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
    

[kosciusko51]

I remember seeing them, but I don’t recall eating there.

[Doctor Congo]

Zero.

I had a walkman and the family had a boombox.

And I used a paper map just yesterday.

[ronniesgal]

I got zero

[mairdie]

My first husband claimed he married me because I was the only girl he knew who carried a slide rule in her purse.

[ronniesgal]

forgot the /s

[OldMissileer]

The kiddies who wrote this left out the 5 1/4 inch floppy, and they have no idea what “double sided” or “double density” mean.

Remember when some companies made the notch cutters so you could punch a notch in a double density 5.25" to get more storage? Those disks were not certified for that but I never lost any data.

[Don W]

Let us play PONG

[JZelle]

I finally aced something.

[norwaypinesavage]

proudly zero

[LastDayz]

Or a Stuckey’s.

[Dad was my hero]

all of them, I still write checks, have a dictionary and a phone book.
they shoulda mentioned changed channels on TV by hand and had to adjust the vertical hold. Also helped dad find and replace different tubes in the “TV set” and remember when they were pieces of furniture and only were black and white pictures, we had to go to a cousin’s house to watch the wonderful world of Disney in color on their consul tv. (of course that is when Walt was still alive and Disney was worth watching.)

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Don't remember that. Dad planned all of our cross-country car trips in the 50s and 60s. We lived in upstate NY and did a bi-annual pilgrimage to visit relatives in Valparaiso, Indiana; Chicago; Potlatch, Idaho; Albuquerque, NM; and Fort Worth, TX. We hit all the great sights along the way - Mt. Rushmore, Devil's Tower, Yellowstone, Snake River Canyon, Cody, WY, Craters of the Moon, North Rim of the Grand Canyon.

Chain hotel reservation systems were just getting started. We stayed at Holiday Inn's and Best Westerns because they had reservation systems. You had to be at one to make a reservation for the next one.

[Verginius Rufus]

Only the ninth of the month and I've already written three checks.

My parents bought an encyclopedia set when I was about second grade, and the World Book encyclopedia several years later. The only encyclopedia I have bought is only 5 volumes (Der Kleine Pauly Lexikon der Antike...excellent resource).

[Don W]

There’s also the 45 RPM records that used to come in Mad Magazine, for that matter.

[albie]

I got an 18!!!! That equals an A+!!

[NorthMountain]

I always assumed that the single sided or single density were just “second quality” DSDD ...

[T. Rustin Noone]

I never owned an encyclopedia.

Score me as “1”.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

My Alma Mater moved from punch-card to tape in my freshman year.
They were skeptical of its practicality.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“I’m a sweet young thing, so I’m a 1.”

Thanks for the chuckle!

[RatRipper]

Yes I am . . . and I still use a checkbook and have an affinity for carrying a couple hundred dollars in my wallet. I just retired from the banking business after 45 years about 11 months ago. It will be a huge, huge mistake to convert to a cashless society.