20/20.

[miss_rodent@girlcock.club]

@blogdiva 17/20 (millenial); we didn't have the money for an encyclopedia set, but used them at the library, I used casettes but didn't have anything to *record* from radio to one with, and we didn't rent movies because my mom worked with a guy who would sell us the 'snuck a camera into the cinema' versions, usually for cheaper than the rental price...

[bardmoss@autistics.life]

@blogdiva
Yeah, I had 19.8. Technically I didn't have a Walkman, Sony got nowhere near my portable tape player.

[tlariv@hachyderm.io]

@blogdiva
I do currently own a 2023 Grand Larousse Illustré, which has a whole second half for proper nouns that's surprisingly encyclopedic, so maybe that counts.

And yes, my friends make fun of me for still having dead-tree reference books. Funny that they always do this when I find an answer faster than they can on their "Internet".

[flipper@mastodonapp.uk]

@blogdiva 20/20, but 10/20 this year.

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

@bipolaron @bryanredeagle your privilege is showing. i taught high school in the 1990s here in nyc and not all our schools had internet access. certainly not in Puerto Rico. and yes, we were most likely in college or a job in legal or finance if we were using the internet BEFORE the web. the www isn't the internet. i had to telnet and gopher to do searches for my academic research.

when it comes to gadgets, old and new obviously coexist. when it comes to the internet? that’s the divide.

[flipper@mastodonapp.uk]

@blogdiva @claralistensprechen3rd Yep, I went to a Blockbuster in 2005 in Pleasant Hill, California.

[claralistensprechen3rd@friendica.myportal.social]

@blogdiva @flipper WOWzer. They declared bankruptcy quite a bit before that. That must have been "the mother ship".
Radio Shack went belly up quite some time ago too but it found new life as an on-line vendor, so I suppose it's all possible.

[flipper@mastodonapp.uk]

@claralistensprechen3rd @blogdiva
According to the interwebs: Blockbuster reached its peak in 2004.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbuster_(retailer)

[geepawhill@mastodon.social]

@blogdiva Yeah, 20/20.

[jrdepriest@infosec.exchange]

@blogdiva

20 19 out of 20.

Edit: I don't think I sent a postcard. I bought them as souvenirs, but didn't send them.

[bipolaron@scholar.social]

@blogdiva @bryanredeagle NYC schools didn't have internet connections in the late 90s? I'm surprised Indianapolis was ahead to be honest, but thanks for the insight. It always felt like we were a decade behind.

[tom_ofb@23.social]

@blogdiva AI generated bullshit

[thriftwicker@mastodon.social]

@aud @blogdiva Same here.

[mschomm@bonn.social]

@blogdiva I do have owned and used a dictionary that's why '18. Owned a <dictioary>' is no check for me...

[_ryekdarkener_@mastodon.social]

@blogdiva

20.

[andyhat@anti-social.online]

@blogdiva @Shards In this era of enshittification, I'm back to paying our rent by check. Our building switched online payments to Bilt, which looks like a vibe-coded security nightmare/credit card scam, so it's time to return to the 80s.

[binford2k@hachyderm.io]

@bryanredeagle @inthehands @blogdiva @Shards I actually ran a dialup BBS node on a party line for all of a hot minute. My neighbors must have hated me.

[tmiller@mas.to]

@blogdiva Same 20/20.

[mwyman@mastodon.social]

@blogdiva elder millennial here. 20/20.