I guess many members here remember the 1970s and maybe the 1960s or even earlier. While trying to answer a question my wife asked about when TV started and became popular in the UK I found this site https://www.retrowow.co.uk/ If you go to the 1980s there is some quite interesting stuff about the first mobile phones, together with loads of articles I found interesting about changes in house and furniture design etc in the 1970s, along with 1960s Sports cars etc. It is very biased towards the UK but people in other countries might find it interesting to read what we were doing here in those decades,
As a teenager growing up in the Sixties this Retrowow site has brought back many fond memories ( Mini- Skirts, sexual freedom , The Beatles /Stones/Bob Dylan the Byrds ) and some not so fond memories ( keg beers especially Double Diamond and the hangover from them the next day ) Thanks for sending the site details
Thanks for posting Longman. In the early 2000's the internet was so promising with the ability to build free websites. Back then there was a bunch of sites with cool collectibles and they were growing everyday, remember "rings" where you would hit the next button at the bottom and another similar site would open? These sites have really disappeared and new ones don't seem to be opening up very frequently.
If you like that kind of site have a look at: http://www.twiglet.com/ That site has many personal connections for me, as although I never knew the author, he did a very similar apprenticeship to myself at the same company in Bristol. Consequently I did know many of the people and places he mentions. During my time in the Space department where he ended up I built a piece of test equipment for this project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(spacecraft) and spent many hours "soak testing" the Nascom computer that controlled all the test year by playing the game "Star Trek". I first came across the site after Googling "Romeo and Juliet's" nightclub, which I used to visit fairly often in the 1980s.
