👻I managed 20/20 and my bones are dust.

[passenger@kolektiva.social]

@Shards

There's a weird sort of history/geography equivalence here, in that many of these things vanished from the imperial core before they vanished from the periphery.

Like, we still had VCRs and cassettes considerably after Americans and Europeans stopped using them.

[beandreams@friendhole.social]

@Shards Bingo! All 20, assuming off-brand Blockbuster counts. I've done at least 6 of these in the last year, come on.

[fulanigirl@mstdn.social]

@Shards proudly at 20/20

[admiralmemo@mastodon.social]

@Shards I'm also a 20.

[greatbigtable@mastodon.social]

@Shards all 20. Me too. Oof.

[cotopaxi@mstdn.social]

@Shards
All 20.
Aw, hell.
🤨

[w_hurless@mastodon.social]

@Shards I am 50, and had everyone of them checked off, I still have a VCR, Cassette recorder, and Encyclopedia set, LOL, I miss the old Internet/BBS the most, and Blockbuster a close 2nd.

[innowen@wellduck.me]

@Shards @Cotopaxi genXer here, all 20, and i feel 35.

[cotopaxi@mstdn.social]

@cynblogger @Shards
Me too. Know what? I miss more than a few of those things/activities, too. Typing on an old IBM Selectric with correcting backspace key just did something for me. Clickity-clickity-click! DING! Wheeee!

[skipfordj@penguicon.social]

@Shards 20/20. The title has to be bait, and we're all responding to it.

[cotopaxi@mstdn.social]

@innowen @Shards
I dig it, my friend. Some kinda misbegotten prank, putting this squirrel-girl brain in this ol' biddy body, like the heroine in Spirited Away.
I think about her a lot these days.

[innowen@wellduck.me]

@Cotopaxi @Shards

hah. i get that. i feel like i’m the small cute mouse with a big mallet.

[larhanya@zeroes.ca]

@drwho @MsMerope @Shards That's because the picture is accurate for a floppy disk. Just to be annoying, the ones that feel floppy were called mini disks. I think that's because their predecessors were large versions of the same sort of thing. I'm pretty sure the "floppy" disk was so called to differentiate it from a "hard" disk, which was internal to the computer.

Yes, this has bothered me since the 90s.

[tijgertje1987@mastodon.online]

@Shards
All except 13 and 20. Now if you swap that USA blockbuster for a generic “rented a video in a store” I have done that.

Checks haven’t been a thing in my country for like 50 years

[hydreprever@mathstodon.xyz]

@Shards there was no blockbuster in France...

[larhanya@zeroes.ca]

@Shards 20/20, with the caveats that I'm not 100% I ever brought a boom box outdoors and it was my parents who owned the encyclopedia, technically.

[claralistensprechen3rd@friendica.myportal.social]

@Shards @BR549 @drwho 26 out of 20 over here.
--8 track cassette
--8mm projector movies
--drive-in movies using projectors with carbon-arc illumination
--78 rpm music
--music on cylinders
--music on player pianos

Hoping all your dusty bones feel young again.

[shards@kind.social]

@Halfdan @GroupNebula563
Oh damn, I hadn’t noticed. That sucks. Sorry about that; I need to put my glasses on sooner of a morning, I think.

[bardmoss@autistics.life]

@Shards
Really??? You think nobody got all 20? I guess you may technically be correct, in that the portable tape player I used was not made by Sony.

[cotopaxi@mstdn.social]

@innowen @Shards
Lol! I can totally see that, too!
No one should trust me with a mallet, not with my limited patience with the stupid shenanigans of our times. I better stick to that old lady's broom--although a lot of corrective measures can be meted out with a broom, come to think of it.