TIMELESSNESS

When the following names do not mean anything to the youngsters today, I realize that I am old.

Panasonic 2-in-1

TDK Cobalt cassettes

Walkman

Discman

5 – Disc Changer

Chris Evert

Bjorn Borg

Nari Contractor

Ramesh Krishnan

Prakash Padukone

(Actually, it gets worse when I am asked if he is related to Deepika Padukone)

Auto-rewind

Head cleaning cassette

VHS

VCD

Video theaters

Britannica Encyclopedia

Oxford dictionary

Quarterly, half-yearly and annual exams

Bellbottoms

Pagers

Telegram

Trunk call

Money order

Floppy disc

DOS

Transistor radio

Wind-up clocks

Cyclostyling

Handwriting

Handwritten slides for projection

OHP (over head projector which used the slides mentioned above)

I realize that even showing pictures is of no help 😊

Picture source - Vintageradio

Picture source - wikipedia

picture source - wordpress

picture source - candyapplecostumes

It is different when books come into discussions. The following names are still in vogue.

Somerset Maugham

P.G. Wodehouse

Joseph Heller

William L Shirer

John Fowles

George Orwell

Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

Ernest Hemmingway

Aldous Huxley

Harper Lee

James Agee

Tells you something about eternal, eh!