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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2012 21:05:11 GMT 1
How on earth did people used to keep ants as a hobby before the internet was around ?!! Other non native types
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Post by Myrm on Dec 21, 2012 3:38:45 GMT 1
How on earth did people used to keep ants as a hobby before the internet was around ?!! Other non native types Believe it or not there were other forms of communications before the Internet/Email/Mobile phone, such as the "letter". This is where people would write messages to each other on paper (a by-product of wood pulp) and send it through the post (a form of collection and delivery service of said letters). There was also the telephone (a device that was fixed in many homes and phone boxes in which people could actually talk to each other over long distances). Both these forms of communication allowed companies and customers to do business with each other. This was often enhanced by a "catalogue"; a magazine type thing in which companies promoted their products. In fact this is how I actually ordered my first ant farm and (queenless) ant colony when I was a bin lid.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2012 8:04:50 GMT 1
haha myrm
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2012 8:33:22 GMT 1
Yes very clever, still its not exactly britains most popular hobby so What i am getting at is finding these contacts to send them these , "letters" whatever they are... Sound complicated. Would the yellow pages have ant suppliers, or would you had to of visited entomolgy conventions.. Its not vital i find out was just pondering the other day.
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Post by Myrm on Dec 21, 2012 11:14:18 GMT 1
No, not Britain's most popular hobby I agree. Back then in the "dark ages" ;D it was by adverts in related magazines or clubs or by word of mouth that got the word about. There were also educational magazines that advertised ant farms, albeit for bin lids.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2012 14:43:30 GMT 1
Awesome
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2012 3:09:34 GMT 1
Children's Schools would often have "Catalogues" called "Book Club" or something of the like. I don't know what a book is, I think it's like a version of what you read on the internet, but on paper!
Haha. But anyways, these would often be the source of my extracurricular scientific learning when I was 7-12, I liked wildlife, especially dinosaurs and insects.
It's hard to imagine a world without the internet, yes, but back in those days there were systems in place to spread interests and products, like catalogues that you could have mailed to you, or word-of-mouth. Or of course, television!
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Post by Myrm on Dec 22, 2012 4:00:01 GMT 1
Yes, I remember being part of a book club when I was in primary school.
I got my first computer when I was Chicken Bin Lid's age; it was an Amstrad CPC 464 with tape deck and a whopping 64KB (yes, KB!) of RAM. There was no internet back then and no mobile phones. I used to spend most of my bin lid years playing in the huge forests back home where there used to be huge ant mounds.
I first saw a mobile phone in London when sometime in the 80's; only business men had them and they were like house bricks with an even bigger battery pack. Nowadays even the paper bin lid has one >.<
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2012 9:17:31 GMT 1
64 kb my computer upstairs has the same ram whereas the laptop im on has, i think 6 000 000 kb of ram 6 gb
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Post by Myrm on Dec 22, 2012 12:34:07 GMT 1
64 kb my computer upstairs has the same ram What computer is it you have in your bin lid room? 64kb? Are you sure? That's vary little in today's standards. You're not thinking of MB, are you?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2012 12:36:37 GMT 1
by the speed of it then kb. think it could be mb but that is still vary,vary little
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2012 16:02:11 GMT 1
Yep! I used to have a 400Mhz processor on my computer until 2005- my best friend had two computers with 2Ghz and would laugh at me every day! And yes Myrm, I remember the days when those brick mobile phones only were seen by businessmen- My father was in the largest business consultant firms in the country and he used to have one of the "amazing new" nokias, nowadays it's as huge as a lava lamp Things have changed back then. But as Myrm mentions when he says he was part of book club in school- before "new media" there were a lot of established, tried and true methods of getting things around. Even more so for the bin lids- there were a lot of great education modules designed to teach primary school students about the world around them, the geography, history, culture and biodiversity of the world!! I had discovery magazines, educational tv shows, book club delivery catalogues and other stuff, and I was still growing up while the internet DID exist! Imagine what it might have been like for Myrm and others who were around when computers barely existed!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2012 16:10:07 GMT 1
haha my dad got one of those mobiles when the first came out and he says that the baterypack was bigger and heavier than the phone its self and he never got a signal anywhere he went
luckily phones hav shrunk but im sure they are starting to get bigger again
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Post by Myrm on Dec 23, 2012 5:12:07 GMT 1
luckily phones hav shrunk but im sure they are starting to get bigger again I was saying that to another bin lid the other day; mobiles were huge at first, then they got smaller until they could easily fit in the palm of a bin lid's hand and now they are getting larger again. >.<
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2012 9:59:49 GMT 1
yeah the origional iphone was small so were the 2, 3,and 3gs but the 4/4s got thicker and the5 is taller and wider aswell also the galaxy s series is gradually making its top moddel biger
i surpose its to incorperate more tech and they should start shrinking again soon
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