{"id":2950,"date":"2008-02-20T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/meme-time-how-many-obsolete-skills-do-you-have\/"},"modified":"2008-02-20T17:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T17:59:00","slug":"meme-time-how-many-obsolete-skills-do-you-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/meme-time-how-many-obsolete-skills-do-you-have\/","title":{"rendered":"Meme-time! How many obsolete skills do you have?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bold the ones you have, and pass it on!<\/p>\n<p><!--cut=\"Old Fogey Stuff Behind\"--><br \/>\n* Adjusting the dwell angle on the distributor of your car&apos;s engine<br \/>\n<b>* Adjusting the rabbit ears on your TV set<\/b><br \/>\n* Adjusting a television&apos;s horizontal and vertical holds<br \/>\n<b>* Adjusting the tracking on a VCR<\/b><br \/>\n* Aiming C-band satellite dish<br \/>\n* Assembly Language Programming<br \/>\n<b>* Advising someone to use WordPerfect for DOS <\/b><br \/>\n* Balancing the tonearm on a turntable<br \/>\n<b>* Blowing the dust out of a Nintendo cartridge<\/b><br \/>\n<b>* Booting off a floppy disk<\/b><br \/>\n<b>* Bust apart a long computer printout<\/b><br \/>\n* Changing vacuum tubes<br \/>\n* Changing the ball or ribbon on your Selectric Typewriter<br \/>\n* Changing the C120 Film Cartridge in your Instamatic camera<br \/>\n* Changing the gas mixture on your cars carburetor<br \/>\n<b>* Changing tracks on an eight-track tape<\/b><br \/>\n* Chipping flint or obsidian tools<br \/>\n* Churn butter<br \/>\n<b>* Cleaning head of a VCR<\/b><br \/>\n* Crew a muzzle loading cannon<br \/>\n* Cranking a telephone<br \/>\n* Darning a sock<br \/>\n* Debugging hexadecimal dumps<br \/>\n<b>* Defacing a Website<\/b><br \/>\n<b>* Defrosting the Icebox<\/b><br \/>\n<b>* Degaussing a CRT monitor<\/b><br \/>\n<b>* Dialing a rotary phone <\/b><br \/>\n<b>* Extracting square roots <\/b><br \/>\n<b>* Formatting a floppy<\/b><br \/>\n* FORTRAN programming &#8211; though the logic is still good<br \/>\n<b>* Getting off the couch to change channels on your TV set<\/b><br \/>\n<b>* Getting TSRs and CD device drivers to load into DOS <\/b><br \/>\n* Harness a team of oxen<br \/>\n* Hand crank a car to start it<br \/>\n<b>* Having Cash<\/b><br \/>\n<b>* Hexadecimal arithmetic in your head<\/b><br \/>\n* Hunting a woolly mammoth<br \/>\n* Interpolating logarithms<br \/>\n* Lighting a carbide miner&apos;s lamp<br \/>\n<b>* Lining up paper on a dot matrix or line printer<\/b><br \/>\n<b>* Loading film into a 35 mm camera<\/b><br \/>\n<b>* data from a cassette tape<\/b><br \/>\n* Long division<br \/>\n<b>* Look for a job in the classifieds<\/b><br \/>\n<b>* Looking up a business on the yellow pages<\/b><br \/>\n<b>* Local Grocery Store<\/b><br \/>\n<b>* Low Format a Harddrive <\/b><br \/>\n* Making a deer fat poultice<br \/>\n<b>* 4&#8243; floppy double-sided<\/b><br \/>\n* Making change in shillings and pence<br \/>\n<b>* Memory Management<\/b><br \/>\n* Mounting a Computer Tape by hand<br \/>\n* Morse-coding messages<br \/>\n<b>* Mailing in the order form of a catalog <\/b><br \/>\n* Navigate by the stars<br \/>\n* Navigating using a compass<br \/>\n* Navigate using a sextant<br \/>\n<b>* Open and Administrate a Blog <\/b><br \/>\n<b>* Paying for something with a check<\/b><br \/>\n<b>* Putting a needle on a vinyl record<\/b><br \/>\n<b>* Parking a hardisk <\/b><br \/>\n* Ride a penny-farthing bicycle<br \/>\n* Replacing Shoe Sole and Heels<br \/>\n<b>* Resolving IRQ conflicts on a mother board<\/b><br \/>\n<b>* Reading a paper map<\/b><br \/>\n<b>* Remembering telephone numbers<\/b><br \/>\n* Repairing small appliances<br \/>\n<b>* Rewind VCR tapes<\/b><br \/>\n<b>* Respooling a chewed-up VCR tape or audio cassette<\/b><br \/>\n* Running a mimeograph machine<br \/>\n<b>* Ripping the little holes off the sides of the computer paper <\/b><br \/>\n<b>* Sending a letter<\/b><br \/>\n<b>* Setting the timer on a VCR<\/b><br \/>\n* Setting type for printing<br \/>\n* Shave with a straight razor<br \/>\n* Shorthand<br \/>\n* Slaughtering Small Mammals and Birds<br \/>\n<b>* Stacking a quarter on an arcade game to indicate you have next <\/b><br \/>\n<b>* Tape to Tape Video Editing<\/b><br \/>\n* Testing radio and TV tubes<br \/>\n<b>* Threading a needle<\/b><br \/>\n* Trim the wick on an oil lamp<br \/>\n* Typesetting<br \/>\n* Typing and sending a telex<br \/>\n<b>* Using an adding machine<\/b><br \/>\n<b>* Using a Typewriter<\/b><br \/>\n<b>* Using a card catalog<\/b><br \/>\n<b>* Using a 16 mm film projector<\/b><br \/>\n<b>* Using a fountain pen<\/b><br \/>\n* Using a slide rule<br \/>\n<b>* Using a typewriter<\/b><br \/>\n<b>* Using a beeper or pager<\/b><br \/>\n* Using an abacus<br \/>\n<b>* Using carbon paper to make copies<\/b><br \/>\n<b>* Using correction fluid<\/b><br \/>\n<b>* Using a fax machine<\/b><br \/>\n* Using a flash bulb<br \/>\n* Using a flash cube<br \/>\n<b>* Using a microfiche<\/b><br \/>\n<b>* Using a pay telephone<\/b><br \/>\n* Using a pay toilet<br \/>\n* Using a Timing Light<br \/>\n* Using a Log Table<br \/>\n<b>* Watching a slide show with a slide projector<\/b><br \/>\n<b>* Winding a watch or clock<\/b><br \/>\n<b>* Winding up loose cassette tape with a pencil eraser before putting the cassette in the deck<\/b><br \/>\n* Writing using a dip pen <!--\/cut--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bold the ones you have, and pass it on! * Adjusting the dwell angle on the distributor of your car&apos;s engine * Adjusting the rabbit ears on your TV set * Adjusting a television&apos;s horizontal and vertical holds * Adjusting the tracking on a VCR * Aiming C-band satellite dish * Assembly Language Programming *&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/meme-time-how-many-obsolete-skills-do-you-have\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Meme-time! 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