Are we censoring books now?
3/20
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.
19; guess which one I’ve never used?
Waterbed?
That’s a check if you were rich and old.
Check book
Phone Bo?
(I really want to make a bo staff out of phones now)
number 20 does elude me
It’s when you are smelly while using a phone
18 cause I’m not American.
TIL dictionaries and encyclopedias are exclusively American.
I’d guess cursive and AOL.
Do they mean a mix tape?
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What’s a phone bo?
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.
Book, probably
The reason you didn’t get 20.
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.
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
Mixed Tape
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.
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.
Smithers, I really feel like a free spirit. And I’m really enjoying this so-called “iced cream.”
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.
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 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’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 think you’d be 50 or older
Early 40s and 20/20. I’m guessing you’re pretty young.
I’m 43 and it’s 20. My mate is 37 and it’s also all 20.
38 here, 20 for 20
surprised you could be that young and still have run the list
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.
13 i mean postcard? My work made me write post cards for Christmas even.
19, but only because waterbeds were never really a thing in the UK
