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Meme-time! How many obsolete skills do you have?

Posted on February 20, 2008 By admin

Bold the ones you have, and pass it on!


* Adjusting the dwell angle on the distributor of your car's engine
* Adjusting the rabbit ears on your TV set
* Adjusting a television's horizontal and vertical holds
* Adjusting the tracking on a VCR
* Aiming C-band satellite dish
* Assembly Language Programming
* Advising someone to use WordPerfect for DOS
* Balancing the tonearm on a turntable
* Blowing the dust out of a Nintendo cartridge
* Booting off a floppy disk
* Bust apart a long computer printout
* Changing vacuum tubes
* Changing the ball or ribbon on your Selectric Typewriter
* Changing the C120 Film Cartridge in your Instamatic camera
* Changing the gas mixture on your cars carburetor
* Changing tracks on an eight-track tape
* Chipping flint or obsidian tools
* Churn butter
* Cleaning head of a VCR
* Crew a muzzle loading cannon
* Cranking a telephone
* Darning a sock
* Debugging hexadecimal dumps
* Defacing a Website
* Defrosting the Icebox
* Degaussing a CRT monitor
* Dialing a rotary phone
* Extracting square roots
* Formatting a floppy
* FORTRAN programming – though the logic is still good
* Getting off the couch to change channels on your TV set
* Getting TSRs and CD device drivers to load into DOS
* Harness a team of oxen
* Hand crank a car to start it
* Having Cash
* Hexadecimal arithmetic in your head
* Hunting a woolly mammoth
* Interpolating logarithms
* Lighting a carbide miner's lamp
* Lining up paper on a dot matrix or line printer
* Loading film into a 35 mm camera
* data from a cassette tape
* Long division
* Look for a job in the classifieds
* Looking up a business on the yellow pages
* Local Grocery Store
* Low Format a Harddrive
* Making a deer fat poultice
* 4″ floppy double-sided
* Making change in shillings and pence
* Memory Management
* Mounting a Computer Tape by hand
* Morse-coding messages
* Mailing in the order form of a catalog
* Navigate by the stars
* Navigating using a compass
* Navigate using a sextant
* Open and Administrate a Blog
* Paying for something with a check
* Putting a needle on a vinyl record
* Parking a hardisk
* Ride a penny-farthing bicycle
* Replacing Shoe Sole and Heels
* Resolving IRQ conflicts on a mother board
* Reading a paper map
* Remembering telephone numbers
* Repairing small appliances
* Rewind VCR tapes
* Respooling a chewed-up VCR tape or audio cassette
* Running a mimeograph machine
* Ripping the little holes off the sides of the computer paper
* Sending a letter
* Setting the timer on a VCR
* Setting type for printing
* Shave with a straight razor
* Shorthand
* Slaughtering Small Mammals and Birds
* Stacking a quarter on an arcade game to indicate you have next
* Tape to Tape Video Editing
* Testing radio and TV tubes
* Threading a needle
* Trim the wick on an oil lamp
* Typesetting
* Typing and sending a telex
* Using an adding machine
* Using a Typewriter
* Using a card catalog
* Using a 16 mm film projector
* Using a fountain pen
* Using a slide rule
* Using a typewriter
* Using a beeper or pager
* Using an abacus
* Using carbon paper to make copies
* Using correction fluid
* Using a fax machine
* Using a flash bulb
* Using a flash cube
* Using a microfiche
* Using a pay telephone
* Using a pay toilet
* Using a Timing Light
* Using a Log Table
* Watching a slide show with a slide projector
* Winding a watch or clock
* Winding up loose cassette tape with a pencil eraser before putting the cassette in the deck
* Writing using a dip pen

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