Things (not storylines) that haven't aged well

[cymbaline]

Inspired by the "storylines that haven't aged well", here are some things that you never see or hear of nowadays

• The burger phone on the counter in the diner. Other landlines are available but the burger phone is the quintessential Home and Away phone.
• Fax machines. I love the episode where Alf and Michael buy fax machines. Then Sam sends an abusive fax to Alf.
• Walkmans and ghetto blasters. My favourite one has got to be the giant box Sophie brought downstairs to Pippa and Michael, blaring Tracey's confession on a C-60.
• Storylines where characters can't contact each other. How did we organise anything before cell phones came along?
• Characters going to Alf's shop to hire a video. 
• The ancient battered cars. We constantly heard that money was tight in Summer Bay and it makes sense that not everyone would have new cars. But honestly, many of the cars look like they were retrieved from a 1950s scrapyard and are barely roadworthy. 

[project90]

I think we could probably of merge the 2 things together. 

[nenehcherry2]

Not necessarily something that didn't age well as such but anyone else notice that Bobby and Greg were the first characters to have a CD rack (from circa 93)? I noticed that as a 6 year old and never forgot it (most probably because we didn't get a CD player for about another 5 years!).

[Bobby Forever Missed]

5 minutes ago, nenehcherry2 said:

Not necessarily something that didn't age well as such but anyone else notice that Bobby and Greg were the first characters to have a CD rack (from circa 93)? I noticed that as a 6 year old and never forgot it (most probably because we didn't get a CD player for about another 5 years!).

I did, everyone else was still on cassettes as late as 1995

[nenehcherry2]

According to Billboard, 1995 was THE year that CD single sales overtook cassette single sales in Australia (albums slightly earlier)

 

Don't forget, the teens lived with scroungers who relied on "spare cash" from DOCS

[Bobby Forever Missed]

1 minute ago, nenehcherry2 said:

According to Billboard, 1995 was THE year that CD single sales overtook cassette single sales in Australia (albums slightly earlier)

 

Don't forget, the teens lived with scroungers who relied on "spare cash" from DOCS

I don’t think anyone ever used a vinyl record in the 1988-91 episodes now you bring this up it was always cassettes 

[nenehcherry2]

Not sure when it happened in Aus but, singles wise, cassette overtook vinyl in 89 in the UK (US was a year or so earlier). With albums, it was 87. Teens/20somethings led the trend in all instances. So makes sense. 

[Bobby Forever Missed]

6 minutes ago, nenehcherry2 said:

Not sure when it happened in Aus but, singles wise, cassette overtook vinyl in 89 in the UK (US was a year or so earlier). With albums, it was 87. Teens/20somethings led the trend in all instances. So makes sense. 

True but even the likes of Pippa and Tom were fully on cassettes in 1988, I don’t know about your parents but mine were never early adopters of tech lol

[nenehcherry2]

3 minutes ago, Bobby Forever Missed said:

True but even the likes of Pippa and Tom were fully on cassettes in 1988, I don’t know about your parents but mine were never early adopters of tech lol

Tom and VanPip were supposed to be "down with the kids". Kinda like Bobby and Greg being the "funky young couple" a few years later (or not!). Debra's Pip, on the other hand, seemed to be based upon an Edwardian Mary Poppins.

No CD player in our house until 97. On the later side! 

[Bobby Forever Missed]

4 minutes ago, nenehcherry2 said:

 

No CD player in our house until 97. On the later side! 

Us too haha my oldest sister (born 1984) was the first one to get a CD player lol