Technology and reminiscing

[Asgardian]

Why does anyone waste money on the SA rag??????

Got me beat, we have the internet, Port's site, Bigfooty & overseas papers, I'm kept well informed ...


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[SilenceOz]

Why does anyone waste money on the SA rag??????

Got me beat, we have the internet, Port's site, Bigfooty & overseas papers, I'm kept well informed ...

I know BF has a fair share of 40+ posters on here, not meaning to offend any but I always believed its due to the 40 and overs that know you can get all this for free but are stubborn or willfully ignorant that things change over time and don't want to adapt.

So they stick to their news papers and there home phones [is there even a reason for a home phone anymore if both adult occupants and any children over 13 all have mobile phones?]

 

[Asgardian]

I know BF has a fair share of 40+ posters on here, not meaning to offend any but I always believed its due to the 40 and overs that know you can get all this for free but are stubborn or willfully ignorant that things change over time and don't want to adapt.

So they stick to their news papers and there home phones [is there even a reason for a home phone anymore if both adult occupants and any children over 13 all have mobile phones?]

Well I'm 55 years old, but I don't have a mobile, tablet, ipad, ipod, laptop or anything else, just got the desktop computer, home phone & wife, what more do I need? ...

 

[Powerstufff]

I know BF has a fair share of 40+ posters on here, not meaning to offend any but I always believed its due to the 40 and overs that know you can get all this for free but are stubborn or willfully ignorant that things change over time and don't want to adapt.

So they stick to their news papers and there home phones [is there even a reason for a home phone anymore if both adult occupants and any children over 13 all have mobile phones?]

As a 40+ poster I can say newspapers filled a different role in a pre-internet culture. There was a social glue aspect to them. Jobs were advertised there (and nowhere else). Births, deaths and marriages were advertised there and people read that section. Film reviews, politics etc were done superficially on radio or TV but in depth in the papers. Wanted to go to the pictures? The paper was the only place to see what was on, and where and when. All housing, cars, second-hand goods etc were notified in the paper.
Personally I've adapted about 10 years ago and no longer buy a paper but that's more because the Advertiser has gone so far downhill. But I must say I was shocked when our first grandchild was born just over a year ago and her parents had no idea about notifying of her birth in the paper, that really drummed in the generational change for me. They let us put the ad in for them but the idea was quaint to them, to say the least.
As for the home phone I can't see the issue. Connected to an answering machine it's still more useful to me than my mobile as far as phone calls go. Never any reception issues. The mobile is for texting or when I'm out.

 

[Vic_Vinegar]

Well I'm 55 years old, but I don't have a mobile, tablet, ipad, ipod, laptop or anything else, just got the desktop computer, home phone & wife, what more do I need? ...

This was me up until a few years ago. Sometimes wish it still was, except for the iPad so I can post here.

 

[I Dont Care]

Well I'm 55 years old, but I don't have a mobile, tablet, ipad, ipod, laptop or anything else, just got the desktop computer, home phone & wife, what more do I need? ...

Do you have a ...pen?

 

[Asgardian]

Do you have a ...pen?

The pen is mightier ....................... yes

 

[Janey]

I know BF has a fair share of 40+ posters on here, not meaning to offend any but I always believed its due to the 40 and overs that know you can get all this for free but are stubborn or willfully ignorant that things change over time and don't want to adapt.

So they stick to their news papers and there home phones [is there even a reason for a home phone anymore if both adult occupants and any children over 13 all have mobile phones?]

I'm 40+ and I'm offended

Anytime I can use technology to make life easier, bill-paying, banking, finding places while I'm out etc. I'll make the most of it.

 

[I Dont Care]

As a 40+ poster I can say newspapers filled a different role in a pre-internet culture. There was a social glue aspect to them. Jobs were advertised there (and nowhere else). Births, deaths and marriages were advertised there and people read that section. Film reviews, politics etc were done superficially on radio or TV but in depth in the papers. Wanted to go to the pictures? The paper was the only place to see what was on, and where and when. All housing, cars, second-hand goods etc were notified in the paper.
Personally I've adapted about 10 years ago and no longer buy a paper but that's more because the Advertiser has gone so far downhill. But I must say I was shocked when our first grandchild was born just over a year ago and her parents had no idea about notifying of her birth in the paper, that really drummed in the generational change for me. They let us put the ad in for them but the idea was quaint to them, to say the least.
As for the home phone I can't see the issue. Connected to an answering machine it's still more useful to me than my mobile as far as phone calls go. Never any reception issues. The mobile is for texting or when I'm out.

When I was young growing up in Adelaide, the old man would bring home The News Last edition...remember they had 2 editions, CityState and Last?. After he finished reading it with his coffee, I would grab it, go straight to the sport section at the back and then to the comics to see what Ginger Meggs, or Hagar were up to that day. The Sunday Mail...once you got past the Le Cornu's section...was megacomics and sport. The Advertiser, I bought early in the morning on the way to work, which I started once school got rid of me, was awkward to read on the bus because of it's size. Once I got my licence, the classifieds in The News, Sunday Mail and Advertiser were compulsory reading...do people even advertise their cars in papers today?

 

[Powerstufff]

When I was young growing up in Adelaide, the old man would bring home The News Last edition...remember they had 2 editions, CityState and Last?. After he finished reading it with his coffee, I would grab it, go straight to the sport section at the back and then to the comics to see what Ginger Meggs, or Hagar were up to that day ....

Ah the News. Had a paper strip glued around it and I'd be in trouble if I tore the paper getting it off. Andy Capp on the back page. Dick Tracey and Modesty Blaise in the comics, very sophisticated. But was Hagar ever in the News? Thought he was only ever in the Advertiser. Remember the 'Stop Press' area in the News? Probably always seemed more dramatic than it was.

...... do people even advertise their cars in papers today?

Yes but I suggest it's only a fraction of online advertising. And I guess there are print versions of the Trading Post etc.

 

[Killer Power]

I know BF has a fair share of 40+ posters on here, not meaning to offend any but I always believed its due to the 40 and overs that know you can get all this for free but are stubborn or willfully ignorant that things change over time and don't want to adapt.

So they stick to their news papers and there home phones [is there even a reason for a home phone anymore if both adult occupants and any children over 13 all have mobile phones?]

Hmmm, nice generalisation. im over 40. Dont even have a home phone. Cant remember the last time i bought a newspaper. Do have a smart phone and tablet though. Get all my news online.

 

[Duck Farmer]

Well I'm 55 years old, but I don't have a mobile, tablet, ipad, ipod, laptop or anything else, just got the desktop computer, home phone & wife, what more do I need? ...

I'm 40+ and have a mobile (work and personal), tablet (ipad), ipod, laptop, desktop, home phone, and wife. If it wasn't for the cloud, I'd be f**ked keeping it all in sync. What are these newspaper things people speak of?

 

[SilenceOz]

Hmmm, nice generalisation. im over 40. Dont even have a home phone. Cant remember the last time i bought a newspaper. Do have a smart phone and tablet though. Get all my news online.

Did I say all of them? no.

 

[RonSon]

And I guess there are print versions of the Trading Post etc.

I thought it went online only years ago?



Quick google later...

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/aus...goes-online-only/story-e6frgamx-1225781478636

 

[BrockBlitz]

Well I'm 55 years old, but I don't have a mobile, tablet, ipad, ipod, laptop or anything else, just got the desktop computer, home phone & wife, what more do I need? ...

Beers and a membership....

 

[I Dont Care]

Ah the News. Had a paper strip glued around it and I'd be in trouble if I tore the paper getting it off. Andy Capp on the back page. Dick Tracey and Modesty Blaise in the comics, very sophisticated. But was Hagar ever in the News? Thought he was only ever in the Advertiser. Remember the 'Stop Press' area in the News? Probably always seemed more dramatic than it was.
Yes but I suggest it's only a fraction of online advertising. And I guess there are print versions of the Trading Post etc.

Maybe hagar was just in the Sunday Mail? We never got the Advertiser growing up so I didn't know their comics. I remember Tiger, Bluey and one I think was the Major? Modesty Blaise..I remember that but didn't read it

 

[Asgardian]

Beers and a membership....

Goes without saying

 

[Lockhart Road]

Well I'm 55 years old, but I don't have a mobile, tablet, ipad, ipod, laptop or anything else, just got the desktop computer, home phone & wife, what more do I need? ...

Well... reading SilenceOz you need to cry out "Sorry!" for being among the demographic who, because of our advancing years, are responsible for the appalling longevity of the Advertiser.
I'd suggest the problem is not so much the existence of such an outdated form of media but the quality of what is published in it.
And it's not irrelevant, in my opinion, to point out that the 'professionals' who do the publishing, the editing, the reporting, the research (if any) rely rather a lot on such get-it-done-quick-no-time-to-check paraphernalia as mobile phones, social media, ipads, tablets et al.

 

[Powerstufff]

I thought it (Trading Post) went online only years ago? ...

Sorry I was unclear, I meant (but didn't say) that having gone online I guess the Trading Post still does print versions. Up until the 80s (from memory) everything not advertised on TV or radio was advertised in newspapers. From the 80s on there was an interim stage of specialised papers selling real estate, or cars, or general foods, or any combination of these. Bad timing for a good idea as the internet now owns that idea.

 

[Asgardian]

Well... reading SilenceOz you need to cry out "Sorry!" for being among the demographic who, because of our advancing years, are responsible for the appalling longevity of the Advertiser.

Newspapers at 10 paces???????????



I always bought the Adelaide News, the late edition, never spent a cent on the Advertiser

 

[Lockhart Road]

Newspapers at 10 paces???????????



I always bought the Adelaide News, the late edition, never spent a cent on the Advertiser

That's no excuse. You are 55 years of age and that's that.

 

[Powerstufff]

Maybe hagar was just in the Sunday Mail? We never got the Advertiser growing up so I didn't know their comics. I remember Tiger, Bluey and one I think was the Major? Modesty Blaise..I remember that but didn't read it

Bluey and Curly, Wally and the Major. Geez that tested both my youthful memory and my late middle aged memory. Tiger doesn't ring a bell. You are no doubt right with Hagar being in Sunday Mail, and there's paper that went down faster than One Australia*.

* Younger posters head down to the State Library and research this reference using the subject cards and microfiche ... well it's what we would have had to do once.

 

[yepits2020]

Well I'm 55 years old, but I don't have a mobile, tablet, ipad, ipod, laptop or anything else, just got the desktop computer, home phone & wife, what more do I need? ...

How recent do you mean by "just got". Home phones have been around a while?

 

[SilenceOz]

Well... reading SilenceOz you need to cry out "Sorry!" for being among the demographic who, because of our advancing years, are responsible for the appalling longevity of the Advertiser.

Could you seem more offended. I didn't say that all 40 and overs are the cause of the Advertiser and Adelaide now and news Australia's ongoing mediocrity.

THAT is Adelaide now level of misquouting.

 

[SilenceOz]

the subject cards and microfiche

Sure.. Right after I google whatever those two things are.