If you were born before 1990, do you remember trying to understand what an “app” was? We all have more skills now than we had then, but there are also some OLD skills that we don’t need anymore.
People online are talking about the “now-obsolete” skills that adults of a certain age will “never forget,” even though they’re no longer needed. Like . . .
1. Programming a VCR. And someone who was once the manager at a Blockbuster says they’ll never forget how to repair VHS tapes with a splicer.
2. Setting up two VCRs so that you can make a copy of a movie from the video store. (Remember to remove the plastic tab so no one can record over it!)
3. Rewinding cassettes with a pencil.
4. Loading a 35-millimeter camera, and even developing the film.
5. Driving a stick shift. (This is less common, but not entirely obsolete.)
6. Making a weed pipe out of a Coke can.
7. Using a “Thomas Guide” map book to find a street or location. You’d look up the street in the back to find which page and which grid space it was at.
8. Singing all of the lyrics to the “Library Card“ song from “Arthur”.
9. Making really neat Winamp skins.
10. Running programs in MS-DOS.
11. Making brown paper bag book covers for schoolbooks.
12. Writing a check.
13. Milking a cow. (???)
14. “Pinning a diaper on a baby without sticking them with the pin.” (Now, this person is a REAL old-schooler!)
15. Someone joked, “I have Jenny’s number memorized.”
(Buzzfeed)
