Radio 1 at 50, but can they find it?
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Why oh dear?
Why would they need to know how to turn a radio?
These kind of things annoy me. Trying to make young people look silly because the period they were born in means they are not exposed to dying technologies.
"Ha, look how stupid young people are!"
This also works in reverse as you will have young reporters holding up a music cassette or pointing at a VCR and saying how quaint how did we manage.
Let us not forget what is new today is old tomorrow. Who knows what technology we will be using in the future. Will we be pointing at 55" wall mounted flat TV's or current smart phones and saying how quaint were they in 50/60 years time?
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I still listen to the football on the wireless.
The real funny thing is that the BBC is making a fuss of the radio one anniversary, yet probably don't dare/can't show photos of half the presenters who were on it
The real funny thing is that the BBC is making a fuss of the radio one anniversary, yet probably don't dare/can't show photos of half the presenters who were on it
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Of course we will. But younger generations usually look the old tech and are amazed that we managed to cope with the required level of perceived faffing to use such a device.
You can find benign examples of it all over the place on YouTube.
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I can remmember tuning a black and white TV like a radio. lol
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This. I have always learnt by trial and error and will ignore a manual simply because I find the fun part is exploring what does what.
This is also the reason why my parents infuriate me. Whenever I show them anything technological they insist I turn it off and “start from the beginning”
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I'm still shocked that despite all the great music available, people still choose to listen to some boring, overpaid chuff on the radio.
That's where I get most of my new music recommends from! If not for 6 music in the van then it would be Radio 4 I think, the rest are just utter gash.
Ha, look how stupid young people are!
Give him a slap and send him on his way!
Was tempting. Parents weren't paying any attention to it, I missed my chance
The real question is why would you want to tune in to Radio 1?
Very true!
But that's a clear generation thing.
It isnt just about advances in technology though is it.
Over the last 30-40 years there has been a massive shift in basic technology comprehension.
From most people, to at least some extent, being able to understand how the technology that surrounds them works to it becoming utterly incomprehensible for the vast majority of people.
Ask any teenage Boy (Yes, Boy. It was the 70's and Girls generally were not interested in such things) from the 70's how a TV or radio or motor car (Or space rocket or camera, or x ray machine or, really rather a lot of the technologies on which society depends for its existence) actually worked, and he would probably have been able to have made a pretty good effort at doing so.
Ask any teenager today how their phone or i-pad (Or even the other things I mentioned earlier) works and you will almost certainly be faced with a total blank (Hell, even I only know the modern gadgets actually work to a very limited extent, and I am good at this sort of thing)
We were a generation that grew up with thermionic vales. That you could actually see working and understand how they worked. We were the generation that built crystal sets for fun and knew how they worked. We built electric motors out of cotton reels and knew how they worked.And so on.
People born in the 60's might well sometimes find figuring out how to use the latest smart phone a bit of a bind, but mostly that is because we are simply not interested, Nevertheless Nobody from the 60's or 70's would be April fooled into believing that you could download an app to make your phone waterproof.
We know it is just an electronic gadget, with all the limitations that go with that. For todays youngsters it might as well be magic. There is no comprehension as to how it actually works.
And because of that, there is no real reason to believe that an app might not be able to make a phone waterproof.
Overall. I find this shift in comprehension deeply disturbing. In the space of a couple of generations we, as a society, have gone from a situation where most people had a reasonable basic knowledge of how the world around them actually worked to one where, for most people, it is utterly incomprehensible...
How does <insert gadget here> work?
Because, Computer...
If you picked half a dozen teenagers at random from the 70's and put them on "Scrap Heap Challenge" I reckon they would do pretty well
Id love to see what would happen if you picked half a dozen of today's teenagers at random and put them to the test, there is a reason why it is mostly older people who play the game.
Lord help us come the Zombie Apocalypse (Or any other more realistic crisis that disrupts the use of modern technology. EG, just how bad would the consequences of an EMP bomb be??)
Over the last 30-40 years there has been a massive shift in basic technology comprehension.
From most people, to at least some extent, being able to understand how the technology that surrounds them works to it becoming utterly incomprehensible for the vast majority of people.
Ask any teenage Boy (Yes, Boy. It was the 70's and Girls generally were not interested in such things
) from the 70's how a TV or radio or motor car (Or space rocket or camera, or x ray machine or, really rather a lot of the technologies on which society depends for its existence) actually worked, and he would probably have been able to have made a pretty good effort at doing so.Ask any teenager today how their phone or i-pad (Or even the other things I mentioned earlier) works and you will almost certainly be faced with a total blank (Hell, even I only know the modern gadgets actually work to a very limited extent, and I am good at this sort of thing)
We were a generation that grew up with thermionic vales. That you could actually see working and understand how they worked. We were the generation that built crystal sets for fun and knew how they worked. We built electric motors out of cotton reels and knew how they worked.And so on.
People born in the 60's might well sometimes find figuring out how to use the latest smart phone a bit of a bind, but mostly that is because we are simply not interested, Nevertheless Nobody from the 60's or 70's would be April fooled into believing that you could download an app to make your phone waterproof.
We know it is just an electronic gadget, with all the limitations that go with that. For todays youngsters it might as well be magic. There is no comprehension as to how it actually works.
And because of that, there is no real reason to believe that an app might not be able to make a phone waterproof.
Overall. I find this shift in comprehension deeply disturbing. In the space of a couple of generations we, as a society, have gone from a situation where most people had a reasonable basic knowledge of how the world around them actually worked to one where, for most people, it is utterly incomprehensible...
How does <insert gadget here> work?
Because, Computer...
If you picked half a dozen teenagers at random from the 70's and put them on "Scrap Heap Challenge" I reckon they would do pretty well
Id love to see what would happen if you picked half a dozen of today's teenagers at random and put them to the test, there is a reason why it is mostly older people who play the game.
Lord help us come the Zombie Apocalypse (Or any other more realistic crisis that disrupts the use of modern technology. EG, just how bad would the consequences of an EMP bomb be??)
Next you'll be saying you can also program a VCR!
Ah yes the good old days but I prefer today's technology - Just glad we don't have to cut branches from trees and sharpen them to the core to get the black sap from them to write with
I was pretty good on the VCR -- I remember in last 10 years buying two cups of tea for 50p each - lad got calculator out and said that's a pound - I said are you sure and he punched it in again
Anyway, it was good to hear Kenny Everett again.
I did listen to the first R1 broadcast on 247 medium wave, as the pirates were going off air. Radio Luxembourg on 208MW was also required night time listening.
Yes I also stream as most DJ's (presenters?) like the sound of their voices too much.
I did listen to the first R1 broadcast on 247 medium wave, as the pirates were going off air. Radio Luxembourg on 208MW was also required night time listening.
Yes I also stream as most DJ's (presenters?) like the sound of their voices too much.
dunno why anyone's getting offended by this....the people in the video are just a bit daft, one had it upside down!
it's not like you need to go looking in second hand/specialized shops to buy a radio like the one he was trying to get people to tune!
http://www.argos.co.uk/search/Radio..._v3fP2SLXTVeNrVvSBRF30SV0hha3wkz8GRoCT8Pw_wcB
lots of the scrolling needle type with knobs there....the digi disply type is more common but loads of radios use knobs to tune it in... it's not hard to work out..... turn the knob to change the numbers!
it's not like you need to go looking in second hand/specialized shops to buy a radio like the one he was trying to get people to tune!
http://www.argos.co.uk/search/Radio..._v3fP2SLXTVeNrVvSBRF30SV0hha3wkz8GRoCT8Pw_wcB
lots of the scrolling needle type with knobs there....the digi disply type is more common but loads of radios use knobs to tune it in... it's not hard to work out..... turn the knob to change the numbers!
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Programming a vcr wasnt the bad part, the bad part was coming home to find there'd been a powercut and it didn't record!
That and the eternal battle to recieve both bbc and channel 5 at the same time (at least where we were that was a battle)
This, exactly this...
Ah ours got its timing over the air so even after a power cut everything restored nicely and schedules were stored fully rather than just in temporary memory.
The real satisfaction came when visiting people's houses and you could see their VCR wasn't set, the "00:00" "--:--" silently blinking away. Tinkering away learning how each one is set was a lot of fun.
That's not a valid callsign, get out!
