kith_groupie posted:

Yeah, the bike I bought when I moved the the Netherlands, has one and I've used it for the past decade or so. I'm a big spoiled whiny American baby princess when it comes to having to ride my bike further than a few kilometers or so, but that's more because biking in the rain/wind/general apathetic Dutch malaise is lovely and not because of the tiny little bit extra it takes to make the light go on.

But if you want to talk about obsolete Dutch tech let's talk the strippenkaart.



You'd buy these from grocery stores, train stations, convience stores, whatever, so instead of having to buy a ticket at the train station you'd have to stamp your own ticket with this



or the bus driver would stamp it for you after you told him where you where going. They started phasing it out about six years or so ago, and now we just use cards to check in and out at stations. I don't know if they had it in other countries, but I imagine they did. Moving here from the rural American west to this sort of system was pretty jarring at first though.

moller posted: