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

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.

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

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 😭

Probably a typical response for anyone not in gen Z.

This is basically a "are you old" questionaire.

5

Vintage Enthusiasts getting absolutely fucking roasted by this.

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

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

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.

Big fat zero for me.

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

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!

Does Encarta count as owning an encyclopedia?

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.

I want a new test

0

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

I'm a zoomer and only got three points hahaha

0 points

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?

0

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

6 and I feel old.

Born in 1986.. Zero 0

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

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

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

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:
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.

5 points, not bad

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

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).

Late 20s - 2 points

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

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.

0 I'm old 😆

0

My grandma had a rotary phone.

I actually plan to buy the latest print encyclopedia I can find. Just in case. Fuck them trying to kill everything good on the internet.

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.

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".
  
  The fire rises brother! (OK, not an appropriate quote, just wanted to say it.)
  
  You can rise.... But let's be extra careful with raising that right arm.
  
  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.
  
  Whoa whoa whoa. I'm only 33. I just happened to like old shit growing up and I got to use it all right as it went out the door and got replaced haha.
- 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.

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

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

never used a Sony Walkman! so that's 1 point for me...

Ha!! One point! In yo face!!!
Sorry got too excited there for a second. I have never sent a postcard. Bought em though and rcvd them but never sent.

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.

Zero points.

0

::shakes fist:: Get off my lawn!