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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Photocopiers. Like, we have photocopiers now. They were revolutionary. Don't start me on what life was like before them.

Hot water services - no more stuffing the 10 gallon chip heater with briquette fragments and wood chips before doing the washing up or taking a bath or washing hair. And stuffing it again if you ran out of hot water.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

just reading this made me flash back to the smell of mimeograph ink.

mmm. purple.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I thought that might have just been me! Purple definitely has a distinct smell.