelite phones and whoever thought 999 for an emergency should hang their heads in shame :-)

[ferlew]

No Alba, whatever the number was, we just went by the letters. It was 123 on BT, but when I was a child I lived in Hull, and they had their own phone system run by the council. (Still have, but run by KC now)

[Mamyalynne]

Wiki

The service was obtained by dialling the letters TIM (846) on a dial telephone, and hence the service was often colloquially referred to as "Tim". However this code was only used in the telephone systems of the cities of London, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester. Other areas initially dialled 952 but with the introduction of Subscriber Trunk Dialling it was changed to 80 and later 8081 as more 'recorded services' were introduced and was standardised to 123 by the early 1990s.

It has a great history doesn't it?

[DarceyK123]

A friend of mine told me she and her twin brother got them for their birthday, they were a double album so one tape each the auntie said. Ha ha!