1, We never had blockbuster in NL. But 0 if any other VHS rental store counts.
I even have an old rotary phone on my desk.
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Does it work? I also have one and it was super easy to connect it to my router and use it. My wife likes to call me on it when my phone is on silent, hard to miss that ring haha.
No clue. I have no way of connecting it, I don't have a land-line. I was thinking of converting it to a mic and headphone speaker for my eurorack. So add jack plugs on some wire.
I even have a walkman in my eurorack setup.
1 - Never owned an encyclopedia. Used one many times, owned all sort of other books that agglomerate knowledge, but never owned one.
Why are people attacking me so much online today?
One. Because in Germany, we did not have Blockbuster....
Germany is cheating, you only need to be like 20 to get most of this list, hell two thirds of them are still current technology
I just replaced it with my local video rental shop and counted that I did it. I felt that the question was more into the spirit of asking if you have rented a movie from a shop on physical media rather then being focus on the actual Blockbuster store.
Well shit. Then I am old ;)
1 - I never had a check book.
Two because #13 and #20 weren’t a thing in my country.
- Surprising, because I'm Gen Z, but I have used typewriters and Walkmen.
So you're a hipster? How's your vinyl collection? /S
I don't know why these are asked in the past tense like I don't still do these things.
- But some are only like once in my parents basenent for fun. Technically 8. I technically sent fax to doctors for work. As in, i physically deliver it to them as austria banned doctors from using fax, and clearly, the only solution is to walk there in this day and age.
This is basically a "are you old" questionaire.
Three. Would have been two but I was a member of Video Ezy. I also just learned if you start a sentence with a number Sync autocorrects it to a numbered list.
fucking 13 😭
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Vintage Enthusiasts getting absolutely fucking roasted by this.
Does Encarta count as owning an encyclopedia?
So many memories just came flooding back...
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.
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I have 1 point.
I never owned an encyclopedia.
If I had the money then I definitely would have owned one.
I never owned a fax either! Does it count if I remember the school office using them?
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3 points. 90s kid. The early 2000s still had remnants of a lot of this stuff.
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I got zero points.. guess I'm old now?
Ha!! I'm not old at all. I got 21 points!
The country were I was living when I rented videos didn't have Blockbuster, so 1.
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Big fat zero for me.
Older Gen X'er here.
This list was basically a Tuesday for me back in the day.
I get zero points. Elder millennials rally at the landline we'll have two drinks and fall asleep at 10pm!
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.
14 points 😬. I'm surprised at the amount of zeroes in the comments.
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.
It absolutely isn't secure, the government refuses to give up on it so it continues to be in play.
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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?
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