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

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@MsMerope @Shards Same.

[starkrg@myside-yourside.net]

@Shards I *bought* an encyclopedia, but I didn't *own* one. In middle school, I borrowed one volume from the library and it somehow never made it back so I was charged for the entire set. I ended up working at the library for two summers to pay it off. That's the only one I'm technically missing unless you count Encarta.

[dubikan@tooot.im]

@Shards nostalgia bait. Anyone over the age of 45, maybe 50, will have all of them.

[kusuriya@masto.hackers.town]

@Shards @drwho I instantly turned to dust when i checked the 20th off...

[pseudonym_ken@kind.social]

@Shards This is literally just, ”were you born before 1990, and aren’t yet dead?”

I’ve done all of this, and it wasn’t particularly difficult.

[markc568@beige.party]

@Shards @deepmud This is pretty much the childhood world of Gen X.

I hit 19 of 20, as we were not wealthy enough for an encyclopedia.

#genx

[elwoodcity@mstdn.ca]

@markc568 @Shards @deepmud@mas.to

And I never believed in sending postcards.

I'll count myself at 19.5, for having received postcards from peers.

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@kusuriya @Shards I had to see if my landlord had deposited the rent check for this month after that.

(He had.)

[mycotropic@beige.party]

@drwho @Shards

20/20

[daveosaurus@mastodon.nz]

@Shards I only managed to get 18 because I never bothered with a Walkman and we didn't have a Blockbuster over here. I still actually do some of these (e.g. CDs, paper maps, own a dictionary, an encyclopaedia and a current telephone directory).

[victorvonvortex@mastodon.social]

@Shards

People actually owned encyclopedias? I thought that's why you went to the library.

[halfdan@mastodon.online]

@Shards, is it just me or does something seem off about this image? It started with me noticing the weird capitalization of the heading, but then the more I zoomed in and looked at the individual drawings, the more icky it made me feel (for the lack of a better word).

[deepmud@mas.to]

@markc568 oops, I used an encyclopedia, but we didn't have one...so I lied. Lol

[theramansi@social.tulsa.ok.us]

@Shards

20

[br549@infosec.exchange]

@Shards @drwho

22 out of 20 if you add listened to music on 8-track cassette and watched movies via 8mm projector.

[csstrowbridge@mastodon.social]

@Shards

Fax and postcard. I had a fax machine as part of a printer, but I don't think I actually used it.

I never sent a postcard, but I also can't remember writing a letter either. I probably did, but I don't remember.

[spreadthetruth@mastodon.social]

@Shards yep, all 20 for me...lived through a lot of technology!

[csstrowbridge@mastodon.social]

@victorvonvortex @Shards

I grew up on a farm and the nearest library was quite a drive away, so my parents bought one.

[kevinhuigens@genealysis.social]

@Shards

20 for 20 and many that aren't on the list

[davemasondotme@mastodon.social]

@Shards
Ummm. This list doesn't feel very exclusive.

20/20

#GenX