Name one thing from your childhood

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Is this item still relevant today ? MOM stashed everything in there , from stationary to spare batteries and pot stands .
My sister currently owns our one.

@ARYANTO What do you mean by "relevant"? This would be out of place in a modern home, but I daresay it would still be useful!

 

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[CJB85]

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IBM green and black screen - DOS only, command lines. Played half pipe, surfing and Gorilla

I remember half pipe!
The fancy kids had "California Games"!

 

[Rob Fisher]

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I remember half pipe!
The fancy kids had "California Games"!

I LOVED that game!

 

[RainstormZA]

I LOVED that game!

So I take it that you were one of those fancy kids ;P

I also had several Nintendo consoles and lots of game cartridges too

 

[Rob Fisher]

So I take it that you were one of those fancy kids ;P

I also had several Nintendo consoles and lots of game cartridges too

I wasn't a kid at the time the game was out... I was working with a salary!

 

[CJB85]

I wasn't a kid at the time the game was out... I was working with a salary!

Hahaha, the Candy Crush of the 90's then?

 

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Chappies bubblegum turns 70
https://www.capetownetc.com/news/chappies-bubblegum-turns-70
15 Oct. 2019

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"...Chappies was created in the late 1940’s by Arthur Ginsburg at the Chapelat factory in the small Johannesburg suburb of Troyeville.

His idea of including lists of ‘Did You Know?’ facts on the inside of each gum’s waxed paper wrapper turned the great-tasting, two-for-a-penny gum into a cultural phenomenon. The questions were sourced from popular Springbok Radio quiz show ‘The Three Wise Men’, starring Eric Rosenthal, Arthur Blexley and Dennis Glauber.

The company later approached academics from WITS University for more lists of questions, with between 5 000 and 6 000 ‘Did You Know?’ facts generated in those early years – a significant pool of knowledge in the pre-Internet era!
Chappies was so popular that it quickly became the country’s unofficial currency – few South Africans won’t have had the experience of being told to ‘take Chappies’ in lieu of a penny or half-penny’s change on making a purchase at a corner café or spaza, at some point in their childhood."

 

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Now that's interesting! I didn't know where the questions came from!

Who remembers The Three Wise Men? I used to love that programme!

And as for Chappies being currency, my currency now is juice! It's paid for quite a few things in my life already. It's a strong currency too - much stronger than the Rand!

 

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My stomach would tie up in knots waiting for the postman to deliver my report card! Are postmen still around anywhere?

 

[ARYANTO]

Who dialed 1026 to listen to the lady saying
''wanneer u die sein hoor is dit tien twee en twintig en tien sekondes... beeep
when you hear the signal it is ...''

 

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Who dialed 1026 to listen to the lady saying
''wanneer u die sein hoor is dit tien twee en twintig en tien sekondes... beeep
when you hear the signal it is ...''

@ARYANTO and I've just dialled it now to see if it still works, which it does! I wonder who uses it nowadays though?

 

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@ARYANTO and I've just dialled it now to see if it still works, which it does! I wonder who uses it nowadays though?

Haha! I actually used it last Friday to check if my mums adsl/line splitter was causing interference.

 

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Haha! I actually used it last Friday to check if my mums adsl/line splitter was causing interference.

@Asterix How would checking the time help?

 

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And what about 1023 to get a phone number? When last did anyone use that?

 

[Asterix]

@Asterix How would checking the time help?

Needed an active voice line (it was clear with a dial tone but not on a call) to see if the splitter was the cause of interference while the adsl modem was active. Cheaper to call 1026 then call my cellphone. End result, replaced splitter/filter.

If that hadn’t worked, would then have had to get Telkom to do a line check. And dealing with Telkom is not good for my blood pressure!

 

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Apologies for the poor image. I wonder why they stopped making this? I used to love it!

 

[ARYANTO]

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Apologies for the poor image. I wonder why they stopped making this? I used to love it!

Yis , I miss those a lot , nothing comes close now.

 

[ARYANTO]

We had one on the farm , after every turn it would go ''tieng''

,the ''fat free''milk went to the farmhands and the cream in these,

went to the station to be transported on the railway bus.

 

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We had one on the farm , after every turn it would go ''tieng''

,the ''fat free''milk went to the farmhands and the cream in these,

went to the station to be transported on the railway bus.

@ARYANTO Growing up on a farm must be such an enriching experience, although you wouldn't have realised it at the time.

I compare your knowledge with mine. You really know where milk and cream comes from. So far as I'm concerned, they come from the supermarket now, but in my childhood from the dairy.

 

[Hein]

Eho can remember these....lol

 

[Hein]

Melk man se kind.....lol

 

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Melk man se kind.....lolView attachment 181600

Now that brings back memories @Hein!

 

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