I'm 31 and I scored all 20, assuming last is phone book.
Although I only trained in typewriter, never actually sent anyone a letter.
Although I did type a contract for my dad so I guess that's a real use case.
All 20 then.
I'm 38, I scored 20 points unfortunately. I only used a rotary phone because my grandmother had one and she also had a typewriter that I'd fuck around with for fun... never used it to write my dissertation for a PhD or anything like that.
Realistically, if old equipment still worked then people wouldn't necessarily just get rid of it as soon as something new came out. I'm not that old and the only 2 things I haven't used were rotary phone and mix tape (assuming CD mix 'tapes' and personally recorded stuff on tapes also don't count)
Same. Plenty of "mix tape" CDs but no tapes. Unless you count the one I stole from my aunt.
Also not sure if I can count a word processing machine as a type writer. I've used a real typewriter but just for fun.
I have them all, except 5 and 12. Not from the States, so no aol. And cheques were fazed(?) out really early here, so have never seen one in use. The crossover breed of XMillenial here.
I think "mixed tape" refers to when you could take a cassette and record different songs onto it. Though I don't remember how it was done unless you caught a song playing on the radio at just the right point. Using a novelty dial phone wouldn't really count.
And if you were lucky you'd have a higher end stereo system that could fade in the sounds too. Combine that with a pause, you could avoid that jarring noise of starting and stopping recording between songs. Just had to find the stations that didn't have the DJs who talked halfway through the song intro.
I'm a solid 20. Those of you who didn't get very high scores, you don't know what you missed.
Right, but that’s usually called a “mix tape”, not “mixed” unless that’s some kind of regional thing. I’ve never heard anyone call that a “mixed tape” before this post.
This thread is implying that all of that stuff is ancient history. With the exception of the AOL addresses, Walkman and cassette tapes everything else on that list is still in use.
Fax machines, fine, certain organizations still require those mostly because people fall to understand that a fax machine is just a scanner and printer and this some bearaucracy failed to keep pace.
Same story for checkbooks.
AOL is still a thing and you can even sign up for it today, email address wise.
Record players are in use, though more people own records than record players, more popular as display pieces than actual music medium.
I would say everything else on the list is pretty much dead unless you go out of your way to do them, and nothing else on the list has so much nostalgia appeal compared to the problems and difficulty with them.
18/20 because waterbeds weren't a common thing here and I already had internet access and a mail address before AOL was a thing. Whoever made that list should have added usenet.
Terrible distribution of options. A good list would have a series of technologies and tools that became obsolete at different times. Almost all of these became obsolete with the rise of broadband internet in the early 2000's, while a handful were earlier (rotary phones) or later (paper maps, paper checks).
In my family's house growing up, we duct taped our only phone's receiver to a Bo staff so we could pass the phone between rooms without having to leave the room.
Half of these are still in use simply because some people think they're cool, or when someone prefers to not have to rely on technology (e.g. paper maps don't run out of electricity while you're on a long hike).
i work at a library it isnt fair for me to compete. i only use the fax machine because the government won't let old people email them and they dont know how to anyway.
I never had my own AOL email account but I did throw away AOL signup disks and I sent email to AOL accounts... so I guess 20/20 assuming "phone bo" is a phone book.
As for not being long for this world... there are a lot of ways to go that don't link with being old, so I guess that checks out anyway.
40 here, scored a 19. I'm fascinated that you were able to avoid checkbooks all this time. Back in the day it was the only form of rent payment my landlords would accept, so I didn't have much choice.
I've also had to use them in oddball situations recently, like paying a passport application fee. The passports weren't even for me. I was just the only one in the friend group that still has checks from when I first opened my account.... almost 20 years ago. They're my age, so maybe it's me who's the outlier here, haha.
Surely that should be 'mix tape'? I scored 17 so I anticipate living for another hundred years!
Plus also, what the fuck are you doing on my lawn, ooh innit cold, the price of stamps these days, look at how young those policemen look, fucking cloud!
Never had VCR, AOL or phone bo. Don't think AOL ever was a thing here anyway, it was Sol or Kvasir and then Hotmail.
The rest my 37 years have included.
Do they mean a mix tape?
You must be 18 to post here.
Book, probably
More importantly: Why is there aa jizz stain at the o?
The second column is all misaligned too.
A watermark was removed, which got rid of the OK
Ok
OCR and making this an accessible text post would have been easier.
I don't disagree
AI is my guess given the lack of structure
20 is a typo, it's actually phone bō and it's the art of fighting with a phone staff.
So everyone over 35 or so?
I'm 37 and only about 16 points.
I didn't ever use a typewriter afaik, nor a rotary phone.
I was in the era of aol addresses but my first email was when I got into the Gmail beta 😎
Sadly I need to extricate myself from Gmail
I'm 31 and I scored all 20, assuming last is phone book. Although I only trained in typewriter, never actually sent anyone a letter. Although I did type a contract for my dad so I guess that's a real use case. All 20 then.
I'm 38, I scored 20 points unfortunately. I only used a rotary phone because my grandmother had one and she also had a typewriter that I'd fuck around with for fun... never used it to write my dissertation for a PhD or anything like that.
Almost 40, 20 point gang
I’ve used heaps of typewriters. My mum had an antique one when I was growing up that still worked and I loved it.
I think you'd be 50 or older
38 here, 20 for 20
surprised you could be that young and still have run the list
Realistically, if old equipment still worked then people wouldn't necessarily just get rid of it as soon as something new came out. I'm not that old and the only 2 things I haven't used were rotary phone and mix tape (assuming CD mix 'tapes' and personally recorded stuff on tapes also don't count)
I'm 43 and it's 20. My mate is 37 and it's also all 20.
Early 40s and 20/20. I’m guessing you’re pretty young.
Elder millennial all 20
I know right. I'm 39, all 20.
To be fair I spent a lot of time with my grandparents
37, got 19. Never had a mix tape.
Whattt? I feel like I should make you a mix tape
Same. Plenty of "mix tape" CDs but no tapes. Unless you count the one I stole from my aunt. Also not sure if I can count a word processing machine as a type writer. I've used a real typewriter but just for fun.
I have them all, except 5 and 12. Not from the States, so no aol. And cheques were fazed(?) out really early here, so have never seen one in use. The crossover breed of XMillenial here.
You can't start with I have them "all". Then put in exceptions. That's not how all works.
But that's how languages work.. I think you should try to read the Oxford Dictionary and come back with an apology when you are finished
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/except_1
Does this mean a mix tape or is that something else? 🤨
Also: I've used a rotary phone, but only because I had bought a novelty modern phone that used a rotary dialer in the 90s.
I got 19 or 20, depending on the answer to my question about the "mixed tape" thing.
Smithers, I really feel like a free spirit. And I'm really enjoying this so-called "iced cream."
I think "mixed tape" refers to when you could take a cassette and record different songs onto it. Though I don't remember how it was done unless you caught a song playing on the radio at just the right point. Using a novelty dial phone wouldn't really count.
You’d often see cassette players with two tape decks, so you could play one while recording with the other.
You could also record from radio, record player, or whatever else your stereo had. Boom boxes with two tape decks were fairly common.
good explanation and it jarred my memory as to how it was done
And if you were lucky you'd have a higher end stereo system that could fade in the sounds too. Combine that with a pause, you could avoid that jarring noise of starting and stopping recording between songs. Just had to find the stations that didn't have the DJs who talked halfway through the song intro.
I'm a solid 20. Those of you who didn't get very high scores, you don't know what you missed.
Right, but that’s usually called a “mix tape”, not “mixed” unless that’s some kind of regional thing. I’ve never heard anyone call that a “mixed tape” before this post.
I am assuming Phone Bo is Phone book.
The meme creator got lazy and just didn't do the last two letters?
He must have died while typing...
Their time was shorter
Same here. I have used everything on this list at least once.
I have used them all so many times I lost count.
Lost count due to the dementia
This thread is implying that all of that stuff is ancient history. With the exception of the AOL addresses, Walkman and cassette tapes everything else on that list is still in use.
Hell audio-Philes swear y turn tables.
Fax machines, fine, certain organizations still require those mostly because people fall to understand that a fax machine is just a scanner and printer and this some bearaucracy failed to keep pace.
Same story for checkbooks.
AOL is still a thing and you can even sign up for it today, email address wise.
Record players are in use, though more people own records than record players, more popular as display pieces than actual music medium.
I would say everything else on the list is pretty much dead unless you go out of your way to do them, and nothing else on the list has so much nostalgia appeal compared to the problems and difficulty with them.
All of them are still in use..
yes
20/20 and I’ll add Atari, illegal cable hookup, and limewire.
Add Napster, ICQ, and AOL chatrooms ... A/S/L?
I'll add Saturday morning cartoons, planning your week around when shows came on TV, and renting movies from a grocery store/pharmacy.
Ooohhh I totally forgot about renting movies from the grocery store!
Maybe we can add palm pilots and tvs where the channel changer was a knob you had to adjust
That reminds me of the first VCR my family owned. Wired remotes anyone?
19 out of 20. Unless just testing a waterbed counts....
Yeah it counts. I've "tried" them but never owned them. So that counts
I am not being euphemismistic.
If you’ve just sat on a waterbed I’d count it
19/20. Only because I refused to use AOL.
18/20 because waterbeds weren't a common thing here and I already had internet access and a mail address before AOL was a thing. Whoever made that list should have added usenet.
I'm still on usenet.
This title/post combination is peak 2005 myspace/facebook posting
The choices also tend to center around 2005, with only a handful of technologies that were made definitely obsolete before 1995 or after 2010.
Terrible distribution of options. A good list would have a series of technologies and tools that became obsolete at different times. Almost all of these became obsolete with the rise of broadband internet in the early 2000's, while a handful were earlier (rotary phones) or later (paper maps, paper checks).
The point of this "meme" is for OP to toot they own horn. This selection is a good choice for that. Effective means for an ill end.
5 makes no sense outside of USA
20 What is phone bo? book?
19, 20 if NZ equivalent of AOL
phone book or booth, either works.
double points if you've used a phone book in a phone booth
Woot! 2X.
AOL was more international than you think. Free beer mats for everybody.
19, but only because waterbeds were never really a thing in the UK
I'm assuming that "phone bo" means phone book? If that's true then I'm at 20/20.
I plan to live forever. So far, so good.
17/20. I'm 25
Yeah, in don't think many of us touched a Phone Bo. They're impossible to find after we started making bo staffs out of better material like wood.
Very unfortunate that we never got the chance.
In my family's house growing up, we duct taped our only phone's receiver to a Bo staff so we could pass the phone between rooms without having to leave the room.
I'm laughing at the idea!
I got all 20, but I never used vinyl records until just a few years ago
Lol #9 is mix tape 🤣😂
Half of these are still in use simply because some people think they're cool, or when someone prefers to not have to rely on technology (e.g. paper maps don't run out of electricity while you're on a long hike).
Does it could if I've used them for the novelty?
doesn't count
Then I got 8
Did you really need to use ai to make a text based meme? I completely lost hope in humanity after seeing this
Bingo!
You don't scare me.
AOL never was available in my country. Check books? I've never even seen someone actually using one, I think.
I will never get to 20, yay!
Waterbeds also not a thing.
Not being American gets you 3 extra... years? decades? life units? Which does seem still accurate.
Same. I've seen people using cheques when I was a kid, but they were issued as separate sheets not in a form of a book
Everything but 5 and 13. Guess I'll go die, then.
I highly suggest finding a typewriter, they're actually really fun.
AOL is very American, could've written dialup. Check books were also gone here long before they were in the US.
Why did check books leave in the EU long before in the US?
We phased them out because of security reasons. Paying by card was introduced, at least in the Netherlands, in the 80s.
i work at a library it isnt fair for me to compete. i only use the fax machine because the government won't let old people email them and they dont know how to anyway.
20/20
Are we censoring books now?
Water beds are making a comeback. This coming year, I swear!
20/20, y’all invited the my funeral. Apparently any day now
Guess we dying in our mid 40's.. What is this? The middle ages!?
Since no one can afford health insurance, vaccines are apparently bad, and our government is prescribing horse dewormer …. We’re getting there
Take my depressed upvote.
20/20, waterbeds were awesome.
I’ve used everything on this list, I win!
19; guess which one I've never used?
Waterbed?
That's a check if you were rich and old.
Check book
exactly.
Phone Bo?
(I really want to make a bo staff out of phones now)
I never had my own AOL email account but I did throw away AOL signup disks and I sent email to AOL accounts... so I guess 20/20 assuming "phone bo" is a phone book.
As for not being long for this world... there are a lot of ways to go that don't link with being old, so I guess that checks out anyway.
AOL disks were great when they were sending out floppies.. free disks!
6 with many of them in my childhood or because of under-equipped schools
17 points, I'm 43, no AOL address, no check book or waterbed.
40 here, scored a 19. I'm fascinated that you were able to avoid checkbooks all this time. Back in the day it was the only form of rent payment my landlords would accept, so I didn't have much choice.
I've also had to use them in oddball situations recently, like paying a passport application fee. The passports weren't even for me. I was just the only one in the friend group that still has checks from when I first opened my account.... almost 20 years ago. They're my age, so maybe it's me who's the outlier here, haha.
Avoiding checkbooks? Easy, be not american.
number 20 does elude me
It's when you are smelly while using a phone
18, damn.
13 i mean postcard? My work made me write post cards for Christmas even.
Surely that should be 'mix tape'? I scored 17 so I anticipate living for another hundred years!
Plus also, what the fuck are you doing on my lawn, ooh innit cold, the price of stamps these days, look at how young those policemen look, fucking cloud!
Add this number to 35 for your age.
According to that, I should be 53.
That's over a decade older than I am right now.
I'm not even thirty and have like 10 points though
Weirdly enough, I find that accurate.
I got 18 and I'm not even 35 yet lol
What about watching "Creature Double Feature"?
Godzilla and all his bitches!
18 cause I'm not American.
TIL dictionaries and encyclopedias are exclusively American.
I'd guess cursive and AOL.
Waterbed and AOL.
16, but I like vintage shit, nahmean?
Post card?
Cursive??
water bed????
I am a little old for a Bo dont ya think?
Does it count if I own a typewriter, even though I've never used it?
3/20
Child.
Records have been resurgent for a decade. The person who made this thinks they're funny and biting, but they are out of touch with the culture.
And definitely not a "record player". Turntable, mother fucker.
I was too poor to have a waterbed, walkman and chequebook
1 :)
Only one? You really missed out on so many fun things
I like to think I would've loved the internet circa 90s-2000s.
The good part - there were ADS everywhere. Lots of stuff was really free. But it was slower.
3
Edit: or probably just 2
Just 3 for me, one of which actually being a waterbed. my parents had one until we had to sell the house in 2019
Luckily we didn't have AOL emails where I lived.
But checks? Still use them, they're dead useful for school stuff, sport events for the kids and so on.
Never had VCR, AOL or phone bo. Don't think AOL ever was a thing here anyway, it was Sol or Kvasir and then Hotmail. The rest my 37 years have included.
Dude. I still use 8 of them. And you'll only take those eight from my cold, dead fingers. Which, apparently, won't be long...
*cheque book
And why people from other countries than USA would necessarily use AOL?
It’s check book in the states, where the majority of native English speakers live.
19
Not 4, ... 20? Bitch please.