My score was 4!
I've never used a rotary phone, record off radio to cassette (although I did on an MP3 player), never used a boombox outside, and I never used dial up.
Pretty boomer for someone born in '99, eh?
this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2025
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I'm a zoomer and only got three points hahaha
6 and I feel old.
19! (not "nineteen factorial"). I had used a floppy disk once.
I got one point for the Walkman thing, but maybe I just forgot.
Born in 1986.. Zero 0
I'm as old as some people in this thread, I've got 20.
Aight, I said I got a zero, and my husband says we both have one. So help me settle this riveting dinner discussion we're having:
- Paid with a paper check - I say I have because we've made earnest money deposits via check, or down payments on loans via check. And he says "no" because the intent is using a check to pay for things like groceries. He says weve never balanced a checkbook so it doesn't count.
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5 points, not bad
Yeah. 0 points. I either aced it, or I colossally failed it depending on perspective.
1.... Only one I missed was Blockbuster. We didn't have one where I lived but I have rented videos.
I'm gonna say that counts. They shouldn't have specified a specific rental place.
Late 20s - 2 points
A perfect zero. I have done all of those things and more that the creator of that list can't even imagine. Things that were everyday common but have faded beyond memory, (and aren't missed at all).
Some of the stuff I'd like to try again, maybe once or twice. The sound of the pips, modem sounds, aligning a type written head after using some tipex, the rhythmic sounds of a floppy drive, the added noise of your favourite song recorded on an old tape, low battery on a walkman. The list goes one!
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Two points. Wtf would I send a postcard? I also don't believe I've ever sent a fax, though I may have gone to an office supply store to have that done to a business and don't recall.
0 I'm old 😆
- My grandma had a rotary phone.
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I actually plan to buy the latest print encyclopedia I can find. Just in case. Fuck them trying to kill everything good on the internet.
- No Blockbuster in Germany, and noone uses checks here.
Edited from Europe to Germany as some pointed out that there is Blockbuster and checks in other countries
Folks literally still using cheques in France to this day!
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I am proudly batting zero.
18 points.
I've owned a dictionary and an encyclopedia.
Hello officer? I'd like to report a suspicious person in my retirement community!
I don't know how to retire a car but my dad has guided me through replacing a few bits of the engine mount, so does that count?
Get off me lawn!!
never used a Sony Walkman! so that's 1 point for me...
1 point. Never rented a video from Blockbuster. But did rent VHS/CD/DVD movies from local chain.
I think that should count the same
0 point gang rise up.
But don't rise too quickly. I know our backs don't like that.
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Ha!! One point! In yo face!!!
Sorry got too excited there for a second. I have never sent a postcard. Bought em though and rcvd them but never sent.
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- Never owned a whole encyclopedia.
But probably -1 for not only rotary phone but "party line"; sometimes you couldn't use the phone because someone else, in another house, was using that line.
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