6, 7 if Bluetooth speaker outside doesn’t count as boombox, because my speaker is a box and it booms, but it’s not called that.
Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE
Submitted 11 months ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
4 points, am 35.
melvisntnormal@feddit.uk 11 months ago
I turn 29 in a few months and scored 2. I would not be surprised if I’ve forgotten an instance of using a typewriter or listening to a boombox outside though.
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 11 months ago
- Used the old broken 19" TV as a stand for the new, smaller, sleeker 19" TV.
- Your first video game console had a rotating paddle for a controller
FIbynight@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Do I get negative points if I still own and use many of these things?
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
1 point. I’ve never sent a postcard… I bought one with a shifting hologram on the front for the purposes of sending a Thank-You note. I just never got around to sending it.
Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
- Never listened to music on a CD;
- never listened to a vynil record;
- never listened to a walkman
- never listened to a boombox (had to search what this was)
- never sent a postcard
36 years old. Just grew up mostly without access to music until I got my first PC. But I did have the opportunity to use a radio with a cassete tape player a few times as a kid.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
I mean I am old, yes, but I feel like most North American millennials would get the same.
tias@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
I hate to break it to you but… millennials are old
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
Wait, that can’t be right. No, I was just playing Smash Bros with my room mates a moment ago, like just… twenty … years ago … oh
Pirtatogna@lemmy.world 11 months ago
1 point. Never listened to a boombox outside. I have owned a boombox, though.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
I have listened to a cassette but not a CD. It was mainly stories when I was young. By the time I was had any interest in music, limewire existed. Once limewire died I downloaded from youtube instead.
Mickey7@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Another reminder of the past - Limewire. Anyone also remember Napster?
Heikki@lemm.ee 11 months ago
2 points
Never sent a FAX. Scanners were common place and only sent pic/pdfs by email when needed.
Never owned an encyclopedia.
nadiaraven@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Dude I sent a fax like last year. The medical industry considers them more secure than email
Bleys@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Low-key they kind of are just because of security through obscurity. Modern scammers are too busy with new stuff like crypto and phishing, and can’t be bothered with faxing.
MTK@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Only 3 🥲
missandry351@lemmings.world 11 months ago
Typewriter, vinil, fax, and payed with check, those are the only 4 things I never done. The boom box I don’t know what it is.
Mannimarco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
A boombox is one of those big rectangular radios that can work on batteries
Willard@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I guess 2 points, I’ve not owned my own dictionary or encyclopedia. Born in 1989.
ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Born 1992
5 points- No typewriter ( would kill for a real TTY though)
- Haven’t listened to vinyl ( I really want to get into that, overwhelmed with stuff I need to learn)
- No boombox ( and thank god for that - this shit looks heavy af)
- Not recorded music to a cassette ( only from lack of trying, had a radio accepting cassettes with “record” button)
- No postcard ( not a big thing around these parts)
Mickey7@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t understand why people want to listen to vinyl records vs. digital
SirSamuel@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m no audiophile, but there is a difference in sound. To me it’s not enough to invest in the type of equipment that maximizes that difference, but it’s still there
Plus turntables have become another niche technological LEGO set, to customize and improve until the hole in your chest is filled
StellarExtract@lemm.ee 11 months ago
As someone who listens to both: because they’re fun
ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Purely ideological at this point.
I want to own my media, CDs aren’t being produced anymore, vinyls are resurfacing.
Ziglin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
A real TTY would be really cool.
CephaloSquad@discuss.online 11 months ago
10 points, though maybe less depending on how strict you are. For example I’ve seen floppy disks and seen my dad use them (we had a whole stack of them at home), or my mom send and receive faxes, but by the time I was old enough to use a computer or need to send communications it was CDs and email instead of faxes.
watson387@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
0
zxqwas@lemmy.world 11 months ago
2 or 4 depending on how strict you are.
greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
I’m gen z but I still only got 3 points. I live in the sticks, so no blockbuster. Also no walkman, though I have used portable cassette players. And never recorded from radio to cassette. Maybe you could give me another point, because my dad had to send a fax for me, but I felt involved in the process.
graycube@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Zero.
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Walkman, Blockbuster, Encyclopaedia, Paper cheque.
I have a Walkman, but it is broken. Blockbuster never existed in my country AFAIK. Lexicon vs Encyclopaedia. Cheques are not really a thing here except for media display (“Local company donated to local sports association”, Photo).
js346235476@lemmy.world 11 months ago
1 - Never owned an encyclopedia. Used one many times, owned all sort of other books that agglomerate knowledge, but never owned one.
oz1sej@discuss.online 11 months ago
1 - I never had a check book.
Patrik@lemm.ee 11 months ago
- Surprising, because I’m Gen Z, but I have used typewriters and Walkmen.
qbus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So you’re a hipster? How’s your vinyl collection? /S
Patrik@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I’m not a hipster, just like old tech. However, my vinyl collection is doing well, thank you. Some military marches, some classical, and several Johnny Cash.
dellish@lemmy.world 11 months ago
- Would have been 2 but I was a member of Video Ezy.
unsortedcustard@lemmy.world 11 months ago
fucking 13 😭
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 11 months ago
pseudo@jlai.lu 11 months ago
5
Denjin@lemmings.world 11 months ago
1 and that’s only because Blockbuster wasn’t a thing near me and we instead went to the local video shop.