20/20.

20/20 without a sweat; this is mere Gen X stuff. Make the one that has “placed a call by talking to a human operator” and “listened to serials on a pre-transistor radio” and •then• I’ll have to call my parents.

mhcat@climatejustice.social

@blogdiva yop 20/20, gen x (1969). Not even marginal.

Would probably still enjoy 80% of it.

culturednyc@mastodon.social

@blogdiva How about buying an rj45 splitter so you can have your phone and your supra fax modem plugged in at the same time?

bryanredeagle@beige.party

@inthehands @blogdiva @Shards Gotta throw in a "used a party line" to really throw off the young folks.

claralistensprechen3rd@friendica.myportal.social

@blogdiva To be fair, only some Gen Xers have been inside a Blockbuster. Gen X was the generation when Blockbuster went bust.

culturednyc@mastodon.social

@blogdiva How about skinning your knee after somehow going all the way around on your orange bmx bike?

lemniscate@infosec.exchange

@blogdiva 18 or 19, depending on the parameters of encyclopedia. Millennial.

Admittedly most of my fax usage was in a tech support job in an industry that is probably still using faxes in some places even today, for very irritating reasons. (Not healthcare but I know for certain healthcare is still using faxes in a lot of places. Not even just soft faxes but actual fax rooms and piles of paper. I had a surgery delayed due to that a couple of years ago even.)

blogdiva@mastodon.social

@claralistensprechen3rd nope. all Gen X were already adults or teenagers when that happened. i had my kids and my baby sister was in her early 20s when that happened. am 1966 and she’s 1979, so we’re both GenX. our brother (my puerto rican twin) was too (1967).

brad@1040ste.net

@blogdiva Steady on, I'm not even 50 yet and I comfortably got all 20

noodlemaz@mstdn.games

@bryanredeagle @blogdiva yeah this is clickbait..!

bipolaron@scholar.social

@bryanredeagle @blogdiva people always seem to forget that children have adults around them that have old stuff.

And children were taught to use computers and stuff in the 90s, the rest kind of follows no?

It's not like you had to be 30 to use the internet back then, it was on the middle school computers too.

My money is on this post being a troll =P Most like this are.

tlariv@hachyderm.io

@blogdiva
18/20 – I've never *owned* an encyclopedia although we had three in the house when I was growing up, and I didn't have a computer at home between about 1990 and 2009, so no dialup internet.