Forgotten shops

[Spartacus]

Fosters mens wear

 

[CatmanV2]

Email was at uni so 92(ish) although possibly not actually an email. We had a couple of PCs in the sales offices I was working in so that would have been about 97, but not emails from me personally as it were. Certainly Jan 99 I was in the tech industry and email was daily,
Last fax would have been about the same time when I left the company that took our advertising bookings by fax

C

 

[CatmanV2]

My mother used to call it "Coats and 'ats"

As did mine

C

 

[Guy]

Email 1983 (IBM mainframe) and internet '92. Last fax '98/9

 

[GeoffCapes]

Until last year or the year before all Premier League transfers had to be confirmed by fax!

 

[Gazcw]

Wimpy still exists:

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As does Taylor Wimpey.

Clearly it is you southerners who like frozen food and are keeping it open then.

 

[Nibby]

That raises an interesting digression; when did any of us send our first email, or first use a web browser? Or send our last telex or fax?

It was pretty early for me. Barclays was experimenting with internal email with a project that I was involved in back in 1994, and I joined a business serving academic institutions in 1995 which used email and the web to communicate with university customers. (I also had a PalmPilot1000 in early 1997.)

Long past them sort of dates Mark, I’m guessing 2002/3ish but as I said in a earlier post I was way behind the times. My first ebay purchase on my own account rather than my brother’s was 2003 I think.
What did happen with the internet was that I found out that I wasn’t the only one with an immaculate Hornby-Dublo train set in the box and it wasn’t worth nothing like I thought it would be. And that goes for a lot of other items that I’d cherished since my youth only to find out they weren’t going to help me retire early.

 

[Nibby]

Clearly it is you southerners who like frozen food and are keeping it open then.

Wimpy is nice but the ultimate was a Wendy’s and then the idiots turned them into Burger Kings.

 

[GeoffCapes]

Long past them sort of dates Mark, I’m guessing 2002/3ish but as I said in a earlier post I was way behind the times. My first ebay purchase on my own account rather than my brother’s was 2003 I think.
What did happen with the internet was that I found out that I wasn’t the only one with an immaculate Hornby-Dublo train set in the box and it wasn’t worth nothing like I thought it would be. And that goes for a lot of other items that I’d cherished since my youth only to find out they weren’t going to help me retire early.

2004 Is when my eBay account was set up. I remember selling books on Amazon before then. Maybe 2002ish???

My first purchase was 2003.

 

[GeoffCapes]

Wimpy is nice but the ultimate was a Wendy’s and then the idiots turned them into Burger Kings.

Wendy's in America is still about.

 

[MarkMas]

This reminds me that nobody believes me when I tell them I attended my first Zoom call on 6 September 2017, and opened a paid account on 20 September 2017.
(I just wish I had also bought some shares)

 

[philw696]

Bizarrely we still have Burton's here in France.

 

[Oneball]

Bizarrely we still have Burton's here in France.

And C&A

 

[P5Nij]

VG
Cousins Confectionery and bakery for a barmcake
Kwik Save
Courts Furniture
Blacklers Department Store( for those of you in the North/Merseyside)

We had a VG store here in Rugby in the '70s, the smell of fresh fruit and veg as you opened the door was fantastic. The old Co-0p in town was the same, it was quite overpowering when you walked in.

Anyone remember Rumbelows the TV and radio shops...?

 

[mjheathcote]

That raises an interesting digression; when did any of us send our first email, or first use a web browser? Or send our last telex or fax?

It was pretty early for me. Barclays was experimenting with internal email with a project that I was involved in back in 1994, and I joined a business serving academic institutions in 1995 which used email and the web to communicate with university customers. (I also had a PalmPilot1000 in early 1997.)

Telex would have been around 1989, when my employer got a fax machine.
Web browser and email would have been when I bought a Toshiba Libretto 50CT in 1996, following the launch of Windows 95. This at home dial up with freeserve!
At work from Jan 2000, my previous employer before then was very 19th Century, you had to phone the reception switchboard who made the telephone call for you, and then they patched it through!

 

[MarkMas]

Telex would have been around 1989, when my employer got a fax machine.
Web browser and email would have been when I bought a Toshiba Libretto 50CT in 1996, following the launch of Windows 95. This at home dial up with freeserve!
At work from Jan 2000, my previous employer before then was very 19th Century, you had to phone the reception switchboard who made the telephone call for you, and then they patched it through!

Toshiba Libretto!!! Best computer I ever had. May still be around somewhere!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_Libretto

 

[CatmanV2]

Toshiba Libretto!!! Best computer I ever had. May still be around somewhere!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_Libretto

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Duke Nukem 3D!
I came to kick *** and chew bubblegum. And I'm fresh out of gum

C

 

[spkennyuk]

Telex would have been around 1989, when my employer got a fax machine.
Web browser and email would have been when I bought a Toshiba Libretto 50CT in 1996, following the launch of Windows 95. This at home dial up with freeserve!
At work from Jan 2000, my previous employer before then was very 19th Century, you had to phone the reception switchboard who made the telephone call for you, and then they patched it through!

Telex machines were the weapon of choice in 1987. Fax machines were around but thin on the ground at the time.

Email there was a kind of hybrid email / telex system that we had in the office i worked at called Telecom Gold or BT Gold. You connected to a BT data center using a dial up modem and emails were then sent from there to other Telecom Gold / BT Gold users.

The advantage being you could prep all your email messages offline and then dial in once to send the entire batch. The downside being it only worked with other Telecom / BT Gold users.

 

[MarkMas]

Telex machines were the weapon of choice in 1987....

I spent a very challenging few hours in about 1985 trying to fix an HP1000 minicomputer where the computer was in Balikpapan and I was in Jakarta, and my only means of communication with the oil rig roughneck who was trying to start it was via telex.

 

[Nibby]

Wendy's in America is still about.

They are Geoff.
There use to be one in Soho, at the time I remember they were square and tasted great. Said to my mate "you must have one of these Wendy's burgers" we walked round the corner and it had turned into a Burger King