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
    

[IYAS9YAS]

One point. 8” floppy. Never used one. Did use magnetic tape and 5.25” and 3.5” floppies.

[ReganFan4ever]

Q-Basic?

[mairdie]

My favorites were “You Asked For It” - how pencils were made, advertised by Skippy that sent you instantly to the kitchen at break. Also “Hit Parade” where they acted out songs like Vaya Con Dios and Tennessee Waltz.

Husband was on the 64K Question. Lost on the first one when Hal March made him a 16 year old joke to the audience after telling him to follow a girl to the card sorter and then telling him not to follow the pretty girl.

[Texas resident]

My grandmother had a bunch of 78’s. She was born and raised in Algiers, Louisiana. (Across the river from New Orleans) She had a bunch of old jazz recordings. Those records were thick and very brittle. She used to play those records when us kids were staying over.

[Magnum44]

Who here got to see the original Harlem Globetrotters perform?

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I too have a Royal portable manual typewriter, though I haven’t used it in many years. I’m sure the ribbon is completely dried out.

[dinodino]

Zero for me.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

What can I say? I don’t remember anything in particular about that car’s taillights, so if they were sequential, it must not have struck me as unusual.

[ReganFan4ever]

Yes, the punch cards. Remember them.

I don’t recaallect. PL1, PL0?

This is fun.

[Magnum44]

Anyone remember this day?

[KC_for_Freedom]

Thank You, I still have no idea why these things are out there. Why do things attract at great distances? At the speed of light no less, and why do things have charges, and why only two? ( I know, so That electricity could be discovered, but why? You can see why it keeps me up at night. Thanks for the back and forth.

[dfwgator]

I was actually playing a Little League game when I heard about it.

[dadgum]

Zero points.

[Magnum44]

I watched it on TV even though we lived about 35 miles from the Braves stadium. My parents set up the Pentax 35mm camera with Kodachrome color (slide) film on a tripod in from of the RCA color TV cabinet and photographed the hit.

We also watched and photographed Neil Armstrong's first steps on the moon the same way.

My parents would give me and my younger brother 'slide shows' on the carousel slide projector when they got the film back from the developer. Same for family trips. My dad was like Clark Griswald.

[dfwgator]

I can only imagine the things those folks working at the Fotomat must have seen.

[MayflowerMadam]

“Who here got to see the original Harlem Globetrotters perform?”

I saw them in Vestal, NY, around 1967. World they have been the originals?

[Enterprise]

I have done them all. Zero points for me.

[dfwgator]

I watched “The Harlem Globetrotters Popcorn Machine” on Saturday Mornings, does that count?

[Antoninus]

I’m guessing about 40% of the population on FR have listened to music on a 78 rpm record... ;-)

And for the record, I scored 100% on this quiz.

[sjmjax]

Same here.
A perfect Zero!