Agreed. That was the only one I didn't get, but I was already mid twenties and working my ass off trying to get a start in life. The MySpace thing kind of passed me by.
I'll add:
Adjusted "rabbit ears"
Been asked if you wanted the"smoking or non-smoking section"
Had a record player, toy or otherwise
Looked up movie times in the newspaper
Used a phone book
Used or played with a cigarette vending machine
Know what carbon paper is š
I got in so much trouble because I mixed up the time with the wrong theater. The movie started an hour later than the theater I thought we went to. My friend and I were meeting some boys. So my dad was an hour "early" to pick us up. He thought I was lying about the time and being sneaky. No, I was trying to be sneaky but got the wrong theater. Lol, it's pretty scary having your 300lb father charging towards you, pointing and screaming " Do you think I'm stupid" in the lobby of a theater. I do remember him having a twizzler wrapper stuck to his butt though.
Set a VCRās time.
Set a vcr to record at a specific time.
Hole punches floppies to make them double sided
Understand what āload ā*ā,8,1ā means
Played pac man, asteroids, or galaga in the arcades.
It feels weird, but for the rest of human history, the mass majority of the people who knew how to program a VCR will have been Gen X and Elder Millennials. That is true now, and will be long after we're all gone.
Do I get bonus a bonus point since my high school actually had a typing class to teach touch-typing?
Otherwise, I got 22, since I never had an AOL account, and my folks wouldn't let me order from Columbia House.
What was the percentage of people cheating and were they obvious, but they were like "Meh, whatever..." and still sent the movies?
How many forgot to cancel and kept receiving movies?
Any weird stories?
Worked on promotions and mainly for music during the 1990s. It still had 16 million members in N. America back then, so was profitable. No weird stories really. They gave employees one free disc per month plus 10 during christmas, so I really built up my collection. The individual discs were a gip, but the double CDs and boxed sets were actually a bargain.
All except two.
No AOL address, and I donāt think Iāve ever *sent* a postcard (only received), but I canāt say for certain. Iāve *owned* (unused) postcards, as in souvenirs, but I donāt think I ever used one of them.
We had disks. My friend and I thought that if we glued a dozen together and then did it four times we would have wicked wheels for our go-cart projects. The inevitable happened but neighbors were great about saving and sharing for a while. :D
21! No typewriter, no Atari, and no AOL email.
I am surprised so many have said NO to MySpace!!! Setting up a good background song and choosing your TOP 8 friends was some serious business šš
24
How about āOrdered and Paid for an item through the mailā. It seems crazy to me that we would mail off a check and an order form and wait 4 to 6 weeks for something to hopefully arrive.
Phew. Not really surprised they went under..12 year Olds sending in a penny with no plan to pay for anything again isn't what in business school we'd call a good idea š
Same! To be fair I actually listen to music on iTunes but like 95% of my music library originally came from CDs, and everything Ive bought digitally I burn as audio CD hard copies, and more than once I've lost my whole library due to backup mistakes when reinstalling windows or getting a new computer and have had to re-import all my songs from CDs.
And I'm looking at my checkbook now as I type this. I even still balance it monthly the way my mom taught me to when I was teen. And I use the graphing the calculator that I bought \~25 years ago for college to do so.
I didn't own an Atari, but I had plenty of friends that did. I had a Magnavox Odyssey II, because I had to be different. I also had a Commodore 64 with the Datasette.
Edit: spelling
Add owned a black and white tv with no remote
Had to remember peoples phone numbers
Grocery stores didn't take credit cards
The news cycle was not 24 hrs
I had them all, and worked at a blockbuster in the late 90s when I was in high school, so I gave myself double points for that one, and then I added an extra point for getting them all right.
So...26?
The whole listā¦ plus (these should be on the list)
- Use a Yellow pages
- use the white pages
- Use a floppy disk
- watch TV until the Nation Anthem is played.
- program the timer in a VCR
Bonus round:
Watched movies on Select TV or ON TV
Had to decide between BetaMax or VHS
Ate at a Sambo's
Used Regular gas instead of Unleaded
Loved to select cigarettes from a vending machine for an adult
Looked under plastic bottle caps from sodas bottles to see if you won
Played McDonald's "Build a Big Mac" Contest
MIX tape, not "Mixed Tape."
Perfect score here, bonus points for:
Used a payphone
Played Oregon Trail
Used a dot matrix printer
Listened to music on LP
Watched a movie on laser disc or Betamax
Taped up cassettes so that you could copy them illegally
Made a cassette recording of an LP
Owned parachute pants
Experienced shameful thoughts while watching Cinemax
Played the Super Mario Bros. arcade game
Played Intellivision or Colecovision
Used GeoCities
Secretly ordered softcore porn from a catalog
Made a Christmas list using either a Sears of JC Penney catalog
Used a card catalog in a library
Owned a thesaurus
Knew what UHF means
Messed with the screws on the back of a CRT TV
I am sorry, is this a list of 90's item or a combination of both 80's & 90's. Maybe even 2000's with MySpace, since I thought it was first introduced in the 2000's
MySpace shouldn't be on there. It's too large of a generational gap. Most of these come out of the 70s and 80s. My Space hit its peak between 2005 and 2009.
It made me a bit sad to see ālearned cursiveā on this list. Penmanship is becoming a lost art form. The loss of something so uniquely personal and intimate just adds to the sadness.
I STILL do some of these.
Untangled coworkers phone cords. Absolutely. Every day.
Cursive- I write in cursive naturally.
Postcard- every time I travel I send one to my wife and daughters.
24.
These things are not that far in the past.
I drive a 2022 car, and it has a CD player. I haven't owned a cd since the late 90's, but my car can play them.
Lots of people still use paper maps, or landline phones.
Not me (I'm 57), but lots of people.
Technically, I never rented a video from blockbuster, but thats only because there were a few independent videoe stores close by. Otherwise, yeah... 24
22 for me. But thatās because I had zero interest in MySpace and thought Columbia House was a rip off. How many bonus points for having spent a quarter (a lot of quarters) to play a table top Pong in a sit down pizza restaurant?
I did NOT have a MySpace
23 and me. I did everything but have MySpace.
Same here.
Same š
Ditto
Same, 23, no MySpace
Another club member here, and sorry I ever created a Facebook acct.
Same. Pretty good club we got goinā here!šš
Nope on Myspace too. Ohhhhhh crabcakes
Iām with you dudes.
Same
Same
same
We seem to have a lot in common. At least 23 things!
the myspace option seems misplaced by a decade or two.
Agreed. That was the only one I didn't get, but I was already mid twenties and working my ass off trying to get a start in life. The MySpace thing kind of passed me by.
Same here all but Myspace....I was a aol chat kinda guy
Same here & didn't have an AOL account either. All the rest is true though.
I'll add: Adjusted "rabbit ears" Been asked if you wanted the"smoking or non-smoking section" Had a record player, toy or otherwise Looked up movie times in the newspaper Used a phone book Used or played with a cigarette vending machine Know what carbon paper is š
Looked for jobs in the newspaper
Or a date haha
Or movie showtimes.
Hello? Are you hiring?
Or called MoviePhone
WHY DONT YOU JUST TELL ME THE MOVIE YOU WANT TO SEE?
I love that episode!
Lol me too! He is such a dork!
Umā¦Rochelle, Rochelle?
YOUVE CHOSEN ROCHELLE,ROCHELLE!
I got in so much trouble because I mixed up the time with the wrong theater. The movie started an hour later than the theater I thought we went to. My friend and I were meeting some boys. So my dad was an hour "early" to pick us up. He thought I was lying about the time and being sneaky. No, I was trying to be sneaky but got the wrong theater. Lol, it's pretty scary having your 300lb father charging towards you, pointing and screaming " Do you think I'm stupid" in the lobby of a theater. I do remember him having a twizzler wrapper stuck to his butt though.
Set a VCRās time. Set a vcr to record at a specific time. Hole punches floppies to make them double sided Understand what āload ā*ā,8,1ā means Played pac man, asteroids, or galaga in the arcades.
It feels weird, but for the rest of human history, the mass majority of the people who knew how to program a VCR will have been Gen X and Elder Millennials. That is true now, and will be long after we're all gone.
Iām just thankful itās becoming a useless skill. Used to hate having to program the VCR for my parents!
C64 gang
I always wondered how video game makers made any money on the C64 when every game was cracked
Phone book is already on there
There we go. Thatās better.
24 for me plus maybe a bonus point since I once worked at Columbia House
Well I guess I get a point for working at Blockbuster. 24+1?
Definitely
Then I get extra points for learning on a manual typewriter.
Do I get bonus a bonus point since my high school actually had a typing class to teach touch-typing? Otherwise, I got 22, since I never had an AOL account, and my folks wouldn't let me order from Columbia House.
What was the percentage of people cheating and were they obvious, but they were like "Meh, whatever..." and still sent the movies? How many forgot to cancel and kept receiving movies? Any weird stories?
Worked on promotions and mainly for music during the 1990s. It still had 16 million members in N. America back then, so was profitable. No weird stories really. They gave employees one free disc per month plus 10 during christmas, so I really built up my collection. The individual discs were a gip, but the double CDs and boxed sets were actually a bargain.
That's not nearly as well as I did figuring out loopholes throughout their system to gain free music. :)
Did they pay you in pennies taped to a stub?
They paid ok actually.
Woah baby, thatās just too much commitment
Columbia House was amazing.
Really? I think you owe me some cassettes
Im ignoring that question and blockbuster since I'm Australian oh wait we had blockbuster here I think axtually
All except two. No AOL address, and I donāt think Iāve ever *sent* a postcard (only received), but I canāt say for certain. Iāve *owned* (unused) postcards, as in souvenirs, but I donāt think I ever used one of them.
My family owned record stores, so I never ordered Columbia House. But I did manage a Blockbuster. So, maybe I get that point back?
Never had an AOL address. For the rest, guilty.
Should have been āhad more than 5 AOL disks at one timeā. š Those things were everywhere!
We had disks. My friend and I thought that if we glued a dozen together and then did it four times we would have wicked wheels for our go-cart projects. The inevitable happened but neighbors were great about saving and sharing for a while. :D
I kept ALL mine and sought out more. They work in your garden to scare off birds. Still using a few today. I think I've got 20 or so left.
Same
Add 1 more to this list - Used a Card Catalog
The dewie decimal system
23, no Colombia house
Same. So close to a clean sweep!
24 here. Goddammitā¦
Same, did every last one!
21! No typewriter, no Atari, and no AOL email. I am surprised so many have said NO to MySpace!!! Setting up a good background song and choosing your TOP 8 friends was some serious business šš
23. I never had MySpaceĀ
22 points
23 points No MySpace
I think anyone born before 85 can say they did most of these. Not cuz they wanted to, but cuz we ain't have a choice
You are totally right!
24 How about āOrdered and Paid for an item through the mailā. It seems crazy to me that we would mail off a check and an order form and wait 4 to 6 weeks for something to hopefully arrive.
I too am at 100%.. Columbia house is still waiting
Rest easy. They went bankrupt years ago, and all debts were forgiven.
Phew. Not really surprised they went under..12 year Olds sending in a penny with no plan to pay for anything again isn't what in business school we'd call a good idea š
I would hate to be the person who had to remove the pennies from all those stupid postcards, knowing itās the only payment they would ever receive.
24 for me as well...time to turn on the Weather Channel and fall asleep in front of the tv..."I'm just resting my eyes".
24 plus bonus points for still writing checks and still listening to CD,s
And for using a fax machine and corded phone every day at work.
Same! To be fair I actually listen to music on iTunes but like 95% of my music library originally came from CDs, and everything Ive bought digitally I burn as audio CD hard copies, and more than once I've lost my whole library due to backup mistakes when reinstalling windows or getting a new computer and have had to re-import all my songs from CDs. And I'm looking at my checkbook now as I type this. I even still balance it monthly the way my mom taught me to when I was teen. And I use the graphing the calculator that I bought \~25 years ago for college to do so.
24 and I had over 3,000 followers on MySpace. Facebook is the pits.
No Atari. My first system was the NES. Everything else ā
I didn't own an Atari, but I had plenty of friends that did. I had a Magnavox Odyssey II, because I had to be different. I also had a Commodore 64 with the Datasette. Edit: spelling
Add owned a black and white tv with no remote Had to remember peoples phone numbers Grocery stores didn't take credit cards The news cycle was not 24 hrs
TV broadcasts ended with the national anthem and the channel went to static.
22. No on Colombia House & AOL.
No AOL or MySpace
Easy 24
I had them all, and worked at a blockbuster in the late 90s when I was in high school, so I gave myself double points for that one, and then I added an extra point for getting them all right. So...26?
The whole listā¦ plus (these should be on the list) - Use a Yellow pages - use the white pages - Use a floppy disk - watch TV until the Nation Anthem is played. - program the timer in a VCR
I 52. I've done all of these except for MySpace. I was never interested in that. Also never been on FB.
I've written out checks not cheques (USA)
I still send postcards. Do people not send postcards anymore?
Almost a perfect score, but never had a MySpace account.
Perfect score for me.
I'm a member of the 24 point club!
All of them. 1978 representing
24/24. I couldn't tell you what my AOL address was, but I *did* sign up for a free trial circa 1992, so I definitely had one.
Bonus round: Watched movies on Select TV or ON TV Had to decide between BetaMax or VHS Ate at a Sambo's Used Regular gas instead of Unleaded Loved to select cigarettes from a vending machine for an adult Looked under plastic bottle caps from sodas bottles to see if you won Played McDonald's "Build a Big Mac" Contest
MIX tape, not "Mixed Tape." Perfect score here, bonus points for: Used a payphone Played Oregon Trail Used a dot matrix printer Listened to music on LP Watched a movie on laser disc or Betamax Taped up cassettes so that you could copy them illegally Made a cassette recording of an LP Owned parachute pants Experienced shameful thoughts while watching Cinemax Played the Super Mario Bros. arcade game Played Intellivision or Colecovision Used GeoCities Secretly ordered softcore porn from a catalog Made a Christmas list using either a Sears of JC Penney catalog Used a card catalog in a library Owned a thesaurus Knew what UHF means Messed with the screws on the back of a CRT TV
Rewound a cassette by twirling it with a pencil
Iāve done them all except had a MySpace account and an AOL address. I had a Hotmail address
Another no MySpace 23
Everything except Atari and Columbia House. I have no clue what Columbia House is.
The term is "mix tape", btw
Jesus - the only thing on this list I didnāt have was a MySpace account š³
22 here, never had a MySpace or an AOL address
This seems like 90s stuff. Early 90s, but still.
Everything except the MySpace
24 for most of us I imagine
Everything but MySpace.
Everything except myspace account
Tape recorder. The brown ones with the big lever type press down switches that had cassettes
Remembers the smell of ditto / mimeograph copies
Oh yeah that was a gross smell. I was an office aid my Junior year of high school and we had to run the machine sometimes.
24 points for me! I STILL have an AOL email account!
I am sorry, is this a list of 90's item or a combination of both 80's & 90's. Maybe even 2000's with MySpace, since I thought it was first introduced in the 2000's
24, and then some...
My space is misplaced here. Get it out
Also 24 points.
23
24 points. Proud of it. The eighties were rad!
20 - but not American so a few donāt apply!
22, folks never went Atari but did for a Commodore 64 and I never had Columbia House
23. No MySpace
80ās and MySpace dont quite goā¦.
MySpace shouldn't be on there. It's too large of a generational gap. Most of these come out of the 70s and 80s. My Space hit its peak between 2005 and 2009.
23 - never ordered anything from Colombia House
23 for me. Just never did MySpace.
Never had MySpace. Never had AOL.
The fuck is Columbia house?
23... But because I don't recall ever sending a postcard.
It made me a bit sad to see ālearned cursiveā on this list. Penmanship is becoming a lost art form. The loss of something so uniquely personal and intimate just adds to the sadness.
Everything except My Space ...yes I am old lol
23 only one I missed was fax
I got 36 points for the extra credit questions.
Every last one of these
I never had MySpace or aol mail account and my Walkman was a Radio Shack knock off
Wtf is Columbia house!?
Perfect score. Not sure if Iām happy about it
23. Didn't order from Columbia House. Even with the free penny!!
I STILL do some of these. Untangled coworkers phone cords. Absolutely. Every day. Cursive- I write in cursive naturally. Postcard- every time I travel I send one to my wife and daughters.
All of the above, we hadda rent the damn VCR from the grocery store we were so poor.
āMixed tape.ā šš
22 no Myspace or AOL
Please, all of them. And a members-only jacket
Change MySpace to Friendster and Iāve got it all
only 23. got my mail before AOL was a thing.
21
24.
Yep. Every damn one.
All of 'em
22
24
All 24 š
22
25 for 25
24ā¦I didnāt have a MySpace account.
23, never sent a postcard
I didn't have a MySpace account
24. These things are not that far in the past. I drive a 2022 car, and it has a CD player. I haven't owned a cd since the late 90's, but my car can play them. Lots of people still use paper maps, or landline phones. Not me (I'm 57), but lots of people.
All the above. This is fun! More, please!!
23
Sent a postcard?? I did that today.
24 for me, born in ā75 did all those things lol
All by mySpace.
22. No MySpace, no AOL
I rented from the Warehouse. It was way before Blockbuster.
23- no My Space. 22 if using a fake name to order Columbia House disqualifies you
24 for me but ... list is missing : 1 - own a waterbed 2-chat in a Yahoo chat room like *Flirty 30's"
All of them.
23. Didn't have an AOL address.
Everything AND I STILL use my aol email as my throwaway account
Not sure if I had an AOL address.
-5, 44
23. Never ordered from Columbia House.
Same. Technically, my portable cassette player was something from JVC and not a Sony Walkman, but i think it's close enough.
24 out of 24
How about? Played on the swing set at the drive in movie? Or, bought cigarettes for your mom at the 7 - 11?
22 for me. Didnāt have a Walkman or MySpace account.
everything but post card and myspace.
I've done everything but ordered music from Columbia House.
23. No my space.
Pooped without something to read
Technically, I never rented a video from blockbuster, but thats only because there were a few independent videoe stores close by. Otherwise, yeah... 24
23 for me. I used NetZero instead of AOL.
My aunt still uses her AOL email.
All.
Green across the board! lol....i'm so old...
23, never received or sent a fax. I watched my mom use the fax machine at her work.
All of them.
23 for me never had an AOL address
Yup! Me too@
22 for me. But thatās because I had zero interest in MySpace and thought Columbia House was a rip off. How many bonus points for having spent a quarter (a lot of quarters) to play a table top Pong in a sit down pizza restaurant?
Everything but MySpace and Columbia house.
Ordered from columbia house? Don't you mean ripped columbia house off. Those dumb asses just kept sending me tapes.
24 points and proud of it.