please empty your brain below
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Analogue?
Tim m | 06.12.17 - 7:06 a.m. | #
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I think I saw [X] in a museum the other day. It made me feel very, very old.
solar penguin | 06.12.17 - 7:06 a.m. | #
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A newspaper or other text service possibly....an almanac in particular.
b | 06.12.17 - 7:18 a.m. | #
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Phone calls on a landline?
Victoria | 06.12.17 - 7:26 a.m. | #
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Landline telephones and public telephone boxes?
RayL | 06.12.17 - 7:29 a.m. | #
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Victoria, you beat me to it!
RayL | 06.12.17 - 7:31 a.m. | #
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Instant coffee.
Geoff | 06.12.17 - 7:40 a.m. | #
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Blue passports
Geofftech | 06.12.17 - 7:41 a.m. | #
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No, red passports!
Geofftech | 06.12.17 - 7:41 a.m. | #
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Well, it is meta, isn't it. DG is allowing us to project whatever we like onto [X] according to our own predilections.
Newspapers; books; radio; vinyl records or cassettes; playing musical instruments or singing for pleasure; board games; etc. etc.
Andrew | 06.12.17 - 7:44 a.m. | #
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The twitter.
No! Class 315s.
Wolf | 06.12.17 - 7:46 a.m. | #
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Perhaps you start to be defined as old when you start talking too much about the way things were - this can start quite early, for example a few years ago two teenage boys near me on the bus were talking about how expensive crisps were nowadays - 'remember when they were 7p?' one said to the other.
Also younger people have no memory of events they weren't around for, so have no emotional connection, its just history, or old stuff.
Still Anon | 06.12.17 - 7:47 a.m. | #
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RSS feeds
Urban cable car(s)
Wolf | 06.12.17 - 7:52 a.m. | #
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Let it go you [X]-ist old bigots. Time to embrace [Y].
Jimmy | 06.12.17 - 7:52 a.m. | #
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Jobcentres?
Jimmy | 06.12.17 - 7:56 a.m. | #
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FM radio?
Thomas | 06.12.17 - 7:57 a.m. | #
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It's the way that it always managed to precisely mark the spot that I'll remember best, whenever and wherever needed. Sigh.
Waterhouse | 06.12.17 - 8:13 a.m. | #
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A society that is kind, just and fair?
The Legendary Zelda | 06.12.17 - 8:15 a.m. | #
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For me it has to be either High Street banks or manned supermarket checkouts.
Bob S | 06.12.17 - 8:18 a.m. | #
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Betamax
100andthirty | 06.12.17 - 8:21 a.m. | #
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Rock bands - where the participants actually played instruments?
Frank F | 06.12.17 - 8:31 a.m. | #
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It's probably still ticket offices, isn't it?
EonLeader | 06.12.17 - 8:31 a.m. | #
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a tea break
MikeS | 06.12.17 - 8:34 a.m. | #
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It has to be Bus Stop M
Kevin Too | 06.12.17 - 8:35 a.m. | #
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Long-form blogs?
Gabriel | 06.12.17 - 8:42 a.m. | #
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Cash?
Television?
David (the 100,00th comment one) | 06.12.17 - 8:50 a.m. | #
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Woolworths/tungsten light bulbs/terrestial television/diesel
Shieldsman | 06.12.17 - 9:25 a.m. | #
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life
John | 06.12.17 - 9:27 a.m. | #
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Hope X does not equate to 'my blog' ?
Betty Windsor c/o PO Box 27, Cayman Is. | 06.12.17 - 9:50 a.m. | #
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Telegrams?
scrumpy | 06.12.17 - 10:13 a.m. | #
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beautifully written as ever DG
I gather you must be writing "skeleton" articles for overworked journalists so that they can "insert name here" for a good old nostalgia-fest
Caz | 06.12.17 - 10:19 a.m. | #
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I'd just started getting used to [X] being replaced with [Y], but now that's being replaced by [Z].
solar penguin | 06.12.17 - 10:27 a.m. | #
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Good riddance. I, for one, welcome the move from the backward [X]-centric attitudes of the past and believe people should dragged kicking and screaming into the century of the [Y]. As opposed to being led gently by the hand. No doubt the reactionary [Z]-ist trolls will have something to say about this.
Scattergun | 06.12.17 - 10:27 a.m. | #
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Sounds like it's Medium and Long Wave radio (which is almost always missing from anything that has DAB/DAB+), prompted by the recent launch of licensed test transmissions from the legendary Radio Caroline on the 648kHz / 463m spot on the MW dial that was abandoned by the BBC World Service !
Gerry | 06.12.17 - 10:39 a.m. | #
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X = nostalgia. It isn;t what it used to be.
Uncle Audrey | 06.12.17 - 11:02 a.m. | #
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Dial-up internet? Fountain pens? Not having a computer at home?
Anonymous | 06.12.17 - 11:10 a.m. | #
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Of many things imaginable, could it be Christmas post? Or writing letters in general?
(Nowadays I write only three cards, and receive one.)
Joachim | 06.12.17 - 11:36 a.m. | #
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the Kashubian language
flying cars
Rita Ora
the county of Middlesex
helmets
Chris Patten
John | 06.12.17 - 11:38 a.m. | #
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It's a bit unfair to millenials; we have massive nostalgia for things we didn't know first time round. Computer geeks love the c64 and apple 2 which are obsolete when they were born. Hipsters only want milk from a milkman. I bought Pop Tarts last week: nostalgia for a childhood that wasn't mine.
I think it comes from discoverablity and distribution. It's much easier to discover Led Zeppelin if you don't need to track down old physical vinyl copies. Once you're hooked, you'll buy a vinyl copy, obviously. It's for the nostalgia.
h2g2bob | 06.12.17 - 11:48 a.m. | #
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I hope you will come back and tell us what [X] is, for those of us who don't keep up to date with the latest in technology!
Cornish Cockney | 06.12.17 - 11:53 a.m. | #
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Ah, after a couple of weeks with [Y], you won't want to go back to [X] any more. You only like [X] because of familiarity.
Ben | 06.12.17 - 11:55 a.m. | #
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*Makes note in diary to search for these text strings in 12 months to see how many have been lifted and used by 'writers',*
drD | Homepage | 06.12.17 - 12:23 p.m. | #
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Gave up paper newspapers this week. Recycling down, adverts down (!), but one "Good morning" less each day from the newsagent. And had to get another phone to cope with reading it without crashing memory. Paper money,tapes,cds all destined for museums...
south london lad | 06.12.17 - 12:43 p.m. | #
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Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.
Chris | 06.12.17 - 12:56 p.m. | #
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My wicked side quickly filled DG into those [X]'s. Sorry for the rudeness.
Patrickov | 06.12.17 - 1:03 p.m. | #
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@John Chris Patten? Are you by any chance Hongkongese?
Patrickov | 06.12.17 - 1:06 p.m. | #
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Johnny Hallyday?
Freddie | 06.12.17 - 1:57 p.m. | #
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I feel this way about cash. By way of protest we use cash to pay as often as possible.
Neesy | 06.12.17 - 2:42 p.m. | #
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Knowing DG, it's "not spending money"
Mark | 06.12.17 - 2:44 p.m. | #
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Have you mislaid your Ed Sheeran CD or something?
Phil | 06.12.17 - 2:48 p.m. | #
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Honest politicians...Only joking!
Bernie | 06.12.17 - 2:59 p.m. | #
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The EU?
Richard | 06.12.17 - 3:44 p.m. | #
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It should be noted that X continues to play gigs in and around the US and Europe and was recently honored with a continuing tribute at the Grammy Museum. X is still there for you DG.
Steven | Homepage | 06.12.17 - 4:22 p.m. | #
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@h2g2bob - I remember when the c64 and Pop Tarts were the new thing. Sigh.
Sarah | Homepage | 06.12.17 - 4:49 p.m. | #
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Yes, things were simpler In The Days Before Rock 'n' Roll; this off-beat radio song captures the mood of today's post.
But if [X] isn't MW/LW Radio, then it can only be Cash.
Gerry | 06.12.17 - 5:09 p.m. | #
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Not just Cash, but Johnnie Cash
Mike D | 06.12.17 - 8:16 p.m. | #
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If you read the paragraphs in reverse order, bottom to top, it's even better still.
Chris | Homepage | 06.12.17 - 8:29 p.m. | #
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Snogging, Becks Beer or fixed line phones
Fred Barker | 06.12.17 - 9:46 p.m. | #
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I think it's Windows XP!
John Simmons | 06.12.17 - 11:21 p.m. | #
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Is this a Daily Mail editorial template?
Mark | 06.12.17 - 11:24 p.m. | #
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It's blogging.
Deonyi | 07.12.17 - 2:40 a.m. | #
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I am think some of the text changed through the day, as I read it several times and still none the wiser as what X could be!
Nick | 07.12.17 - 8:43 a.m. | #
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Having re-read the post, I would now quite like to have a badge or T-shirt with the words "My anecdotes are legion" printed on it..
Scattergun | 07.12.17 - 11:34 a.m. | #
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To make you feel old, DVD's are slipping away.
Answer machines
vesta curry's
phone cards
renting appliances
Fax Machines
Top loading washing machines (I know you can still get them, but once everyone had them).
Vacumn cleaners with bags.
That's before we get to the brands and shops that have faded away or gone completely in the UK.
LittleWoods, BHS, C&A, Fosters, Peter Brown, Rumbelows, Radio Rentals, Bejam, Allders, Our Price, Virgin Records and Gas and Electrcity Showrooms.
rational plan | 07.12.17 - 1:42 p.m. | #
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CASH.
Colininthailand | 07.12.17 - 3:01 p.m. | #
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Common sense?
katisha | 08.12.17 - 5:54 a.m. | #
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Sex ?
kevin clarke | 08.12.17 - 12:27 p.m. | #
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Katie Hopkins on LBC?
Paul | 08.12.17 - 2:55 p.m. | #
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Teletext?
Leaded petrol?
BBC test card?
Routemasters?
Radio 4’s UK Theme?
SJM | 08.12.17 - 11:35 p.m. | #
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Bonus points to all the commenters who observed that this post was a generalisation.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 08.12.17 - 11:39 p.m. | #
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Generalisation isn't what it used to be.
Uncle Audrey | 08.12.17 - 11:43 p.m. | #
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Your diary!
greg | 11.12.17 - 9:37 a.m. | #
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> diamond geezer: Bonus points to all the commenters who observed that this post was a generalisation.
Even so, “I miss Instant Messaging” (which makes sense of “some international committee somewhere appears to have decided that [X] must be withdrawn”) h/t Gordon
dg writes: This post was indeed a generalisation, and there wasn't a specific [X] to guess the identity of.
Rich G | Homepage | 15.12.17 - 3:27 p.m. | #
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In case of wider interest, I liked this blog post on issues around nostalgia:
https://theguyliner.com/opinion/the-trouble-with-nostalgia/
new still anon | 16.12.17 - 12:25 p.m. | #
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