Old tech you'd like to see return

As the analogue landline switch off approaches (January 2027), we asked the UK public about the old technology they would like to see return.

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00:00No, we don't have a landline. I haven't had a landline probably for the last 10

00:04years to be honest. Obviously do at work. But no, we don't have a landline.

00:10Tech from my youth. Well, my parents seem to hoard everything so I've still got

00:15my old boombox that my mum and dad's house. They've still got one of them

00:19phones? They've still got a proper old phone that you put your finger in and you're in.

00:24I don't own any but my parents certainly own a lot of old technology.

00:29Don't use the house phone anymore. It is there. You just get nuisance

00:34calls on it and that's it. Don't use it at all. Bring back writing letters and meeting

00:42up to have like a little fun time where conversations can be held instead of

00:47having conversations over the phone. I think mobile technology now has taken

00:51over so much of face-to-face conversation, meet and greet, fun times on the park and

00:56stuff like that. So bring back those times.

01:00Haven't had a landline probably for five or six years.

01:02Just never got used. Do want to reintroduce one. It's probably pretty

01:05good for emergency purposes.

01:07I don't personally use it. But people, businesses, NHS and people like that call us on our landline.

01:14The only people who rang it for about three years were telemarketers and no one else.

01:20So we got rid of it. We no longer have it.

01:23Still got one, but probably when the next contract comes up, we'll get rid of it.

01:28In terms of technology that I'd like to see make a comeback, I'm a bit partial to VHS to be honest with you.

01:35It's just, it's one of those things. Everything is streamed now and I've never had a VHS have to buffer before or DVDs.

01:44But it's just, it's just streaming. When the internet's down, I think a lot of us would be stuck for entertainment.

01:50And the only thing I think that I'd like to see return, I'm still a fan of CDs and so I miss having CD slots on the computer.