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[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 minutes ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Does Encarta count as owning an encyclopedia?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Vintage Enthusiasts getting absolutely fucking roasted by this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

This is basically a "are you old" questionaire.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

For "listened to a boombox outside," does it matter whether you did so voluntarily or just heard it because someone else was playing one too loudly for you to ignore? In other words, I'm either 0 or 1.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

14 points 😬. I'm surprised at the amount of zeroes in the comments.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Ha!! I'm not old at all. I got 21 points!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

0; am old. What's funny is that it's 2025 and anyone trying to get internet in Japan with one of the only two fiber providers (NTT) still has to send a fax to set it up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Man 👨 ok

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

I have 1 point.

I never owned an encyclopedia.

If I had the money then I definitely would have owned one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

As kids my sister and I found a set of old 1950's World Book Encyclopedias that a family in our neighborhood was throwing out. We brought them home on a wagon. We used them for years. They were definitely kinda dated--like, in the article about guinea pigs, it claimed they were the perfect animal for scientific research because they don't feel pain, which is obviously bullshit and/or propaganda. But that was actually kind of eye-opening for me at the time, because I didn't have a lot of experience of seemingly authoritative things that were also in error. It still had a lot of useful info, too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I never owned a fax either! Does it count if I remember the school office using them?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

6 and I feel old.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The country were I was living when I rented videos didn't have Blockbuster, so 1.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

In my country we didn't had blockbuster too but I still consider the video club I used the "local version". I got one for the paper check.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

At my local video club I waited in line while they were bootleg recording The Matrix. First one out the store with the tape. I memorized every line in that movie in 1999.

I did every single thing on this list.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

I got one point for the Walkman thing, but maybe I just forgot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

I'm as old as some people in this thread, I've got 20.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

1 point. I never recorded music off the radio.

The fax one is funny because I do that just about every day. People seem to forget that doctor's offices still use them - far more secure than email.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

You're right, it isn't. It's just already been enshrined into law so they keep using them.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

3 points. 90s kid. The early 2000s still had remnants of a lot of this stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

3 for me too , late 90s baby. We had lotf of this stuff around in 2000s in europe (except blockbuster but i substituted it for local rental store)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago

Big fat zero for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Aight, I said I got a zero, and my husband says we both have one. So help me settle this riveting dinner discussion we're having:

  1. Paid with a paper check - I say I have because we've made earnest money deposits via check, or down payments on loans via check. And he says "no" because the intent is using a check to pay for things like groceries. He says weve never balanced a checkbook so it doesn't count.
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Anything to do with a paper check you wrote sounds good enough for me, but I'm just one random dude on the internet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

5 points, not bad

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

I want a new test

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago

Older Gen X'er here.

This list was basically a Tuesday for me back in the day.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

My score was 4!

I've never used a rotary phone, record off radio to cassette (although I did on an MP3 player), never used a boombox outside, and I never used dial up.

Pretty boomer for someone born in '99, eh?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago

I get zero points. Elder millennials rally at the landline we'll have two drinks and fall asleep at 10pm!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

19! (not "nineteen factorial"). I had used a floppy disk once.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

I'm a zoomer and only got three points hahaha

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Born in 1986.. Zero 0

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Yeah. 0 points. I either aced it, or I colossally failed it depending on perspective.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

1.... Only one I missed was Blockbuster. We didn't have one where I lived but I have rented videos.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 28 minutes ago)

I'm gonna say that counts. They shouldn't have specified a specific rental place.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Two points. Wtf would I send a postcard? I also don't believe I've ever sent a fax, though I may have gone to an office supply store to have that done to a business and don't recall.

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