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This is a bit from the back pages of New Scientist, 26-05-2001 which I
thought you might find amusing. It made me chuckle.

God bless,
Kendall K. Down

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Those who feel nostalgic about the way people used to communicate in the
days before IT would have enjoyed a party thrown last week by "Chap"
magazine, a small-circulation London publication which is making a
valiant attempt to get us all to return to the styles and attitudes of
the 1930s.

The party was held aboard a boat on the river Thames and the many
attractions on offer included an Internet chat room. However no
computers were involved. Instead it took the form of a roomful of old-fashioned mechanical typewriters, with a butler standing by to act
as a modem. When you had finished typing your message, you gave it to
the butler who went off to deliver it by hand to the person it was
addressed to.

Oh, for the gold old days!
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On 08/09/2025 17:18, Kendall K. Down wrote:

This is a bit from the back pages of New Scientist, 26-05-2001 which I thought you might find amusing. It made me chuckle.

God bless,
Kendall K. Down

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Those who feel nostalgic about the way people used to communicate in the days before IT would have enjoyed a party thrown last week by "Chap" magazine, a small-circulation London publication which is making a
valiant attempt to get us all to return to the styles and attitudes of
the 1930s.

The party was held aboard a boat on the river Thames and the many attractions on offer included an Internet chat room. However no
computers were involved. Instead it took the form of a roomful of old- fashioned mechanical typewriters, with a butler standing by to act as a modem. When you had finished typing your message, you gave it to the
butler who went off to deliver it by hand to the person it was addressed
to.

Oh, for the gold old days!

:)

In the early 20th century, there were 4 postal deliveries a day. In the
days before widespread telephone usage, this was as close as you could
get to real-time interaction at a distance.



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On 08/09/2025 17:45, GB wrote:

In the early 20th century, there were 4 postal deliveries a day. In the
days before widespread telephone usage, this was as close as you could
get to real-time interaction at a distance.

When I first came to Britain in 1970 there were three deliveries a day
to businesses. Households only got two a day. It was a real shock when
that got reduced to one a day!

And telephones didn't exist. If you wanted one, it was something like
six months from the time you purchased until it was installed, black
bakelite. (Mind you, that was an improvement on India, where it was
between three and five years!) So we were all grateful for the phone box
at the end of the street - just about any street - and I can still
remember pushing a penny in and pressing button A, then pressing button
B when the call was connected and the clunk and rattle as your penny
passed beyond recall.

God bless,
Kendall K. Down
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