20 is a typo, it’s actually phone bō and it’s the art of fighting with a phone staff.
Elder millennial all 20
I know right. I’m 39, all 20.
To be fair I spent a lot of time with my grandparents
37, got 19. Never had a mix tape.
Same. Plenty of “mix tape” CDs but no tapes. Unless you count the one I stole from my aunt. Also not sure if I can count a word processing machine as a type writer. I’ve used a real typewriter but just for fun.
Whattt? I feel like I should make you a mix tape
I have them all, except 5 and 12. Not from the States, so no aol. And cheques were fazed(?) out really early here, so have never seen one in use. The crossover breed of XMillenial here.
You can’t start with I have them “all”. Then put in exceptions. That’s not how all works.
But that’s how languages work… I think you should try to read the Oxford Dictionary and come back with an apology when you are finished
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/except_1
Do they mean a mix tape?
You must be 18 to post here.
What’s a phone bo?
Book, probably
What’s a phone bo?
More importantly: Why is there aa jizz stain at the o?
The second column is all misaligned too.
A watermark was removed, which got rid of the OK
OCR and making this an accessible text post would have been easier.
I don’t disagree
Ok
AI is my guess given the lack of structure
The reason you didn’t get 20.
What about watching “Creature Double Feature”?
Godzilla and all his bitches!
So everyone over 35 or so?
I’m 37 and only about 16 points.
I didn’t ever use a typewriter afaik, nor a rotary phone.I was in the era of aol addresses but my first email was when I got into the Gmail beta 😎
Sadly I need to extricate myself from Gmail
I’m 31 and I scored all 20, assuming last is phone book. Although I only trained in typewriter, never actually sent anyone a letter. Although I did type a contract for my dad so I guess that’s a real use case. All 20 then.
I’m 38, I scored 20 points unfortunately. I only used a rotary phone because my grandmother had one and she also had a typewriter that I’d fuck around with for fun… never used it to write my dissertation for a PhD or anything like that.
Almost 40, 20 point gang
I’ve used heaps of typewriters. My mum had an antique one when I was growing up that still worked and I loved it.
I think you’d be 50 or older
38 here, 20 for 20
surprised you could be that young and still have run the list
Realistically, if old equipment still worked then people wouldn’t necessarily just get rid of it as soon as something new came out. I’m not that old and the only 2 things I haven’t used were rotary phone and mix tape (assuming CD mix ‘tapes’ and personally recorded stuff on tapes also don’t count)
I’m 43 and it’s 20. My mate is 37 and it’s also all 20.
Early 40s and 20/20. I’m guessing you’re pretty young.
20/20 and I’ll add Atari, illegal cable hookup, and limewire.
Add Napster, ICQ, and AOL chatrooms … A/S/L?
I’ll add Saturday morning cartoons, planning your week around when shows came on TV, and renting movies from a grocery store/pharmacy.
Ooohhh I totally forgot about renting movies from the grocery store!
Maybe we can add palm pilots and tvs where the channel changer was a knob you had to adjust
That reminds me of the first VCR my family owned. Wired remotes anyone?
19/20. Only because I refused to use AOL.
18/20 because waterbeds weren’t a common thing here and I already had internet access and a mail address before AOL was a thing. Whoever made that list should have added usenet.
I’m still on usenet.
5 makes no sense outside of USA
20 What is phone bo? book?19, 20 if NZ equivalent of AOL
phone book or booth, either works.
double points if you’ve used a phone book in a phone boothWoot! 2X.
AOL was more international than you think. Free beer mats for everybody.
I got all 20, but I never used vinyl records until just a few years ago
Half of these are still in use simply because some people think they’re cool, or when someone prefers to not have to rely on technology (e.g. paper maps don’t run out of electricity while you’re on a long hike).
I don’t see cocaine on this list. That takes some years off as well.
Records have been resurgent for a decade. The person who made this thinks they’re funny and biting, but they are out of touch with the culture.
And definitely not a “record player”. Turntable, mother fucker.
Mixed Tape
Does this mean a mix tape or is that something else? 🤨
Also: I’ve used a rotary phone, but only because I had bought a novelty modern phone that used a rotary dialer in the 90s.
I got 19 or 20, depending on the answer to my question about the “mixed tape” thing.
Smithers, I really feel like a free spirit. And I’m really enjoying this so-called “iced cream.”
I think “mixed tape” refers to when you could take a cassette and record different songs onto it. Though I don’t remember how it was done unless you caught a song playing on the radio at just the right point. Using a novelty dial phone wouldn’t really count.
Right, but that’s usually called a “mix tape”, not “mixed” unless that’s some kind of regional thing. I’ve never heard anyone call that a “mixed tape” before this post.
You’d often see cassette players with two tape decks, so you could play one while recording with the other.
You could also record from radio, record player, or whatever else your stereo had. Boom boxes with two tape decks were fairly common.
good explanation and it jarred my memory as to how it was done
And if you were lucky you’d have a higher end stereo system that could fade in the sounds too. Combine that with a pause, you could avoid that jarring noise of starting and stopping recording between songs. Just had to find the stations that didn’t have the DJs who talked halfway through the song intro.
I’m a solid 20. Those of you who didn’t get very high scores, you don’t know what you missed.
I am assuming Phone Bo is Phone book.
The meme creator got lazy and just didn’t do the last two letters?
He must have died while typing…
Their time was shorter
Same here. I have used everything on this list at least once.
I have used them all so many times I lost count.
Lost count due to the dementia
This thread is implying that all of that stuff is ancient history. With the exception of the AOL addresses, Walkman and cassette tapes everything else on that list is still in use.
Hell audio-Philes swear y turn tables.
Fax machines, fine, certain organizations still require those mostly because people fall to understand that a fax machine is just a scanner and printer and this some bearaucracy failed to keep pace.
Same story for checkbooks.
AOL is still a thing and you can even sign up for it today, email address wise.
Record players are in use, though more people own records than record players, more popular as display pieces than actual music medium.
I would say everything else on the list is pretty much dead unless you go out of your way to do them, and nothing else on the list has so much nostalgia appeal compared to the problems and difficulty with them.
All of them are still in use…
yes
