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How many pictures did you think us old people can post..

of stuff that would stump someone that's a Generation Z or Younger

(First Two Photo I'll Give You. It's either 1805 or 1905 Butter Mold For Making Butter)








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ArishMell · 70-79, M
I did not know that first item is a butter mould, but 1805 or 1905: it might not have changed much over the whole 19C. The rate of change for simple domestic and farming tools at least, was far slower then; with many tools and techniques passed down as "family heirlooms"

Manual window-winders on cars: my car, registered new as recently as 2006, has those. Two less bits of eletrickery to break down! I was surprised that my car's built-in radio is combined with a cassette rather than CD player, though. Perhaps that was to the original owner's order.

The 12V socket in cars is still common and I use mine regularly for the reversing-camera and "sat-nav", but have no cigarette-lighter to plug into it. Would those G-Z types know how to read road-map?

I recognised the picture-disc as obviously intended to be used with its own form of viewer or projector, but have not seen such an instrument. I still have a small 35mm-film slide-viewer but no longer have a slide projector.

Similarly the devive used there as an address-book, is obviously a filing-system even to anyone who has never seen one.

The hooks are more mysterious and presumably for a specific trade: agricultural? With the following photograph as a clue, are they for handling bales by hooking the binder-twine?

The reaper has long been replaced by machines that combine the cutting with other functions, of course: the combine-harvester for grain crops, the silage-cutter / loader, etc. Hay is still cut and left piled in neat ridges across the field for initial drying by mowers such as that in the background, but I am not sure of the modern equivalent of that reaper. I wonder also how many of the Generation-Zedders would recognise how those machines are moved and powered?


(Though to be fair I would not recognise a "generation-[insert letter of choice]" if I met one! Nor, by unfortunate experiences, do I have a clue how to use a TV remote-controller or a "smart"-phone, though I am assured the latter can even be used for voice-telephony.)

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Talking agricultural machines and urban ignorance of the countryside...

My local newspaper has a "Camera Club", and prints weekly albums of its members' contributions. One day, it captioned a photograph, "Bringing the Harvest In".

"Harvest"? I am not a farmer but even I know the difference between a combine-harvester cutting a cereal-crop, and what was photographed: a tractor towing a slurry-spreader across an empty field....
HumanEarth · F
You done good