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
    

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: age; jimwatxfaggot; quiz

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I never used an acoustic coupler attachment on the phone handset. But I did have 300 baud or 1,200 baud long before 56 kbps came out.

[Uncle Miltie]

One point!

Never had a Walkman.

[Dr. Sivana]

I used both an 8” and 10” Floppy, plus I programmed using punch cards and key punch machine.

I did oversee the spare Priam 14” hard drives for Rolm/IBM. Uses papertape on a PDP 8 instead of cards.

[Publius]

I actually went to that event as a high school trip.

[LastDayz]

“...I programmed using punch cards...”

Ha... Ha... reminds me when the old Bridgeport milling machines use punch cards to run programs.

[Wuli]

How about a wringer washing machine.

When I was very young, that was the kind of washing machine mom had.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1102870451478554

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“You forgot the 8-track tapes.”

Darn, you are right! I knew something was missing.

[dfwgator]

How about a big 10-inch record?

[Tell It Right]

One point. I never used an 8” floppy.

Same here. I didn't know they existed.

Now I understand what my wife meant before we married when she said that an 8" floppy is worthless.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Older then dirt.

[cherry]

Me a zero too only because I consider a little transistor radio a " walkman"..

I still prefer paper maps..I still right some checks..love my cds..

[Highest Authority]

“Older than dirt”
Hey, I remember when they invented dirt!

[Magnum44]

My parents took me when I was pre-gradeschool.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

[Magnum44]

Sure...let me just whip it out!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Double points if you took the little holder off and used them as a bolo.

[dfwgator]

Remember the record players that could play at 16 RPM?

Now who didn’t try to play their 33 RPM records at 78 or 16 speed just to hear what it would sound like?

[kosciusko51]

0, and I’m GenX.

[chaosagent]

You forgot the 8-track tapes.

Gotta beat. How about 4-track tapes?

[dfwgator]

Rusty Griswold:
Hey, ya’ got Pac Man?

Cousin Dale:
No.

Rusty Griswold:
Ya’ got Space Invaders?

Cousin Dale:
Nope.

Rusty Griswold:
Ya’ got Asteroids?

Cousin Dale:
Naw, but my dad does. Can’t even sit on the toilet some days.