Or did you listen to music on any radio station at some point in the '80's? If so you listened to vinyl (and/or vynal) Cause alot of radio stations still had to use records for sone music even up till, I think '95, but don't quote me on that
I kept it and used it to play some records in my teens so i hope so. Never got interested enough in records to want to upgrade from it. Cd's then mp3's came out so fast from that point it didn't matter.
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I don't know, I really think that the encyclopedia question should be changed to "USED" instead of "OWNED" considering an encyclopedia set was a kind of expensive purchase back in the day but everyone who went to school in the '70's '80's and '90's USED an encyclopedia at some point
My parents were not rich, but could be quite susceptible to a good sales pitch, which is how we ended up with three sets of encyclpaedias (including a children's set). When they discovered the shopping channel, random kitchen gadgets would start popping up in the house. There was a period of time when I was in my late teens/early 20s during which my parents would buy stuff, but try to hide it from me because I would scold them for their impulse purchases.
It's bizarre, because they are otherwise so sensible and responsible!
Every time I stumble on a thread like this Iām like āwas I (and everyone I knew) really that poor? No! Everyone on the internet grew up rich I guess!ā
Anyway this was a nonstarter, I did not know a single person with an encyclopedia set at home.
We weren't actually poor by any stretch, solid middle class. We always had bookshelves full of books, but I think my folks realized even then that a set of encyclopedias are outdated within a few years and we had a great public library system, so why waste the money.
That was the really weird part. We were foodbank poor, but I think a grandparent bought them for us. Nothing quite like browsing a fortune in books, while eating all-bran with powdered milk+water.
We had World Books that were almost entirely blue with gold lettering. Whenever I was bored, I used to spend hours just picking a book at random and going down rabbit trails reading random articles. I still do this on Wikipedia to this day. And at least I'm not stuck to one letter. I'm not sure exactly which disorder it is, whether it be ADD/ADHD (which I have been diagnosed with) or OCD or whatever, but hyperlinks on the Internet activate something in me. My brain is like "Finally I can have ALL the information available; there's time enough at last!" And before you know it, I'll have like 150 tabs opened (that I'm totally going to go back to and read in their entirety). I do still love doing it though.
This may be TMI but there was a picture of a marble statue of, like Napoleon's sister, nude. It was part of my, uh, awakening.
It's bizarre to think about how hard up we were back then. And my parents didn't even have cable so I couldn't watch scrambled Skinomax. Shamefully, horneyness is what fostered my interest in foreign cinema and Masterpiece Theater because they could show boobies on PBS.
But at least that ended up being a positive interest. Maybe the only good thing that came out of teenaged hormones.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who was exposed to a little culture (among other things) when trying to watch or look up anything related to sexual topics when I was a desperate, horny middle schooler. I'm still a lover of PBS; just not for the same reasons. My grandparents had a multi-volume home medical guide and encyclopedia from the American Medical Association that had all kinds of nude photos and articles with helpful illustrations detailed descriptions of things that 13 year old me knew were going to be several years off, but was aided in the effort to bide my time by such useful medical publications.
We had these World Books, the reddish brown one was the gold lettering were Funk and Wagnalls, a brand that I forgot even existed until another redditor mentioned them.
I think we had some world books as well but I think they were the white ones or cream colored world books maybe and then we had the funk and wagnalls that name had completely left my brain until you just said it!
We had a set of World Books my grandparents bought for my mom and uncle. 1966, maybe? Blue. I loved them to death.
I scored a zero. Was surprised "owned a dictionary" was on there but the I thought about it and realized I haven't touched mine in ages. Used to love that too.
Aw man I genuinely liked looking at the set of world books my grandma had. They were like... thirty years out of date when I was a teenager but I thought it was neat to just... sit and flip through them.
A local library had a book sale where we bought an old edition of 26 volume encyclopedia for cheap (not sure but definitely less than $50) so we had that for years.
I remember when I learned that simple Encarta disc had all the information that was on what took up the entire bottom half of the family book shelf. Blew my mind.
Lol. My teacher suspected plagiarism in my report, but couldnāt prove it because he wasnāt as tech savvy as my 15 year old ass with Encarta on LaSeR DiSk!
Loved growing up then. Papers were just put up online without worrying too much because teachers hardly knew the tech. Freshman typing teacher didn't know about copy paste when we did it in notepad/word.
I sold a 3.5 inch floppy disk of papers when I was a senior to a freshman. Later that year he stopped me in the hall and proudly showed me one of the papers from the disk and it was marked with a large A+ and a note saying the paper was so good it was being entered into a national writing competition. I received a C- on that same exact paper , which he didnāt even change at all.
I'm going with household, too. I've never owned a set of encyclopedias, but my family did when I was young. It also had an entry on the war in Vietnam but it was an unresolved conflict at the time of printing.
Needless to say, it wasn't the most reliable reference material when I got to high school.
Could even stretch that to grandparents owning a set qualifying.
I remember dad looking up stuff in the encyclopedia at home and not being satisfied and then looking up the same subject on my grandparents encyclopedia because theirs was "better".
I can't remember if it was that they were newer (or older...) or fancier or more in depth but at least a few times that happened.
We had World Books that my mom has been buying piecemeal from the grocery store but we moved before we finished the set. That meant that every report me or my siblings wrote has to be sourced from the first half of the alphabet. No reports on trains or Zimbabwe or radon
Technically, my parents were the ones who owned a used set of 1976 World Book encyclopedias purchased in approximately 1987ā¦ but I used them more than anyone else in my family and learned how babies are made from those semigloss pages. So I donāt think I can take the point.
A local library had a book sale where we bought an old edition of 26 volume encyclopedia for cheap (not sure but definitely less than $50) so we had that for years.
I thought I was in your shoes, but then I remembered the time I drove from Florida to California with only a paper map after New Mexico because we got turned around from the Mapquest directions weād printed out and kept so organized.
Owned like four parts of the Charlie Brown encyclopedia my mom was buying for us at the supermarket, not a complete set but in counting it. I also got a zero
So like, Mom signed up for some kind of Encyclopedia subscription through the local grocery store? We had about 1/3 of the books...I don't know how to score that. Without that, I have a 0.
I don't remember if we ever got the full set but I do remember buying them at the supermarket where they were sold one volume each week/month whatever. Better hope you don't go out of town or miss a week because that set will never get complete.
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I was born in 86 and I never used a rotary phone. I can't recall ever seeing anyone in my family owning a rotary phone growing up, even the older ones. If they did, I didn't use it. I don't recall owning a Walkman brand cassette player, but I did have a portable cassette player that had a built in radio.
That game was awesome. I was always so sad because it was so short.
Also, I used to find that playing sounds on a computer was the most amazing thing. I must have sat there and listened to everything in Encarta. I miss that amazement.
This is the closest I ever had to an encyclopedia in my house. Of course by that point I also had the Internet. Oh, and maybe a few random volumes of Funk & Wagnalls, but never a complete set. Parents were frugal and didn't see a point when I had easy enough access to proper encyclopedias at school and the library.
Yup, a local library had a book sale where we bought an old edition of 26 volume encyclopedia for cheap (not sure but definitely less than $50) so we had that for years.
We definitely weren't even millionaires but we had the adult set and the child set that was beige and red. There were so many good stories at the end of the child books I'd read over again when I was bored.
Same. I used to love to just sit and look through them. I can visualize how they felt and smelled even though I haven't seen one in decades. If I recall, someone sold them to us door to door.
Duck billed platypus was one of the first things I looked up because of the commercials they'd run.
My parents bought a set from a door-to-door salesman when my mom was pregnant with my older brother as an "investment in his future". Fast forward to me in high school still using them as twenty year old reference material.
Iām pretty sure we donāt have a complete set. We bought them from a door to door salesman on some kind of a book of the month plan that my parents stopped paying for.
A few months before I was born, my dad was in an accident at work and got a fairly nice payout. He was flat broke and deep in debt again by my first birthday. But despite being poor, I grew up with the World Book encyclopedia set and the complete Child Craft set. We also had a Commodore 64, an Atari with maybe a dozen games, a laser disk player with several movies, and the best stereo/record player 1980 had to offer.
I grew up pretty standard āmiddle classā and we didnāt have a set. I mean I used the ones from the library plenty, we just didnāt have them at home.
We didnāt have much money at all, but my mom made sure I had encyclopedias because she valued my educationā¦ I only used them for book reports though
I remember my parents buying those sets they sold at the supermarket. Youād buy like one book at a time. You have an upcoming school report on snakes? Sorry the āSā volume hasnāt been purchased yet.
Zero points for me, could have been one but my great uncle had a typewriter and while I never used it for real, when I was little I did play with it because I liked the sounds it made while typing.
The first 0 Iāve ever been proud of. Does it still count if the encyclopedia in the house was out of date before you needed it? I hope so, because Iām definitely counting it.
yeah some could, but I thought the ones that were more meant to sit on your entertainment center were called modular or component stereos or hi-fi stereos for a bit
I've heard them called Ghetto Blasters in the past... Not sure how kosher the term is.
I had one that had detatchable speakers. yet I tended to just plug headphones in because my taste in music is my own and honestly I preferred a walkman for that reason.
Don't forget government. I am a UC program manager. Almost every customer we work with still has to send and receive faxes in the medical, legal, financial and government sectors.
Old timers (70+) are the worst. They refuse to adapt to e-fax options that are cheaper, more reliable, more secure and easier. You'll have an office full of 25-50 year old professionals that are all down for webfaxing, but the one old dude with his name on the company marquee wants a traditional fax machine. Sorry, you have for pay $50/mo for that service plus labor when shit happens.
I work in healthcare. I'm forever faxing doctors who failed to follow up on escripts that were promised or faxing paper scripts residents somehow manage to bring back to the pharmacy our facility uses.
I think I was the last person to use our office's fax machine (albeit, about 5 years ago). I was hired to replace a Boomer who'd retired, and he still used it a fair amount, so some of his clients were still accustomed to it. I used it a few times starting off, before transitioning over to email for everything.
The office manager popped into my office and asked how much I needed the fax machine, because they wanted to change copiers and I was the only one still using it. I told her, "no way, get that thing out of here."
oddly enough until a year or two ago I hadn't written a check in probably a decade and a half. Then I started doing some bumming around in a van and discovered a lot of campgrounds want a check, which seemed odd.
They are and widely landlords are usually pretty laid back, Iāve had one before, but my only worry is they pass and the estate rushes to sell the house to cash out.
If you know the bank they deposit your check with and that bank happens to be where you live, you could offer to simply swing into the drive-thru of said bank and deposit that check into their account. It would save you from mailing it, save them from having to deposit it,bthey'd get the money sooner, and it would clear your account sooner.
12 is a miss for most people just because it says "from the radio". We would copy one cassette to another or a CD to cassette for a mixtape, etc, but I never even considered recording something from the radio, ever.
Zero here as well, add on to this list! Used a payphone, push mowed a yard with a Reel mower, and or gas. Built a tree fort out of random items, Jumped off the roof with rope swing, jumped off a cliff into a river or swimming hole, ice skated on a river, rode your bike on a frozen lake, wet down a snow ramp you built on a hill at night so you can jump it the next day, slid down hills on cardboard in the summer, built a bike out of spare parts from the junkyard or your cut the forks off a ten speed and turned your bike into a chopper, played spin the bottle at a party, spent the night at the grave yard , crawled through sewer/drainage pipes, created tunnels in a barn full of hay and hoped it would not collapse, had a paper route you did on your bike, worked on a dairy farm at 4 a.m. in the morning to milk the cows, ate wild rhubarb on the side of the road, or crab apples off someones orchard, hitchhiked to another state or around town.
I'm trying to understand how people don't write checks anymore. All of the contractors that I have paid to work on the house ask for checks and any municipal bills aren't online yet where I live. Do they ask their bank to issue a check instead? I'm so not with it.
Checks are still regular currency in my rural town. In particular, the school district ONLY accepts checks for activity-related payments (no cc or digital). Of course, livestock payments are on checks, and usually those extra large ones that come in a binder!
Checks are ingrained in me as safer than e-pay because it used to be a safer route. Now with e-deposits and ATM deposits you can cash a check that isnāt even written to you and it will go through unless you, the check writer, or the intended recipient catches it.
Are you American, by chance? Electronic transfers down there seem to be a decade or so behind everywhere else. When I hire contractors here, I just send them electronic fund transfers to pay them, if they don't take credit.
A couple of contractors I've worked with took Zelle or Venmo, but most want checks. Some tree trimmers were pretty excited when my husband didn't know where the checkbook was and just paid them in cash.
I have t touched a check in almost 15 years. I guess I donāt deal with contractors, all the work thatās been done I did myself, but all utilities and that are done online. I pay my mortgage through an app, pay for everything in apps or online. Even my daughterās preschool. I have t even seen another person wrote a check since maybe 2011.
I hired an interior designer, and I went to pay her the other day. She accepted Cashapp, which I have, but I've never paid with it, so I was fumbling with it. Gave up and wrote a check.
But because I do it so rarely I forgot to sign it, and didn't think about it till hours later...
I might get a half point for faxing because even though I received and sent faxes to a fax machine, it was through software on my end. Maybe a half point for paper map because thatās how I plan off-trail hiking routes only, oh and maybe a half point for all the things that my parents owned and I used while living there, but never owned myself.
To be fair, fax machines have been around for 50+ years and businesses still use them. Many doctor offices in the USA still insist on faxes instead of emails for receiving orders.
And vinyl records have made a comeback and have almost a cult following.
I'd say that just going to a video store counts. Blockbuster isn't any more retro than any other video store that was around at the time; it's probably more retro to have gone to a store that had an adult section.
Yep, the Stop & Shop near my house had a video rental section at the front of the store. Used to rent movies and games there all the time. If I didn't quite have the $3 to rent a game, I'd gather up cans & bottles littered around the neighborhood and they had can/bottle return machines there that paid 5 cents for each.
I remember going to a mom and pop video rental shop in the town I lived in for half of my childhood. It was a township in North Western New Jersey that had many banks and one Burger King for fastfood chains! I didn't get to experience the big chain Blockbuster video stores until we moved back to the Sacramento CA suburbs in the 1990s.
I was born in 88 and I did every single one of these things except record radio music on a tape recorder just because I didnāt have one lol. I donāt consider myself an 80s kid though. Iām definitely a 90s kid.
I'm giving myself a negative point because my father still used 8 track tapes when I was in high school. With my BOOK of cds. I also used one of those tape-to-cd adapters. š«
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My parents literally still do this. Just had their agent drop off a set of tickets at their home yesterday while I was visiting and I couldn't compute.Ā
Also passed with a zero! I still own a dictionary, pay for things with paper checks, listen to vynil, own and use a physical phone/address book, and send postcards.
Zero for myself, and I would imagine most of you as well. Here's the interesting number, ask your children these same questions. I haven't officially asked my 13 year old but I'm guessing she's at 15 Nevers.
Paper maps were great. Once you finished re-reading your Roald Dahl book and the batteries died on your gameboy, the only form of entertainment on family roadtrips was comparing mileage markers in the road atlas against the current speed of your minivan to calculate how much longer it would take to pass the next major exit. Then you'd hit a winding section of road, get car sick from concentrating on the map, and puke into a gallon ziplock bag. Good fun.
You can still find road maps and print them from online sources. I had an event that there was no way I was missing during one of solar storms last year. Piled all that stuff in my bag in case GPS got all messed up.
I tried to buy groceries with a paper check because I lost my debit card and it wouldn't go through. I called the processing company and they said I had to register and it would take about two weeks.
Didn't rent from Blockbuster til I was in my early 20s (2008). We had a mom and pop video store that my parents took us to every Friday to pick out a movie.
I could never figure out the fax machine so I just had the clerk in the office at work do it for me. I entered the workforce in a weird time between fax and email.
This was an easy 0. I'm not that old but as a teen before smart phones I definitely used a paper map, had an atlas book of north america and major cities in that pocket they used to have behind seats in the car.
Also 85, but got 0. Always thought of myself as more xennial than millennial, but the only thing that brings that down is we had a computer since I was basically born, and internet in like 1995. I was using AOL and messaging people and stuff by the time I was about 11 or 12. So I guess I had a very analog and digital upbringing.
I am close to you age wise and I had to fudge the radio to tape one. Probably did something to that effect as a kid playing around but not to really listen too.
I did burn a shit load of CDs from downloaded music, even made a few bucks doing it for other people.
And definitely used that illegally downloaded music, played over shitty computer speakers, recorded by my crappy pre flip phone cell phone to make my own "custom" free ring tones lol.
I had cassettes but never had an urge to copy, or record from radio.
Never had an Encyclopedia set, Though relatives and my grandmother had an older set.
And oddly enough I never traveled enough as a kid to have made out a postcard and send it anywhere, although I may have purchased a few as a memento.
I burned a few CD's in my time and my current Mp3 collection may or may not have a significant amount that were dubiously obtained in the early 00's
I thought I never sent a fax but then I rememberd going to Kinkos as a kid so my mom could fax stuff to the county, so I'm counting it. Big ZERO. I used to buy comic books with checks, sheesh.
Some things I've kinda done like I never actually made a call with a rotary phone, but I have interacted with one. I never used a phone book to make a call but my parents owned one. Those things I didn't give myself credit for.
I have VHS tapes from my childhood where we recorded dinosaur documentaries. Some of those are British shows with an American narrator and I CAN'T FIND THE AMERICAN VERSIONS on the internet. I desperately need a VHS player. There are ancient commercials on there too!
I gave myself a 1 but only because I used a typewriter as a novelty thing. Like someone had one and I asked if I could try to type on it. Typed a sentence on it, and that was it. It wasn't even an 80s thing it was maybe 10 years ago.
But I debated hard as to weather or not I should count it, lol
They should add a couple more. Like played games on Atari, or used Polaroid Camera as opposed to just one with film. To me, that was old school.
Oh, and of course I have all those checked off. āļø
2 points. I never used a Walkman (although I did have a discman so do I get half a point for that?). And I never sent a post card. That seems like a strange one to add to the list.
Thanks. I think it was a first generation discman. It definitely skipped but I learned how to baby it and that helped. Like keeping it in a backpack instead of my pocket helped.
I'm a 2. I never recorded music on a cassette tape and I've never sent a postcard, though I have received postcards and listened to recorded cassette tapes lol
My mom was big on education and we didn't have much but we had an encyclopedia set. It was nice not having to go to the library to write a paper at the last minute.
My punishment was often sitting at the kitchen table and copying a page full of words from the dictionaries that came with it I hated it but now I rarely ever come across a word I cannot define or pronounce so thanks mom.
Never listened to a vynil record, and don't miss vinyl records. To this day, every time I hear Dark Side of the Moon I expect to her the record skip at various spots.
I guess I have one point, cause I never personally sent a postcard, but I went on family vacations where my parents sent postcards from āall of usā.
Hey, vinyl (vynil?) is coming back now. My parents had a record player when I was a kid but my wife and I just got one a few months ago. There is something warm and fuzzy about the comforting crackle of a record.
1 Point, I don't think I ever rented from a blockbuster considering it was in the next town over about 25 minutes away and we had like three or four rental stores in our town. I definitely bought from them a few times though.
Some of these are just a function of having a job, even today.
For example, I've faxed in 2024 because the IRS primarily accepts paperwork through faxes from attorneys.
I have a dictionary because we have Black's Law Dictionary - what every attorney uses.
Even checks, I loath using them, but some places will only accept checks or they'll give you a discount because you're not using a credit card. Though, I will say, I think I'm still using the same check book I opened my bank account with like 10 years ago.
I did this quiz with my 18-year-old kid. On the Blockbuster question, she said um...oh yeah, we did rent a video that one time. I'm like ??, no that was a Redbox, they had DVDs. She said, "Wait, what was the question?" omg I lost it. I had to explain that a video from Blockbuster means a VHS from the walk-in store. I guess they had DVDs in the later years, but Redbox doesn't count.
On an interesting note, she has listened to music from a wax cylinder on a phonograph, because of this one time we went to a museum. But she hasn't ever listened to music on vinyl!
Half a point. I never rented a video from Blockbuster, because there weren't any around here, but I did rent from a mom and pop, and then Hollywood Video.
No rotary phone use here. My friend had one in his house, but I never used it, and by the first time I used a pay phone theyād all been replaced with touch tones.
Australians stopped paying with cheques a LONG time ago. That said, there are still some official transactions that require one, like buying a home for instance. I missed out because we bought our home during lockdowns and everything was online.
Never really used a rotary phone here. My parents were young, so had a newer phone, never really spent much of my young childhood with other family to be around themĀ
1 point for me because the nearest Blockbuster was like 2 hours away. We had video rental places, but no big chains until later when family video showed up.
I owned A encyclopedia. My parents got World
book volume A for free, were too cheap to buy the rest. Throughout school, I wrote lots of papers on A subjects.
My grandparents got the encyclopedias for my family, so they werenāt mine per se, but I used them the most. If thatās a point for me, itās the only one.
Never sent a postcard, but mailed tons of letters. I also never owned a dictionary or encyclopedia myself but used ones in different libraries. I can navigate a card catalogue tho lol š
More than likely bc of where I'm from and being poor had a hand in that, so I still think I should get a zero lol
Renting a viedo from Blockbuster is the only one I've never done but to be fair my small town didn't have a Blockbuster but my first job was at the locally owned video store if that counts instead.
Screw all of you infants! I have done all of these things, including used an 8-track player and gone to bed after Television signed off. Harrumpphhh!!!! (walking away as quickly as my creaky knees will let me).
Either a 1 or 0 depending on what counts for using a rotary phone. When I was old enough to use the phone at home I recall it having buttons, but I used to play with the working rotary phone my grandparents still had connected when visiting because I thought it was interesting, but I didn't meaningfully "use" it. A quick search reveals that button dial phones where introduced in 1963, so I guess it's not unexpectedly my parents had button dial by the 80s.
I have had faxes sent and received on my behalf, and I have troubleshooted fax machines as recently as 2024, but I have never actually gone through the process of sending a fax with my own hands, nor have I received one addressed directly to me.
I used printed-out google maps with directions in the earlier google maps days, but never actually used a real map.
My first internet connection was at uni and there the connection was definitely not a dial-up. I also thought the computer lab was the best place to hang out on weekend (nights).. okay, I know how that makes me sound and yes, I was never cool nor popular.
Paper checks haven't been a thing here since the 80s. I got a basic ATM card in the early 90s.
Scored 0. But I always had to go to the library for updated editions of World Book. Our family set was about 5 editions out of date - dad bought it when he and mom got married - in anticipation of having kids.
I must have paid for some things by cheque because I remember have stubs. Although I dont recall ever actually using one in a shop. Perhaps it was for mail order things?
I mean I don't know what a "vynil" is, but I have a turntable, great Bose box speakers that were my dad's from the 80s, and a great record collection.
I guess technically my parents owed the encyclopedia, but it was for me and my benefit (along with the National Geographic CD-ROM set, man that thing was awesome). And I'm sure I had a children's encyclopedia at some point, so it counts.
I still pay my water/sewer/garbage bill with a paper check, because my city is stupid and charges a fee for online payments. So waste your expensive government employee's time processing my paper check each month, jerks.
I'm a one. We actually did not have blockbuster in my town during my prime renting years. We had a local place that also rented out videogames that was awesome, then we discovered our local library had excellent videos for rent including a full set of wrestle manias.
Not that old but l grew up in a small town that was like 20 years behind. With almost a complete set of encyclopedias! The salesman stopped coming around V.
2 points. Rented movies in other places and never used a check (I think I haven't seen one of those since I was a child). I was about to add the fax one, but I think I ONCE sent one.
Federal Blue Cross still pays for prescription drug reimbursement with paper checks. Is part of their wait until the last minute to pay scam. Also, is just for overseas claims that I know of.
12 and 13 are the only ones I never did. I grew up in a small town in the middle of nowhere. We didnāt have a radio station worth recording songs from and we didnāt have a blockbuster within 90 miles of where I lived. There were other movie rental businesses in my town.
Never rented a movie from blockbuster because we were a podunk town who only got local chains. And to be honest, I wouldnāt change it for all the world. Local stores were always the shit IMO
My two horse town didnāt have a Blockbuster. To be fair, some of the stuff on the list are still a part of normal life. Paper checks are still needed. Faxing was still essential until a few years ago with academic records. Sending a post card is a cool way to send yourself a souvenir.
Gonna miss Trudeau from our neighbors to the north, mostly because he's been around for nine years. Guess that's still better then trying to remember who the current Prime Minister of the UK is. Well, before the liberal government most recently took over.
This is the one thing Iām like 80% sure Iāve never done. OTOH I was a journalist for an actual physically printed newspaper so I feel like that should count.
So the dreams of the '90s being alive in Portland is a true statement? My typewriter is electric which doesn't make it portable and/or douche-baggy (I think).
I never used a real/mechanical typewriter. We had an Apple 2e when I was a kid, and then a 486, and then when I was 16, I got a job and built my own PC from inexpensive parts that I picked up at a computer show.
I never had a paper encyclopedia, but we had "prodigy bbs" which came with an encyclopedia as part of the subscription. Eventually prodigy became our ISP, though after my folks split up, when I lived with my mom we didn't really have internet until I built my PC in 96 and signed up for a local ISP called netwave.
You know, I never had to use a paper map to get around. I just kinda knew where I was going when I was driving. Now, I have been in the car on family road trips when a map was used, but not me personally.
Those encyclopedias were the biggest con! I remember the dressing downs my Dad would give my Mom over their price. He gloated once encyclopedias on CD-Rom came out. We'd devoted two coveted shelves to those family fracturing, instantly outdated badboys. Ah, the 90s. Score 0.
Iāve never recorded the radio to a cassette, and Iāve never owned an encyclopedia. Technically Iāve also never rented from Blockbuster - my family went to Hollywood Video instead.
Sparty_75@reddit
0 for me, god Iām old
2099AD@reddit
1 point -- I never owned an encyclopedia.
Also, "vinyl." GET OFF MY LAWN, WHIPPERSNAPPER!
sweetnsalty24@reddit
I guess I get a 1 for never listening to vynil
BadRabiesJudger@reddit
Before you give up on this. Did you or a friend own a fisherprice record player as a child.
sputobswictab@reddit
Yes, thus! I had. Sesame Street Big Bird record player. I would listen to some of my parents records when I was little.
BUSKET_RVA@reddit
Or did you listen to music on any radio station at some point in the '80's? If so you listened to vinyl (and/or vynal) Cause alot of radio stations still had to use records for sone music even up till, I think '95, but don't quote me on that
ommnian@reddit
does that really count???
BadRabiesJudger@reddit
I kept it and used it to play some records in my teens so i hope so. Never got interested enough in records to want to upgrade from it. Cd's then mp3's came out so fast from that point it didn't matter.
ommnian@reddit
Wait. You mean the Fisher price record player can play real records and not just the half dozen plastic ones it comes with?!?!?
ClassFearless@reddit
There were two FP record players. The one that came with the brightly colored plastic records I donāt think could play real records. But they also had ones that could absolutely play real records. I had a brown, beige and orange one, and my brother had a blue and white one.Ā
sweetnsalty24@reddit
I've listened to plenty of vinyl, never vynil.
LatinBotPointTwo@reddit
Vinyl is the superior medium. Try it out before it's too late.
sweetnsalty24@reddit
The joke is I've listened to vinyl not vynil.
LatinBotPointTwo@reddit
Aaahhhhh my brain shorted out, thanks.
2099AD@reddit
I mean, considering it doesn't exist... :D
DM_Me_your_lingerie8@reddit
You can literally go to Target and buy a vinyl record
Gorkymalorki@reddit
Yeah but you can't get Vynil there.
Happy-Campaign5586@reddit
Spelling: Vinyl
Gorkymalorki@reddit
Look at the way it is spelled in the original post.
Happy-Campaign5586@reddit
š¤£šš¤£
miaow-fish@reddit
Look at the speeling in the OP and the person you are commenting to.
lacroixanon@reddit
Maybe they're only into the cylinders. Takin it way back. Actual wax.
MoulanRougeFae@reddit
Are you sure vynil isn't the lame weird ass records from the sketchy flea market? I'm pretty sure those are vynil.
GlumpsAlot@reddit
Same.
bokatan778@reddit
Itās never too late!
BUSKET_RVA@reddit
I don't know, I really think that the encyclopedia question should be changed to "USED" instead of "OWNED" considering an encyclopedia set was a kind of expensive purchase back in the day but everyone who went to school in the '70's '80's and '90's USED an encyclopedia at some point
Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit
At our age, I'm pretty sure "household" is good enough for the encyclopedia.
boringsuburbandad@reddit
What was it like to have rich parents? I was library encyclopedia poor.
WanderingVerses@reddit
Same same. Encyclopedia poor. But library rich! The excitement from my first library card. What a day. What a smile I wore.
CheezeLoueez08@reddit
Aw thatās so cute
ArianaIncomplete@reddit
My parents were not rich, but could be quite susceptible to a good sales pitch, which is how we ended up with three sets of encyclpaedias (including a children's set). When they discovered the shopping channel, random kitchen gadgets would start popping up in the house. There was a period of time when I was in my late teens/early 20s during which my parents would buy stuff, but try to hide it from me because I would scold them for their impulse purchases.
It's bizarre, because they are otherwise so sensible and responsible!
sweet_pickles12@reddit
Every time I stumble on a thread like this Iām like āwas I (and everyone I knew) really that poor? No! Everyone on the internet grew up rich I guess!ā
Anyway this was a nonstarter, I did not know a single person with an encyclopedia set at home.
bokatan778@reddit
We didnāt have a set either. I guess my score is a 1 then!
Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit
Technically you don't need a multi-volume set. A concise encyclopedia can be a single book.
boringsuburbandad@reddit
We weren't actually poor by any stretch, solid middle class. We always had bookshelves full of books, but I think my folks realized even then that a set of encyclopedias are outdated within a few years and we had a great public library system, so why waste the money.
Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit
That was the really weird part. We were foodbank poor, but I think a grandparent bought them for us. Nothing quite like browsing a fortune in books, while eating all-bran with powdered milk+water.
ActualGvmtName@reddit
Yeah, that set of encyclopaedia Britannica
Secret_Elevator17@reddit
I thikn we had World Books maybe - they were brown with a gold embossing....
CheezeLoueez08@reddit
Us too.
SplakyD@reddit
We had World Books that were almost entirely blue with gold lettering. Whenever I was bored, I used to spend hours just picking a book at random and going down rabbit trails reading random articles. I still do this on Wikipedia to this day. And at least I'm not stuck to one letter. I'm not sure exactly which disorder it is, whether it be ADD/ADHD (which I have been diagnosed with) or OCD or whatever, but hyperlinks on the Internet activate something in me. My brain is like "Finally I can have ALL the information available; there's time enough at last!" And before you know it, I'll have like 150 tabs opened (that I'm totally going to go back to and read in their entirety). I do still love doing it though.
Secret_Elevator17@reddit
Yeah, apparently I was the weird one with the cream world books lol
SplakyD@reddit
No, my grandparents had those, I think. The blue ones were from like somewhere between '83 and '86, if I remember correctly.
Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit
Samsies. Also the childcraft encyclopedia books. Those were fun.
ActualGvmtName@reddit
Flipping to s to see if it has 'sex'.
keepcalmscrollon@reddit
This may be TMI but there was a picture of a marble statue of, like Napoleon's sister, nude. It was part of my, uh, awakening.
It's bizarre to think about how hard up we were back then. And my parents didn't even have cable so I couldn't watch scrambled Skinomax. Shamefully, horneyness is what fostered my interest in foreign cinema and Masterpiece Theater because they could show boobies on PBS.
But at least that ended up being a positive interest. Maybe the only good thing that came out of teenaged hormones.
SplakyD@reddit
I'm glad I'm not the only one who was exposed to a little culture (among other things) when trying to watch or look up anything related to sexual topics when I was a desperate, horny middle schooler. I'm still a lover of PBS; just not for the same reasons. My grandparents had a multi-volume home medical guide and encyclopedia from the American Medical Association that had all kinds of nude photos and articles with helpful illustrations detailed descriptions of things that 13 year old me knew were going to be several years off, but was aided in the effort to bide my time by such useful medical publications.
bitchimtryin102@reddit
This is how I learned how a baby was made. No shit.
Lucky_Coyote_1073@reddit
Totally, lol
Lucky_Coyote_1073@reddit
Totally, lol
Sir_wlkn_contrdikson@reddit
Childcraft was great!!!
Sir_wlkn_contrdikson@reddit
That was britannica. World book was light brown 70% top. Navy blue 30% bottom. Gold lettering
Secret_Elevator17@reddit
We had these World Books, the reddish brown one was the gold lettering were Funk and Wagnalls, a brand that I forgot even existed until another redditor mentioned them.
Sir_wlkn_contrdikson@reddit
Those must have been made been made with papyrus. I think the set my folks bought was either green or blue
Somandyjo@reddit
Ours were a set from the 1950s that my mom found for cheap in the early 90s. I can smell that memory.
bitchimtryin102@reddit
We had a set of World Book encyclopedia s my grandma gave us. They were dated 1969 š for real though, Iād love to have them today
Frhetorick@reddit
Sounds like Funk and Wagnalls. That's what my family had.
Secret_Elevator17@reddit
YES!!!!!!
I think we had some world books as well but I think they were the white ones or cream colored world books maybe and then we had the funk and wagnalls that name had completely left my brain until you just said it!
keepcalmscrollon@reddit
We had a set of World Books my grandparents bought for my mom and uncle. 1966, maybe? Blue. I loved them to death.
I scored a zero. Was surprised "owned a dictionary" was on there but the I thought about it and realized I haven't touched mine in ages. Used to love that too.
TheLastBlakist@reddit
Aw man I genuinely liked looking at the set of world books my grandma had. They were like... thirty years out of date when I was a teenager but I thought it was neat to just... sit and flip through them.
Sir_wlkn_contrdikson@reddit
š«š«š«š«š«. World book gang over here
lilbunnygal@reddit
Or Encarta 95
ActualGvmtName@reddit
Had that cd š
crappy-pete@reddit
Does having encarta on cd count?
Because having the britannica books is bougie af (I think they were thousands of dollars in Australia)
LeftOn4ya@reddit
A local library had a book sale where we bought an old edition of 26 volume encyclopedia for cheap (not sure but definitely less than $50) so we had that for years.
KahBhume@reddit
I remember when I learned that simple Encarta disc had all the information that was on what took up the entire bottom half of the family book shelf. Blew my mind.
TheBlissFox@reddit
Lol. My teacher suspected plagiarism in my report, but couldnāt prove it because he wasnāt as tech savvy as my 15 year old ass with Encarta on LaSeR DiSk!
UncagedKestrel@reddit
I just panicked and handed in a print out of Encarta for a project once.
Needless to say, the teacher wasn't impressed.
The diagnosis of ADHD a few years later explained a LOT though.
Extra_Pea8548@reddit
Loved growing up then. Papers were just put up online without worrying too much because teachers hardly knew the tech. Freshman typing teacher didn't know about copy paste when we did it in notepad/word.
Swimming_Cry_6841@reddit
I sold a 3.5 inch floppy disk of papers when I was a senior to a freshman. Later that year he stopped me in the hall and proudly showed me one of the papers from the disk and it was marked with a large A+ and a note saying the paper was so good it was being entered into a national writing competition. I received a C- on that same exact paper , which he didnāt even change at all.
Extra_Pea8548@reddit
It came with our family's first computer. An AST 486. The game was fun in it.
nudave@reddit
My mom sold World Book encyclopedias in the 80s, just long enough to earn us our free set.
rosiedoes@reddit
We had leather bound ones from the 1960s.
Myotherdumbname@reddit
My grandma had a set, but we never did
c_b0t@reddit
When my grandmother moved, we ended up with the set that my mom and her siblings had growing up.
Myotherdumbname@reddit
Itās funny they were so cool, but when my grandma passed away a couple years ago my mom asked if I wanted them, but theyāre basically useless now.
Runningman787@reddit
I grew up with the New Book of Knowledge encyclopedias, and my parents even got the annual update books for about 15 years. They were dedicated to it!
El-Viking@reddit
I'm going with household, too. I've never owned a set of encyclopedias, but my family did when I was young. It also had an entry on the war in Vietnam but it was an unresolved conflict at the time of printing.
Needless to say, it wasn't the most reliable reference material when I got to high school.
sh1nybaubles@reddit
This was my question! I didnāt personally own them but my parents did
tjdux@reddit
Could even stretch that to grandparents owning a set qualifying.
I remember dad looking up stuff in the encyclopedia at home and not being satisfied and then looking up the same subject on my grandparents encyclopedia because theirs was "better".
I can't remember if it was that they were newer (or older...) or fancier or more in depth but at least a few times that happened.
cornpudding@reddit
We had World Books that my mom has been buying piecemeal from the grocery store but we moved before we finished the set. That meant that every report me or my siblings wrote has to be sourced from the first half of the alphabet. No reports on trains or Zimbabwe or radon
sweet_pickles12@reddit
Ok, Richie Rich. You know who owned the encyclopedia? The Library. So many nickel xerox copies.
CzusAguster@reddit
My grandparents had the Encyclopedia collection, and that counts for me. I was always reading them at their house.
ElleAnn42@reddit
Technically, my parents were the ones who owned a used set of 1976 World Book encyclopedias purchased in approximately 1987ā¦ but I used them more than anyone else in my family and learned how babies are made from those semigloss pages. So I donāt think I can take the point.
RangerBumble@reddit
Wait. Does the encyclopedia CDrom count?
djseifer@reddit
I'm counting the one I owned on CD-ROM.
PurplishPlatypus@reddit
I loved Encarta
HomsarWasRight@reddit
Encarta DEFINITELY counts.
wolfmann99@reddit
1 point - we didn't go to blockbuster... we had family video and other mom and pop stores.
Visual_Owl_2348@reddit
Encyclopediaās were for rich people. 1 point for me too
icberg7@reddit
Yeah, who owned an encyclopedia? Those things were insanely expensive.
Closest thing I ever "owned" (since it's licensed software) was Encarta.
LeftOn4ya@reddit
A local library had a book sale where we bought an old edition of 26 volume encyclopedia for cheap (not sure but definitely less than $50) so we had that for years.
Mackheath1@reddit
I'd not listened to Vynil - is that some newfangled prescription drug for my aching back?
SixOneFive615@reddit
Yea, itās because I was poor, not of the wrong generation.
MorbidMarko@reddit
We was too poor for the learnin books.
Debtastical@reddit
What are we? Millionaires?
fenwoods@reddit
Yeah, I was going to saw thatās the one that was a rarity even back in the day. Shit was expensive.
Responsible_Bed9027@reddit
Damn, I own a set of 1964 Encyclopedia Britannica.
No_Worse_For_Wear@reddit
That was my 1 also, I can live with it.
Cabusha@reddit
1 pt - never recorded radio to cassette. Otherwise, yeah, guess Iām old. XD
ErisGrey@reddit
2 of these things I've already done this year. (Sent a Fax, Paid with a Paper Check)
_Standardissue@reddit
Yeah those were for the better-off
alittlegnat@reddit
1 - Iāve never used paper maps unless you count Mapquest print outs of my route lol
Accomplished-View929@reddit
I thought I was in your shoes, but then I remembered the time I drove from Florida to California with only a paper map after New Mexico because we got turned around from the Mapquest directions weād printed out and kept so organized.
bluelaw2013@reddit
Still counts.
No points for you!
AquariusRising1983@reddit
Yeah, for that one I counted the set of encyclopedias my parents had while I was growing up. I used it often enough as a kid š¤·š»āāļø
Remy315@reddit
Yeah, the people I knew that owned an encyclopedia had serious money. That shit wasnāt cheap. Thatās also my non point as well.
fschu_fosho@reddit
My dad got us a whole set of encyclopaedias. Going through it was basically my Facebook scrolling habit back in the day.
Theartistcu@reddit
Iāve owned individual encyclopedias but never a whole set so Iām not sure if itās 0 or 1
Robbbylight@reddit
* Not even this one? I mustve read this every night
LRTenebrae@reddit
Same. Grandma had the World Encyclopedia set from 1962. I had Microsoft Encarta.
On_my_last_spoon@reddit
Same!
zoey8068@reddit
I remember when they were records or LPs LOL
buffalovirgo@reddit
Owned like four parts of the Charlie Brown encyclopedia my mom was buying for us at the supermarket, not a complete set but in counting it. I also got a zero
Ninjastyle1805@reddit
Same
MorrighanAnCailleach@reddit
Same here.
keepcalmdude@reddit
1 point as well. I never sent a postcard. I just never bothered to do it
skeetpea@reddit
Exactly. Technically my parents owned it.
DooficusIdjit@reddit
Are you sure? They came with every computer after cd-roms were standard equipment.
SinisterDetection@reddit
Same, did borrow certain volumes from the library though
Teto_the_foxsquirrel@reddit
I'm counting my grandma's encyclopedia bookshelf. I didn't own them myself, but I did use them as a kid.
kathatter75@reddit
Yeahā¦my family couldnāt afford that, so I got a 1
neopod9000@reddit
Came here to rep the never owned an encyclopedia crew.
We was too poor....
Critical-Weird-3391@reddit
So like, Mom signed up for some kind of Encyclopedia subscription through the local grocery store? We had about 1/3 of the books...I don't know how to score that. Without that, I have a 0.
OrbitPKA@reddit
Does MS Encarta count?
Loocha@reddit
We bought one encyclopedia per week at the grocery stone until we had the whole set. That memory is crazy to think about.
deep8787@reddit
Same as me...unless Encarta 95 counts?
IvanNemoy@reddit
Same. Too poor.
Uncle_Burney@reddit
Iām calling that one free volume āan encyclopediaā
FlamesNero@reddit
But did your grandparents own an Encyclopedia Britanmica set? Or, have you ever touched a cd Encyclopedia??
kimchiman85@reddit
That misspelling bugged me a lot.
I got 0 points.
knivesofsmoothness@reddit
Vynil record was the only point I scored. Vinyl yes, Vynil no.
spderweb@reddit
Did you have Encarta on your computer though?
2099AD@reddit
nope
ElectraFish@reddit
Also 1 point - never recorded off the radio. I wasn't really ever into music.
bluelaw2013@reddit
This was my one point too.
I copied music for sure, but never from the radio.
Dazzling_Line_8482@reddit
My parents did but the closest I came was Encyclopedia Brown
shinbreaker@reddit
Same. I have no idea of where I would even put a whole Britannica set.
Meperkiz@reddit
Thank you. I was highly disturbed by their spelling. Also: score zero! Represent!
Potvin_Sucks@reddit
I don't remember if we ever got the full set but I do remember buying them at the supermarket where they were sold one volume each week/month whatever. Better hope you don't go out of town or miss a week because that set will never get complete.
Sunchinethewerewolf@reddit
saintjonah@reddit
Spelt is a type of grain. I think the word you're looking for is "spelled". Ironic.
Peterd1900@reddit
BothĀ speltĀ andĀ spelledĀ are two different spellings of the past tense of the verb 'spell'. The spelling tends to vary based on the version of English you're using: In some versions of English, 'spelled' is the preferred variant, in other versions English, 'spelt' is is the preferred variant.
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/spelled-spelt/
BothĀ speltĀ andĀ spelledĀ can be used as the past tense and past participle forms of the verb spell. They have the same meaning and are used interchangeably.
You might useĀ spelledĀ but that does not mean thatĀ speltĀ is wrong.
Most regular verbs takeĀ -dĀ orĀ -edĀ endings in the past tense (climbed,Ā rushed,Ā smoked,Ā touched,Ā washed) while some have retainedĀ theirĀ older
-tĀ endings (built,Ā felt,Ā lent,Ā meant,Ā spent). But a few troublemakers have alternativeĀ -edĀ andĀ -tĀ endings ā
burned, burnt
dreamed, dreamt
kneeled, knelt
leaped, leapt
leaned, leant
learned, learnt
smelled, smelt
spelled,Ā spelt
spilled, spilt
spoiled, spoilt
SpeltĀ is also a type of grain but words can have more than one meaning
gdoublerb@reddit
0 points
MarGoLuv@reddit
Best boomer advice. Also pay your rent,mortgage, taxes with checks. So keep a stack around. This advice came in handy multiple times for me.
Loneshark707@reddit
Sobriety has never been so painful.
OneInACrowd@reddit
#9 was the least, friends and I had less portably alternatives at home.
CheezeLoueez08@reddit
Oh no! 0 š¢
Bailer86@reddit
I was born in 86 and I never used a rotary phone. I can't recall ever seeing anyone in my family owning a rotary phone growing up, even the older ones. If they did, I didn't use it. I don't recall owning a Walkman brand cassette player, but I did have a portable cassette player that had a built in radio.
DoubleOScorpio67@reddit
Zero!
05041927@reddit
-9
Worth_Nectarine_3463@reddit
jamtartgirl@reddit
So proud of my perfect 0 score!
Repulsive_Tie_7941@reddit
1 point. Never used a Fax.
OkieRising@reddit
Whelp thatās a zero for me.
mvislandgirl@reddit
0
Business_Curve_7281@reddit
Proud Zero!
Any_Artichoke5743@reddit
Failed with a 17 and damn proud of it.
LeatherExternal436@reddit
Zero šŖš¼
no_thank_you33@reddit
Who are you billionaires who owned encyclopedias?
letharus@reddit
Does Encarta count?
gyrlonfilm6@reddit
I was just about to ask that. That's the only encyclopedia I had. I loved the game on Encarta!
AlarmingImpress7901@reddit
That game was awesome. I was always so sad because it was so short.
Also, I used to find that playing sounds on a computer was the most amazing thing. I must have sat there and listened to everything in Encarta. I miss that amazement.
Jermine1269@reddit
Was some of it narrated by Patrick Stewart?? Maybe came with your Packard Bell - maybe Windows 95 or 98???
Am I remembering any of this correctly - it's been...
does math and dies
...30 years!!!
wm80@reddit
I think it counts because having Encarta is pretty much the most Xennial thing possible.
LardLad00@reddit
No
letharus@reddit
:(
compulov@reddit
This is the closest I ever had to an encyclopedia in my house. Of course by that point I also had the Internet. Oh, and maybe a few random volumes of Funk & Wagnalls, but never a complete set. Parents were frugal and didn't see a point when I had easy enough access to proper encyclopedias at school and the library.
CalebWilliamson@reddit (OP)
They were second hand.
LeftOn4ya@reddit
Yup, a local library had a book sale where we bought an old edition of 26 volume encyclopedia for cheap (not sure but definitely less than $50) so we had that for years.
ShartyMcFly1982@reddit
Second hand, I was using a 1968 version of world books in the early 90ās. Well we had them, I only looked at the pictures.
anniemdi@reddit
We were also using 1968 World Books in the 1990s.
LardLad00@reddit
Yeah my family's set were hand-me-downs from the '70s. World Books, of course.
firesticks@reddit
Ah those 1972 World Books we had really hit a wall in the late eighties/early nineties.
Somandyjo@reddit
50s here lol
IamREBELoe@reddit
Slot for a library card, here.
Bob_Lawablaw@reddit
World Book!! Fuck yeah!
Slamnflwrchild@reddit
My uncle gave them to me lol
schneph@reddit
My family is has a long line of educators, my dad being one. Iām guessing he or my grandfather got them for free
Mo-Cance@reddit
Brittanica on CD-ROM.
But also a set that we got from a relative when they passed.
NectarSweat@reddit
We definitely weren't even millionaires but we had the adult set and the child set that was beige and red. There were so many good stories at the end of the child books I'd read over again when I was bored.
OllieFromCairo@reddit
My parents viewed it as an investment in our education.
I think World Book was about $300.
Somerset1982@reddit
Same. My family was far from rich, but we had a set of World Books. I read them all the time as a kid.
JamesBuffalkill@reddit
We had World Book 1986 which, aside from its educational purposes, made for great bathroom reading material well into the 2000's.
OllieFromCairo@reddit
Mine was probably 89, and yes, they were fun for many, many years.
29stumpjumper@reddit
Same. I used to love to just sit and look through them. I can visualize how they felt and smelled even though I haven't seen one in decades. If I recall, someone sold them to us door to door.
Duck billed platypus was one of the first things I looked up because of the commercials they'd run.
portraitframe810@reddit
My cousin had a full, up to date set in 1999. I was so jealous.
El-Viking@reddit
My parents bought a set from a door-to-door salesman when my mom was pregnant with my older brother as an "investment in his future". Fast forward to me in high school still using them as twenty year old reference material.
DooficusIdjit@reddit
They werent all super expensive. A few publishers were selling very discounted sets with cheap bindings and covers for like 2-300 brand new.
ClockwrkAngel2112@reddit
Honestly I didn't realize they were that expensive... My dad bought a Britannica set new when I started 2nd grade, so I guess 1987 ish.
Valuable_Tomorrow882@reddit
Iām pretty sure we donāt have a complete set. We bought them from a door to door salesman on some kind of a book of the month plan that my parents stopped paying for.
Teto_the_foxsquirrel@reddit
My grandma had a set, not sure if she got them new or if she got the previous years set on sale.
You really only needed one of them per family though, so I counted it on my list.
Agoodnamenotyettaken@reddit
A few months before I was born, my dad was in an accident at work and got a fairly nice payout. He was flat broke and deep in debt again by my first birthday. But despite being poor, I grew up with the World Book encyclopedia set and the complete Child Craft set. We also had a Commodore 64, an Atari with maybe a dozen games, a laser disk player with several movies, and the best stereo/record player 1980 had to offer.
StaceyPfan@reddit
My parents bought them in the late 70s before I was born.
spderweb@reddit
Encarta. Or hand me downs.
AccidentalGK@reddit
Found in a box on the curb. They were probably 20 years out of date but it still counts.
bokatan778@reddit
I grew up pretty standard āmiddle classā and we didnāt have a set. I mean I used the ones from the library plenty, we just didnāt have them at home.
joeybagofdonuts80@reddit
You didnāt have to be rich, but the richer you were the more current the books were. Ours were from the 70ās :)
DonShulaDoingTheHula@reddit
I have no idea where they came from but they were old at the time. Like they might not have accounted for 50 states type old.
schoolisuncool@reddit
We didnāt have much money at all, but my mom made sure I had encyclopedias because she valued my educationā¦ I only used them for book reports though
sweet_pickles12@reddit
Lmao your usernameā¦ your mom has buyerās remorse
automaticmantis@reddit
I remember my parents buying those sets they sold at the supermarket. Youād buy like one book at a time. You have an upcoming school report on snakes? Sorry the āSā volume hasnāt been purchased yet.
Secret_Elevator17@reddit
I think my dad's work gave them sets at some point
grumpyoldnord@reddit
Same. My dad worked shipping and motor pool for the local university, so we got all kinds of perks like internet and encyclopedias and shit.
JaxxisR@reddit
My first computer came with one on CD-Rom.
6thBornSOB@reddit
I think ours were from the late 60s or so
FlyingAnvils@reddit
Comptons for the win!
Don_T_Tuga@reddit
Zero points for me, could have been one but my great uncle had a typewriter and while I never used it for real, when I was little I did play with it because I liked the sounds it made while typing.
gareththegeek@reddit
All except sending and receiving a fax, that never came up
withoutadrought@reddit
20 haha
SabrinaBuckets@reddit
I award you no points. Good day! š
Yellow_Curry@reddit
Vynil. Clearly theyāve never used spellcheck either.
N_Who@reddit
Hey, I got 1! We never owned an encyclopedia when I was growing up.
I may have 2. I'm honestly unsure if I've ever sent a postcard.
SoBeDragon0@reddit
MowingInJordans@reddit
Zero, I still do most of those things.
goodeyemighty@reddit
Missed one:fax. I never owned a fax machine.
dillhole73@reddit
I got a 0
Automatic-Arm-532@reddit
I got1 point because I couldn't afford a Walkman, I had an off-brand one.
spanishpeanut@reddit
The first 0 Iāve ever been proud of. Does it still count if the encyclopedia in the house was out of date before you needed it? I hope so, because Iām definitely counting it.
DistractedByCookies@reddit
I mean, who owned a proper encyclopedia at home? Those had like 15 thick volumes are were *expensive*
I didn't pay with a paper check until the 2000s. The UK was so behind the times they still had them after everybody else stopped LOL
Flat-Programmer6044@reddit
0
WombatMcGeez@reddit
Done 5 of these in the last year
rugburn250@reddit
I paid with a paper check yesterday. Damn costco only taking Visa.
Yuck_Few@reddit
One point because we never had a blockbuster here in my city
Happy-Campaign5586@reddit
Used to go to the pharmacy to pay your utility bills.
kumogate@reddit
I have never sent a postcard. I don't even know anyone who has.
georgegraybeard@reddit
Two technicalities; I never owned the encyclopedias. They belonged to the library.
I never had a brand name Sony Walkman. Just a generic one.
Less_Likely@reddit
I mean, some of these things Iāve done in the past year
Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit
Isn't a boombox just what we now call a "bookshelf stereo"?
Secret_Elevator17@reddit
not quite, most boomboxes you could run on batteries and carry around with you - they were big though, it was not a walkman by any means.
Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit
š¤·āāļø I've had both. I know not all boomboxes could separate the speakers, but mine did.
Secret_Elevator17@reddit
yeah some could, but I thought the ones that were more meant to sit on your entertainment center were called modular or component stereos or hi-fi stereos for a bit
But I think there were some that were both.
Funny_Collection8362@reddit
I had the same model but in silver/grey
SepiaSunset@reddit
Omg I had this in white!! (Still sitting in my old bedroom at my parentsā in fact š)
mayeam912@reddit
I had this exact same system when I was younger.
atrich@reddit
If you can't hold it up in the air playing In Your Eyes by Peter Gabriel outside your crush's window, it ain't a boom box, brother.
mlddragon@reddit
I didnt read the thread yet, just had to stop and ask how you got a picture of my stereo?! :D
Mediocre-Victory-565@reddit
Ah, the OG of being on speaker phone in public, lmao
TheLastBlakist@reddit
I've heard them called Ghetto Blasters in the past... Not sure how kosher the term is.
I had one that had detatchable speakers. yet I tended to just plug headphones in because my taste in music is my own and honestly I preferred a walkman for that reason.
atrich@reddit
If you can't hold it up in the air playing In Your Eyes by Peter Gabriel outside your crush's window, it ain't a boom box, brother.
zoey8068@reddit
Google "ghetto blaster"Ā
Rower78@reddit
Sent/received a fax; those guys are definitely still kicking around.
officialdougjudy@reddit
If you work in medical, legal, or finance, you definitely get paper faxes right now.
ILikeToEatTheFood@reddit
Public librarian here. We send/receive for patrons all the livelong day.
poop-money@reddit
Don't forget government. I am a UC program manager. Almost every customer we work with still has to send and receive faxes in the medical, legal, financial and government sectors.
Old timers (70+) are the worst. They refuse to adapt to e-fax options that are cheaper, more reliable, more secure and easier. You'll have an office full of 25-50 year old professionals that are all down for webfaxing, but the one old dude with his name on the company marquee wants a traditional fax machine. Sorry, you have for pay $50/mo for that service plus labor when shit happens.
0sqs@reddit
I worked at Home Depot. We sent/received faxes every single day at that front desk.
the__ghola__hayt@reddit
Yep. I'm sending faxes daily at work. Although, now I can fax straight from the computer, so it's a lot easier.
jelloshot@reddit
I use one daily at work.
Ailly84@reddit
And yet I'm 40 and haven't ever sent one, not so I really believe i know what they are.
Elenakalis@reddit
I work in healthcare. I'm forever faxing doctors who failed to follow up on escripts that were promised or faxing paper scripts residents somehow manage to bring back to the pharmacy our facility uses.
drainbamage1011@reddit
I think I was the last person to use our office's fax machine (albeit, about 5 years ago). I was hired to replace a Boomer who'd retired, and he still used it a fair amount, so some of his clients were still accustomed to it. I used it a few times starting off, before transitioning over to email for everything.
The office manager popped into my office and asked how much I needed the fax machine, because they wanted to change copiers and I was the only one still using it. I told her, "no way, get that thing out of here."
Horse_Dad@reddit
I remember the first time I heard about a fax machine and I couldnāt get over how such a magical thing could exist.
ndjs22@reddit
Healthcare. Yep.
mackfactor@reddit
Especially in Japan.Ā
DiscordianStooge@reddit
I never sent fax until I was almost 30.
Minnow_Minnow_Pea@reddit
I had to fax a thing for work recently. I used an email to fax thing, I'm not sure if it counts.
I did use a regular fax machine at work maybe a year and a half ago?
doggufoamie@reddit
I still have to pay my rent with a physical check.
MrWeirdoFace@reddit
oddly enough until a year or two ago I hadn't written a check in probably a decade and a half. Then I started doing some bumming around in a van and discovered a lot of campgrounds want a check, which seemed odd.
aakaase@reddit
I'm a landlord and I appreciate my tenants pay me with Venmo or Apple Pay
Swimming_Cry_6841@reddit
That would be so easy! My landlord still makes me send a check snail mail and then they take a week or two to even cash it lol
aakaase@reddit
Must be an old timer
Swimming_Cry_6841@reddit
They are and widely landlords are usually pretty laid back, Iāve had one before, but my only worry is they pass and the estate rushes to sell the house to cash out.
aakaase@reddit
If you know the bank they deposit your check with and that bank happens to be where you live, you could offer to simply swing into the drive-thru of said bank and deposit that check into their account. It would save you from mailing it, save them from having to deposit it,bthey'd get the money sooner, and it would clear your account sooner.
bluemitersaw@reddit
I wrote a check on Tuesday.
MightyCaseyStruckOut@reddit
I've done 45% of these in the past year.
jrice441100@reddit
I used a paper map today.
edit_R@reddit
This one boggled my mindā¦ have you ever visited a park?
It should say āuse a street map book.ā Thatās some old school stuff.
newenglandredshirt@reddit
I've done some of these in the last week
dorky2@reddit
I listened to a CD today.
Funny_Collection8362@reddit
1 point for me, we were far too poor for a fax machine
Nervous-Radish2861@reddit
A perfect ā0ā points. Wow!
L0cutusofBorg@reddit
LeavesOfBrass@reddit
12 is a miss for most people just because it says "from the radio". We would copy one cassette to another or a CD to cassette for a mixtape, etc, but I never even considered recording something from the radio, ever.
NewtonNott@reddit
0! God Iām oldš
Commercial_Pitch_786@reddit
Zero here as well, add on to this list! Used a payphone, push mowed a yard with a Reel mower, and or gas. Built a tree fort out of random items, Jumped off the roof with rope swing, jumped off a cliff into a river or swimming hole, ice skated on a river, rode your bike on a frozen lake, wet down a snow ramp you built on a hill at night so you can jump it the next day, slid down hills on cardboard in the summer, built a bike out of spare parts from the junkyard or your cut the forks off a ten speed and turned your bike into a chopper, played spin the bottle at a party, spent the night at the grave yard , crawled through sewer/drainage pipes, created tunnels in a barn full of hay and hoped it would not collapse, had a paper route you did on your bike, worked on a dairy farm at 4 a.m. in the morning to milk the cows, ate wild rhubarb on the side of the road, or crab apples off someones orchard, hitchhiked to another state or around town.
JoshDunkley@reddit
1 I think... Can't recall ever sending a postcard
x-Mowens-x@reddit
Does using mapquest count as a paper map? Because i just used the directions.
DerbGentler@reddit
1 point because I never "Paid with a paper check".
Because that wasn't that of a thing here in Germany, at least not with my parents.
YinzerInExile@reddit
0 for 20. I still pay some things with paper checks
AggravatedOtters@reddit
I'm trying to understand how people don't write checks anymore. All of the contractors that I have paid to work on the house ask for checks and any municipal bills aren't online yet where I live. Do they ask their bank to issue a check instead? I'm so not with it.
ILikeToEatTheFood@reddit
Checks are still regular currency in my rural town. In particular, the school district ONLY accepts checks for activity-related payments (no cc or digital). Of course, livestock payments are on checks, and usually those extra large ones that come in a binder!
Addamall@reddit
Checks are ingrained in me as safer than e-pay because it used to be a safer route. Now with e-deposits and ATM deposits you can cash a check that isnāt even written to you and it will go through unless you, the check writer, or the intended recipient catches it.
tjdux@reddit
Makes a person think a teenager made this list, becaise I assume most adults would skip the check one.
Should be had a credit card "swiped" with the paper transfer machine
unseemly_turbidity@reddit
Cheques have barely existed in Europe* for years now. I don't think I've seen one since I was a teenager.
*Exceptions may apply for Germany because they're weird and still use faxes.
burf@reddit
Are you American, by chance? Electronic transfers down there seem to be a decade or so behind everywhere else. When I hire contractors here, I just send them electronic fund transfers to pay them, if they don't take credit.
pregnantandsober@reddit
A couple of contractors I've worked with took Zelle or Venmo, but most want checks. Some tree trimmers were pretty excited when my husband didn't know where the checkbook was and just paid them in cash.
Howboutit85@reddit
I used a tree trimmer guy like 3 years ago that took bitcoin.
burf@reddit
Yeah if I had to use a third party app to transfer funds I wouldnāt do it either. lol
AggravatedOtters@reddit
Guilty. I use apps like venmo or paypal, but not for large dollar amounts.
Howboutit85@reddit
I have t touched a check in almost 15 years. I guess I donāt deal with contractors, all the work thatās been done I did myself, but all utilities and that are done online. I pay my mortgage through an app, pay for everything in apps or online. Even my daughterās preschool. I have t even seen another person wrote a check since maybe 2011.
flatulating_ninja@reddit
I just used one yesterday for a down payment on a car.
lucidspoon@reddit
I hired an interior designer, and I went to pay her the other day. She accepted Cashapp, which I have, but I've never paid with it, so I was fumbling with it. Gave up and wrote a check.
But because I do it so rarely I forgot to sign it, and didn't think about it till hours later...
Addamall@reddit
I might get a half point for faxing because even though I received and sent faxes to a fax machine, it was through software on my end. Maybe a half point for paper map because thatās how I plan off-trail hiking routes only, oh and maybe a half point for all the things that my parents owned and I used while living there, but never owned myself.
Fackrid@reddit
1 point for me, I never sent a postcard to anyone, only because I didn't travel or anything and had no reason to
Iamoldsowhat@reddit
2 points. never had an encyclopedia and never listened to vynilā¦ I donāt even know what that is.
I did however have a nice collection of VINYL records š¤
ncjr591@reddit
All 20
Free-Cherry-4254@reddit
1 point, never sent a postcard
MyVanillaccount@reddit
Well, I feel old now. Thanks.
Sean198233@reddit
1 point. Iām not sure I have ever sent a postcard. Over the years I have sent a few letters, but not a postcard.
tdomer80@reddit
To be fair, fax machines have been around for 50+ years and businesses still use them. Many doctor offices in the USA still insist on faxes instead of emails for receiving orders.
And vinyl records have made a comeback and have almost a cult following.
All of that being said I scored a 1. r/fuckimold
LatinBotPointTwo@reddit
Zero for me, too.
prepressexdude@reddit
Grocery stores used to offer encyclopedias in a time release at reduced prices if you shopped there. Anyone remember this?
prepressexdude@reddit
I never rented from Blockbuster, but we had several video rental shops in our neighborhood. Guess Iām old!
Broad-bull-850@reddit
Never sent a post card
superthrust123@reddit
If anyone comes in and tries to f' with my fax machine, it's over.
It saves me a lot of work, and I know how to use it.
My boss just lost hers, so I have the only OG fax. I must protect it with my life.
a_fearless_soliloquy@reddit
CDs and Cassettes? I remember 8 tracks lol
Bullyjoi@reddit
20š¤¦š¾āāļøfuck im old
LordLaz1985@reddit
mmetalgaz@reddit
Oh... a perfect 20
Ok-Orchid-5646@reddit
Same OP. ZERO!
insanecarbunkle@reddit
1 because there was no blockbusters where I grew up. We had Hometown Video
ZedArkadia@reddit
I'd say that just going to a video store counts. Blockbuster isn't any more retro than any other video store that was around at the time; it's probably more retro to have gone to a store that had an adult section.
WindSprenn@reddit
Hollywood Studio was cheaper and closer than Blockbuster so we went there. The real question is who else rented a VHS from a grocery store?
sirjimithy@reddit
Yep, the Stop & Shop near my house had a video rental section at the front of the store. Used to rent movies and games there all the time. If I didn't quite have the $3 to rent a game, I'd gather up cans & bottles littered around the neighborhood and they had can/bottle return machines there that paid 5 cents for each.
Arriwyn@reddit
I remember going to a mom and pop video rental shop in the town I lived in for half of my childhood. It was a township in North Western New Jersey that had many banks and one Burger King for fastfood chains! I didn't get to experience the big chain Blockbuster video stores until we moved back to the Sacramento CA suburbs in the 1990s.
Individual-Schemes@reddit
That counts
jamie535535@reddit
Thatās my 1 too. We had one but they wouldnāt give me a card.
LongjumpingEnergy188@reddit
I was born in 88 and I did every single one of these things except record radio music on a tape recorder just because I didnāt have one lol. I donāt consider myself an 80s kid though. Iām definitely a 90s kid.
LongjumpingEnergy188@reddit
I know my boundaries
majj27@reddit
I don't know how, but my score is negative.
Cactilily@reddit
-1 for putting tape on a VHS to record over it
-1 for connecting two VCRs so you can play one and make a copy on the other š¤£
sirjimithy@reddit
It was a magical day when I realized I could plug my nintendo in to the VCR and record the game as I was playing it.
majj27@reddit
Oh man, I tick off those boxes too.
What am I at, -4 or something now? Sheesh!
Teflon_John_@reddit
-1 because Iāve Iāve done all that plus used a multi home āparty-lineā telephone?
majj27@reddit
Oh, I've done that too.
I gave myself a -1 for listening to music on a reel-to-reel tape player.
My score just keeps descending...
onebirdonawire@reddit
I'm giving myself a negative point because my father still used 8 track tapes when I was in high school. With my BOOK of cds. I also used one of those tape-to-cd adapters. š«
Thesmallestsasquatch@reddit
I guess I am at -2 for owning both reel to reel and 8 track players now!
SepiaSunset@reddit
My family had both (very musical fam). My dadās Chevy truck when I was little had an 8-track player!
everythinghappensto@reddit
Closest I come to that is having seen a friend's parents' reel-to-reel setup.
bshr49@reddit
What about 8-tracks?
justonemom14@reddit
Giving myself a point for the 8-tracks as well.
Icy-Finance5042@reddit
Our van had an 8 track player growing up. Had one 8 track that had one song.
majj27@reddit
I've honestly never used one.
YourStarsAlgonquin@reddit
For BETAMAX?
TheRustySchackleford@reddit
0 points but born in 92
Adventurous-State940@reddit
Got a 20. I knew I was old when green day made it to the hall of fame.
LadyPreshPresh@reddit
Zero. I have zero points. What kind of fucked up game is this?
Arriwyn@reddit
Perfect zero for me as well!
Fun_Gas_7777@reddit
Wow.Ā I scored 16.Ā
ShitJustGotRealAgain@reddit
I personally never owned an encyclopedia but my in laws still have theirs. Does that count? Also what about ecarta? If that counts then it's a yes.
Optimal_Advertisment@reddit
My old jobs manager still uses a fax machine.
I'm genx and am a go with the flow type so it never really bothered me but it was fun watching youngerĀ people come in not understanding it and trying to explain you don't need to download a pdf thenĀ print it, sign it and scan it back into the computer or fax it before stuffing it in a filing cabinet for who knows how long.Ā
I laughed every time they didn't understand it was personal preference and not lack of understanding.Ā
Swrdmn@reddit
Born in 87 and I have 0 points
Shoddy_Intention_705@reddit
This is a 90s list. Not an 80s list
Flowmatic_Lantern@reddit
I scored either one or two. Never owned an encyclopedia and although Iāve bought postcards as souvenirs, I donāt think I ever sent one to anybody.
Corbotron_5@reddit
41 years old. Scored a 0.
Rat_Master999@reddit
-1
I should get an extra point since I worked at Blockbuster.
Fresh_Ad_3008@reddit
18 š©
seifd@reddit
2 points. I never used a typewriter and I've never used a fax.
TimedogGAF@reddit
"Owned an encyclopedia"
Does Microsoft Encarta count?
(a bunch of you reading this just now remembered Encarta for the first time in about 2 decades).
Cfunk_83@reddit
I never sent a fax, but otherwise that was a hand of nodding.
hardcore_softie@reddit
I feel like a lot of 35 year old millennials could score a zero on this.
karaloveskate@reddit
1 point. Never faxed anything before.
These-Device-8011@reddit
I legit got 18 pts and I'm a whole millennial lol
levarfan@reddit
Zero
assuming my parents owning the 1985 World Book encyclopedia set and my using/reading it as a minor meets criteria
pphurley@reddit
2 for me
Typewriter & postcard
TheJustBleedGod@reddit
Don't think I've ever sent a postcard
Akagi_An@reddit
Same. I have received a few, but never sent any.
Slamnflwrchild@reddit
That was mine. Never sent a postcard
resourcefultamale@reddit
Iāve sent a few recently because for some reason they came with my copy of Cyberpunk 2077 and I figured Iād confuse a friend with them.
doornumber2v2@reddit
Same. Never went anywhere to send one from. I have mailed letters.
anniemdi@reddit
My mom gave us card stock and had us draw on the front and write on the back to send to relatives.
tjdux@reddit
Close enough.
Rare_Tomorrow_5425@reddit
I think they're interchangeable too. Which, if so, gives me a zero score .
Movie-goer@reddit
Book a flight/holiday in a travel agent's office needs to be on there.
HYThrowaway1980@reddit
I did that for my honeymoon not ten years ago
iaurp@reddit
That's so retro!
herseyhawkins33@reddit
Meet someone at the gate too
TheFuckingHippoGuy@reddit
Been on a flight where smoking was allowed
Swimming_Cry_6841@reddit
Sat in the smoking section at McDonalds
MightyCaseyStruckOut@reddit
Bought a pack of cigarettes from a restaurant vending machine.
Movie-goer@reddit
And thumbing a lift.
tip0thehat@reddit
That kind of misses a lot of poor people.
NectarSweat@reddit
Yes! Did that once.
_dangling_participle@reddit
My parents literally still do this. Just had their agent drop off a set of tickets at their home yesterday while I was visiting and I couldn't compute.Ā
miku_dominos@reddit
I still do that because my cousin is a travel agent and he gets me good deals.
lostinthecapes@reddit
Fuck I'm old. I've done everything on this list.
morris1022@reddit
All but one
pharaohmaones@reddit
I donāt think I ever recorded radio to tape, but I definitely recorded the shit out of tnt movies on my vcr
userannon720@reddit
lord-krulos@reddit
Vynilā¦ never heard of it
milwaukee1919@reddit
Goose egg
Substantial_Ad8506@reddit
1 - for Vinyl record.
deeply_depressd@reddit
I love telling kids I learned to type on a typewriter at school. It was the last year before computers took over.
mis_no_mer@reddit
Zero
Abeefrog@reddit
8 - I'm deaf and so can't really hear music. Did I win?
Son_of_Atreus@reddit
0 points baby.
ShitPostsRuinReddit@reddit
This is the point of never have I ever, this is just "what year were you born"
MrWeirdoFace@reddit
I'm debating if I've ever actually sent a postcard. I'm not sure I have. So more score might be a 1.
EvenIf-SheFalls@reddit
Also passed with a zero! I still own a dictionary, pay for things with paper checks, listen to vynil, own and use a physical phone/address book, and send postcards.
John_TheBlackestBurn@reddit
I donāt know if Ive ever sent a postcardā¦ š¤
CalebWilliamson@reddit (OP)
You can still do it now.
NoTop4997@reddit
I am an early 90's and I got 2 points.
New_Sail_7821@reddit
This is some boomer shit. I thought we were going to be better
CalebWilliamson@reddit (OP)
Sorry
biloxibluess@reddit
Ugh come on
This was the last safe gen sub left from this FB bullshit
CalebWilliamson@reddit (OP)
Sorry
swfan57@reddit
0
toejampotpourri@reddit
Perfect 0. Did 3 of them this week.
ilikeweekends2525@reddit
0
Shatterstar23@reddit
Superfry88@reddit
Happy Cake Day!
Shatterstar23@reddit
Thank you, apparently itās been seven years lol.
unkiestink@reddit
2, I never owned a dictionary or a encyclopedia but my sister did!
so2017@reddit
Clean up your life! Go buy a dictionary right now!
bluemitersaw@reddit
2 for the same reasons. Although I do own a thesaurus so I'm not sure what that means.
jasonmoyer@reddit
I still do most of those things.
WarMonger1189@reddit
18, no fax and typewriter.
Apprehensive-Good-48@reddit
I'm a millennial and I got 16
MOSbangtan@reddit
I feel attacked
hadesscion@reddit
The easiest zero of my life.
mbwatson571@reddit
The typewriter kept me from a clean sweep
AshDenver@reddit
Vinyl
Not āvynilā. FFS.
CptCheesesticks81@reddit
0.
CaptShrek13@reddit
Zero for myself, and I would imagine most of you as well. Here's the interesting number, ask your children these same questions. I haven't officially asked my 13 year old but I'm guessing she's at 15 Nevers.
KrakenClubOfficial@reddit
To be far, to this day, I still use spell check for ~~vynil~~ ~~vinel~~~ vinyl
InfernalGout@reddit
1 point. I've taped TV to VHS but never radio to cassette
entingmat2@reddit
Still pay with paper checks to this day
AbbreviationsBorn276@reddit
1 point- never used a rotary phone.
Druidicflow@reddit
2
No_Departure_2848@reddit
1 point as well. We were most certainly NOT a blockbuster family.
Successful-Letter-53@reddit
I got šÆ šš
mrfr3i@reddit
Man Iām oldā¦ every single one.
Middle_Earthling9@reddit
0 yeah baby
Intelliphant33@reddit
1 point. Never used a paper map.
Canadian_Commentator@reddit
39, same here
EXlTPURSUEDBYAGOLDEN@reddit
Paper maps were great. Once you finished re-reading your Roald Dahl book and the batteries died on your gameboy, the only form of entertainment on family roadtrips was comparing mileage markers in the road atlas against the current speed of your minivan to calculate how much longer it would take to pass the next major exit. Then you'd hit a winding section of road, get car sick from concentrating on the map, and puke into a gallon ziplock bag. Good fun.
surfingbiscuits@reddit
Car sickness still exists
Rare_Tomorrow_5425@reddit
Damn that unlocked some memories lol
surfingbiscuits@reddit
You can still find road maps and print them from online sources. I had an event that there was no way I was missing during one of solar storms last year. Piled all that stuff in my bag in case GPS got all messed up.
Hi_Its_Me_Stan_@reddit
Same. I didnāt drive until I was in my early 20ās and by then we had MapQuest.
atrich@reddit
If you printed it out on your bubblejet printer to take in the car with you, I think that's a paper map.
Me, I had a Thompson's guide banging around in my car well into my 20s
GGABQ505@reddit
Born in 86 and didnāt get any points
RichardWooden@reddit
Fashion victims chew their charcoal teeth.
emptybeetoo@reddit
Zero
StenosP@reddit
I never owned an encyclopedia. I definitely read them though
fromnochurch@reddit
zero baby, born in 80!
ljf137@reddit
2 pts for me. Typewriter and encyclopedia
Abattoir_Noir@reddit
0
mayeam912@reddit
0/20. I still have a dictionary around here somewhere, and once in a while Iāll actually write a check.
MielikkisChosen@reddit
1 point because I'm pretty sure I've never sent a postcard to anyone. I still write checks though lol
i-am-a-cat-6@reddit
I got a zero too haha
whallexx@reddit
0.
BlossomingPsyche@reddit
Also zero.
PsychoFaerie@reddit
Only thing I haven't done is used a rotary phone.
bananabastard@reddit
1 point. I've never sent a fax.
SpaceCadet-92@reddit
Born in '92 and even I got zero points.
1DietCokedUpChick@reddit
Iāve done all these things.
holycrapitsmyles@reddit
Some of these I did last week
Rocknrollpeakedin74@reddit
earwig2000@reddit
who tf even to this day doesn't own a dictionary, or several
LordButtworth@reddit
I tried to buy groceries with a paper check because I lost my debit card and it wouldn't go through. I called the processing company and they said I had to register and it would take about two weeks.
Didn't rent from Blockbuster til I was in my early 20s (2008). We had a mom and pop video store that my parents took us to every Friday to pick out a movie.
I could never figure out the fax machine so I just had the clerk in the office at work do it for me. I entered the workforce in a weird time between fax and email.
sailorlum@reddit
Likewise š
bransonthaidro@reddit
Bro i was using Hagstrom maps up until 2010.
justpassingby_thanks@reddit
This was an easy 0. I'm not that old but as a teen before smart phones I definitely used a paper map, had an atlas book of north america and major cities in that pocket they used to have behind seats in the car.
Piranha_Vortex@reddit
Perfect 20.
_Face@reddit
Yup zero.
HeftyBagOfDiarrhea@reddit
Zero
Tall_Establishment83@reddit
Gosh, I am guilty of every one of those.
InfernalMadness@reddit
Damn, i'm only 40 and i got all 20 points.
Old-Piece-3438@reddit
Does it count if you used the encyclopedias at the library?
wiskinator@reddit
Aww yiss.
Msw3206@reddit
I hit all of them
Nobodyville@reddit
"Used a dictionary to spell vinyl"
kapaipiekai@reddit
I've never sent a postcard, but I did log into a BBS with my 14.4k dial up
CruelKind78@reddit
Zero
mfhandy5319@reddit
Setting the VCR to record shows.
-1 each if your parents bought a vacuum, or encyclopedia set from a door to door salesman.
-1 if you told to, "Play outside," we are hosting a Tupperware party.
so -3?
slyiscoming@reddit
WTF I've done all of these.
parkskier426@reddit
0.5, I've played with a typewriter, never really used it for writing.
Odd-Tune5049@reddit
I have vinyl downstairs, but zero score regardless
indiscernable1@reddit
DadaShart@reddit
0
SpurdTheBurd@reddit
They need to add, "Had a party line" I used to love picking up the phone as a kid, and listening in on other folks conversations....
Baked_Potato_732@reddit
Never used a rotary phone that was actually attached to a phone line. Done the rest.
surfingbiscuits@reddit
You can still do at least half of these. Hell, you can buy film at Target.
shivaswrath@reddit
Zero.
Hf I'm not even that old (45).
Jay-Holiday@reddit
We never had Blockbuster in my town. But I've rented from Crossroads, Hastings, and Movie Gallery (among others). I'm calling it zero.
DM_Me_your_lingerie8@reddit
Born in 79 and 0 points
fiodorsmama2908@reddit
Coakis@reddit
Born in 85 so less a xennial and more a very early millennial, I only scored a 3
Howboutit85@reddit
Also 85, but got 0. Always thought of myself as more xennial than millennial, but the only thing that brings that down is we had a computer since I was basically born, and internet in like 1995. I was using AOL and messaging people and stuff by the time I was about 11 or 12. So I guess I had a very analog and digital upbringing.
tjdux@reddit
Which did you get?
I am close to you age wise and I had to fudge the radio to tape one. Probably did something to that effect as a kid playing around but not to really listen too.
I did burn a shit load of CDs from downloaded music, even made a few bucks doing it for other people.
And definitely used that illegally downloaded music, played over shitty computer speakers, recorded by my crappy pre flip phone cell phone to make my own "custom" free ring tones lol.
It was a weird time.
Coakis@reddit
I had cassettes but never had an urge to copy, or record from radio.
Never had an Encyclopedia set, Though relatives and my grandmother had an older set. And oddly enough I never traveled enough as a kid to have made out a postcard and send it anywhere, although I may have purchased a few as a memento.
I burned a few CD's in my time and my current Mp3 collection may or may not have a significant amount that were dubiously obtained in the early 00's
InstantTurnOn@reddit
I never recorded music off the radio, but I sure as shit made my share of mix tapes. Can I still get a zero score for that?
Crazyredneck327@reddit
1 point - never mailed a postcard.
AntoSkum@reddit
I thought I never sent a fax but then I rememberd going to Kinkos as a kid so my mom could fax stuff to the county, so I'm counting it. Big ZERO. I used to buy comic books with checks, sheesh.
Candid_Term6960@reddit
0 -perfect score
Legitimate_Plane_613@reddit
Perfect 20 for me
dinoguy117@reddit
I have VHS tapes from my childhood where we recorded dinosaur documentaries. Some of those are British shows with an American narrator and I CAN'T FIND THE AMERICAN VERSIONS on the internet. I desperately need a VHS player. There are ancient commercials on there too!
Medium_Evidence_658@reddit
Yep I'm old. i've done every single one of those things
EloquentGrl@reddit
I gave myself a 1 but only because I used a typewriter as a novelty thing. Like someone had one and I asked if I could try to type on it. Typed a sentence on it, and that was it. It wasn't even an 80s thing it was maybe 10 years ago.
But I debated hard as to weather or not I should count it, lol
Cactilily@reddit
We had The New Book of Knowledge until Encarta came out
Peelboy@reddit
Iām also in the zero club
dr_superman@reddit
Not one
onlinedisguise@reddit
Pretty sure I've done several of these things recently
Dangerous_Spring5030@reddit
They should add a couple more. Like played games on Atari, or used Polaroid Camera as opposed to just one with film. To me, that was old school. Oh, and of course I have all those checked off. āļø
Ltimbo@reddit
2 points. I never used a Walkman (although I did have a discman so do I get half a point for that?). And I never sent a post card. That seems like a strange one to add to the list.
akahermione@reddit
Iād give you a zero for sure - Walkman, discman, RadioShack generic - a portable CD player was a portable CD player.
Bonus zero point: anti-skip tech
Ltimbo@reddit
Thanks. I think it was a first generation discman. It definitely skipped but I learned how to baby it and that helped. Like keeping it in a backpack instead of my pocket helped.
Nervous_InsideU5155@reddit
I'm a 2. I never recorded music on a cassette tape and I've never sent a postcard, though I have received postcards and listened to recorded cassette tapes lol
TheTokinPlantman@reddit
0
tobogganhill@reddit
Well you beat me. I got a score of 1. Never owned an encyclopedia. The school library had that.
rodimus147@reddit
Damn 20 for 20. Fuck I'm old.
Lightmeup1999@reddit
0
ReviewSubject4298@reddit
I get half a point cause I used to try to use a paper map but I was terrible at reading them.
Crayola_ROX@reddit
By the time I was driving age I didnāt need a paper map. I would print out Mapquest directions lol.
Still counts I guess
jesusmansuperpowers@reddit
Iām not sure I ever actually sent a postcard. Bought a bunch though
Hahaha2681@reddit
Damn it!!!!! big 0 for me š¤£š
starcityguy@reddit
Zero. Yikes.
bgva@reddit
My mom still has our encyclopedia set.
And zero.
HarpoWhatAboutMe@reddit
My mom was big on education and we didn't have much but we had an encyclopedia set. It was nice not having to go to the library to write a paper at the last minute.
My punishment was often sitting at the kitchen table and copying a page full of words from the dictionaries that came with it I hated it but now I rarely ever come across a word I cannot define or pronounce so thanks mom.
Thritoris@reddit
Passed with zero points.
Loud-Strawberry8572@reddit
Yay! Zero!
johnvalley86@reddit
Damn I never thought I would see one of these lists where I've literally done everything.
lrbikeworks@reddit
God dammit
101001101zero@reddit
Yup 0
drawnbutter@reddit
Never listened to a vynil record, and don't miss vinyl records. To this day, every time I hear Dark Side of the Moon I expect to her the record skip at various spots.
wm80@reddit
I guess I have one point, cause I never personally sent a postcard, but I went on family vacations where my parents sent postcards from āall of usā.
the_cats_pajamas12@reddit
Also scored a 0
CommercialExotic2038@reddit
19/20, I didn't have a Walkman
freexanarchy@reddit
Oh yeah fat zero. Does it count for negative pts if your mom bought the encyclopedias from a door to door salesman?
Old-Grape-5341@reddit
1, unless you count Encarta as an encyclopedia
Old-Grape-5341@reddit
19, never owned an encyclopedia
xxTwistOfFatexx@reddit
2 never owned an encyclopedia nor sent a post card
Zeqhanis@reddit
Can't spell vinyl, yet spells '80s correctly. Weird, right?
In the spirit of this list, without being a Nazi (surf, grammar/spelling, or otherwise), I got a 0.
Ted_Fleming@reddit
0 points. I did a few of these things todayā¦
Prossdog@reddit
Hey, vinyl (vynil?) is coming back now. My parents had a record player when I was a kid but my wife and I just got one a few months ago. There is something warm and fuzzy about the comforting crackle of a record.
Alltheprettydresses@reddit
Perfect zero
uplate2much@reddit
0 points.
CtrlLaff@reddit
I've never used a real rotary phone, but I've used a toy one.
Equivalent_Hat_7220@reddit
0
RemoteTransition9892@reddit
1 Point, I don't think I ever rented from a blockbuster considering it was in the next town over about 25 minutes away and we had like three or four rental stores in our town. I definitely bought from them a few times though.
Gloomy_Story818@reddit
0 as well! š„³
SnoochieBuchie@reddit
0 for me
Everyone_dreams@reddit
The only thing on here I get a point for is never using a type writer.
My dad bought a computer in 85-86 and we always had one in the house after that.
goodfriend_tom@reddit
GF_baker_2024@reddit
Oof. Yeah, perfect zero score.Ā
tillyspeed81@reddit
Big zero
Mental_Pound4509@reddit
Yep zero
ConLawHero@reddit
Some of these are just a function of having a job, even today.
For example, I've faxed in 2024 because the IRS primarily accepts paperwork through faxes from attorneys.
I have a dictionary because we have Black's Law Dictionary - what every attorney uses.
Even checks, I loath using them, but some places will only accept checks or they'll give you a discount because you're not using a credit card. Though, I will say, I think I'm still using the same check book I opened my bank account with like 10 years ago.
justonemom14@reddit
I did this quiz with my 18-year-old kid. On the Blockbuster question, she said um...oh yeah, we did rent a video that one time. I'm like ??, no that was a Redbox, they had DVDs. She said, "Wait, what was the question?" omg I lost it. I had to explain that a video from Blockbuster means a VHS from the walk-in store. I guess they had DVDs in the later years, but Redbox doesn't count.
On an interesting note, she has listened to music from a wax cylinder on a phonograph, because of this one time we went to a museum. But she hasn't ever listened to music on vinyl!
Prollyjokin@reddit
Boomer Facebook memes need to find a more appropriate sub
LukeMayeshothand@reddit
1- No postcard sent.
Consistent_Shake4405@reddit
Zero!
Possible-Tangelo9344@reddit
1 point. We didn't go to Blockbuster, we went to a local place then we got Hollywood Video
CaptZombieHero@reddit
I sent a fax yesterday for my work. Listened to Ella Fitzgerald on Vinyl last week. Also, perfect zero.
tbr6742@reddit
2-no Blockbusters out in the middle of nowhere and never sent a post card.
General-Basket-1691@reddit
Perfect 0 here too
Diligent_Accident775@reddit
I've never sent a postcard or used a paper map :(
panteragstk@reddit
I don't see "listened to 8 tracks" on the list.
gyanrahi@reddit
Perfect 20 here
rpmsm@reddit
I still pay my rent with a paper check. Definitely zero
blue_suavitel@reddit
Yeah we couldnāt afford the encyclopedia so I get 1 point for that
CharlieMoonMan@reddit
Does the Mac Os Encyclopedia count? With the pre-loaded Cranberries album?
highwindxix@reddit
I got 1 point, cause I donāt think I ever sent a postcard.
Corvus-333@reddit
0 clubā¦.as long as we count the family encyclopedia set as mine
Suspicious-Yard4205@reddit
1 - I never recorded onto a cassette from the radio. I recorded plenty of nonsense onto a cassette, but never anything from the radio.
Low_Control_8603@reddit
18
drwebb@reddit
Easy zero
enkidomark@reddit
None of these are even deep cuts. Maybe the encyclopedia.
javaman83@reddit
Half a point. I never rented a video from Blockbuster, because there weren't any around here, but I did rent from a mom and pop, and then Hollywood Video.
eldritch_elder@reddit
Also perfect zero!
Terriblarious@reddit
1, I've never sent a postcard.
zenlittleplatypus@reddit
Procrasturbating@reddit
I still do number 7. Like actually at this moment listening to The Claypool Lennon Delirium.
zoey8068@reddit
Fuck am I that old (insert sad face)
Dast_Kook@reddit
Zero for me too. Shoot, I've done have these things in the last 30 days.
NectarSweat@reddit
1 point. Never sent a postcard.
Somerset1982@reddit
I scored a 0. The paper checks thing surprises me- there are still things today for which I need to write paper checks. Is that unusual?
selfmadetrader@reddit
Yup... zero
OllieFromCairo@reddit
One point for number 7. My records were all made of vinyl.
El-Viking@reddit
I'll give you a -1 if you've ever rocked out to a wax cylinder
OllieFromCairo@reddit
Reel to reel and magnetic wire, yes, but never wax cylinder.
El-Viking@reddit
I'm pretty sure my dad still has his reel to reel (and some reels) in his basement
melismyhero@reddit
Perfect score here
The_Goondocks@reddit
Got em all. I've seen things.
Chest_Rockfield@reddit
Zero. Also, I just faxed something yesterday...
PickledPepa@reddit
I did all of these things. I'm an old 40.
ezhammer@reddit
Hard zero for me.
Hodl2Moon@reddit
VINYL. goddamn that irked meā¦also scored a 0
nathanimal_d@reddit
People act like this makes them good at something. It just means you were alive in the 80s/90s. Have you ever shod a horse? Crank started a car?
SailNW@reddit
I got a 1. By the time I started driving, we at least had Mapquest.
Starwarsandbacon@reddit
Perfect 0
NProgress7@reddit
0 is my score...I'm officially an old fartš šØ
Feline_Fine3@reddit
I wasnāt sure if printed MapQuest directions count as a paper map, ha ha. Because if they do, then it is a zero
Goblinboogers@reddit
1 point! We were too poor for a encyclopedia
ShakyTheBear@reddit
0
Enso_Herewe_Go@reddit
1984 millennial here...zero.
IUMogg@reddit
Does a paper map include the directions and map I printed off of Mapquest?
QuentinEichenauer@reddit
Perfect zero, but I didn't send a fax until 2022.
abirdreads@reddit
0 out of 20. Oh, and I still listen to vinyl. :)
xnef1025@reddit
No rotary phone use here. My friend had one in his house, but I never used it, and by the first time I used a pay phone theyād all been replaced with touch tones.
Trevon45-2@reddit
Zero here
Difficult_Plantain89@reddit
I never sent a postcard. We made some in class and my mom was supposed to send them out or whatever.
Capital_Push5557@reddit
Listened to a cassette tape TODAY
someguyfromsk@reddit
tersegirl@reddit
I was still doing some of these things in the 00s. Life in a backwater, I guess
yaktrone@reddit
Im a 90s baby and im still paying some bills with checks? Is that just a having boomer parent thing?
OpheliaDarkling@reddit
In the words of Elvis Costello, "everything means less than zero.."
LordButterbeard@reddit
0
VirgilsCrew@reddit
0
nitrot150@reddit
0 here too
Exciting-Flounder-85@reddit
I think I have sent a fax or two. Almost had a point there
ThomasSirveaux@reddit
1 point. I've never listened to a vinyl record. We had 8 tracks and cassettes, but no record player. When I was about 12, we got a CD player.
cantwejustplaynice@reddit
Unlucky-tracer@reddit
-1 = had a pen pal
JinxOnU78@reddit
Sameā¦ ā0ā
Konnorwolf@reddit
Zero of course. I could see maybe not using a rotary phone. Everything else was just too common for the time.
Threetimes3@reddit
Never really used a rotary phone here. My parents were young, so had a newer phone, never really spent much of my young childhood with other family to be around themĀ
SpicyBreakfastTomato@reddit
Also a perfect 0.
And, I mean, businesses still use fax machines.
AdhesivenessWeary377@reddit
BUTTERSBOTTOMBlTCH@reddit
Scored a zero but was born in 84. So I guess I have a seat on the council but will not be given the rank of master.
Tiny_Addendum707@reddit
.5 because I had encarta not britanica
JamieC1610@reddit
0
I feel old now.
Downtown_Falcon_2127@reddit
almost scored a 1. sent a fax from a truck stop in grayson ky sometime in the mid aughts
ST_Lawson@reddit
1 point for me because the nearest Blockbuster was like 2 hours away. We had video rental places, but no big chains until later when family video showed up.
red-ernie_6691@reddit
Woohoo! Zero!
Moist-Golf-8339@reddit
1 point for me for the encyclopedia. But do I get -1 point for still using paper maps to this day? Specifically in the BWCA
Icy-Finance5042@reddit
2 never owned encyclopedia or sent a postcard.
aakaase@reddit
āļø Used a rotary phone
āļø Used a floppy disk
āļø Used a typewriter
āļø Taken pictures with a film camera
āļø Listened to music on a CD
āļø Listened to a cassette tape
āļø Listened to a vinyl record
āļø Listened to music on a Walkman
āļø Listened to music on a boombox
āļø watched a video from a VHS tape
āļø Sent or received a fax
ā Recorded music from radio to cassette tape
ā Rented a video from camera Blockbuster
ā Accessed the internet by dial-up
ā Used a phone book
ā Sent a postcard
ā Used a paper map to get somewhere
ā Owned a dictionary
ā Owned an encyclopedia
ā Paid with a paper check
My score: 18
SomethingWitty2023@reddit
Passes with a perfect zero as well!
El-Viking@reddit
Do I get an extra point for watching a movie on LaserDisc? What about renting a LaserDisc to record onto VHS?
InNausetWeTrust@reddit
Sameā¦0 pts. I still get the phone book delivered to my house. I donāt ask for it and it shows up. Goes in the trash šļø right away š¤·
CosmicCommentator@reddit
0!! So, did I pass or fail?
MeatPopsicle10@reddit
I did some of these today
DownEastAtticus@reddit
Iām too old for this, 38 years old and got a 0
DeGreenster@reddit
Id be drunk AF
ApexAzimuth@reddit
Easily a zero.
Happy-Freedom6835@reddit
Iām trying to figure out how to make a less than zero reference, but Iām coming up shortā¦ itās been a long week
Slippi88@reddit
Zero. And Iām a millennial born in 88.
swish301@reddit
I only won with 0 because we had the āAā encyclopedia and no others.
I donāt remember how we got it, but if I ever had a report on something with the letter A, I was all set.
mahzian@reddit
1 point for me, never paid via cheque, it was antiquated by the time I was making money.
patellison@reddit
20/20
jimbeam84@reddit
19 / 20
I never rented from Blockbuster as the closest outlet was 4 hours away.
Complete_Volume@reddit
Iām 35, and I scored a zero.
Thesmallestsasquatch@reddit
0
TangMoG@reddit
0, if you count Microsoft Encarta as an encyclopedia
No_Bake_3627@reddit
0 points
Onetwentyonegigawat@reddit
20 dayum
mamafl@reddit
Perfect zero
SunflowerDonut9847@reddit
1 pointā¦ never faxed a thing in my life
Turbulent_Tale6497@reddit
I owned A encyclopedia. My parents got World book volume A for free, were too cheap to buy the rest. Throughout school, I wrote lots of papers on A subjects.
So, yes, I owned A encyclopedia
friskyburlington@reddit
19/20. I never rented from Blockbuster. I did have an account at Family Video back when that existed around here.
jordosmodernlife@reddit
Zero 0ļøā£ and Vynil lol
GonzoThompson@reddit
My grandparents got the encyclopedias for my family, so they werenāt mine per se, but I used them the most. If thatās a point for me, itās the only one.
Futbalislyfe@reddit
Paid for a long distance phone plan.
Waited until after 6pm for free nights and weekends to make a phone call.
Told someone they owe me money if they send me a text.
Zealousideal-Ear1036@reddit
20/20
gwinnsolent@reddit
0 points!
CountryKick@reddit
0 for 20... definitely remember having the Britannica, with those shiny gold page edges
Some-Union2853@reddit
Same, and had time left over to spell check "Vynil?"
Release82@reddit
19 points. š
dvs-0ne@reddit
I was hoping i will miss points on boombox but then i googled what that is and, yeah, got that one too... im 35 and im fucking old
Ingestre@reddit
Never sent a fax.
Slevinkellevra710@reddit
I think i have a 1. I don't believe I ever recorded of the radio.
Due_Night414@reddit
Damn. 20/20. Perfect score baby!!!
marvin_nash9@reddit
20/20 here
honkyhey@reddit
Well I guess I need to take 20 shots
Toadthehobo2@reddit
Perfect score of a 0. Damn I am getting old.
LaughingCook@reddit
0
SirHillaryPushemoff@reddit
For number 9, would you also have accepted a ghetto blaster?
oilyrailroader@reddit
Should have on the list: rented a VCR
djbuttplay@reddit
0
haeddre83@reddit
Never sent a postcard, but mailed tons of letters. I also never owned a dictionary or encyclopedia myself but used ones in different libraries. I can navigate a card catalogue tho lol š
More than likely bc of where I'm from and being poor had a hand in that, so I still think I should get a zero lol
fatuousfred@reddit
0 and I'm only 35
Th3-B0n3R@reddit
1, I've never sent a postcard.
rc20kj@reddit
20 points for me. Gen X hose drinker here.
Alone-Chemical-1160@reddit
Zero
Majestic-Bed6151@reddit
Zero here. I still pay bills at my business with paper checks. Wrote 12 of them today! And I still listen to my old cassettes in my 1995 celica š¤
AppropriateTouching@reddit
Goose egg
Jessica_Ariadne@reddit
Omg I got a zero.
Beneficial_Record119@reddit
1 point- never sent a postcard.
MatildaJeanMay@reddit
Technically I never rented from Blockbuster. We used the local video rental place.
spssky@reddit
Tbf im a straight up millennial (born in 87) and scored a zero and I think my brother who was born in 90 would too
Lauriepoo@reddit
0 for me too
InjuryDesperate1048@reddit
Is it weird to have only a score of 3 as a genZ?
Just never had a Walkman or used dial up or a floppy disk.
_37canolis_@reddit
You guys used typewriters or just saw one and clicked a few times?
xx_deleted_x@reddit
hell...I'd only score a 10 THIS YEAR
Lifetime = 0
BreakfastOk163@reddit
Perfect O here as well!
BigSal44@reddit
I got a goose egg.
flatulating_ninja@reddit
Renting a viedo from Blockbuster is the only one I've never done but to be fair my small town didn't have a Blockbuster but my first job was at the locally owned video store if that counts instead.
valdus@reddit
One point. My parents owned the encyclopedia set.
thecicilala@reddit
Zero for me as well
imthewronggeneration@reddit
I have literally done all of these except 3.
ChiEFs823@reddit
Perfect Zero
dottie_petunia@reddit
1- because I didnāt have a fax machine.
GrolarBear69@reddit
1 point. Never sent a postcard.
If I can't drive to your house inside of an hour, you're basically dead to me.
New-Radio-6177@reddit
Screw all of you infants! I have done all of these things, including used an 8-track player and gone to bed after Television signed off. Harrumpphhh!!!! (walking away as quickly as my creaky knees will let me).
Recent_Obligation276@reddit
2 points and Iām a late millennial
More 80s and 90s
Johnny2076@reddit
Do the Fink and Wagnallās encyclopedia purchased serially through Super Duperās count.
I think we had maybe half the set.
Ok_Researcher_9796@reddit
I don't think I've sent a postcard. Done all the others though.
RachelPalmer79@reddit
Perfect zero!!
DeathLikeAHammer@reddit
Wait, what's the point of never-have-i-ever, again? Is it like golf?
Nsflguru@reddit
Big fucking zero.
AnxiousStand2603@reddit
Solid 17 points
J_Worldpeace@reddit
Dialed 9 to get an outside line should be on there
CLUTCH3R@reddit
Perfect zero
Once_Upon_Time@reddit
2 Blockbuster wasn't a thing in Canada if we say any video rental store then down to 1, unless printing out mapquest counts then 0.
Supersith4real@reddit
Man I got 0 points. This hurts as I like to imagine I am not yet old.
DarthFuzzzy@reddit
Aren't we all going to be 0? Maybe 1 point here and there for those who never personally used fax machines or had encyclopedias.
AndyThePig@reddit
sigh
I've been watching Perfect Strangers again. I did the math ... it's 38 years old.
I shouldn't have done the math
Strict-Square456@reddit
Big phat 0.
PokesBo@reddit
1
Recorded music from radio to cassette tape.
unlovelyladybartleby@reddit
"Vynil" no. Vinyl, yes. So not sure if my score is a 1 or a 0
the_fever1981@reddit
Also, they were called records, not vinyl.
Melodic-Variation103@reddit
1 - My town was too small for a Blockbuster.
SunshineInDetroit@reddit
I scored a 23 on the purity test
OverCollar4010@reddit
Ive done every single one.... 0
jessek@reddit
I never owned a real encyclopedia. Always wanted one back then but we never had the money for it.
Bluecolt@reddit
Either a 1 or 0 depending on what counts for using a rotary phone. When I was old enough to use the phone at home I recall it having buttons, but I used to play with the working rotary phone my grandparents still had connected when visiting because I thought it was interesting, but I didn't meaningfully "use" it. A quick search reveals that button dial phones where introduced in 1963, so I guess it's not unexpectedly my parents had button dial by the 80s.
Seldarin@reddit
2 points.
I grew up in a small rural town. There were no Blockbusters within 80 miles of us. We had a Movie Gallery like 20 miles up the road, if that counts.
Never sent a postcard, either.
slademccoy47@reddit
my score: 2-ish
I have had faxes sent and received on my behalf, and I have troubleshooted fax machines as recently as 2024, but I have never actually gone through the process of sending a fax with my own hands, nor have I received one addressed directly to me.
I used printed-out google maps with directions in the earlier google maps days, but never actually used a real map.
Radiant-Programmer33@reddit
Got two points due to 14 and 20.
My first internet connection was at uni and there the connection was definitely not a dial-up. I also thought the computer lab was the best place to hang out on weekend (nights).. okay, I know how that makes me sound and yes, I was never cool nor popular.
Paper checks haven't been a thing here since the 80s. I got a basic ATM card in the early 90s.
AskTheNavigator@reddit
Scored 0. But I always had to go to the library for updated editions of World Book. Our family set was about 5 editions out of date - dad bought it when he and mom got married - in anticipation of having kids.
jreashville@reddit
I donāt think I ever used a typewriter.
Why_So-Serious@reddit
ReadyLaugh7827@reddit
two... never sent or received a fax, and i've never sent a post card..
HYThrowaway1980@reddit
Zero.
I must have paid for some things by cheque because I remember have stubs. Although I dont recall ever actually using one in a shop. Perhaps it was for mail order things?
SilverSnapDragon@reddit
I scored a perfect ZERO and Iām damned proud of it!
Teflon_John_@reddit
-1 because Iāve Iāve done all that plus used a multi home āparty-lineā telephone?
FafaFluhigh@reddit
20
CanIHaveAName84@reddit
I think the recording from the radio was my only point.
notenoughwineforthis@reddit
0 here! :)
NUFIGHTER7771@reddit
Zero too and I was born in the '90s!
No-Acanthisitta7930@reddit
Fuck me...zero. lol
Designer-Pound6459@reddit
I have done everything on the list multiple times.
accidental-eeyore@reddit
Whelp. I guess my ass is old.
blueberry_pancakes14@reddit
I mean I don't know what a "vynil" is, but I have a turntable, great Bose box speakers that were my dad's from the 80s, and a great record collection.
I guess technically my parents owed the encyclopedia, but it was for me and my benefit (along with the National Geographic CD-ROM set, man that thing was awesome). And I'm sure I had a children's encyclopedia at some point, so it counts.
I still pay my water/sewer/garbage bill with a paper check, because my city is stupid and charges a fee for online payments. So waste your expensive government employee's time processing my paper check each month, jerks.
uberallez@reddit
I point- I never rented from Blockbuster.
Both my parents owed them money, so we were banned.
We had to rent from Hollywood bideo or independent places.
Zsirhcz1981@reddit
0 and itās not even a challenge. š
ooo-ooo-oooyea@reddit
I'm a one. We actually did not have blockbuster in my town during my prime renting years. We had a local place that also rented out videogames that was awesome, then we discovered our local library had excellent videos for rent including a full set of wrestle manias.
ExportTHCs@reddit
Well I've never sent a postcard
terminally_irish@reddit
Zero.
Tim-Sylvester@reddit
Well now I'm angry.
CalebWilliamson@reddit (OP)
AggressiveCommand739@reddit
Same. Club 0 over here. Legit credentials!
Commercial_Fee422@reddit
I sent a fax yesterday.
musicpheliac@reddit
Does my parents having a huge 30 book encyclopedia count? No way I was buying that when I was 6.Ā
We never had Blockbuster growing up, we had Family Video, and I was there many times.Ā
I'm counting both of their towards my 0!
garygnu@reddit
Yeah, the encyclopedia set was not "mine," but I did read the hell out of the family's World Book set.
A Blockbuster eventually opened in hometown and we occasionally rented there, but we were pretty loyal to little, local, Rosewood Video.
babe_ruthless3@reddit
Fat zero. I did all these things and sometimes, I still do some of these things (listen to music on cd)
New_Conference_3425@reddit
Postcards are awesome. Still send them to my parents when Iām abroad.
RyanLanceAuthor@reddit
Perfect Zero as well
yeezushchristmas@reddit
Zero hero
OneHumanBill@reddit
When I was a kid, I wanted a copy of Brittanica sooo badly but it was way out of the realm of possibility.
One point.
Ok_Egg_471@reddit
NoDontDoThatCanada@reddit
Mikey_5386@reddit
1 but only because we had Hollywood Video instead of Blockbuster.
Bob_Lawablaw@reddit
Zero for me, too... But paper checks? What's wrong with that?
llllllllIIIIIIl@reddit
0
skeptical_hope@reddit
I still send postcards; postcards are dope!
flerchin@reddit
Vinyl.
CreepyKiki@reddit
1 point sort of but that's only because I didn't rent my VHS tapes from Blockbuster but a local store.
Moon_Noodle@reddit
Zero. I even sent a fax today.
DefyingGravity234@reddit
RobinMayPanPan@reddit
2 points...
gymgremlin77@reddit
Fat zero plus I played dig dug on atari.
nemomnemonic@reddit
2 points. Rented movies in other places and never used a check (I think I haven't seen one of those since I was a child). I was about to add the fax one, but I think I ONCE sent one.
StaceyPfan@reddit
0
llamasauce@reddit
0
Moon_Noodle@reddit
Vynil
aerodeck@reddit
Iāve never listened to āvynilā š
lordtyp0@reddit
I really missed Blockbuster and Hollywood video. There was so much more vested interest in the movie selection.
Previous_Farm5146@reddit
I got 3
FionaGoodeEnough@reddit
1 for me. We were not rich enough to own encyclopedias. We had to walk to the library if we wanted to look up G for Genitalia.
oakleafwellness@reddit
Two.
Maps were not my familyās thing, and that trickled down to me. Iāve never sent or received a fax.
adamcmorrison@reddit
Sigh
wheres_the_revolt@reddit
0 - but maybe .5 because I had like 5 letters/books of an encyclopedia set lol
Lar281@reddit
Federal Blue Cross still pays for prescription drug reimbursement with paper checks. Is part of their wait until the last minute to pay scam. Also, is just for overseas claims that I know of.
alisoncarey@reddit
mrdrofficer@reddit
Is a point good or bad? Regardless, I don't have any.
mariah188@reddit
1 point
Moxie_Stardust@reddit
A zero?
CalebWilliamson@reddit (OP)
https://i.redd.it/jr61gth20nde1.gif
Warm-Gift-7741@reddit
0
R1pp3R23@reddit
0.0
Kolslaw77@reddit
Zero. Yay Iām old
squashy67@reddit
Done them all lol
phildu57@reddit
1 point, never rented from blockbuster (burned and raised in EU)
phildu57@reddit
AdScary1757@reddit
I had an 8 track player in the dash of my car.
neversafeforwork_78@reddit
I score zero. In fact, I am listening to a vinyl record right now, so that should make me a negative-1. (and vynil on this list is a typo)
MojoHighway@reddit
ZERO
And I get bonus minus points for knowing how to correctly spell "vinyl".
Odd-Improvement-1980@reddit
12 and 13 are the only ones I never did. I grew up in a small town in the middle of nowhere. We didnāt have a radio station worth recording songs from and we didnāt have a blockbuster within 90 miles of where I lived. There were other movie rental businesses in my town.
elcheapodeluxe@reddit
I'm giving myself a "0" even though my *family* owned a set of Funk & Wagnels, technically *I* did not. I did own an Encarta 95 CD though.
actionerror@reddit
Zealousideal_Tear159@reddit
Zero. Fuck Iām old
Beanieson@reddit
2 pts Iāve never sent a postcard, never used a typewriter š
FriendlyPea805@reddit
Zero here.
sarahsmiles17@reddit
I received a fax this weekā¦. Some of these things are still being used routinely haha
RanHakubi@reddit
Does Encarta count as an encyclopedia? Yes=2 No=1
mlvassallo@reddit
0 points.
JoeN0t5ur3@reddit
0.0
ladymouserat@reddit
1ārecorded from radio to cassette
LemonPartyW0rldTour@reddit
Talonhawke@reddit
1-No block buster near me growing up. If we count any movie rental place back at 0
switchquest@reddit
Zero ^^
We had disposable camera's placed on every table at our wedding which is only 11 years ago.
Because digital photo's would en up on a hard drive somewhere and never looked at š
(Which is exactly what happened with all the digital pics)
elMurpherino@reddit
0 bro. This is easy mode lol
mutualbuttsqueezin@reddit
I'm a lost millennial, I got all of them
jschmalfuss@reddit
I definitely have received postcards, I don't recall ever sending one though.. guess I lose
Hancock02@reddit
0
Northern_Lights_2@reddit
Well, Iām old. And itās just common sense to have a paper atlas! We are far too reliant on technology. Now I feel olderā¦
flipnitch@reddit
Missing ālistened to music on an 8-trackā and āwatched video on betamaxā
SteveEcks@reddit
I sent a fax like 10 years ago and even then I was like "WHO DOES THIS??"
Crafty-Gain-6542@reddit
1 point - somehow I never recorded music off the radio. Iām not sure how I failed to do that.
Arnieman83@reddit
Perfect zero...
Unable-Message9271@reddit
Team zero!
ccarrieandthejets@reddit
I still fax things.
Much_Ad470@reddit
I still use a paper check to pay my rent š«
lilbunnygal@reddit
Just 1 point : foiled by the fax machine.
wintertash@reddit
Zero for me too
rev9of8@reddit
My prep school literally gave all of us a copy of the Concise Oxford Dictionary when we completed our final year at the school...
Scored a perfect zero on this test.
Munchkin531@reddit
WingShooter_28ga@reddit
FlyingAnvils@reddit
Some of these I still do today!
drainbamage1011@reddit
I don't know how people have gotten by without writing a check. Some things I do will only accept cash or check, and I rarely carry much cash.
RedPillNavigator@reddit
16 points :D
Kiwikid14@reddit
1 point. Never had a chequebook.
Ok-Peach-2200@reddit
1ā¦never sent a postcardā¦always thought they were kind of obnoxious for some reason.
ReturntoForever3116@reddit
Give this test to your partner too. If they score more than 3, congrats.
three-sense@reddit
Donut ( 0 )
Gonna_do_this_again@reddit
Who hasn't at least heard music from a CD
Glittering-Most-9535@reddit
I recorded from tapes to tapes, records to tapes, reel-to-reel to tape. But never off the radio. One.
Minnow_Minnow_Pea@reddit
I don't remember if I ever used a rotary phone. We had one, but I think by the time I was actually talking on the phone, we had a touch pad.Ā
My parents put the rotary phone in our play room, and it was one of my favorite things.
Perfect-Resist5478@reddit
0/20
joeybagofdonuts80@reddit
Iāve never sent a postcard.Ā
SaccharineHuxley@reddit
Ps gonna miss you, Mr. President. šØš¦
compulov@reddit
Gonna miss Trudeau from our neighbors to the north, mostly because he's been around for nine years. Guess that's still better then trying to remember who the current Prime Minister of the UK is. Well, before the liberal government most recently took over.
Zerostar39@reddit
Same here. What does that mean about us?
Morriganx3@reddit
Same and same
Overall_Falcon_8526@reddit
Same and same.
genesimmonstongue415@reddit
Same š
Spare-Bid-5131@reddit
Hard zero. Like zero x 1000, which is still just zero
BlackEngineEarings@reddit
1 point. We didn't own encyclopedias
RonIsIZe_13@reddit
Born 86, scored a 5.
JohnnieLawerence@reddit
0
Philhughes_85@reddit
1 point I've never sent or received a fax
eulynn34@reddit
I never owned an encyclopedia. My grandma had a Britannica from like 1960 I think-- which was not always the best source for doing papers in the 1990s
repo_code@reddit
Does a discman count as a walkman? I never had a cassette walkman.
Had a transistor am/fm radio though. Fun times.
myco_lion@reddit
I never sent a postcard but that's the only one. So 1 point for me.
Quenzayne@reddit
Iām stuck on Sent or Received a Fax.
There were a few times I tried to send one but the machine never worked. Not even once. And I tried it on many multiple machines.
And I canāt recall if I ever received one or not. I was present when they came in, but I canāt remember one being addressed to me.
FreedomSquatch@reddit
People in offices everywhere fax stuff all the time to this very dayā¦
VisibleSea4533@reddit
Zero as well
Biscuits4u2@reddit
Zero
bygtopp@reddit
Big zero for me.
Liathano_Fire@reddit
Zero!
xiaomayzeee@reddit
2 - we never went to Blockbuster and we werenāt fancy enough to own any volume of the encyclopedia.
SweetCosmicPope@reddit
Perfect 0, as well
ChaoticGoodMrdrHobo@reddit
1 point. But only because there was no blockbuster near where I grew up.
Uller85@reddit
1, never owned an encyclopedia
albauer2@reddit
Yup, perfect zero. Seriously this must be for like teenagers.
shintojuunana@reddit
A perfect 0! Beautiful.
iRedFive@reddit
I scored zero, wife got a 1. Sheās 7 years younger. Didnāt do the record song on cassette from radio.
Scioptic-@reddit
Score 0. Born 1985. And yet there'll still be gatekeepers who say I'm not a Xennial.
Tiny-Reading5982@reddit
2... never used a fax machine or written a check . I have written checks for old ladies when I worked at a grocery store though lol.
candycookiecake@reddit
I'm actually pretty sure I still have my typewriter!
HortonHearsTheWho@reddit
This is the one thing Iām like 80% sure Iāve never done. OTOH I was a journalist for an actual physically printed newspaper so I feel like that should count.
FlyingAnvils@reddit
Lot of dbags in Portland using them today.
candycookiecake@reddit
So the dreams of the '90s being alive in Portland is a true statement? My typewriter is electric which doesn't make it portable and/or douche-baggy (I think).
Newgeta@reddit
Zero, woof
burnitdwn@reddit
I never used a real/mechanical typewriter. We had an Apple 2e when I was a kid, and then a 486, and then when I was 16, I got a job and built my own PC from inexpensive parts that I picked up at a computer show.
I never had a paper encyclopedia, but we had "prodigy bbs" which came with an encyclopedia as part of the subscription. Eventually prodigy became our ISP, though after my folks split up, when I lived with my mom we didn't really have internet until I built my PC in 96 and signed up for a local ISP called netwave.
grumpyoldnord@reddit
1 point - never listened to a vynil record, whatever that is; I have listened to a vinyl record, tho, so typo aside it's zero for me.
TheLastBlakist@reddit
One point - and that's because I had never had a reason to use a fax machine.
Scary-Ad9646@reddit
Who could afford those encyclopedias?
fiso17@reddit
What about used a car phone? Most kids would have no idea what that even is lol
AtomicSmoothbore@reddit
Fuckin zero, man haha
MetaVulture@reddit
I have zero points.
universe-zen@reddit
You know, I never had to use a paper map to get around. I just kinda knew where I was going when I was driving. Now, I have been in the car on family road trips when a map was used, but not me personally.
Main-Meringue5697@reddit
1 point because for blockbuster
Unapologetic_Canuck@reddit
Good ol zero.
schoolisuncool@reddit
I never sent or received a fax. Other than that, Iāve done all of it
aardw0lf11@reddit
I've done them at some point. A few of these are still common, paper checks and faxes, hell even postcards.
Orlando1701@reddit
r/BoomersBeingFools is leaking.
Mithrandir_Holmes@reddit
Same
jambr380@reddit
These were just basic things everybody did back in the day. Iād be surprised if almost everybody didnāt score a zero.
EarlBeforeSwine@reddit
0
amethystalien6@reddit
Zero but it was tight. I didnāt love anywhere with a Blockbuster until the last 3 years of its existence. And technically a DVD not āvideoā.
DigitalDancePants@reddit
Every last one of them.
Damn.
taleofbenji@reddit
Secret_Elevator17@reddit
i don't think we had tabs back then, i think it was just a new window lol
TheFinalGirl84@reddit
Zero
oxnardmontalvo7@reddit
20 for 20
babyllamamama23@reddit
Those encyclopedias were the biggest con! I remember the dressing downs my Dad would give my Mom over their price. He gloated once encyclopedias on CD-Rom came out. We'd devoted two coveted shelves to those family fracturing, instantly outdated badboys. Ah, the 90s. Score 0.
Overall_Falcon_8526@reddit
Yup. Zero. I guess Encyclopedia will be the hardest one, but my family bought a used set that was somewhat out of date :-)
MahliSaia@reddit
Iām giving myself 2.
Iāve never recorded the radio to a cassette, and Iāve never owned an encyclopedia. Technically Iāve also never rented from Blockbuster - my family went to Hollywood Video instead.
genesimmonstongue415@reddit
Zero.
What I've done the least, is send a fax. Only a few times.
shiftdown@reddit
I think anyone born before 1990 would score a zero here.
CalebWilliamson@reddit (OP)
The first fax machine was 1846, and the typewriter was 1874, so at least two.
Sad_Egg_5176@reddit
84 here and just 1: never sent a postcard
EntertainmentTop2019@reddit
Easy 0
tour79@reddit
I think we all have at least 1. Idk what a vynil record is. Vinyl, hell yeah, vynil, tf is that?
ActualGvmtName@reddit
Zero
MediocreVermicelli39@reddit
Damn. I hit all 20
NachoNachoDan@reddit
Iāve never used a typewriter.
Sudden_Cancel1726@reddit
0
Milksteak_To_Go@reddit
Samsies. Zero.
pierrecambronne@reddit
epidemicsaints@reddit
They need to put "used flea dip" on here.
OtherlandGirl@reddit
Duh!
Inevitable-While-577@reddit
Obviously
aliceinadreamyland@reddit
Zero.