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

21. Navigated with a Thomas guide.
22. Made your crush a mix tape.
23. Returned a milk bottle for a deposit.
24. Worn white tube socks with a single stripe near the top.
25. Hung out all day at the mall with your friends just walking in circles.
26. Checked out books from a public library.
27. Ridden in the bed of a pickup (with no seatbelt).
28. Shared a family sized ice cream sunday.
29. slapped the side of a tv set to fix it.
30. Eaten at an all you can eat salad bar.
31. Used an abacus.
32. Seen someone riding on a horse drawn buckboard on a public road.
33. Played a playground game with a soccer ball called "smear the queer", or jokingly call your friend a "fag".
34. Ridden in a wood paneled station wagon.
35. Used a typewriter.
36. Balanced your checkbook.
37. Burned your trash.
38. mailed someone a letter as a form of communication.
39. gotten a busy signal when trying to call someone.
40. Used black and white film.

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

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).

This is basically a "are you old" questionaire.

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.

2. 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

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.

Zeeeero!

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.

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.

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

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

0. Probably a typical response for anyone not in gen Z.

1. Blockbuster didnt exist in the EU.

Does Encarta count as owning an encyclopedia?

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

18 points.

I've owned a dictionary and an encyclopedia.

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

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

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

8 points

But only because we pay in cash and block buster was never a thing here.

I have touched a type writer but never used it for writing letters or whatever you write with it.

I just sent a fax a few days ago....

I never owned a walkman or discman but my older sister had a discman and I got one of the first mp3 players xD.

1 point. Never rented a video from Blockbuster. But did rent VHS/CD/DVD movies from local chain.

1. Never owned a whole encyclopedia.

But probably -1 for not only rotary phone but "party line"; sometimes you couldn't use the phone because someone else, in another house, was using that line.

0

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