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funkduck5@reddit

Well, I guess I get negative points cause I still have a record/cd/tape player. But what about 8 tracks? My dad always had me listen to those too. Uh oh 50 negative points there 😆 🤣

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Ready_Bad_346@reddit

Full 20, though the typewriter was definitely a novelty experience and not normal use. Everything else was very typical 80s to early 90s childhood.

People owned physical encyclopedia for decades.... We bought Encarta on CD-ROM... That was a short window.

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KJM_2741@reddit

ZERO POINTS! Means I have a totally tubular life!

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AncientLights444@reddit

If you are on this sub you should have no more than 1 point

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Infinite-Condition41@reddit

I dont think I've sent a postcard. But that's only because I have no one to send it to, and it wasn't normalized in my childhood household.

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EternalLifeguard@reddit

Yay! I won, we score this lile golf right? Lowest score? Got a zero!

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CantankerousOrder@reddit

I never OWNED either an encyclopedia or a dictionary. My parents did but when I was old enough to move out I had Encarta on CD.

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_R_A_@reddit

Let's add some hard mode ones:

watched a video on betamax
used a floppy disk that was actually floppy
listened to music on an 8-track tape
rented a video from a local rental store/grocery store

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closhedbb80@reddit

Still zero for me. My Dad thought beta would win the format war. The quality on a Betamax is actually better and the tapes are smaller.

My Dad also had a decent 8-track collection of classic rock. I know classic rock means something different now. To me it means Allman Brothers, Cream, CS&N, Led Zeppelin, etc.

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Da12khawk@reddit

Not sure about the 8-track. Does as a baby count?

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_R_A_@reddit

Considering they were hanging on commerically until the early 80s, I say why not.

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They were hanging on until 1988 or later. Columbia House was still producing select albums on the 8 Track format in 1988...and a few TV Record offers were still producing them into the extreme early 1990s.

A couple Columbia House 8 Track releases from Summer 1988 ⬇️

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LoganJamesMusic@reddit

All except the Betamax, I've done all of these.

Wait - does it count if I took apart a Betamax tape, cut out portions to audio cassette width and wound it up in an audio cassette to see if I could hear the audio and if it would record audio properly? Because I did that once or twice...

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mamaberry15@reddit

Extra extra points if you rented the VCR along with the video.

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scratchfury@reddit

I think I’ve rented a game console and a game.

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_R_A_@reddit

Jesus... That's the boss level right there

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SufficientRaccoon291@reddit

YYEEEESSSS

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cmaxim@reddit

Hmm.. never watched a betamax despite being around during it's era. I did use actual floppy disks though, those were fun with the little clip to secure them in place. Never used an 8-track, but I absolutely rented from local convenience stores, those were the days! Something about that memory really takes me back.

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franktheguy@reddit

✔️ ✅️ ✔️ ✅️ Yep, still zero.

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xXWestinghouseXx@reddit

This puts me up to 23. Our house was VCR > Betamax.

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newfor2023@reddit

I didn't have two off the original list but now do have two of these instead.

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_buffy_summers@reddit

Okay, with these added things, my score is 1. I don't think I ever watched anything on betamax.

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TiEmEnTi@reddit

Four out of four on that too.

How about a used a black and white monitor or biked/skateboarded without a helmet?

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_R_A_@reddit

Black and white, or black and green?

Who am I kidding? I used both!

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TiEmEnTi@reddit

Oooh I never had a black and green, nice!

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idkmoiname@reddit

Finally something on the list i never did. What's an 8-track tape ?

Oh and i'd like to add "watched a movie at home on a Super-8 projector"

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NoneOfThisMatters_XO@reddit

My science teacher in hs had an 8 track player and he’d play 8 tracks during our labs. That’s the only time I ever saw those.

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Other-Opposite-6222@reddit

Got me with the Betamax. +1

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OmegaRainicorn@reddit

Yep, one point crew right here!! Wooo!

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Seven22am@reddit

Yeah, we went to the local waaaaaaay more than Blockbuster (which I only went to a few times actually). And yes, it had a curtained-off room. Never actually used an 8-track, though.

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ONROSREPUS@reddit

I did all of these as well. My parents thought Beta was the next big thing and bought a player.

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truth2500@reddit

With the "Adult" area behind a curtain in the back

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rainbowtison@reddit

Still 0 hahah

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Available-Crow-3442@reddit

Damn. This is a boomer style Facebook post yall. Are we them now?

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fricks_and_stones@reddit

No, this is mainly a list of things the modern internet replaced. Technology changes. Life goes on.

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Available-Crow-3442@reddit

Yes. And this is exactly the type of st00pid that boomers post.

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mellcrisp@reddit

Why, it's almost like someone created this list to target a specific generation of people!

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arminghammerbacon_@reddit

That’s ridiculous! Now let me take this opportunity to tell you good folks about a helpful organization called AARP…

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AshamedRaspberry5283@reddit

Get out of here with your logic

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Jandur@reddit

Literally my dad posts shit like this.

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ouijahead@reddit

‘member ghostbusters ? 🍇

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VashMM@reddit

I MEMBER

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SufficientRaccoon291@reddit

Pepperidge Farms ‘members

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Jandur@reddit

Does anyone else's back hurt???

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andiinAms@reddit

I mean, be the change you want to see, right?

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Otherkin@reddit

Are we the boomies?

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mariefury@reddit

It doesn’t mention drinking out of a garden hose at least.

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Plane_Chance863@reddit

Well, we are their children (at least some of us).

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Realistic-Emu4644@reddit

The fact that I didn’t even connect these dots until seeing your post means I’m slowing morphing into the inevitable 👵🏻

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ihavenoidea81@reddit

I’ve seen this posted on Reddit at least 5 times

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DustyScharole@reddit

Why? Just because my back hurts, the skin around my eyes is getting thin, and I complain about the noise in bars doesn't make me old.

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Hanksta2@reddit

We can be like them in that we are old enough to have used obsolete technology.

We can differentiate ourselves from boomers by not losing our empathy.

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jfb1027@reddit

Just missing the like and share

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Available-Crow-3442@reddit

HAVE YOU SEEn. My GAMDDSON PLAY BASEBALL? He loves VYNLS BUT HE. IS SO SILLY HE CALL’s THEM “vynyls” and hangs them on HIS WALL INSTEAD OF PLAYING THEM LOL

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1980powder1980@reddit

GOBLESS

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Mcbadguy@reddit

ORDER CORN

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Gian_Luck_Pickerd@reddit

Oh, we're r/oldpeoplefalcebook now

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GhostChips42@reddit

No, but the AI generated bot thinks we are, which I should probably be concerned about.

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Jenaaaaaay@reddit

I keep seeing an ad on my home screen with a picture of an old lady and it says “seniors born between 1944-1979” idk even know what it’s advertising but the years are concerning lol. I’m 1980, I’m almost there 😂

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brzantium@reddit

Yeah, this sub has leaned hard into boomer facebook posts. That being said, I'm definitely a 1 - never used a rotary phone - but I might be a 2. I used a typewriter once, but it was at a wedding in like 2012 - kind of an intentional anachronism à la that whole millennial vintage kitsch.

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DrJJStroganoff@reddit

GOBBLESS

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bell83@reddit

You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

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Quantum_Particle78@reddit

So that's 19 for me. (We had Family Video not Blockbuster but I included it). the only thing I haven't done is listen to music from a boombox outside because I'm not a big music fan and only listen in the car

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Shoehornblower@reddit

This is why people born in ‘77 are genx not xennials… i’ve done all of these things.

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MetaVulture@reddit

Wellp, I think I have negative points... I'm fixing one...

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MLDaffy@reddit

I still love typewriters. My first "Computer" class was typewriters. Teacher said on first day, "Hopefully we'll have computers by end of year but don't count on it."

That's how I learned how to type. 😂

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spanishpeanut@reddit

Mine was computers but we didn’t have enough so half of the time we were split between typewriters and computers. We got dinged for not remembering “two spaces after the period on typewriters and one space on computers.” The ultimate Xennial phrase.

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Cuts4th@reddit

You’re doing gods work, this will help some anime cops save their progress well fighting hordes of zombies and monstrous bio-weapons.

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XxFezzgigxX@reddit

Ooh! Are we sharing pictures of or typewriters?

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digitaljestin@reddit

Yes, but it's hard to decide which one. Here's 3 of my 8. Woruks have been 11, but I gave 3 away last weekend.

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SirStocksAlott@reddit

Then there were some of us whose parents had these things with a 2 inch one line display of like 20 characters to cursor through an entire paper. If you had a typo, good luck finding how to get to it.

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topshelfvanilla@reddit

Making me miss my Royal. It was stolen by an ex who I kicked out of my place.

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agentmkultra666@reddit

I used to have a sweet Royal and I miss it so much. It broke and I didn’t know how to fix it

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XxFezzgigxX@reddit

I really like mine. Got a killer deal on it about ten years ago.

I wish I could find some guides on how to properly restore it. I’m mechanically inclined, but I don’t know much about them. As you can see, it’s pretty dusty because I don’t want to damage the paint/logo any more than it already is. I’d probably use it if it worked. Everything is in good working order except the striking arms stick.

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robboppotamus@reddit

That's a fine typewriter, reddit friend.

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ihavenoidea81@reddit

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nrek00@reddit

yes please

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cptsears@reddit

[Tom Hanks has entered the chat.]

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LoadofBarney@reddit (OP)

-5 for you!

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_gonesurfing_@reddit

I still use a film camera occasionally.

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kpsi355@reddit

I send faxes daily!

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Realistic-Emu4644@reddit

I understand lmao why are we Flintstones in medical!!????

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gesis@reddit

Lots of fields use faxes because they want a literal paper trail.

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Realistic-Emu4644@reddit

Papers get lost and thrown away… emails and EHR’s are forever.. even “archived” or “deleted”

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mommix4@reddit

Pharmacy tech here! Fax daily as well 😂

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TaylorBitMe@reddit

Film cameras are awesome. I feel like there’s a certain quality that you still can’t quite get from digital

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Erik500red@reddit

Where do you get it developed?

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_gonesurfing_@reddit

https://www.indiefilmlab.com

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zombie_overlord@reddit

I used to be tech support for dial up internet

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SumpCrab@reddit

I mailed a postcard today.

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ElderBerry2020@reddit

Do you have any suggestions to repair one of the letter “arms” that has detached and no longer raises to imprint the letter? I bought a 1970s Coronet Super 12 for my 9 year old and the letter A arm detached from the inside. He loves that typewriter but I am not handy! Would love any tips.

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ElderBerry2020@reddit

Here it is!

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MetaVulture@reddit

It sounds like a linkage may have disconnected! They're on two tweezer shaped arms, and I was able to reattach one recently in the SCM I am working on using a dental kit and a lot of patience, and a very small hemostat.

Pheonix Typewriter has a video on a similar thing that should show how it's assembled https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fssa2v4pnzY

Also do join us at r/TypewriterRepair and r/typewriters

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Dude_man79@reddit

Someone needs to post ASMR vids of a typewriter clicking away.

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Practical_Breakfast4@reddit

I developed my own film and made pictures in the dark room. Black and white, and color! I wonder if schools still do a photography class

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OllieFromCairo@reddit

Absolutely. It’s all digital now, of course.

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bell83@reddit

What model and approximate year is that? I'm not used to seeing that modern looking a keyboard with that old school of a typebasket and ribbon lol

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MetaVulture@reddit

This is an Olympia Report that was purchased by the previous owner in June of 1979. It is a model made right after they switched production from the West German factory to being rebadged Nakajima machines.

The older West Germany machines also had the same layout, like this one (on its side for repair currently as well)

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bell83@reddit

Pretty cool!

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Faceornotface@reddit

I’d guess 73-76. I have a safari from that period (this is not one) that has a similar setup

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Faceornotface@reddit

I have a business that involves me regularly using typewriters. We own a dozen or more (including a mint selectric!)

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Whocann@reddit

1 because my family was too poor to own an encyclopedia, that was for the rich 😆

I will say, the only reason I’ve sent a fax is that I still have to occasionally send them in my job today when I’m interacting with certain government agencies, which is insane.

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ferretherapy@reddit

May I ask what was "young" about owning a dictionary or encyclopedias? We definitely had both in my house growing up.

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Cuts4th@reddit

2 Never sent a postcard or recorded music from the radio.

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Accomplished_Tax_891@reddit

Ummm, I work in healthcare. We still use fax machines.

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Cuts4th@reddit

I’m so sorry

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VA1N@reddit

yeah, that one made me chuckle.

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HappyAndYouKnow_It@reddit

I still send several faxes a week 😂😂😂

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Cuts4th@reddit

Ouch I feel for you.

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NoneOfThisMatters_XO@reddit

Same. Whoever made this list doesn’t work in healthcare.

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PersianCatLover419@reddit

I also didn't score any points.

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6string_samurai@reddit

19, only thing I didn’t do was send a post card cause my family never went on any trips.

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BklynBully718@reddit

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Khajiit_Has_Upvotes@reddit

That's a 1 for me because I, personally, never swapped the records on the record player. But my parents had one and there was always music on. Seems to me it was usually Dwight Yoakam or Eric Clapton.

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WittgensteinsBeetle@reddit

0

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Durakus@reddit

As a Millenial I didn’t think I’d also not only score 0 points but I WORKED at blockbuster.

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CommonFatalism@reddit

If you are a millennial or older, you’ll get most of these. Some boomers have never logged online via dial up as well.

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MalMantis@reddit

Feel like just about everyone in this group would be at zero.

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Coconut-Neat@reddit

17 for me

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Big77Ben2@reddit

My grandparents got me a dictionary for HS graduation. 🙄

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R0botDreamz@reddit

Owning an Encyclopedia is the only one that doesn't belong because that is more rich kid poor kid comparison.

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Big77Ben2@reddit

Used an encyclopedia would be more accurate. We certainly had to use them at school or go to the library to research a project.

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Big77Ben2@reddit

I never personally owned an encyclopedia but I’ve certainly used them and had family members with them as a kid.

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coogden@reddit

I’m mean do u get a fraction of a point if your only a had like A-F of the encyclopedia cuz your folks never went thru with the additional payments?

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VA1N@reddit

Just knowing they existed and in book form let's you pass. Bonus points if you ever used one for a book report or research paper.

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SirStocksAlott@reddit

You just gave me a flashback to tri-fold display boards used a science fairs long ago.

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Confident-Cellist-25@reddit

Third grade copied my essay on Benjamin Franklin wholesale from the World Book encyclopedia

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Erik500red@reddit

Unless your assigned topic was some obscure thing or tiny-ass country that wasn't important enough to have been included

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LoadofBarney@reddit (OP)

Yup, you touched a paper encyclopedia so that counts IMO

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coogden@reddit

Sweet - just don’t ask me anything about the battle of Waterloo , how X-rays work, Yemen or Zebras

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BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit

Zebras instigated the Battle Of Waterloo.

Or did they?

YOU will never know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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TaylorBitMe@reddit

Surely you came across the subsection on Yemen while reading about the Arab Peninsula?

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Successful_Sense_742@reddit

Don't call him Shirley.

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ShawnaLAT@reddit

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I think I’ll stick with V, I want to see how this bad boy turns out.

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des1gnbot@reddit

Oh ok I’m a 0 then. I used them at school, we just never owned them ourselves

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childlykeempress@reddit

I feel like the Encarta CD-ROM should count too 😭

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bluejane@reddit

Also my experience, they were being sold at the grocery store so mom bought them when she could afford it that week we made it to R or T and the store stopped selling them. I mean, who needed the other letters anyway.

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studiotec@reddit

Lol, I scored a 1. Encyclopedias were expensive and my grandparents had a complete set from 1970. They also had a book about the Great War so I guess that was published in the early 1930s?

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OnlyGuestsMusic@reddit

My great grandfather used to find encyclopedias in the garbage and bring them to my house. Lol we had a mix of different letters. Never the full alphabet.

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askthepoolboy@reddit

Was this the experience we all had?? My friends and I would sometimes trade with each other because we were all missing different parts.

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lanakickstail@reddit

My parents had an old set published in the 60s. I still routinely used it for research and citing in reports.

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latruce@reddit

We had a 1977 Encyclopedia set, minus V (in the 1990s). Because V doesn’t have a lot of things anyway, and math and science isn’t going to change. My dad thought he got a deal from a door-to-door salesman. It did work for 99% of my school research though.

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pgmckenzie@reddit

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all_no_pALL@reddit

Somebody posted this in another sub the other day and I said “used, yes. owned, no”

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LoganJamesMusic@reddit

I got a 2...my life has been fuller than I gave it credit for!

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BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit

0

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Elle3786@reddit

1, because I loved my postcards too much to send them!

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Lord_Darlantan@reddit

Big fat zero lol

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BrainFartTheFirst@reddit

Does number 8 count if it wasn't a Sony brand Walkman?

Because if it does I get zero points.

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BrainFartTheFirst@reddit

Does number 8 count if it wasn't a Sony brand Walkman?

Because if it does I get zero points.

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CoffeeHQ@reddit

Well I win by just one point, merely because Americans always forget that we are not all Americans. Guess which one.

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PinkBiko@reddit

20..some of these I still do.

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Kwards725@reddit

20 points. I really didn't have to look through them all.

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WackSnackAttack@reddit

20 for 20 baby

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Theartistcu@reddit

I got 1

I actually not only used phone books I worked for Yellow Book at one point

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TrappedinSilence98@reddit

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Jadey13@reddit

Hmmm, I don't think I've ever sent a postcard.

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jesusmansuperpowers@reddit

Ya. But I buy em sometimes

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jesusmansuperpowers@reddit

I’ve never sent a postcard.. but I buy em

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peesys@reddit

typewriters and boomboxes were before my time, I do remember boomboxes when I was very very young, I found them obnoxious

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Benjo221@reddit

20

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matttheepitaph@reddit

Just was never a boombox guy.

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BloodyRightToe@reddit

I hate there are adults that get any points here

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forgetfulsue@reddit

2, Walkman (unless a disc man counts) or owned a dictionary.

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ZealousidealDog4802@reddit

Who can beat 5? No typewriter, no postcard, no blockbuster, no dictionary, no encyclopedia.

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forgetfulsue@reddit

18

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forgetfulsue@reddit

18 over here! You can’t possibly be a xennial!

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cenobyte40k@reddit

I got a 20

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texan01@reddit

Let’s see, my gen alpha kid has only 6 points, guess I’m doing something right.

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ZeldaHylia@reddit

I was actually one of the last lucky kids to have to take typing in high school. It was horrible. Only time I ever used a typewriter. I also had computer class the same year. It was brutal trying to use that typewriter. I hated it.

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Star_Pen80@reddit

0... I still use a fax machine at my job.

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franktheguy@reddit

Yeah, I feel ya. I was thinking I had done more than half of that list in the past decade.

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shrikelet@reddit

1 point because there were no Blockbusters where I grew up

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iphaze@reddit

I came in confident that I’d get at least a couple but nope: score = 0.

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TryFine317@reddit

Welp! 👵

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slimscsi@reddit

Who the hell could afford to own an encyclopedia?

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ReiperXHC@reddit

0 points. Also...I sent a fax literally yesterday.

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Outrageous_Lychee819@reddit

Ok Richie Rich, owning an encyclopedia…

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isuxirl@reddit

This list is mostly stuff the internet and smartphones have made obsolete.

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TheRealDoomsong@reddit

1 because I’ve never sent a postcard

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Ltimbo@reddit

I think the average person our age never sent a postcard. That seems like a really odd item on this list.

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SufficientRaccoon291@reddit

My parents would make us send postcards to our grandparents. It was the perfect format because we didn’t have anything interesting to say anyway

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AshamedRaspberry5283@reddit

You haven't sent a postcard while on a trip or sent a postcard to a pen-pal in school?

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Ltimbo@reddit

No, but now that you mention it, I do remember other people sending post cards on trips but I though that was more of a gen x thing

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OllieFromCairo@reddit

I registered for Selective Service on a postcard.

Of course I also send them every time I go on vacation.

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Other-Opposite-6222@reddit

Sent from Disney.

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venk@reddit

In the sixth grade I took the very last typewriter class my school ever offered

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SufficientRaccoon291@reddit

Did they still offer typing though? That skill only got more important

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ChromeDestiny@reddit

Same here except it was fifth grade. Once I got to sixth grade it had been replaced by a computing skills and introduction to the internet class.

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geekgirlwww@reddit

I grew up in a bougie town so middle school we had typing on the computer.

My mother did insist i had to take typing every year until we got a family computer. “A girl always needs to know how to type”.

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Wolf-Pack-2017@reddit

Owned Encarta, the best damned encyclopedia there ever was.

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getstuffedpal@reddit

Lordy. I got em all!! Gimme all those old people points 🤣

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Baked_potato123@reddit

0 points this MONTH! What!?!?

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FoXym0r0n@reddit

Zero. Ugh...

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JJD8705@reddit

I mean I didn’t use a paper map, my dad did. I had this kids map magazine thing(can’t remember the name)where I could follow along as we drove to Florida. Does that count?

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ECNV1978@reddit

Uggggg 0 for me too 😔

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Smitty211266@reddit

Not only did I score a zero. If I get -1 for things on this list in the last 12 months I score -7.

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tiny_purple_Alfador@reddit

I don't think I ever went to a Blockbuster, specifically. We had a smaller chain near my house within walking distance when I was a kid, they stayed open til 2021.

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DiggityDanksta@reddit

I still pay my rent with paper checks.

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TheNewGuyFromBahsten@reddit

Same

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breeezyc@reddit

Never used a cheque in a store but sent them in the mail to pay bills

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Vargen_HK@reddit

Oddly enough, my use of paper checks increased substantially once we got to the point where they could be easily deposited via cellphone camera.

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Big-Peak6191@reddit

0 points

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highwindxix@reddit

I don’t think I ever sent a postcard but definitely done everything else!

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Juls_Santana@reddit

Me: 0

My daughter: 15

My parents would say: "YOU ain't own shit; but WE definitely owned dictionaries and encyclopedias..."

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Dagonus@reddit

Just 1.

My father was ahead of everyone and had a computer before I was born. I don't know a house without a computer.

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protossaccount@reddit

Anyone else’s family primarily get videos at the library? Most of the time I was watching movies that were at least 10 or years old. I got videos at blockbuster when I got older but my folks probably never did.

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Successful_Sense_742@reddit

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slash_networkboy@reddit

I still use paper maps sometimes.

I finally got rid of my Encyclopaedia Britannica from 76; had the *full* set: Red label was detailed items, Green label was shorter summary content but on waaaaay more topics, Blue label was the index to the whole thing. Together it took an entire 12 foot long shelf in the library. Since I hadn't used it for well over a decade and I had many other things to put on that shelf I got rid of it.

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Namasiel@reddit

1, I’ve never sent a postcard.

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s-multicellular@reddit

1! I never owned an Encyclopedia. That was just due to being low income for a long while,

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mechanical_marten@reddit

Do I get negative points if I still use any of them because I think I would have a -15 at this point . ..

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Deedeelite@reddit

0 for me too.

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R1pp3R23@reddit

0.0

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KS-G441@reddit

1 - no blockbuster for me

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ITGeekBenB@reddit

Zero as well.

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MiniPantherMa@reddit

Yeah, I've done all of these too. I sent faxes for work *today*.

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Only1Skrybe@reddit

Maybe they should make a 70s version of this, so we can all stop getting 0 every time.

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RedRust@reddit

0

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nebcirc2619@reddit

I somehow avoided ever sending a Fax

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wharpua@reddit

Zero for me

They should add “Changed the television channel by turning a knob”

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Texas-Couple@reddit

Full 20 for me.

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SloppySquatchy@reddit

20.

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Betelgeuse3fold@reddit

I've done everything on this list except used a paper map.

Unless worrying down directions with a crude road drawing counts

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Delta_Otaku@reddit

Never had a fax machine or paid in checks.

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Virtual-Foundation44@reddit

It's a Zero for me as well

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CaligoAccedito@reddit

1 because my family couldn't afford an encyclopaedia. I used them all the time at the library, though.

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HeywoodJaBlessMe@reddit

Ive never used a typewriter, but thats the only one

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Neat-Rock8208@reddit

I've done over half of those in the last year.

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Agitated_Garden_497@reddit

Got all of them. I’m old AF, lol

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ZombiesAtKendall@reddit

I don’t think I ever listened to a boombox outside.

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lucky_bpl@reddit

Do I get a -1 if I also worked at a Blockbuster?

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Muddauberer@reddit

One, I have never sent a postcard.

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pluck-the-bunny@reddit

That an 18-19 for me

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darthmouth@reddit

What subreddit am I on? I’m a perfect 20. Used a camcorder and ordered 8 cds for a penny as well

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HistoricalMud5518@reddit

I would still buy an encyclopedia if I find one just to win this entire list. Its the only one I have not done. 19 points.

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MontanaFlavor@reddit

How the hell did u get negative four

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Timult2US@reddit

0

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Zebracorn42@reddit

Had to send a fax once, when working in the electrical union outside of our jurisdiction essentially. Had to prove to the local electrical union I had my credentials. It was very confusing.

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Positron14@reddit

Unless just playing with a typewriter and not using it for real doesn't count. Then 6.

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attabui@reddit

Been a long time since I scored 100% on a test but here we are

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toondoggie@reddit

1 point for me because I've never owned an encyclopedia. I used them all the time for school work but it never made sense for us to own our own set when the school and local public libraries already spent that money for us.

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technobull@reddit

“Mark it ZERO!”

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Dark_Tint@reddit

That would be a zero for me.

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TheJRKoff@reddit

never actually owened a paper encyclopedia, and i know ive never sent a postcard

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Amazing-Treat-8706@reddit

19 / 20 for me. Never owned an encyclopedia. Our family was poor. I did use the encyclopedia at the library though.

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_ism_@reddit

0 but the vinyl record one is iffy. I've never learned to operate a record player or had a house with one in it, but I've had them played FOR me at someone else's house!

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kookyz@reddit

We had my father's 1954 encyclopedia set from when he was a child. Half the things I had to do school projects on - the space program, JFK, MLK, Vietnam War, weren't even in there yet. I remember having to do a report on Pablo Picasso and the encyclopedia said 'A Spanish painter currently living in France.'

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Nite7678@reddit

Same

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ShineNShrooms@reddit

20

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DMHavoX@reddit

goose-egg for me... it was a different time.

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CLUTCH3R@reddit

Zero

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Writeforwhiskey@reddit

I'd have 1 point. Never had dial up. I had nothing until 98 and that was DSL. All my home computer had was Word Perfect, Minesweeper, solitaire and Ski Free.

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TheTipsyWizard@reddit

You know we're all getting old when we start doing and sharing these lists 😉😁 ❤️💜

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On_my_last_spoon@reddit

Oh I got 1! We were never fancy enough to own an encyclopedia set!

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TCivan@reddit

All of them. Every single one. I’m 41.

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rangeghost@reddit

I'll go 1 and a half.

I've never had paper checks for my checking account.

Half. I remember playing with an old type writer when I was really young, but I've never actually used it for its intended purpose.

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ZealousidealTurn5584@reddit

20/20

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vinyl8e8op@reddit

I MIGHT have 1 point. Really can’t remember if I use a boombox outside, definitely used it inside though

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banryu95@reddit

Goose eggs...

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Moon_Noodle@reddit

0 for me too, I'm just an older millennial lol

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WannabeBrewStud@reddit

16 😂

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ladymouserat@reddit

I love sending my mom a postcard of when I travel.

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poindexterg@reddit

Dude, I've sent a fax this year. They are hanging around in certain industries due to regulations the have never been updated.

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_the_learned_goat_@reddit

STOP I don't want to receive these electronic mails

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TheCrowG70@reddit

Big fat 0 for me.

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_the_learned_goat_@reddit

2

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typically_wrong@reddit

So wait, it says listened to music on a boombox outside. Does that imply active listening while being (or being associated with) the owner?

If so I get 1 point!

If it means heard music from a boombox then no way.

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gbroon@reddit

Parents were too cheap to buy an encyclopedia. That's what the library was for.

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NoneOfThisMatters_XO@reddit

My mom had my grandma’s old encyclopedia collection in the basement. She got it on sale because it was printed before the JFK assassination.

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mhoke63@reddit

My dad sold World Book as a side gig. We got a new set of encyclopedias for free when he met a certain sales goal. It was about once every 5-7 years.

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RGBiscotti-698@reddit

My aunt also did that as a side gig and we got a free set through her.

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Da12khawk@reddit

That's kinda sad.

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drainbamage1011@reddit

Same. I think we got an "electronic encyclopedia" for our first PC, but the information was so limited it was basically worthless.

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geekgirlwww@reddit

Encarta had this medieval castle trivia game, my mom worked at the library when I was in middle school I used to have the children’s and young adult area to myself on weeknights

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thatsnotideal1@reddit

Encarta. It was useless

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Taanistat@reddit

Encarta came with my IBM Aptiva (1995), and it was indeed useless.

My parents then went out and bought Brittanica. All the info was there in text and some pictures, etc. But, if you wanted the full experience, you had to connect online. It was entirely based on Netscape Navigator, even the offline portions. It had a startup cd with the index, and then you swapped out cds based on whatever you were looking up. Then, it had links in articles to pictures, videos, recorded speeches, etc, and you had to connect online and wait 32 years for it to download. It came on 6 cds. You could install the entire thing, but I would have needed 3 hard drives just for Brittanica.

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geekgirlwww@reddit

I also got a 1 but it’s because I didn’t have the patience to record songs off the radio

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MasterTolkien@reddit

I’m at 1 as well. Never sent a postcard. My parents just bought them as souvenirs but never mailed one out.

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BigManWAGun@reddit

Motion to allow Encarta CD-ROM as credit for #19

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DriftlessHang@reddit

Somehow we had encyclopedias, but no dictionary

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Da12khawk@reddit

Did you try looking up dictionary?

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Zane42v2@reddit

Same here

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_gonesurfing_@reddit

Ours was 25 years old at the time and secondhand.

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OllieFromCairo@reddit

Our house came with a set of Encyclopedia Brittanicas that had an article on “The World War.”

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SquirrelCone83@reddit

I also feel most gen x and millennials never bought their own sets, they either used or inherited their parents/grandparents encyclopedias.

And I find it weird faxes are on this list, anybody who has an office or medical job knows faxes are still used all the time.

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superneatosauraus@reddit

I never got to use a rotary phone! I wanted to so badly, because I had seen them on I Love Lucy. My mother told me they were horrible and we would never own one.

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11229988B@reddit

Mine were owned by at least 2 people before me and they were gonna be thrown out so I spoke up to get them. Didn't have them very long tho, had a new born and moved so I stored them in my in-laws garage for a couple weeks and they got wrecked. But then I got Internet so it is what it is lol

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ApplePie_1999@reddit

-1

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Commercial_Lock6205@reddit

Who the hell was rich enough to actually own an encyclopedia set?

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Unique-Accountant253@reddit

Technically it was my parents who owned a dictionary and an encyclopedia..

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TeamAuri@reddit

Counts, unless your parents were those type that told you the food in the fridge was theirs until they gave it to you…

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Unique-Accountant253@reddit

I'm still taking my 2 points and don't care if it is a technicality.

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TeamAuri@reddit

I’m saying you don’t need to give yourself a point unless you actually want to haha. I’d say even if your grandparents owned an encyclopedia and you used it enough that counts. But you do you!

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pee_nut_ninja@reddit

It was my friends computer on dial-up.
The family's finances were "comfortable."
Mine, not so much.

We did have a Betamax, though. Nice.

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dominator5k@reddit

Same

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PrimaBarbarella@reddit

0

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Fighty_McLovingstein@reddit

Not only have I used a phone book. I used a prepaid calling card to use the pay phone the phone book was tethered to!

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Holmes221bBSt@reddit

I got a one just for the post card one. We never had anyone to send one too while traveling

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greenhaaron@reddit

Why are all these in past tense? Be more fun if it was present tense and you got a point of you still….

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demobot1@reddit

19 for me. I never used a rotary phone.

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KyraWhalkern555@reddit

Somehow I got a negative number. I need to recheck my math.

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Anniewho_80@reddit

I got 1 point. My family never owned encyclopedias. I had to drag my ass to the library before the internet came into everyone’s home.

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Some-Secretary-4672@reddit

0 here too

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Hsensei@reddit

Businesses still use typewriters. Especially for documents on carbon paper

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FradinRyth@reddit

As long as we don't get too deep into the weeds on what was and wasn't a boom box I've got zero too.

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Same_Soil7237@reddit

3 for me

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Concordic_Dissonance@reddit

Just one as I've never paid with a paper check.

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eternallysantanasass@reddit

Another 0 here

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Living_Essay_9933@reddit

Is this used a typewriter or actually used a typewriter?

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Nephian4287@reddit

I've never sent a postcard. 1 point for me

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47Darien@reddit

Zero as well

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Intelligent_West7128@reddit

1 point

I’ve never used dialup

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Hipcatjack@reddit

The only 0 I think for be was 13. Blockbuster sucked. It had 10 of the same film but never any of the movies I wanted to rent. Plus they were a chain and were more expensive. Always supported local businesses, especially when they were cheaper and better.

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toasterb@reddit

Same here. Never liked Blockbuster and never rented one there.

Give me a local store with solid staff picks and a wide selection of independent/foreign films any day.

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cardie82@reddit

I scored a 1 but only because I’m from a rural area and Blockbusters wasn’t anywhere near us. We rented movies from the gas stations.

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toasterb@reddit

I’ve got the same one point.

There were plenty of Blockbusters around, but I always stuck to my local video stores. Blockbuster was always so soulless compared to them.

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ExistingBathroom9742@reddit

I imagine we all got a big fat zero!

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ONROSREPUS@reddit

16

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Dartagnan1083@reddit

Me too arbitrary # brother, but my score might be lower.

For me, this was:

Postcard, record radio to cassette, encyclopedia, *pay with paper check.

*didn't have any physical set in the house. Had some Encarta knockoff on CD-ROM with outdated and useless information. I did use Encyclopedias for papers on maybe 3 occasions in middle school.

**tried once, to pay for GBA games at Best Buy, but my ID was my passport, and their system used DL# to enter checks in the system.

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ClutchReverie@reddit

Technically I didn't have a Walkman. I had some other brand and I barely got that because my parents were assholes basically.

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Dimplefrom-YA@reddit

0 here.

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No_Establishment8720@reddit

11

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Winwookiee@reddit

1 out of technicality. My town didn't have a blockbuster until like 2005, and by then I worked at a Hollywood Video so I had no need or reason to rent at blockbuster.

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RGBiscotti-698@reddit

Yeah, I also lived in town that didn’t have a Blockbuster until 2002. There was a mom and pop video rental store that my family rented movies from and I did work there for a year in high school

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PinSufficient5748@reddit

If I rented a video from a mom & pop rental store, not Blockbuster or if I rented from Blockbuster by mail when they tried to compete with Netflix does it count? Cuz that will determine my perfect score ...

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slainte99@reddit

Do people not still have to pay rent with paper checks? I've never had any other option.

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Particular-Rub-3370@reddit

1 point for me, Ive e never recorded from the radio to a cassette, what can I say

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Key_Drawer_1516@reddit

Born in 1980 and did everything but send a postcard. We never went on vacation.

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handsoffmydata@reddit

Mr Moneybags humble brag about listening to music on a Walkman. I was lucky to get an Emerson brand player.

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mjcace@reddit

Yup im old af, prefect 20

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Open_Pineapple1236@reddit

I got a 20. Perfect score!

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BojukaBob@reddit

I've never sent a postcard. I could have but I never did. So I guess I get 1 point.

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Procrasturbating@reddit

I was too much of an ass to send the post cards, but I bought some over the years.

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Procrasturbating@reddit

Add “used an 8 track player” and it would be a 50/50 split.

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EvidenceLate@reddit

lol. Several of our state’s business-facing agencies still REQUIRE communication by fax. Example: unemployment protests. The state? Take a guess….

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BaconNinjaJesus@reddit

You forgot used a payphone.

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sleepy_unicorn40@reddit

I still pay by paper checks. Lol

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BartlettMagic@reddit

1 point, because i never actually recorded songs off of the radio. i just bought tapes and CD's, then copied them to make mixes.

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Seven22am@reddit

1-- I never actually recorded music off the radio (that I remember). But I did make use of others' radio dubs.

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Rendakor@reddit

That's my 1, too. Never recorded music from the radio, nor did any of my friends.

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Seven22am@reddit

Yeah. That was an older sibling thing for me.

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Rendakor@reddit

Older cousins here. I didn't really get interested in music until the mid 90s, and by then I had a CD player.

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Ok-Dish-4584@reddit

This list is for americans,i have never seen a check in my 60 years on this earth

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RetailBookworm@reddit

Sameeee

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Vegetable-Floor-5510@reddit

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BlackEngineEarings@reddit

Damn. Zero for me

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SweetCosmicPope@reddit

0 for me, as well. Hell, I did several of these this week.

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eyemacwgrl@reddit

I didn't own an encyclopedia, but my parents did. Still count?

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snoopyh42@reddit

For #19, does Expedia on CD-ROM count? We weren't one of those fancy families with a full printed encyclopedia.

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PokesBo@reddit

2.

Never did the radio to cassette or sent a post card.

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xrelaht@reddit

My portable tape player wasn’t Sony branded. Does it still count as a Walkman?

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Rhiannon1307@reddit

Technically, I would have had to give myself 1 point because Blockbuster as a chain did not exist in Germany (we had other VHS rentals, obviously). BUT, I was in Canada in 2001 and they had Blockbuster, and I actually rented something from them one time, so yeah.

0 points.

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bitch_you_missed@reddit

New title, "Tell me you don't run a business without telling me you don't run a business..."

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PurplePenguinCat@reddit

I still use several of these regularly.

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MF-SMUG@reddit

Two points.

Never sent or received a fax. Never sent a postcard. I have received a postcard though.

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Dry_Inspection_4583@reddit

Zero for me as well

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sicksixgamer@reddit

Typed school papers in my Grandmother's typewriter.

We had a complete Encyclopedia Britannica set. Genuinely loved flipping through those books sometimes.

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KillerSquanchBro@reddit

19 for me because who actually owned the whole encyclopedia

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CuriousGeorge14618@reddit

All 20

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BlueProcess@reddit

Zero Points

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butwhyisitso@reddit

post

it

AGAIN !!!

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ralphiebacch@reddit

I feel attacked.

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cathode-raygun@reddit

Yeah, I'm a zero too.

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Moist_Rule9623@reddit

Who is this list aimed at, anyway? I wrote paper checks and sent a fax on Wednesday!

The only one of these I could even argue I get a point on is that, technically, I did not own a trademarked Sony Walkman, but I sure did have a few of the knockoff competitor devices

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TiEmEnTi@reddit

The only one that kind of gets me on this list is using a typewriter. I definitely used one for fun as a kid but I never typed anything for school or a job. The first thing I ever typed for school was on Word Perfect

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TransCapybara@reddit

20 points for me

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roadrunner00@reddit

Remember in class when someone already checked out the "G encyclopedia" so you couldn't do your best research.

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kolemsai@reddit

I got 1 point. There were no blockbusters in my area. We had others though

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OhTheHueManatee@reddit

I don't recall ever sending a postcard but it's not the type of thing I'd commit to long term memory. I still use an official walkman. It's waterproof and I use it swimming. I highly encourage getting one if you regularly do stuff in water.

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NixonsTapeRecorder@reddit

I've actually never sent a postcard I don't think. Other than that uhhhh yeah

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Shy-catz@reddit

Well i at least got 3 hehehe

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Punkpallas@reddit

Also a zero for me. Shit, I used typewriters almost constantly when I was in the military until the last 3-4 years when they finally transitioned the forms I used to something fillable on a computer. Me and typewriters are fast friends. Miss me with anything other than a IBM Wheelwriter II.

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Sleep_Champion@reddit

1 point. My family never bought encyclopedias. We had to go to the library.

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Tony_Tanna78@reddit

I've never sent or received a fax. I never had a desire to have a fax machine and didn't work anywhere with one.

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Yearofthehoneybadger@reddit

Well 0 for me dawg.

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FunksGroove@reddit

I swear someone just posted this exact thing the other day.

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LittleCeasarsFan@reddit

I’ve never personally owned an encyclopedia, but we had my grandparents old ones when I was a kid.

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Kyoshiro80@reddit

I’ve never sent or received a fax.

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cruddite@reddit

I've done half of those in the past year

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ThanksALotBud@reddit

I still pay my property taxes with a check.

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Purple-Sherbert8803@reddit

Put me down for a 0.

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Magpie2205@reddit

The fax one always irritates me because lots of workplaces still use faxes, especially in healthcare.

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LlewellynSinclair@reddit

I mean, strictly speaking I’ve never done #9, but I have listened to music outside on a stereo. So, I’m gonna go with 0 for me.

Pretty recently (last few days) have done #7. Found a store that sells old vinyls and have found some all time great albums: Pet Sounds and Endless Summer by The Beach Boys, and Johnny Cash’s Live at Folsom Prison, all original, all in near mint condition. Plenty of more recently pressed ones too but those three are my favorites, bar none.

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Puzzled_Loquat@reddit

We never owned an encyclopedia. Used em plenty. But the only thing we had was a small 2 volume set.. it wasn’t like the 26+ sets of Britannica

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ABH1979@reddit

0, but I’m not sure playing with my grandmother’s typewriter counts as “using it” so maybe 1.

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Ms74k_ten_c@reddit

Damn it! 18

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shetalkstoangels_@reddit

Do we get extra credit for listening to music on an 8-track? 😆

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zombie_overlord@reddit

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pixeequeen84@reddit

I was 14 years old and desperately wanted to be a writer. My brother bought me a thrifted typewriter for Christmas. 1998. We were poor as shit. I loved that thing.

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znavy264@reddit

So basically you're saying...we are both 41!

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pixeequeen84@reddit

I'll be 41 in October! I'm like 40 and a half 💕

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TheREALBaldRider@reddit

I pay with checks for specific things now (electricians, etc). The last fax I sent was in 2017. I don't think I ever sent a postcard but did receive them.

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singleguy79@reddit

I never recorded music from a radio to a cassette.

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AdhesivenessWeary377@reddit

Was beginning to think I was the only one.

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Brilliant-Jaguar-784@reddit

Just one for me. I've never used a typewriter. I learned to type on the old Apple II computers in the computer lab at school.

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PartyFactor583@reddit

All of these things. I think being raised by my Grandparents makes a difference here. They had the encyclopedia set. One of my Grandfather’s brother in laws worked @ IBM - GINORMOUS 1st computer. And the dial up phones my Grandparents paid rent on…which I accidentally broke one (baby blue) playing “office” when I was a kid. Man, you would have thought it was the end of the world. lol! But faxes. Still use today. Get the damn “We Buy Cars” one every day. No matter how many times I’ve blocked the # or put ours on the DNC list. 🤦🏼‍♀️

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znavy264@reddit

0

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rainbowtison@reddit

0 for me too!

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luxtabula@reddit

I've never sent or received a fax, sent a postcard, or owned an encyclopedia.

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Your_Pretty_Baby@reddit

0

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AskTheAdmin@reddit

Big fat 0

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Dogrel@reddit

Emptiness is loneliness,

And loneliness is cleanliness,

And cleanliness is my score on this,

And my score is empty, just like me.

-Billy Corgan, after taking this test, probably.

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throwawaytoday9q@reddit

I don’t think I’ve ever personally sent a postcard.

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brieflifetime@reddit

0 for me too, however, a lot of these music things are kinda on trend for the kids. I feel like entertainment that is still around can still be enjoyed and therefore multigenerational. Which I love.. just means there's some 12 year olds that have more in common with us than we realize

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Dramatic-Vegetable13@reddit

I'm a zero. And I've done some of these things in the last year or two

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honkyhey@reddit

0

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DingusMcWienerson@reddit

I still have never heard vinyl.

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Mata187@reddit

Never recorded music off the radio

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Beansie_Wish2182@reddit

I still do some of the things on that list, lol.

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Pinesama@reddit

I always score a point on this because I never rented from BB. The only chain I rented from was Hollywood Video. Otherwise, it was from independent shops.

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CuriousTurtle5@reddit

I still send postcards when traveling. My friends and family love getting them.

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jreashville@reddit

I can’t remember if Ive ever actually used a mechanical typewriter. My mom had a “word processor” that I used for school a couple of times. But everything else I have definitely done.

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RedSix2447@reddit

I miss my boombox. No one ever told me there would be a day without them. Had I known i would still have several.

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Cutthechitchata-hole@reddit

Nada

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digitalgraffiti-ca@reddit

2

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GrauntChristie@reddit

0 here, too.

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Dark_Marmot@reddit

Big fat 0

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M_Me_Meteo@reddit

I don't think I've personally ever owned a dictionary or encyclopedia, but I was the youngest of three so I would have had it handed down to me.

Do I get an extra point for using the three day clearance window to perform light check fraud in the time before instant bank transactions?

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Iamoldsowhat@reddit

if you still use it, do the points turn into negative? I work in a medical office and we use our fax machine so much! they still sell them

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drwebb@reddit

another ez 0

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Asleep_Onion@reddit

0 for me too, and I suspect for most of the rest of us as well.

I counted 5 things on that list that I've done in even just the past two weeks.

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shapesize@reddit

I did 4 of these this week

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killcon13@reddit

Dude mark it zero.

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KitchenNazi@reddit

This is incredibly basic stuff geared for anyone that lived years ago. It’s not some crazy weird list.

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CaptZombieHero@reddit

That’s a zero from me boss

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VA1N@reddit

God damn...I usually have one or two on these lists that I didn't do. This one was a zero.

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Tremonsien@reddit

Yeah, I am an MTV generation guy born in 1978. So I scored perfect 20 on this chart. Certifiably Unc, but I teach modern US History, so that's a mantle I am proud to wear, including telling puns and bad dad jokes to my students. My favorite one of these recollections was that we had a Blockbuster test store in my hometown, since one of their consultants lived there and owned it, and it eventually converted to a full Blockbuster when he sold it to them. They had some crazy out-of-pocket things, including a Nintendo Virtual Boy, and they pioneered renting video game systems. All of these were a normal part of growing up in the '80s.

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DustedGorilla82@reddit

Still pay for my kids daycare with a check

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ConfidenceFragrant80@reddit

I pay some of my bills with checks in the mail still.... I can't imagine never having written one in your whole life!!

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MisRandomness@reddit

Zero here. But what if your family only owned up to “L” on the encyclopedia set? Remember how they used to be so expensive and have financing plans and layaway shit for encyclopedias?? Crazy.

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ViceroyFizzlebottom@reddit

1 for me. No blockbuster video where I grew up

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Badfish1060@reddit

I’ve actually never really used a typewriter. We had one but by the time I needed to actually type shit we had a Tandy 1000

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Edrobbins155@reddit

Did all of them

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Alarmed-Photograph71@reddit

Zero for me

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Unlaid_6@reddit

Zero

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wpotman@reddit

0 for me.

19 for my kids. (We still listen to CDs in my - old - cars)

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Lornesto@reddit

(I've never sent a postcard)

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boulevardofdef@reddit

I'm not totally sure I've ever recorded music from radio to cassette, but I probably have. Confident about all the others.

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hellerbenjamin@reddit

This aligns perfectly with the Smashing Pumpkins zero T-shirt that is worn with pride.

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unkyfester@reddit

A big zero for me

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ralph_deadbeet@reddit

I still do half this shit. I have a functioning rotary phone in my living room as we speak. Landline til death!

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bosephusaurus@reddit

The only one that got me was “Owned an encyclopedia” Like just one letter’s book or a whole set? We weren’t millionaires owning a whole encyclopedia set.

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xdarcyx@reddit

Also 0 here 🤚

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AdkRaine12@reddit

I still do some of those things.

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Vegaprime@reddit

I was far too poor for an encyclopedia. 1 for me.

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midnight-dour@reddit

Three and a half? Never used a paper map, but I did print directions from MapQuest once. Does that count?

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RedDirtPreacher@reddit

Does a CD-ROM of Encarta count as owning an encyclopedia?

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Global-Jury8810@reddit

Yes.

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rooierus@reddit

As a non American, 1.

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vegieburrito@reddit

I get the big goose egg.

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Global-Jury8810@reddit

Never owned an encyclopedia.

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Ghosts_of_the_maze@reddit

We never owned an encyclopedia. My parents were poor but they weren’t stupid and could sniff out that scam.

Library was down the street anyway.

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Isredin@reddit

0!

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MwffinMwchine@reddit

1 - I've never sent a postcard.

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hsox05@reddit

How many points if I:

Listened to a CD and a vinyl this week.

Sorted through a pile of VHS tapes this week.

Still have my JVC Kaboom Box

Still use a fax machine at work (CPA - irs loves them)

Used to work at blockbuster?

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ZealousidealDog4802@reddit

Kaboom boxes rock!

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LoadofBarney@reddit (OP)

You’re closing in on -100 there probably

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cusmilie@reddit

The last Blockbuster is in Bend, OR if you want a trip down memory lane.

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w0rsh1pm3owo@reddit

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DETRITUS_TROLL@reddit

I never recorded from the radio because we only got one radio station where I grew up and it didn’t play anything I wanted to record.

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Insektikor@reddit

Yikes I didn't think that I was THAT old. A solid 20 points, although a few of those things were considered old fashioned by the time I did them (rotary phone, using a fax machine etc.)

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Hot_Profit_1615@reddit

Never sent a postcard

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8bitmachine@reddit

1 point for never having used a paper cheque

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violetstrainj@reddit

I always get one point for the blockbuster thing. Does any video store count? I don’t even think we had a blockbuster in our region at all.

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Repulsive_Tie_7941@reddit

1, never used a fax.

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tr1mble@reddit

I don't think I ever sent a postcard since my family didn't really have money to go away outside of the Jersey shore for a week...but it was only an hour or 2 trip for us

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616n8y3ree@reddit

Obligatory: drank from a hose

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copyrider@reddit

HA HA!!! I got a 1. Post cards aren’t worth the effort to send.

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MaxHeadroomba@reddit

I had a boombox, but I don’t remember using it outside. Also, I remember playing around with a rotary phone, but I’m not sure if I’ve ever called someone using one. Otherwise, yes to all on the list.

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_shakul_@reddit

Does the Usborne Science Encyclopedia count?

Damn that book was cool.

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ukaszg@reddit

1, I don't know of any country except US that had cheques.

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LoadofBarney@reddit (OP)

Most European countries have/had cheques

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ukaszg@reddit

They had them. And there were outdated when I was old enough to handle money.

My fault, didn't put proper time constraints on my answer ;)

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OkBaconBurger@reddit

I used to periodically buy a road atlas and I would just make my way across the country. Crazy huh?

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Mcbadguy@reddit

You gotta print out your MapQuest directions!

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LoadofBarney@reddit (OP)

Old school road trips, map in hand trying to figure out if the road looks like the one on the map, were so much fun!

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OkBaconBurger@reddit

I drove from Florida to Maryland that way and had never made the trek before. So many trips all over the place and just winged it. On some occasions I didn’t even have a cell phone.

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unica3022@reddit

Do people not own dictionaries now? We have a small collection of reference books that I use fairly regularly (including dictionaries + thesaurus + style guides). I use online tools but they’re often not quite what I need.

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elevenohnoes@reddit

1 because I'm not American, and the only place I've seen a paper cheque in the last 30 or so years is American TV shows.

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LoadofBarney@reddit (OP)

I grew up in France, paid with plenty of cheques over the years….

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ST_Lawson@reddit

Actually a 1 for me because the nearest Blockbuster was two hours away. We had video rental stores, but our town wasn't big enough for a Blockbuster.

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11229988B@reddit

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Aggravating-Shark-69@reddit

I don’t think I’ve ever sent a postcard at least not that I remember.

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po_ta_toes_80@reddit

More like give yourself a point for how many times and different subs you have seen this reposted...

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elizable9@reddit

Does it count if you've paid by cheque but the cheque book wasn't yours? If so it's 0 for me too

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OnemanShowIA@reddit

Born in 1983 and I just scored an 18…

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DecemberPaladin@reddit

Fill 20, I am an Ent

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DJBreathmint@reddit

That I’ve never done? 0. I’ve done it all, man.

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Smitch250@reddit

Dang they coulda got a little more original with the list this is all just normal average stuff we all did all the time. Most people our age would score 0 on this list

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flabergasterer@reddit

With the exception of being poor, everyone should be at 0 for this.

Also, this is such a sign that we're freaking old...posting stuff like this.

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thefuckfacewhisperer@reddit

I guess 2 points for me. I personally have never owned a dictionary or encyclopedia

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rollem@reddit

I want to see a graph with age on the X axis and average score on the Y.

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Worth-Weather-5437@reddit

Yep, same zero

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APOC_V@reddit

0 here too.

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Live-Education6697@reddit

Zero

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GutsAndBlackStufff@reddit

Paid with a paper check this week. It was my last one!

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slademccoy47@reddit

Probably a 2.

I have dealt with fax machines in the context of IT, and it's likely that things were faxed on my behalf by a business or doctor, but I don't think I have actually sent or received a fax on my own.

By the time I started driving long distance, I was printing out directions from google maps and rand mcnally.

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InNausetWeTrust@reddit

0 points for me. Actually now negative. My utility company doesn’t take digital payments so I must cut physical checks…

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tnova2323@reddit

Zero here

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RitaAlbertson@reddit

1 b/c I don't remember ever listening to a boom box outside.

Hell I STILL send postcards. The kiddos in the family LOVE getting mail and I'm the auntie who will indulge them in that.

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Significant_Dog412@reddit

0, but I feel like I don't have a true first hand experience of dial up internet. I first used the internet through college in 1998, so the phone lines weren't a factor for me and I never saw that part of the startup.

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LoadofBarney@reddit (OP)

The dial up sound is unmistakable….

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Significant_Dog412@reddit

Oh I definitely know the sound. But I suspect that's through TV and other references, or MAYBE if something went wrong with connection. My early internetting was through college and internet cafes, so the setup had already been done.

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ExtraDistressrial@reddit

Got a one. Were you all millionaires?! I had CDs and a boombox and all that but how did you own a whole-ass encyclopedia set? Had to use those at the library man. Or did you just have like J-L volume, lol.

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Fickle_Assumption133@reddit

20

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Mother_Echo4502@reddit

1, I never did the radio to cassette. My pare ts never got me a recorder.

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axiom1_618@reddit

0

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Warrior-Cook@reddit

I always flinch when seeing Blockbuster Video as a nostalgia point. Kinda skips a lot of the charm that came before.

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Same-Sandwich1716@reddit

Ahh, negative 16 for me. And when did they change Xennial from 84 to 83. It was at 84 last year. (84 kid)

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johnonymous1973@reddit

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BabymanC@reddit

No 12 for me. I used blank cassettes to record in a dual deck boombox and for the odd voice recording assignment in school.

I used CDs and Napster/Kazaa for mixes.

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Connect_Hospital_270@reddit

Definitely 0.

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Cerulean_Soup@reddit

2.

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Stevey1001@reddit

I have never sent or recieved a fax. I also stayed away from using cheques. Had a cheque book but never once used it.

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WiscoPhil@reddit

Funk & Wagnalls checking in!

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darkgothamite@reddit

1 - never listened to a vinyl record (in person)

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Tyrannical-Botanical@reddit

I don't believe I've ever sent a postcard, but that's it.

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HobKnobblin@reddit

I got 1. We were never rich enough to actually "own" an encyclopedia

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pncoecomm@reddit

Postcard

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KietTheBun@reddit

3

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Thwipped@reddit

Some boomer ass humor right here

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Re99i3@reddit

1 I never logged in to dial up, despite working tech support for internet in the early 2000's when dial up was still a thing. Actually knew about bbs's in the early/mid nineties, but parents never had home phone as didn't see the point.

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pentagon@reddit

I don't think I even knew anyone who owned an encyclopedia.

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Yonbuu@reddit

Nil points for me too 🙁

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thomas17657@reddit

Proud 0

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isthisyournacho@reddit

I’ve listened to a ton of music outside but not specifically a book box. I’ve listened to a boom box inside, even owned one. 1 for me dog

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EffectiveCycle@reddit

1…never had an encyclopedia set at home

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JBNY2025@reddit

Zero. And re: #12, I just want to say that my little sister taped songs off the mickey mouse club. She recorded tweenage cover versions of songs from the TV by holding it up to the speaker. Let's make that #21 so we can all get 1's and my sister will be the only zero. B/c I'm not done making fun of her for this yet.

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DardaniaIE@reddit

1 for paying with cheque. I had a cheque book but never needed to use it. Bank drafts though, yes, for large purchases (car, house)

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Smurfblossom@reddit

3 because my parents didn't think getting me a Walkman was worth the money and they were the ones who bought the dictionary and encyclopedias.

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fosf0r@reddit

Seen this post before

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