How did people manage before the internet?

Two yoghurt cartons and a piece of string

a fish supper

handicap book

teletext

and bookies runners

well said themightymac end of post

true

playboy magazine

Teletext

that was handy rogue lol

belfast u go to drumbo dogs

Anybody remember a racing weekly called Racing Gold?

Only racing weekly to have a Page 3 girl, lol

Ironically, it went BUST

Shrewd_dude

the answer is they didnt they all thought they were big time but in essence were clueless mug chancers

HTH

mac did ken dodd run it lol

Nah, dont do the dags. Although ive heard its a good night out

it is.u go droyal or dpatrick anytime

True, I remember using teletext about every night about 6 years ago but now with the internet you wonder how you ever survived.

w hill was great for the prices on bbc.......not any more thou

I remember (in the 70s) people asking how did you manage to bet before the arrival of teletext.

teletext werent around in the 70s was it :0

Ceefax actually started in 1974.

I'm not too young but surely in those days you could get onto the course to bet for a pittance like it is in France and America just now although slightly dearer without the monopoly on betting.

correct

that was 4 mac

Kosmo Vinyl 10 Apr 01:11
Shrewd_dude

the answer is they didnt they all thought they were big time but in essence were clueless mug chancers
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{{b]Utter absolute TOSH[/b]

Those of us who did the graft - via the Loose-Leaf FORM BOOK and our own 'memory bank' - aligned to our own Private Handicaps, and Pricing the races up ourselves ....

Had a masive advantage over 'Joe Public' - who were mostly 'in the dark.

'Joe Public', nowadays, are ALL in the same boat - as they ALL use Oddschecker and the SAME sources - so ALL come to similar conclusions .... whilst ALL thinking they are being smart - when they are ALL being duplicitous.

We had the game by the ballcocks ;)

And most of them still can't read the form!!! :0

I can still remember flicking through Ceefax. Page 460 - 480, I think.

I had to wait for the teletext man to drop our handset in to our house when i was a kid because it was faulty, waited days & days ,but when it arrived ....oh my god!

Carrier pigeon.

I often frquented early morning news agents or late night vendors ,fook knows how i was ever up for the racing .yet alone getting to the shop to put a bet on .

In the betting shops the prices came over the loudspeaker. As the prices changed this poor fella had to work across huge sheets to update the prices for the punters with felt pen markers. He was the main man. If you were quick you could take the last price even if it went down and most bookies would accept the bet at the counter as the marker struggled to keep up sometimes. The commentary of course in those days was vastly superior to commentary today as video has taken over now. Ceefax came in much later and was a luxury. Lots more info about today but I guess the real winners in days past were the punters at the tracks. They could also use form guides and papers such as the Sporting Life which I still miss to find an angle. Angles are much more reduced today so value is harder to find because of the amount of information and how it's communicated to peope quickly who wouldn't even know normally.Often reflected in the price of the horse too unfortunately.

"How did people manage before the internet?"

They bought Hustler & went for a 'walk' in the woods.....

I can remember when we first had electricity so the internet is still a novelty for me. At 65, I can now look back at a lot of change and find it interesting how young people find it hard to imagine life without this or that. I lived on a farm and until I was 8 we had no running water, telephone or electricity and it was no big deal as nobody else in the area had them either, including the stately home across the valley. We had a TV that was run by a diesel generator when I was young. 9 inch black and white screen-the height of technology.

it were 10 of us kids to a bed when i were a lad and i used to get me brothers brothers hand- me- downs

Shrewd Dude, just read your post about course entry. I doubt if racing entry charges have kept up with inflation and certainly not with the rise in football prices. The cost of the cheapest enclosures may have gone up a bit faster but tatts and members charges were £15 twenty years ago and typically £20 now fior a good meeting.