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
    

[sjmjax]

I can not only answer YES to all of them but for many a “still do”.

[Fresh Wind]

I’m 77 if it matters. The most desirable AA5s used octals, so that’s why I picked them.

Do you still have the Altair 8800? They are worth some serious money now. I actually sent away for information, but it didn’t seem worth the price then. There is one for sale right now on eBay for $5K. I did eventually sell the sales literature for $50, however.

[Fresh Wind]

Old jazz records are highly collectible. I have quite a few myself. I also like old hillbilly records.

[Agatsu77]

Zero for me.

[MayflowerMadam]

Blacks should be prohibited from using any of those things, or the versions of them that grew over the years until now.

They all were invented by white folk.

[Political Junkie Too]

I actually did! They did a local appearance at my middle school in Oceanside, NY, in the 1960s. They played against a team made up of the teachers in the school gymnasium! I was a child, but maybe they played against their usual nemesis, the Washington Generals, who allowed the school's gym teachers/coaches to play for the Generals to generate school spirit.

The Globetrotters won, of course!

-PJ

[Fresh Wind]

Who remembers the first color TV broadcast by RCA’s three color system?

I do. The guy a few houses down worked for RCA on the color TV system, and he had a prototype color set on temporary loan. January 1, 1954, he called my parents and said to get to their house at a certain time. I had no idea why, but we got to watch the Rose Bowl parade in color. Very few people got to see it in color.

[chaosagent]

4-Track tapes came before 8-track. They actually had better sound, but could only hold half the music. Which is why they lost out.

[MayflowerMadam]

I still have some 3.5” diskettes and an external reader. I should crank that up soon and see what’s on them.

[Bullish]

I got a zero... Dammit!

[FlatulusMaximus]

Yikes! 19 out of 20 here. Never used an 8” floppy. I already knew I was old!

[redshawk]

I use the old wind up victrolas to play records. lol.

[redshawk]

forgot party lines too.

[redshawk]

we used a wash board

[redshawk]

Ping to Burger Chef and Jeff!

[redshawk]

Hank Aaron, remember that day.
I wrote a short story about him and 715 for a high school class assignment. Wow, what a memory. thanks.

[redangus]

zero, yes, I’m that old.

[Prince of Space]

Just turned 72 & got 0.

[castlebrew]

I’m in the back.

As in Z-row.

(Or 8-for-8)

[castlebrew]

I still use a lot of those.