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THIS is a real test of how old you are. If you score 20 your future is short

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Submitted ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Mickey7@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨29⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Water beds are making a comeback. This coming year, I swear!

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  • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    5 makes no sense outside of USA
    20 What is phone bo? book?

    19, 20 if NZ equivalent of AOL

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  • HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Lol #9 is mix tape 🤣😂

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  • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    18, damn.

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  • WanderWisley@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    20/20 and I’ll add Atari, illegal cable hookup, and limewire.

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    • AlphaOmega@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Add Napster, ICQ, and AOL chatrooms … A/S/L?

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  • the_q@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What’s a phone bo?

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    • ik5pvx@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Book, probably

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What’s a phone bo?

      More importantly: Why is there aa jizz stain at the o?

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      • spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The second column is all misaligned too.

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      • criss_cross@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        AI is my guess given the lack of structure

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    • frog_brawler@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The reason you didn’t get 20.

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  • deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Do they mean a mix tape?

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    • three@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You must be 18 to post here.

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  • UNY0N@lemmy.wtf ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m assuming that “phone bo” means phone book? If that’s true then I’m at 20/20.

    I plan to live forever. So far, so good.

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  • NoPanko@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This title/post combination is peak 2005 myspace/facebook posting

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    • exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The choices also tend to center around 2005, with only a handful of technologies that were made definitely obsolete before 1995 or after 2010.

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  • Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So everyone over 35 or so?

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    • chocrates@piefed.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m 37 and only about 16 points.
      I didn’t ever use a typewriter afaik, nor a rotary phone.

      I was in the wra of aol addresses but my first email was when I got into the Gmail beta 😎

      Sadly I need to extricate myself from Gmail

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      • Soulphite@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’m 38, I scored 20 points unfortunately. I only used a rotary phone because my grandmother had one and she also had a typewriter that I’d fuck around with for fun… never used it to write my dissertation for a PhD or anything like that.

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      • faintwhenfree@lemmus.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’m 31 and I scored all 20, assuming last is phone book. Although I only trained in typewriter, never actually sent anyone a letter. Although I did type a contract for my dad so I guess that’s a real use case. All 20 then.

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    • Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think you’d be 50 or older

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      • Psionicsickness@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        38 here, 20 for 20

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      • Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’m 43 and it’s 20. My mate is 37 and it’s also all 20.

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      • ramble81@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Early 40s and 20/20. I’m guessing you’re pretty young.

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  • exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Terrible distribution of options. A good list would have a series of technologies and tools that became obsolete at different times. Almost all of these became obsolete with the rise of broadband internet in the early 2000’s, while a handful were earlier (rotary phones) or later (paper maps, paper checks).

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    • ArfArfWoof@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The point of this “meme” is for OP to toot they own horn. This selection is a good choice for that. Effective means for an ill end.

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  • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Are we censoring books now?

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    20/20, waterbeds were awesome.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Mixed Tape

    Does this mean a mix tape or is that something else? 🤨

    Also: I’ve used a rotary phone, but only because I had bought a novelty modern phone that used a rotary dialer in the 90s.

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    • exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Smithers, I really feel like a free spirit. And I’m really enjoying this so-called “iced cream.”

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    • Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think “mixed tape” refers to when you could take a cassette and record different songs onto it. Though I don’t remember how it was done unless you caught a song playing on the radio at just the right point. Using a novelty dial phone wouldn’t really count.

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      • Thunderbird4@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Right, but that’s usually called a “mix tape”, not “mixed” unless that’s some kind of regional thing. I’ve never heard anyone call that a “mixed tape” before this post.

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      • DBT@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You’d often see cassette players with two tape decks, so you could play one while recording with the other.

        You could also record from radio, record player, or whatever else your stereo had. Boom boxes with two tape decks were fairly common.

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  • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    19 out of 20. Unless just testing a waterbed counts…

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    • Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah it counts. I’ve “tried” them but never owned them. So that counts

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      • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I am not being euphemismistic.

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  • IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I am assuming Phone Bo is Phone book.

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    • chocrates@piefed.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The meme creator got lazy and just didn’t do the last two letters?

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      • jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        He just have died while typing…

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      • hateisreality@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Their time was shorter

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    • state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Same here. I have used everything on this list at least once.

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      • IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I have used them all so many times I lost count.

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    • Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      yes

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  • AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Did you really need to use ai to make a text based meme? I completely lost hope in humanity after seeing this

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  • Griffus@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Never had VCR, AOL or phone bo. Don’t think AOL ever was a thing here anyway, it was Sol or Kvasir and then Hotmail. The rest my 37 years have included.

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  • jdnewmil@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I never had my own AOL email account but I did throw away AOL signup disks and I sent email to AOL accounts… so I guess 20/20 assuming “phone bo” is a phone book.

    As for not being long for this world… there are a lot of ways to go that don’t link with being old, so I guess that checks out anyway.

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    • Omgpwnies@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      AOL disks were great when they were sending out floppies… free disks!

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  • Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    3/20

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  • infinitevalence@discuss.online ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I am a little old for a Bo dont ya think?

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  • lastweakness@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    17/20. I’m 25

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    • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, in don’t think many of us touched a Phone Bo. They’re impossible to find after we started making bo staffs out of better material like wood.

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      • lastweakness@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Very unfortunate that we never got the chance.

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      • Nasan@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        In my family’s house growing up, we duct taped our only phone’s receiver to a Bo staff so we could pass the phone between rooms without having to leave the room.

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  • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    *cheque book

    And why people from other countries than USA would necessarily use AOL?

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    • jambudz@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s check book in the states, where the majority of native English speakers live.

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  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Surely that should be ‘mix tape’? And I assume 20 is ‘Phone Box’, not ‘Phone BO’? If so, what’s the difference between a phone box and a phone booth? I scored 17 so I anticipate living for another hundred years!

    Plus also, what the fuck are you doing on my lawn, ooh innit cold, the price of stamps these days, look at how young those policemen look, fucking cloud!

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  • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    1. Never had a water bed, never did a mix tape.
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  • unknown1234_5@kbin.earth ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    i work at a library it isnt fair for me to compete. i only use the fax machine because the government won't let old people email them and they dont know how to anyway.

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  • Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    19, but only because waterbeds were never really a thing in the UK

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  • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Does it could if I’ve used them for the novelty?

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    • Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      doesn’t count

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      • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Then I got 8

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  • Jeeve65@ttrpg.network ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You don’t scare me.
    AOL never was available in my country. Check books? I’ve never even seen someone actually using one, I think.

    I will never get to 20, yay!

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    • MudMan@fedia.io ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Waterbeds also not a thing.

      Not being American gets you 3 extra... years? decades? life units? Which does seem still accurate.

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    • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Same. I’ve seen people using cheques when I was a kid, but they were issued as separate sheets not in a form of a book

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  • Enkrod@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    17 points, I’m 43, no AOL address, no check book or waterbed.

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    • GiantChickDicks@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      40 here, scored a 19. I’m fascinated that you were able to avoid checkbooks all this time. Back in the day it was the only form of rent payment my landlords would accept, so I didn’t have much choice.

      I’ve also had to use them in oddball situations recently, like paying a passport application fee. The passports weren’t even for me. I was just the only one in the friend group that still has checks from when I first opened my account… almost 20 years ago. They’re my age, so maybe it’s me who’s the outlier here, haha.

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      • Enkrod@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Avoiding checkbooks? Easy, be not american.

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