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Mickey7 @lemmy.world

4d ago

Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE

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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.

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

One. Because in Germany, we did not have Blockbuster....

I don't know why these are asked in the past tense like I don't still do these things.

Why are people attacking me so much online today?

This is basically a "are you old" questionaire.

Probably a typical response for anyone not in gen Z.

1 - Never owned an encyclopedia. Used one many times, owned all sort of other books that agglomerate knowledge, but never owned one.

Older Gen X'er here.
This list was basically a Tuesday for me back in the day.

Big fat zero for me.

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

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.

Two because #13 and #20 weren’t a thing in my country.

0 point gang rise up.
But don't rise too quickly. I know our backs don't like that.
- I have 1 point but only because there was never a Blockbuster in Germany. Can I rise too?
  
  Also german, I guess any spot to take out videos counts also. So welcome to the "0 point club".
  
  You can rise.... But let's be extra careful with raising that right arm.
  
  The fire rises brother! (OK, not an appropriate quote, just wanted to say it.)
  
  I assume there was an equivalent service though?
  
  Same, 1 point because no Blockbuster in NZ
- Hey folks, is this where the old farts are hanging out? Point me toward the bathroom, I'll be a while.
- Preach on, brother. Just came back from my physio. He did some dry needling on my lower back because it ain't what it used to be when I was still Wired for Sound.
- Yeah I can't recall using a typewriter seriously, but for sure I've used on for fun. Also trying to get a commodore 64 to print my homework in 1992 should aub in nicely.
  
  My great aunt left me her typewriter when she passed. My father holds onto it as I have nowhere too to store it and he enjoys using it from time to time. It's becoming harder and harder to find replacement ribbons or people that can repair it at all, but it's still kicking. I typed out a few short papers on it in highschool just for fun.
  I'm not 100% sure that's the exact model I have but it looks like the right one.
- Yup, flat zero.

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.

1 - I never had a check book.

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

Surprising, because I'm Gen Z, but I have used typewriters and Walkmen.

A perfect zero. I have done all of those things and more that the creator of that list can't even imagine. Things that were everyday common but have faded beyond memory, (and aren't missed at all).

Vintage Enthusiasts getting absolutely fucking roasted by this.

I'm a zoomer and only got three points hahaha

I want a new test

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?

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.

Zero points.

fucking 13 😭

0 points

0 I have 0 points 👴
- Yuuuup.
- Right there with ya.
- Same and some of these things I've done in the last couple years.
  
  Done them all and I see 4 that still apply today.
- 1 reporting in 👨‍🦳
  
  What's the thing you've never done?
- Zero as well. Damn we’re old 👴
- Young Matt Damon fades into old Matt Damon.
- Same and I'm not even 30 ^^`
- Same what a feel bad meme.

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

0

5

No Blockbuster in Germany, and noone uses checks here.
Edited from Europe to Germany as some pointed out that there is Blockbuster and checks in other countries

Born in 1986.. Zero 0

I got zero points.. guess I'm old now?

I am proudly batting zero.

0

I have 1 point.
I never owned an encyclopedia.
If I had the money then I definitely would have owned one.

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.

Does Encarta count as owning an encyclopedia?

Millennial with a big fat 0 over here

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

1 because despite being born in the early 80s, paper checks are for old people and Americans

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

Zeeeero!

0 I'm old 😆

0

Late 20s - 2 points

Just the 1. I’ve never listened to a boombox outdoors.

6 and I feel old.

I am reporting this post.
…. 0 points…. 🙂
- Hello old friend
  
  Yeah, the hurts-to-get-out-of-bed is real.

0

18 points.
I've owned a dictionary and an encyclopedia.

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

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