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

[matoakit@beach.city]

@Shards I've done all 20, not that rare for an old millennial

[claralistensprechen3rd@friendica.myportal.social]

@randulo @Shards Yep, I can add all those. The wire recorder I used was a Silvertone unit that also included an AM radio and a record turntable, where the turntable doubled as a wire spool. Adding your list to mine brings me up to 29 out of 20. The operator I interacted with was making connections from the WYandott exchange, and let's not leave out eavesdropping via party lines. Yep--I'm familiar. Very.

[slothrop@chaos.social]

@Shards 20/20, though as a European, it wasn’t Blockbuster but some other video store;

and I only used cheques a handful of times during a stay in the U.S. in the mid-90s.

[shards@kind.social]

@Yuriel I’m not sure, but others have pointed it out. I hate not being sure of reality anymore.

[randy@gotosocial.error-404.cc]

@Shards 12/20 does that mean i'm still young?

[groxx@hachyderm.io]

@Shards ha! I've never actually faxed in either direction! only used online services to do it for me!

[vt52@ioc.exchange]

@Shards hell, I did several of these just yesterday

[davidtheeviloverlord@mastodon.social]

@Shards

All 20!

[urlyman@mastodon.social]

@Shards 20/20 for me too. I used to have 20:20 vision, and a head of hair, but am enriched with knowledge I wish I’d known when younger

[civilityfan@sfba.social]

@mangotable @Shards
Hell, I had an arrhythmia computer in one ICU that used a platter that was 24” in diameter, iirc. Booting that bad boy up after a shutdown was a nightmare, took about five minutes and was common to have it crash on startup. Worse was the unit at another facility, it booted up from a paper tape spool, and though it never tore and always managed to boot up without a glitch, it was quite nerve wracking

[praetor@mstdn.social]

@Shards I’ll show myself to the nursing home….

[sweetmonkeyjesus@mas.to]

@Shards Bingo!

[justme@climatejustice.social]

@Shards 19/20 here. I never owned a paper encyclopedia, but I've used one many times. I feel this is an odd one out though. It says "used" instead of "owned" for the other items in the list.

[technozid@friendica.a-zwenkau.de]

@Shards 19, since we did not have Blockbuster here

[jens@social.finkhaeuser.de]

@Shards I managed 19/20, because we didn't have blockbuster. 20/20 for generic video rental place.

[microblogc@neopaquita.es]

@Shards
I missed 20 (i used cheques to draw money, but the only thing I paid with a cheque was using a special, conformed cheque) and 15 (when I finally owned an VCR, videoclubs were disappearing, no blockbusters on my neighbourhood).

[gustavinobevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org]

@Shards

Also, who pays for the time we waste to analyze everything, get rid of ads, etc.?

[jigmedatse@social.openpsychology.net]

@Shards@kind.social Only 19... But I'd say it's a technicality. There were no Blockbusters, it was a local video rental place... We were that cool (or that far out in the boonies, that you had to build your own video rental places, no big chains coming in to save you for the evils of 2 channels, and nothing to watch) (yes I'm being literal about the 2 channels).