Things from your childhood that would baffle younger people of today

Anybody notice that we girls are talking about Sindy dolls and Ladybird books and you guys are talking about floppy discs and de-coder thingys? Somebody call the gender police!

Got it in one.
Whereas for me, it was Babycham in those cool little glasses with the glace cherry and the little green swordy things..
And in the 80s, green genie cocktails and as many vodka and limes as I could get my hands on..

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Except that back in the day women were at the forefront of CompSci... Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper

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I’ve deleted. If you want to take the quote out

* a newly employed teacher could afford a house

But if she was female only if her father would stand guarantor for the mortgage.

That was illegal from 1975.

But not when there were 240d to the £ as you posted

Glue sniffing. I believe it was less popular amongst teenagers in the 1990s than it was in the 70s and 80s when it really was mainstream, but it is almost completely dead nowadays.

I wouldn't be surprised if a fair few men over 50 years old sniff glue because they tend to participate in hobbys that use glue such as model making.

Glue sniffing. I believe it was less popular amongst teenagers in the 1990s than it was in the 70s and 80s when it really was mainstream, but it is almost completely dead nowadays.

I wouldn't be surprised if a fair few men over 50 years old sniff glue because they tend to participate in hobbys that use glue such as model making.

One of my ex boyfriends used to get quite excited about Tippex...

Limewire.