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Retro corner : We Still Use These '90s Technologies Today

Oxonian — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 17:30:30 GMT

A trip down Memory Lane :-

We Still Use These '90s Technologies Today (howtogeek.com)

https://www.howtogeek.com/we-still-use-these-90s-technologies-today/

Re: Retro corner : We Still Use These '90s Technologies Today

Enlli — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 17:34:51 GMT

All this modern technology. I'm known to still use dowsing rods!

Re: Retro corner : We Still Use These '90s Technologies Today

pgn — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 21:46:35 GMT

@Enlli wrote:
All this modern technology. I'm known to still use dowsing rods!

Pretty neat if you have rhabdomancy down to a fine art, @Enlli 👍🏼

Re: Retro corner : We Still Use These '90s Technologies Today

Oxonian — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 17:58:34 GMT

I thought @Enlli that dowsing rods became obsolete fifty years ago - clearly not the case ! 😀

Re: Retro corner : We Still Use These '90s Technologies Today

Enlli — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 18:11:32 GMT

Few older guys working for United Utilities still use them, although the company deny that's the case.

A few years back I found a water feed into a building that was not documented.

Re: Retro corner : We Still Use These '90s Technologies Today

Enlli — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 18:13:23 GMT

Well, I found an undocumented water feed into a house before they used the digger.

Re: Retro corner : We Still Use These '90s Technologies Today

Oxonian — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 18:19:40 GMT

Talk of "rhabdomancy" @pgn had me checking online to establish what you were referring to - not a word that you hear every day, although something that you can imagine featuring in the WRQ ! 👍