"What Old People Did Before Today"
How funny to look back and remember what skills have become obsolete because of new media. (Hat tip.) The antenna thing isn't completely obsolete - well at least until February '09 when everything goes digital... But my office still as the rabbit-ears which a few coworkers gather around to watch their soap operas every afternoon.
Some of my favorites:
- Rewinding VCR tapes.
- Calling collect.
- Formatting floppy disks.
- Loading film into a camera.
- Getting up from a couch to change channels or volume.
- Dialing.
- Remembering phone numbers.
- Using carbon paper.
- Rewinding a tape with a pen.
- Adjusting Tracking on a VCR
- Looking for a job in the classifieds
- Adjusting the antenna on a TV
- Remembering passwords (although not quite obsolete)
- Spelling (also not quite obsolete)
- Tearing apart pages from a computer print out (also removing the spooling paper on the sides!)
- Changing the ribbon on a typewriter
- MS-DOS commands


comments:
February 28, 2008 2:59 PM
Well, according to some young writers (I'm talking about college/high school young) grammar and punctuation seems to be a thing of the past.
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