How Old Are You Quiz

X ^ | December 9, 2025 | Anonymous

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Age quiz time! Give yourself one point for each thing you've NEVER done. Lowest score wins.

1. Used a rotary phone
   
2. Used a 3.5 inch floppy disc (the new upstarts)
   
3. Used an 8 inch floppy disc
   

4. Used a typewriter
   

5. Taken photos with a film camera
   

6. Listened to music on a CD
   

7. Listened to a cassette tape (and rewound one with a pencil).
   

8. Listened to a vinyl record
   

9. Listened to music on a Walkman
   

10. Listened to music on a boombox outside
    

11. Watched a video from a VHS tape
    

12. Accessed the internet by dial-up (Was 56 kpbs "fast" for you? It sure was for me!)
    

13. Used a phone book
    

14. Sent a postcard
    

15. Used a paper map to get somewhere (remember when you got them for free at gas stations?)
    

16. Owned a dictionary
    

17. Owned an encyclopaedia
    

18. Paid with a paper check
    

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Or hang them on your belt at “just the right level”

[T. Rustin Noone]

I was there in 1964.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Funny story...Dad offered my sister and I GE “portable” B&W TVs for our bedrooms in exchange for NOT going to the World’s Fair in NYC. We took the TVs. I still regret that. I think Dad got them at the GE company store for cheap, too!

We drove from upstate NY to Westchester, NY to see his folks a couple times a year and then over to Stamford, CT to see his sister and family. Those were good Thanksgiving and Easter trips, but I don’t think Dad liked the idea of yet another trip to NYC in the summer.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

But did you use a RAMAC?

[READINABLUESTATE]

zero

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Cassettes are “4-track”.
Right-Left stereo on 2 sides.

[1Old Pro]

lots of metal in those phones, cameras, typewriters, they weighed a ton. remember the all metal desks, indestructible.

[left that other site]

Used ‘em ALL.
Still use Some.

[READINABLUESTATE]

That is the exact phone that sat in the corner of my Mother’s kitchen.

[Political Junkie Too]

They were maps that were organized in a flip-book that you could turn the page to the next map when driving.

-PJ

[goodnesswins]

Well...never used an 8” floppy but did run a teletype machine...does that offset it?

[1Old Pro]

in exchange for NOT going to the World’s Fair in NYC.

I went, I don't recall anything remarkable or memorable about it.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

About 1960, I tied my little transistor radio to the handlebars of my big 26" Schwin bicycle. I thought it was SO cool having portable tunes with me! I predated Walkman and Boombox with that.

[Magnum44]

OMG...

Pecan log rolls!

[GMThrust]

Also had to use a 45 adapter to play singles on a normal turntable.

[Dacula]

Goose egg for me. Had/done them all.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"It will be a huge, huge mistake to convert to a cashless society."

Isn't that the truth? I love the convenience, but when the SHTF, then what? Back to barter, I guess. Then we'll have to re-create cash. It will sure put a dent in the recovery from the SHTF event. I can see states and cities issuing their own scrip like was common 150 years ago.

[missthethunder]

We never had dial up. So that’s one point.
I don’t remember using the 8 inch floppy.
But it is possible that I did and just don’t remember.
There were a lot of machines floating around
the phone company.
Microfilm/fish was fun.

[left that other site]

(Sigh)

I Got A Big Fat Zero.

I’m OLD.

[Jeff Vader]

same here, plenty of 5.25 floppies though