Life before Cellphones.

[Mo1959]

and another thing about 'smart' phones... I have two and both have a calculator, but neither allows me to add or subtract a percentage.

Just tried my iPhone. It does.

 

[Gwylan]

and another thing about 'smart' phones... I have two and both have a calculator, but neither allows me to add or subtract a percentage.

Use the parentheses, brackets.

 

[MontyVeda]

Use the parentheses, brackets.

phone number one doesn't have those on the calculator. Not sure where phone number two is.

edit... found it. it does have brackets but they don't seem to work as a % calculation, it just opens a multiply in brackets. eg. 100+20x(...

 

[Alex321]

and another thing about 'smart' phones... I have two and both have a calculator, but neither allows me to add or subtract a percentage.

Mine does - I use the calculator in the (free) Army Knife for Android app, which contains several other sub-apps.

Just checked the built in calculator app (Samsung Galaxy S22 running Android 13, OneUI 5.1) and that also allows it.

 

[Gwylan]

phone number one doesn't have those on the calculator. Not sure where phone number two is.

edit... found it. it does have brackets but they don't seem to work as a % calculation, it just opens a multiply in brackets. eg. 100+20x(...

What do you want to do?

 

[MontyVeda]

What do you want to do?

nothing really. I have a proper calculator with a % button.
It was just an observation that my 'smart' phones don't have that very basic function.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

And when someone told me last week that the internet hadn't reached Yorkshire yet I thought they were joking. 🤣

Never mind Internet, tarmac hasn’t reached Yorkshire yet.

 

[tyred]

I never had to hear other people's taste in entertainment or listen ti their very irritating loud conversations on public transport before mobile phones.

It wasn't unusual for people to carry small AM/FM radios to listen to, or even great big ones

 

[Drago]

Never mind Internet, tarmac hasn’t reached Yorkshire yet.

Eeee lad, they don't need t'tarmac with all t'roads cobbled with loaves of stale Hovis.

 

[BoldonLad]

A lot of people on here wearing rose tinted glasses, I was brought up in the 1950's, Polio was common, my mate had a gammy leg due to it, and he wasn't the only one, the childhood illnesses were common, whooping cough, chicken pox, measles, mumps etc, no central heating for most of us, a coal fire in one room was not uncommon, as were outside toilets and no bathrooms, and overcrowded living conditions were common. No for all our faults and problems I wouldn't want to go back.

+1

 

[Drago]

Whereas life in 2023 is rosy. Everything from high crime rates, homelessness, people choosing between heating and eating, migrants drowning at sea to name just a random few is a huge improvement over the 1950s. (No intention to wander into politics, just listing a few unpleasant things from the modern reality.)

Life wasn't worse then or better now. It's just the unfairness and injustice has been displaced into other areas of society and life. For every polio sufferer then there's an HIV patient today. Your life or my life may be better, but there are no shortage of folk in 2023 getting poked with the sheety end of the stick instead.

 

[AndyRM]

At the danger of getting into political talk...

Is this thread for real?

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Whereas life in 2023 is rosy. Everything from high crime rates, homelessness, people choosing between heating and eating, migrants drowning at sea to name just a random few is a huge improvement over the 1950s. (No intention to wander into politics, just listing a few unpleasant things from the modern reality.)

Life wasn't worse then or better now. It's just the unfairness and injustice has been displaced into other areas of society and life. For every polio sufferer then there's an HIV patient today. Your life or my life may be better, but there are no shortage of folk in 2023 getting poked with the sheety end of the stick instead.

I don't think it matters where or when you look, every era has its bad as well as its good, for all our troubles today we're better of today than we were in the 1950's.

 

[MichaelW2]

Before mobile telephones we had:
Books
Calculators
Ghetto blasters and Walkmans
35mm cameras and Polaroids for special occasions.
Cider
Hedge Pron
Paper maps and compass
Conkers, marbles.
Gestetner copiers and newsletters.
Public telephone boxes with handy contact cards.

 

[Smokin Joe]

and another thing about 'smart' phones... I have two and both have a calculator, but neither allows me to add or subtract a percentage.

You can download a better one in 30 seconds.