4mo ago

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

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My area had upgraded to DTMF exchanges too soon for me to use a rotary phone, and my parents were to cheap to own an encyclopedia when you could just go to the library to read one, although we did have a few of those encyclopedias on CDs over the years
I literally just wrote a check today to pay for a vehicle inspection. And a couple recently to pay some contractors for some house repairs

0 I have 0 points 👴
- 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.
- Yuuuup.

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.
  
  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.
- Yup, flat zero.

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

1 Point, we don't use cheques in Germany. Maybe 2 points, but I'd count my local Videotheque as the equivalent of the "Blockbuster" video chain.
- 3, same with the cheques in Germany
- Actually... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocheque
  (I never used one, but remember my parents paying with it at the supermarket)
  
  Still nothing compared to how it's used in the US.
  I've never seen a cheque in my entire life and it's so incredibly niche that you might as well talk about paying with stocks or gold bars.
- I'm exactly the same, only i'm from the Netherlands
- There was a time when people used cheques in Germany. I remember my father using them ages ago

Zero points.

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

2 points, but only because we don't have blockbuster where I'm from, I have rented movies though. I have also never used a check to pay for anything.
- Same.
- 1 point for the same reason, but having used traveler's cheques :)

Millennial with a big fat 0 over here

Your age is 40 minus your number of points.
- I'm 60 so I'll take 40.
- 40-4 points is 36, I’m turning 35 this year 😹 only missed it by a year
  
  40-14 is also off by half a year, dang
- Gasp, burn the witch
- I'll need a couple of negative points for that to hold true.
- I just turned 45. But I have 1 point. I’d happily pretend to be 39 though.
- Ouch.. aged three years in a single day.
- Oof this is too accurate

0
- 0 :( one of my guitar amps I hacked together out of a Walkman so I could practice while waiting for the bus how many negative points do I get

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).

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

Zeeeero!

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

I am proudly batting zero.

Sent or received a fax
You clearly do not live in Germany
- I will implemented a service that will rely partly on faxing documents into a new web app this year.

0
Fuck, I'm old.

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

8 points. I'm born in 1997.
No floppy disk
No typewriter
No Walkman
No boom box
No record of radio
No Blockbuster (I think that store is not present in my country)
No dial up Internet
No cheque
Edit : if the company Blockbuster doesn't matter then I've done 6.
- 0 points if you count public libraries as "blockbuster adjacent" and I'm only a year older than you.
- I'm at 3 points from a similar age. 8, 12, 13.
- I was born in 98, got 5 points.
  No walkman
  No boombox
  No fax
  No recording radio
  No cheque
  I've rented video before, so I'm counting blockbuster.

15
Come at me grandpas
- All of them.
- Also, I own a house, have no college debt and have met Steve Irwin and talked to Alec Guinness and Terry Pratchett in person.
  Your move young whippersnapper.
  
  I do agree a lot of zoomers just suck with computers. I am not one of them unfortunately, I am confident in my ability to use a computer which kinda backfired cause now I have my boomer relatives AND my zoomer friends asking for tech support.
  I technically own a house (long story short, it was to pay less taxes)
  I paid only ~2000€ in university taxes this year and don't have college debt. I'd argue this problem is mostly with being an American (which I am not) rather than being a zoomer.
  Steve Irwin is the only thing you have over me, and I don't know who the others are.
- I thought I would be at the low end at 12…
  Maybe the younger people didn't have the patience to read all 20 bullet points and comment as well?

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

1 point. Never used a boombox. And yes, I have written a check at a store while people waited in line behind me. Their cold angry stares still haunt me.

I got zero.
Yes I'm old. On the plus side I still have my family commadore 64 from 1982.
- So wish I still had my VIC-20 and 64.

Big fat zero for me.

None. Zip. Zilch. Zero.
Let’s just say that at some places, I get senior discounts. Not ALL places, but some.
- I am also at zero. Makes me wonder what is so relevant TODAY that will be completely out of style in 20 years
  
  Carried portable media (USB drive).
  Used earbuds/headphones with a cable.
  Used a standalone calculator.
  Replaced a disposable battery.

Blockbuster didnt exist in the EU.

I'm in my mid 20s. Maybe it's because I grew up poor and was using outdated tech when I was a kid.
I didn't use vinyl or a film camera until a few years ago though, I have been really enjoying the physicality and ritualism of analog tech recently

My town had a family video, not a blockbuster.

0 points. I feel old.

0, and I've done 4 of these in the last year.

I'm 39 ☹️ zero points.

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.

5 but it depends if "used" is defined as actually in an every day situtation or because found an old typewriter in the attic and played around with it

One point. I have never owned an encyclopedia unless Encarta counts. My parents owned one when I was a kid, and I used the library encyclopedia a ton. I'm in my early 50s. I'm surprised the encyclopedia is not the most common point.

This is basically a "are you old" questionaire.

I'm a zoomer and only got three points hahaha

0 of course, old guys rule!

One point. Never recorded a CD from the radio.
The encyclopedia belonged to my grandparents, but I lived there and used it.

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

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

2 points.
I have never written a check, and as far as I know, there were no Blockbusters in this country.
- Me too. Though I'd say we can substitute any locally available video renting store with Blockbuster. So it would only be 1 point.

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 point. I don't even own a cheque book.

Zero (born in '66). Can we add some more to the list?
21: had to wait for the television to warm up

1 point, only because my parents never bought an encyclopedia set. They were absolutely a thing when I was a kid. I definitely used one before, but never owned them. Hooray for being old I guess.
- I wasn’t sure if my parents owning an encyclopedia set qualified me for the point or not.
  But then I remembered I owned the Microsoft Encarta encyclopedia CD. Did you own that?
  
  Absolutely, but I don't think that counts and docked myself that point.

14...yall know half this shit is still valid or required.
Paper checks and faxes are still in use and Japan got rid of floppy disks in govt right before plague. (Shit, that was 5 years ago...)
WHAT DECADE IS IT!?!?!

17
I live in an Eastern European country. I have listened to music on CD, i used to own Encyclopedias and i own a copy of DOOM

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

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