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Previously on "Unfeasibly old films and stuff"
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You mean he went to the moon without even a wheelie suitcase? J*sus ****.Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post1969 neil Armstrong walks on the moon
1970 - wheels on suitcases invented
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1997 - SY01 met SY02Originally posted by suityou01 View PostCouple of gaps in major world events there EO. FTFY.
2002 - SY01 marries SY02
2004 - SY03 born
2007 - SY04 born
2009 - SY05 born
2012 - SY06 born
I thought you worked in IT
never knew you were a precision grinder
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Couple of gaps in major world events there EO. FTFY.Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post1960 - Spartacus
1968 - 2001 a space odyssey
1969 neil Armstrong walks on the moon
1970 - wheels on suitcases invented
1977 - Star wars iv
1977 - close encounters
1977 - Suity born
1978 - spreadsheets invented
1979 - Alien
1979 - mobile phones invented
1981 - MS DOS invented
1982 - ZX Spectrum invented
1986 - Challenger shuttle disaster
1987 - Michael Fish gets it wrong and it got windy
1990 - web invented
1990 - Madonna's cones
1992 - Black Wednesday
1997 - SY01 met SY02
2002 - SY01 marries SY02
2004 - SY03 born
2007 - SY04 born
2009 - SY05 born
2012 - SY06 born
anyone here born after all that ?

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I was born after all but the first 2...Originally posted by Bunk View PostI was born after all but the last 2. Still feel like an
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Mobile phones were pioneered in the USA by bell Telephone Laboratories, After a trial in Chicago in 1979, the first public service opened in 1983.Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostI don't remember any mobile phones in 1979 - They must have been the size of tea chests!
Or did you have to lug around a large backpack with a dish, like a mobile version of Jodrell Bank?
in 83 it was a car phone + car battery, you carried it round and developed muscles.
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I don't remember any mobile phones in 1979 - They must have been the size of tea chests!Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post1960 - Spartacus
1968 - 2001 a space odyssey
1969 neil Armstrong walks on the moon
1970 - wheels on suitcases invented
1977 - Star wars iv
1977 - close encounters
1978 - spreadsheets invented
1979 - Alien
1979 - mobile phones invented
1981 - MS DOS invented
1990 - web invented
anyone here born after all that ?

Or did you have to lug around a large backpack with a dish, like a mobile version of Jodrell Bank?
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Snap - I am still on ver 1.0Originally posted by TestMangler View PostI pre-date everything except Spartacus !!
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I remember being dragged to the TV to see Armstrong walk on the moon. Pleased I did now.
I was 3 months old when JFK was shot.
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