1976: Introducing the incredible, cordless 'MOBILE' phone | Blue Peter | Retro Tech | BBC Archive
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- Blue Peter presenters Lesley Judd, Peter Purves and John Noakes demonstrate some exciting new technology with no strings attached - a completely portable telephone. How does it work?
This clip was originally broadcast 14 October, 1976.
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48 years later I'm sat on the bog watching a phone call between Peter Purves and John Noakes on my phone.
Are you done yet?
@@richards9407 Hollywood ending for the win 😀
Me too
Ah yes, the sound of two sailers jumping overboard.
TMI
Hard to believe this was a children's program when you compare it to the modern drivel made for adults.
They did not assume children wanted to hear trivia.
Back in the days when the BBC was building a world renowned reputation for quality - which they've spent most of the last decade widdling away chasing fake balance. "99.9999% of the population think the Earth is a sphere, but, in the interest of balance, let's put a flat earther on and give them equal screentime as a scientist..." etc.
@@michaelcottle6270 🤔?
@@barryhercules6486 everyone understands the point he is making.
@@happydavid13 you, him or any other commenter doesn't mean "everyone".
When I first started driving in 1973, I found an old phone and kept it in my car. When I would roll up on my friends on the corner. I’d fake taking on the phone. Everybody would collapse in hysterics because it was hilarious that someone would have a phone in their car.
Arlo Guthrie, the folk singer, did a song in the early 70s about having phones everywhere...bedroom, living room, bathroom, kitchen...even in his car. It was a joke back then.
The sad thing Is that in the 80s there was companies that actually sold fake car phones so people could fake looking rich and important while stuck in traffic, because only the rich had proper car phones.
If only they could see 25-50 years into the future.....
Lucky Cycling 🚴 Mikey wasn’t around back then lol
Peter remarking about the parched grass at the end.. worth noting that the legendary summer of 1976 had only JUST ended at the time of transmission. It lasted over 5 months that year
and the media didnt have to warn us it was hot or tell us we would be better off staying inside
Absolutely incredible device. I can't wait to get one for myself.
Can anyone recommend a device that will enable me to send text over the airwaves?
@@davidspear9790 have you tried a pigeon?
@@mitzikolo I hadn't thought of that. Can you recommend somewhere I can get one?
@@davidspear9790 - Trust me boys these new fangled device won’t fly. I’ll stick to my trusty dials on my wall.
It looks useless….😂
I thought this was a program for adults! It's so sophisticated and doesn't insult the viewer's intelligence. No frills and to the point. How far we've fallen.
As a child who watched this programme I understood completely the information they were passing to us. Today I watch so many programmes for adults and children and wonder where it all went wrong.
Cheer up lads!
Yeh,,it is scary. I never watched TV and now I have to... Since I look after my bedridden Dad and he watches TV a lot. It is so painful! The adverts are idiotic and so many programmes are unbelievably stupid and I am like "maybe we do deserve a third world war"?! So painful.
@@caroline4323 I said much the same to my wife just two nights ago the WWIII part... were almost becoming zombified by media and devices.
@@thagreatadante
I think the "divorced from reality" situation we are in was well portrayed in "Don´t Look Up!". Also "Good Night and Good Luck" film comes to mind. The speech at the beginning th-cam.com/video/NbAb7Ek8z5Y/w-d-xo.html...
It seems we are not improving that much as species :(...
I can't wait for technology like this to become mainstream. Imagine the possibilities. A phone that you can carry with you everywhere you go.
Yeaaaaa and the flares comes with it as a bonus
Seems a bit posh, having a phone on you at all times. It will never catch on.
Don't get your hopes up. It'll probably just be a fad...
And you can be tracked everywhere as well - AMAZING!
It will absolutely not happen. This is just futuristic nonsense they copy from those dreadful movies the youngsters enjoy at the theater.
I could just listen to these three talk about anything, all day...
5:45 "People like business men, or Farmers or Doctors"
... or anyone wanting to share pictures of their breakfast.
They never saw that coming.
😂😂😂😂😂
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Or their "personal effects"
I think they would also have a hard time imagining that a mobile phone wouldn't just be for making calls, but would instead be a handheld computer, camera, color tv screen, music player, compass, navigation device, etc etc. And that it would be far more powerful than even the most advanced super computer available worldwide at the time. It's mind blowing when you think about it.
@@MacXpert74 Well, the design of the flip phone was based on the Star Trek communicator. And Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was about a book sized device that contained all of the information, no matter how trivial , about the whole Galaxy.
But it is cool to think about, that we are living in a "Sci-Fi" time when these "magic devices from the future" are real and we can play them. It's a shame they are destroying society, but hey - Pretty Sci-Fi right?
I was fortunate enough to be on Blue Peter twice as a young boy in 1974 and 1975 with this exact line up of presenters (and animals). I can tell you they were absolutely brilliant with a very awstruck and nervous 7 year old and gave me an amazing time in the studios. They were totally genuine and treated us kids as VIPS (even though we were only on for a minte or two).
I also got a chance to watch Brian Cant film Play Away in another studio.
did you get a badge each time?
Play Away was epic as well
Envious!
You didn't get the whiff of cigar smoke and jangling jewellery did you 😵💫
@@simongood3 OMG Noooooo!
I can’t believe how compact and easy to use it is. Will they be in the shops for Christmas?
😆 🤣😂
I miss the 70s so much ✌️🙏🙃
As a child of the 1990s even i found this archive footage amazing. Tomorrow's world eh ..who remembers thats program
Oh, I remember "Tomorrow's world", when the main presenter was WW2 Spitfire pilot Raymond Baxter, along with the brilliant James Burke.
I loved Tomorrow's World I remember hearing about the information super highway that became the internet. Couldn't quite get my head around it at the time and now I use it everyday. I used it today to stream a TV program and a film. Never imagined it would become such a big part of everyday life.
Loved that show
even in the 90 that technologies looked old , there was cell phone in the 90 that fit in the pocket
@@johnsmith-yj2cn But this wasn't the 1990s. This episode of Blue Peter aired in 1976.
What a great invention. I wonder if it will ever catch on !
Why would anyone need one? Just pop into a telephone box if you need to make a call.
@@rogermacarthur5044 I think you will find they were for urinating in.
Wish it hadn't to be fair, nobody has anytime for anyone these days!
I think it's a bit too big & cumbersome to ever take off!!
Nah, Too crazy.
I'd forgotten all about this until I saw this clip! I remember watching this as a child during its original broadcast and wanting the phone so badly that I listed it as my only wish from Santa that Christmas.
Wonderful story !
Did you get it?
I loved blue peter as a child in the 1970s. Such simpler times
simpler and better imo.
much bettter times,someone has already said on here ,people were credited with more intellect and common sense
Compared to what passes for a kids educational TV show today, this is like being in a University class! It's great. Those were the BBC glory days.
This is fabulous stuff. Also great to see that the presenters are being informative and straight talking in an adult and entertaining fashion to their young audience. No "talking down" to the kids, despite the age range of the typical viewers. What has happened to TV in the last couple of decades?
Phew. I'm glad technology advanced to a stage where we don't have to carry those girly handbags around with the phone. It might have led to social and sexual problems for many.
Apart from a few programmes TV during the last four decades has gradually turned from Memorable to Muck!
be interested to know where this was broadcast in looks like a copy of the Australian Curiosity Show
You're right. The 21st century corporate media have developed a real contempt for their audience that's not grounded in reality. They think that their customers are idiots so they program accordingly.
Liberalism.
These 3 are so slick. This item was as good as Tomorrows World. Really enjoyed this
It's so nice to see dogs on the screen that aren't these alert working "show" dogs. It's very chill. An unexpected elegance that I wish we could have every now and again.
During lockdown, dogs and cats were all over home-casts everywhere.
im sure shep could actually do a bit of work
Watch this in 2022 on a mobile phone 😉
@@sovietonion72 it looks like late 70s very early 80s
@ANGRY BATMAN Really? Didn't think it was that long ago 🤔 I thought maybe 1979, thanks for the info.
@@sovietonion72 -Try reading the video description for the answer.
I watched it on my TV streaming through the cell network...
British kids show’s in the 1970’s….significantly more sophisticated than anything for adults on Netflix
But, but what about Bridgerton?
@@johnmcgahern3946 woke historically inaccurate tripe.
That totally depends on what look for on Netflix you know…
@@croonyerzoonyer so is stargate, but that's not the point of either of the two shows.
@@ghostmall2421 yeah, I think they just didn't tailor it much for kids. It's probably the right way, but on the other hand kids might become bored. Their version of this segment for adults wouldn't have been different.
I can remember watching this when it was first shown and couldn't believe this would ever happen
First used a mobile phone in about 1988, but it was rented not owned. A Vodafone.
Back in the day it really was incredible. Love vintage videos like that 👍
i like how they call it an invention. i feel like things dont get called inventions anymore
that's because nothing gets invented anymore. All we get are incremental improvements on technology that was invented 50 years ago
@@thesteelrodent1796 i hate to break it to you but the the things invented 50 years ago were just updates on things from 60 years ago
@@xAlexZifko h'es not talking about that, he's saying things dont get called inventions anymore, despite it being true or not
I don't see many inventors around either like I used to.
@@samanmudannayaka9604 There are tons, especially in software.
Done in the days when the bbc treated children like intelligent beings, indeed they also treated adults like intelligent beings
yes then they let Jimmy Saville run wild 😲
Blue Peter has always treated kids the same, if you think it has changed then you've been watching something else.
... Back when adults behaved in real life like intelligent beings
@@trueriver1950 very true, river
indeed, except for saville in the top of the pops room with the teen girls, not very genteel at all.
Absolutely fantastic! Blue Peter was a wonderful television programme.
You'll notice that Lesley mentions car phones at one point--they had existed for decades, but the early ones were quite different since they didn't use cellular technology. Instead, there would be one tall tower servicing the entire calling area, and making a call required the phone to draw quite a lot of power from the car's electrical system. To do better, there needed to be smaller transmitters arranged in cells, and the trickiest thing about the cells was actually the circuitry required to automatically hand a phone off from one to another as it moved around--by the early 1970s, the technology to do that was just becoming available. This segment aired just about a year after the first hand-held cell-phone call ever made.
Car phones are actually very old technology and date back to the 1950s or so. Bear in mind that military vehicles were fitted with radios even during World War II and it's not that far-fetched.
Mind you those early car phones were a) crap and b) billionaire expensive. Most normal people would just use a roadside phone box.
I was just 3 years old when this was originally broadcast.
Who could have imagined that 40 years later we would have smart phones that are phones, cameras, barometers, GPS locators, music players, video cameras, media players, internet browsers, email, text & so on.
Don't forget *shopping centers, stocks exchange, business meetings, health advisors* 😁👍
'Barometers'? I'm amazed that came third on your list when listing the functions of a smartphone... 😆
@@ajbonmg I ❤️ that it came third on the list! I have a barometer that's over 90yrs old, and likely not accurate (no calibration other than checking against another barometer) but never thought to try my phone as a barometer.
And that we would complain like our lives were coming to an end when just one of those features stopped working for 2 minutes
@@Mike-me3sp which two are yours?
Mine for sure would be video player and internet browser.
John Noakes and Shep, both absolute legends to those of us who grew up in the 1970s.
GETDOWNSHEP !!!!
You forgot Jimmy SaVILE!
Go with noakes was pure gold. Cheers
Oh man you guys are all taking me back!!!♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ THOSE WERE THE DAYS.....
Technology may be infinitely better now (illustrated by how I'm using my smartphone now to both watch and comment on the content instantly), but the HUMAN output was SO much better quality then!!!😔😔😔😔😔
I found the flares and the glimpse back in time to a rainy day in England in 1974 more interesting
It explained where the name “mobile phone “ came from . Thank you Blue Peter
and the Germans call it "Handy" 5:44 😄
I am watching this on my mobile phone😁. It's amazing how far tech has come.
Same, and I didn’t even realise before I read your comment 🙈
Come on, watching on your phones? Phones do not have cathode ray tubes! You cannot watch stuff on a telephone, you can only transmit and receive sound.
Yeah. I'm watching in on my laptop. Imagine having a computer at home. A small one, that you can carry around with you. And that you can even afford! (Mine was EUR 180, it's a pre-owned Thinkpad that does what it should.)
I love the fact it had a rotating dial and was still completely analogue lol
Just watched a video with an old woman born in the 1860s interviewed around the same time. Weird to think that she lived alongside the invention of the cell-phone.
WOW great idea for that era (1974). I was a little child (infant) and so never watched BP till my teens in the 80s
Effortlessly professional presentation from Peter, John and Lesley - I could listen to them all day..and all this technology we take for granted today - are we really better people for it? I would trade it all for those more genteel times in a heartbeat.
We are getting old, mate it's crazy
When racism was popular and beating your wife was a "domestic" and if it wasn't too dangerous, the police saw it as your private business.
No autocue either.
Sure, let's trade in the technology like the Cochlear Implant for a better time where beating a wife, homophobia and racism were rife. Yeah mate, nah. What an inane comment.
iPhones, texting, twitters, electric cars, climate change, diversity, etc. I’m sick of the lot. Get me back to the 60/70s.
If you used those flared trousers as antennae, the phone could pick up signals from Mars.
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I still think they look better than men today in skinny fit half mast jeans with underpants showing, saggy arse, pumps and white socks!
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Or make a phone call to the clangers. 😃
Lol 👻😂
My grandma used to have one of the early mobile phones (and actually a car telephone) since it enabled her employer (a car hire) to do business on Sundays and holidays and during the evening hours without actually having someone on location. She used to work a lot of those shifts and therefore got one to always be available.
I'm watching this on my cell phone. It's amazing how times change!
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I remember John Noakes, and how upset he was when Shep passed away.
Crikey I remember watching this back in 74 , I never missed blue Peter It was a good show back then .
I only remember as far back as the early 2000s (I was born in the late 90s) and I never used to find the show fascinating lol
@@qk1050 it had gone downhill by the late 80s
Show was always good but became very boring for kids. It became a time filler for the BBC.
was before my time. I was an infant and not suitable for my mental age back then
It was late 1976..
Question: when the first cellphones came up how did they make calls without the transmission towers??
I remember watching this episode and being absolutely amazed by it
Nice kind decent presenters who had class and were of an age you could respect
They were probably child abusers, as was the culture at the time.
@@baldieman64 I was thinking it...
@@baldieman64 I didn't think they even made childrens TV anymore, not like the old days anyway.
@@baldieman64 angry old dinosaur alert. You got old and the world has left you behind, where you belong. Get over it.
The flares and the platforms, love them.
Yep, they too come with the phone
Not good fashion in the rain though! Thank God for athleisure.
There’s something about this that just feels really sweet
The good old days of Blue Peter,
Love this program when I was a kid...Good Times....😉
I remember watching this on TV at the time.It was cutting edge technology at the time.It’s amazing how fast things change.
Hope you were not hurt by the cutting edge technology
I would exactly call 45 years of technology development "fast". Cell phones were a regular affordable thing less than 20 years after this video
Yes I remember this, all seemed so futuristic and Star Trekky. Also don't forget, phone boxes (pay phones) were everywhere in those days for those that didn't have a phone at home.
Not so long ago either! I clearly remember still using payphones about 22 years ago, before I got my first mobile. (Well it doesn't seem like so long ago to me!!)
Imagine walking down the hood with a ‘shoulder bag’ cordless phone next to your pocket. ☎️👜
Thank you to the time traveler who runs this channel for a wonderful glimpse into the distant past.
We’ve had mobile phones for decades here in the USA. I’m glad England is finally being introduced
I bet it has great 'right to repair' support too!
@@cujoedaman they control our minds, send help…
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At last we are getting mobile phones. Been a long time coming
They'll never catch on. Bloody ridiculous idea.
I love how this bleeding edge modern mobile phone has a rotary-dial XD
Yup, that's because it was just using the same old analogue technology except sending the pulses as a radio signal rather than down a physical cable like a wired phone would.
True digital just wasn't there yet.
It WAS bleeding edge.
In the 70's you don't need to wear a tie, because your shirt is already a tie
And now I used my mobile phone to watch the very show broadcasting them marvelling at the older and similar brother of today phone.
Looks amazing, I'm going to order one of these new fangled telephones. I will look really cool
Actually, by hipster metrics, you probably will look cool.
It also comes with no customer service support lol
Back when TV shows for kids weren't either patronizingly silly and or just trying to sell toys.
or trying to sell you feminist or lgbtq indoctrination..
Patronisingly. ;)
@@lilacfloyd 'Two countries divided by a common language.' Oscar Wilde or George Bernard Shaw, no-one seems to be quite certain which great man of letters originated the quote, or even the precise wording. But Americans spell 'ize' endings with a ''z', the British with either 's' or 'z' and Canadians only with an 's' just to give their schoolteachers something to be pedantic and anti-American aboot, eh.
@@Ballinalower I was just being patronis(z)ing. ;)
Great to see this stuff it was all ways around it took the Japanese to make the chips small enough and to hold the memory. That was the break through. I was working in the bush and a boss had a mobile you carried in a brief case 1987 blew my mind. Here I am typing on mobile while watching videos and doing my banking and shopping while laying in my bed amazing!!!!
Aaaaand, now you are all tracked! Marvelous!
I can just remember the early 80's when not everyone even had a landline (usually a trimphone in the hallway). Passing a message on consisted of ringing a relative or next-door neighbour.
In 1974, a phone you could take anywhere with you must have seemed incredible.
O aye ours on the farm had a button on top .exchange call. To obtain dial tone first. As was on a shared party line. . Could not dial of the island .had to use operator to call liverpool.
@@cherryred1732 I think everybody had a party line. Incredible you had to wait for your neighbour to finish their call so you could could make yours!
Well into the late 70s and 80s by no means did everyone have a phone where they lived. It seems a miracle how one kept in touch with people and arranged or rather didn't to meet, you just went to the pub and they might be there.
There was always the post or actually going round to their gaff on the chance they may be in.
@@63mckenzie well yes alot of people in them days had a.party line. It was half the normal rent. . Which suited me owl fella on the farm. . Ofcourse if it was genuinely urgent .like we needed to call Davies the vet . Then they would hang up and let us go ahead. People seems to.be more tolerant them days . Some times wish we could hi back to then.
O aye . I wanted a trim phone . But me owl fella on the farm would not let me. . They had the phone put In farm in the 1930's and was original instrument right up until 1991 when me owl fella got his wooden over coat.
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What technology is that!? 😯 😂
Absolutely ground breaking technology back in the day.
I used to love watching Blue Peter back in the day when I was a child , excellent viewing from our invaluable BBC..😃
This was so wholesome.
Born 3 years after this footage was filmed. Watching this on an iPhone 13. Taking a step back to realize how far we’ve come technology wise.
The telephone in the video was already very much better than iPhone
@@aniciomanliotorquatoseveri2702 But can they play Angry Birds. 😂😂
In a few decades people will laugh when they think of that period of time when everyone was walking around staring at a little box they called a "smartphone".
I'd happily give up the technology I enjoy today to be able to go back to this simpler time.
this video is a wealth of conversation points tangential to its actual topic: the clothes, the style of communication in the context of a children's show, _the name of the show,_ *THE PRESENCE OF VERY GOOD DOGS*
2:56 - "Put up... My aerial....."
Lol. Brilliant.
Oh yeah even in the 90s, children's shows and books were quite mature. I remember the general knowledge sets books and cassette tapes, were quite heavy for childrens but I remember fondly enjoying it
Look at how genuinely excited they are by the tech - funny in a way when you see people these days with their smart phones. Nothing is ever good enough for people now.
People also spoke so well. Something I miss very much. Eloquence.
Oh please do shut up. No one benefits from your complaining about 'kids nowadays' and the apparent barbaric ways in which people speak today. Furthermore, what do you mean that 'nothing is good for people now'? Just because technology that people were excited about in the past are now commonplace does not mean that they are not respected.
To conclude, stop speaking of the present as if it is a degenerate hellhole and look outside once in awhile because your awareness of society is clearly lacking. The youth of roday are much more than what you expect.
I haven't watched the BBC for a number of years, I also live abroad, however, I did tune in recently to watch something (via iplayer) and the continuity announcer was laughably bad, I thought I was being sold apples from an East End market. Many, I know, will proclaim 'but TV must represent the audience!' That's for the programmes to do, the channel would have done a service to society to uphold certain standards, which they have not and now look at society crumbling around us all. So where has your 'diversity' got us all, 'An instrument of education and entertainment' it most certainly is not, just a morass of inconsequential nonsense. So, very, very sad.
The Water in Majorca Don't taste like what it Ought to
Yeah we've been spoilt now. The tech in our hands is bloody impressive. I still find new ways to do all sorts of things on my phone.
I love how the handset has a rotary dialler - it's that old.
Amazing and look at us all now on our phone's watching blue peter
Seeing the Blue Peter dogs again after all those years is the best part of this video ❤️❤️
whats shep up to nowadays ?
@@matspurs1629 On a farm in Shaftsburry
@@CancellerPalpatine Fertiliser cool
struck me too !
It only took 25 years from here to the first 'proper' 2G mobiles - that you could put in your pocket!
How does it work? Magic!
Only 25 years!? That’s a long time.
that took a long time!! i bet these technologies were suppressed thats why it took to long to reach the masses!!
they had phones you could put in your pocket in the mid 90s. It was the StarTAC first flip phone that could fit in your pocket. My dad had one as a government official.
@@miamitten1123 it's really not.
Digging compost in trouser flares sounds marvellous.
Amazing footage! Thank you!
That call went through faster than any call I've ever made on my 5G phone in 2022!
AND calls can be made in the countryside.. better that any O2/Vodaphone coverage today!
yeah because the whole network had 2 mobile subscribers :))
OMG...Are these out yet??? Science never stops amazing me with all of the new technology .
Oh my goodness, this is so innovative, I can't wait to buy one of those.
lady said this will be particularly good for busy people who don't have a standard phone particularly Businessmen and farmers
Petra and Shep. Wonderful!
I absolutely love the professionalism of these people. These shows were so so so good. Now it's all nonsense and stupidity.
The sound of the dialing wheel was relaxing and calming.
I remember this episode and being amazed. We didn't even have a house phone.
A phone that comes in its own luggage, brilliant!
I really hope this technology catches on it would be soo cool in 30 years time to be able to call one another anywhere any time.
I really hope it doesn't catch on, I think it will ruin everybody's' lives..... oh, too late!
It got bad when we started getting social media even though I was born in 2000 it's already changed people's lives for the worse
@@EuanWhitehead Well look, the fact that you know that, as a kid ;-), it means there's hope for you & perhaps everyone else. You could choose not to be on it (if you are), I'm only on YT, nowhere else. Yes, I didn't grow up with it like you, but we all have to try to make good choices & maybe this is your chance to make some great decisions & perhaps you might inspire others to not bother with SM either.
@@thebadtemperedbrit You be suprised about the age range of people using such platforms in fact. I find it superficial and bad for my health lol, many of my friends have said the same thing. It won't last forever I don't think hopefully 😆
@@EuanWhitehead Oh no, I know all ages use SM, some because they just want to & maybe others because their families get them into it, & perhaps it's sometimes the easiest way for Grandma to talk to her grandchildren ;-). The difference for most older people (if that's the age range to which you're) is that because they didn't grow up with it & older attitudes seem to be hardier & less fragile than the young, they're less likely to succumb to the pitfalls of SM. Anyway, you & your friends sound like you've your heads screwed on, so if you know it's bad, there's hope for the future!
This was quality TV. Where the heck have we come now 😫
Unbelievable!!! How do they do it??? Magic! )))
It's 2022 and I am still waiting for this device to become available on the market
Where do you live , North Korea ?
"but who would want to go out into the rain to make a phone call" "This device has no future". This retro is hilarious; complete with bell bottoms.
Bell bottoms is a 60s term.
They were flares and flared from higher up.
John's are closer to bell bottoms as they flare from the knee but the flare is bigger and come right down to the shoes.
They got soaked in bad weather.
If you buy one you receive Doctor Who Tardis 😃
@@julianshepherd2038 caught in the bike chain
This was pure magic in it's day
Absolute madlads
I was 22 that year. I still think two bean cans and a string is pretty high tech.
Which year was is please
@@TCM215 1974 I think.
@@TCM215 1974
You ever talk with old WW1 vets? Considering the fact you were 22 in 1974
@@td370 I was so lucky with that. My weekend job when I was 15 was in a hospital ward full of WW1 veterans. Most of them were suffering from gas exposure in the War which had become more debilitating for them in old age. So many stories and they were so kind and generous to a crass teenager whi was not much younger than they were when they were in the trenches. One of them told me he lied about his age to sign up. I asked if he was too young and he replied, " No Boy ! I was TOO OLD!". So he was over 40 in 1914. Several of them showed me their medals when they saw I was genuinely interested, but all of them said all the real heroes were dead. Years later I found the older guy had lost 2 brothers in WW1 and 2 sons in WW2.
Irony is they get better mobile reception in the 1970's than I get today in London, living in sight of the BT tower :(
When mobile phones started up they were allowed to stick their gear on BBC transmitter stations, for a modest fee, as they had all the best sites and coverage of the entire country even the last crofter had to be able to get the radio as its in the BBC charter. I worked in the transmitter building section in the 80s when they still owned all the stations in the UK and did all engineering in house. They also built stations all over the world to relay the World Service.
31sec they yellow tonka dump truck, I'm 46 and still have mine and its still like new. Loved playing with that thing
This is amazing. I can't wait to get one.
I tell my nephew about what it was like before all the technology we have today existed and he looks at me as if it was the dark ages! Imagine the world without instant access to the internet. Aaarggg!!
I loved Blue Peter when I was a kid. Far better than Magpie.
Magpie was an amateurish version of Blue Peter especially tuned for the lower classes.
@@DessieTots I WAS the lower classes but Blue Peter was my favourite show
Infinitely better.
So wholesome :)
Extraordinary. Absolutely Extraordinary.