Do they mean a mix tape?
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What’s a phone bo?
More importantly: Why is there aa jizz stain at the o?
A watermark was removed, which got rid of the OK
20 is a typo, it's actually phone bō and it's the art of fighting with a phone staff.
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.
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)
Elder millennial all 20
I know right. I'm 39, all 20.
37, got 19. Never had 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.
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
Mixed Tape
Does this mean a mix tape or is that something else? 🤨
Also: I've used a rotary phone, but only because I had bought a novelty modern phone that used a rotary dialer in the 90s.
I got 19 or 20, depending on the answer to my question about the "mixed tape" thing.
I think "mixed tape" refers to when you could take a cassette and record different songs onto it. Though I don't remember how it was done unless you caught a song playing on the radio at just the right point. Using a novelty dial phone wouldn't really count.
You’d often see cassette players with two tape decks, so you could play one while recording with the other.
You could also record from radio, record player, or whatever else your stereo had. Boom boxes with two tape decks were fairly common.
good explanation and it jarred my memory as to how it was done
And if you were lucky you'd have a higher end stereo system that could fade in the sounds too. Combine that with a pause, you could avoid that jarring noise of starting and stopping recording between songs. Just had to find the stations that didn't have the DJs who talked halfway through the song intro.
I'm a solid 20. Those of you who didn't get very high scores, you don't know what you missed.
Right, but that’s usually called a “mix tape”, not “mixed” unless that’s some kind of regional thing. I’ve never heard anyone call that a “mixed tape” before this post.
Smithers, I really feel like a free spirit. And I'm really enjoying this so-called "iced cream."
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
I am assuming Phone Bo is Phone book.
The meme creator got lazy and just didn't do the last two letters?
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.
This title/post combination is peak 2005 myspace/facebook posting
19 out of 20. Unless just testing a waterbed counts....
Yeah it counts. I've "tried" them but never owned them. So that counts
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.
Terrible distribution of options. A good list would have a series of technologies and tools that became obsolete at different times. Almost all of these became obsolete with the rise of broadband internet in the early 2000's, while a handful were earlier (rotary phones) or later (paper maps, paper checks).
5 makes no sense outside of USA
20 What is phone bo? book?
19, 20 if NZ equivalent of AOL
17/20. I'm 25
Yeah, in don't think many of us touched a Phone Bo. They're impossible to find after we started making bo staffs out of better material like wood.
In my family's house growing up, we duct taped our only phone's receiver to a Bo staff so we could pass the phone between rooms without having to leave the room.
Did you really need to use ai to make a text based meme? I completely lost hope in humanity after seeing this
I'm assuming that "phone bo" means phone book? If that's true then I'm at 20/20.
I plan to live forever. So far, so good.
Does it could if I've used them for the novelty?
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).
You don't scare me.
AOL never was available in my country.
Check books? I've never even seen someone actually using one, I think.
I will never get to 20, yay!
Waterbeds also not a thing.
Not being American gets you 3 extra... years? decades? life units? Which does seem still accurate.
Same. I've seen people using cheques when I was a kid, but they were issued as separate sheets not in a form of a book
AOL is very American, could've written dialup. Check books were also gone here long before they were in the US.
I never had my own AOL email account but I did throw away AOL signup disks and I sent email to AOL accounts... so I guess 20/20 assuming "phone bo" is a phone book.
As for not being long for this world... there are a lot of ways to go that don't link with being old, so I guess that checks out anyway.
Water beds are making a comeback. This coming year, I swear!
20/20, y’all invited the my funeral. Apparently any day now
Guess we dying in our mid 40's.. What is this? The middle ages!?
Everything but 5 and 13. Guess I'll go die, then.
i work at a library it isnt fair for me to compete. i only use the fax machine because the government won't let old people email them and they dont know how to anyway.
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