fountain pens are still popular and has not faded away as the article mentions. Also the modem shown is a motorola cable modem and i still use exactly the same model as shown still at my house and it is capable of providing till 10mbps!!!
Ambassador and premier padmini cars from most cities, Fax machines, walkmans and the cassette players, computer diskettes, record players, Bajaj scooters, radio sets
clean roads,clean rivers, clean water tanks, clean cities, villages are missing today. cleanliness is the greatest miss in today's life. clean water is also non-existing.
There were no mineral water PET bottles. Brass Kujas(in Tamil) with a tumbler and canvas water bags were used during travel on trains.
I miss the canvas water bags. The water it carries evaporates makes the water cool inside on a hot summer vacation train ride..
Other ways of carrying water was using liquor bottles. They were in such a demand!
I still have the portable typewriter my father owned.
About calculators, there were mechanical ones, like the typewriter design. One has to rotate a handle 20times for multiplying 20 times.
Also the old computers didn't have display(many may not have seen, it was restricted to some colleges and research departments)
Card punching has to be done to feed the problem and answer will also be punched out from the computer. It has to be decoded o know the answer.
Booking train tickets were a real pain for journey involving crossing three states and three different trains. One week long booking and regular follow-up with different station masters (no, there was not many landlines!) for a 24 hour journey. Now it is very easy.
Many times we have to chase the train on taxi like Jab we met!
