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How many of these pre-digital analog things have you done IRL?
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Date: February 25th, 2026 9:27 PM Author: beady-eyed nofapping chapel 1. Used a rotary phone 2. Used a floppy disc 3. Used a typewriter 4. Taken photos with a film camera 5. Listened to music on a CD 6. Listened to a cassette tape 7. Listened to a vinyl record 8. Listened to music on a Walkman 9. Listened to music on a boombox outside 10. Watched a video from a VHS tape 11. Sent or received a fax 12. Recorded music from radio to cassette 13. Rented a video from Blockbuster 14. Accessed the internet by dial-up 15. Used a phone book 16. Sent a postcard 17. Used a paper map to get somewhere 18. Owned a dictionary 19. Owned an encyclopedia 20. Paid with a paper check
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Date: February 25th, 2026 9:43 PM Author: garnet unholy newt Every last one. Many times each. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49695637) |
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Date: February 25th, 2026 11:16 PM Author: deranged exciting philosopher-king Cr. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49695777) |
Date: February 25th, 2026 9:34 PM Author: flesh cerebral tattoo all of them except for typewriter. only rotary phones at grandparents houses. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49695619) |
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Date: February 25th, 2026 9:36 PM Author: Cobalt space all of these.
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Date: February 25th, 2026 9:36 PM Author: talented toaster fanboi uve got to be prole to have not used a paper check at some point in the last, say, 3 years.
some of these are prestigious to do now, like vinyl records, film camera and sending postcards |
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Date: February 25th, 2026 9:38 PM Author: Godawful Titillating National Headpube all of them technically my parents owned the encyclopedia my grandparents had a rotary phone well into the 90s |
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Date: February 25th, 2026 11:46 PM Author: Bateful Abnormal Ladyboy Internal Respiration 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49695841) |
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Date: February 25th, 2026 9:41 PM Author: mischievous sweet tailpipe hell all of em this is like the ultimate gen-x/millennial circle jerk list
gotta go further back in time |
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Date: February 25th, 2026 9:43 PM Author: beady-eyed nofapping chapel I saw this list on twitter and some comments were like "LOL nobody has done more than 10 of these". I assume it's clickbait. But yeah probably anybody under 40 has done few of these. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49695638) |
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Date: February 25th, 2026 9:48 PM Author: mischievous sweet tailpipe hell some things i haven't used: slide rule, non-powered lawn mower, uhhh having trouble coming up with stuff. kind of hard to think of "things you have never used" lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49695643) |
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Date: February 25th, 2026 9:58 PM Author: Provocative brilliant pit old irish cottage Marconi machine
Cap and ball gun/flintlock musket |
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Date: February 25th, 2026 10:00 PM Author: beady-eyed nofapping chapel had to look this up lol have never sent or received a telegram
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Date: February 25th, 2026 10:00 PM Author: Provocative brilliant pit old irish cottage 180 ya no one has lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49695665) |
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Date: February 25th, 2026 10:01 PM Author: beady-eyed nofapping chapel they used to all the time, I'm going to ask my mother I bet she says "yeah sure back in the day" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49695668) |
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Date: February 25th, 2026 10:07 PM Author: Provocative brilliant pit old irish cottage nah I think it was even before your mom's time. I think it was gone by WWII. Looks like Western Union still let you do it until 2006 but this seemed really rare. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49695681) |
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Date: February 25th, 2026 10:42 PM Author: Cobalt space cleaning out my grandparents house, they had a few saved up to the mid-1960s
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Date: February 25th, 2026 10:45 PM Author: Provocative brilliant pit old irish cottage wild.
wonder if anyone has ever used a radio that uses tube resistors instead of the modern transistor which became widespread I think in the 60s. You can still buy em on craigslist anywhere but they're usually broken and need some kind of turbo autist to fix. Summon OldHLSDude.
Also anyone who has ever recorded anything to 2" magnetic tape Lionel Richie style. Not sure why I just remember Richie talking about tape in an interview once lol. Analog recording console would be interesting too.
Anyone been on a nuclear submarine? |
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Date: February 25th, 2026 10:50 PM Author: Cobalt space still have two that i was given by my grandfather. both work great. one is some German unit that does not cover the full modern North American FM band which is a bit annoying.
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Date: February 25th, 2026 10:52 PM Author: Provocative brilliant pit old irish cottage link to the models (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49695734) |
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Date: February 25th, 2026 11:00 PM Author: Cobalt space one looks very much like this:
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/nordmende_boheme_c.html
not sure on the other one
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Date: February 25th, 2026 11:11 PM Author: Provocative brilliant pit old irish cottage That's very cool (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49695771) |
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Date: February 25th, 2026 9:59 PM Author: beady-eyed nofapping chapel have used a non powered lawn mower have used a dictation recording device many, many times have never used a slide rule have never listened to music with one of those cartridges they had before cassettes |
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Date: February 25th, 2026 10:00 PM Author: Provocative brilliant pit old irish cottage Have you used one of those weird German folding yardstick things? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49695664) |
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Date: February 25th, 2026 10:02 PM Author: beady-eyed nofapping chapel have not, have never seen one of those devices in the wild (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49695669) |
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Date: February 25th, 2026 10:04 PM Author: Provocative brilliant pit old irish cottage wtf how? the Zollstock is considered essential for every German household. Most people have 10 of em. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49695675) |
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Date: February 25th, 2026 10:07 PM Author: mischievous sweet tailpipe hell why don't they just use tape measures (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49695680) |
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Date: February 25th, 2026 10:09 PM Author: Provocative brilliant pit old irish cottage people have been asking that for a long time. there is some inherent cultural attachment to the Zollstock. It probably has to do with the size of things measured and mobility. I guess Germans like to walk around in circles with giant foldable yardsticks. Maybe it has to do with cars? Idk. Measuring tape does kind of suck and can be hard to deal with especially with just one person. Maybe they're Right? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49695682) |
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Date: February 25th, 2026 10:11 PM Author: mischievous sweet tailpipe hell oh so it's just german autism and self-superiority
i mean cr and based to use your Own Thing simply because its Your Own Thing, even when there are better alternatives. i respect and admire that |
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Date: February 25th, 2026 10:14 PM Author: Provocative brilliant pit old irish cottage when the NHL contracted with the Olympics to have NHL players in the Olympics, the NHL had all the leverage and forced them to build an NHL size rink which is smaller than the Olympic regulation rink, and supposedly causes more scoring and less time spent digging the puck out of the corners. The Italian "Engineers" who built the rink insisted on using the metric system, rounded down, and made a rink that was 13 feet too short and 6 feet too narrow. Because fuck you. Metric system. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49695687) |
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Date: February 25th, 2026 10:26 PM Author: beady-eyed nofapping chapel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49695697) |
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Date: February 25th, 2026 10:01 PM Author: Provocative brilliant pit old irish cottage I pressed play once on my dictation machine and it was me singing "How to Love" by Lil Wayne. 100% not flame. Sounded pretty good imo. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49695667) |
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Date: February 25th, 2026 10:03 PM Author: beady-eyed nofapping chapel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49695670) |
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Date: February 25th, 2026 10:20 PM Author: talented toaster fanboi prole tell: using a lawn mower of any sort (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49695693) |
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Date: February 25th, 2026 9:59 PM Author: Provocative brilliant pit old irish cottage All except I've never used a Walkman. Must have been before my time. I had a CD player that had some kind of anti skip function while you were running. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49695661) |
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Date: February 25th, 2026 10:01 PM Author: nubile french chef All of them. Different world. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49695666) |
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Date: February 25th, 2026 10:03 PM Author: Trip Theater 20 for 20 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49695671) |
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Date: February 25th, 2026 10:10 PM Author: Tan stirring base All of them many, many times. And I got carded at the gas station tonight buying nicotine. 180! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49695683) |
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Date: February 25th, 2026 10:21 PM Author: talented toaster fanboi why are there so many degenerate druggies on xo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49695694) |
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Date: February 25th, 2026 10:43 PM Author: concupiscible wagecucks garrison 19 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49695719) |
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Date: February 25th, 2026 11:03 PM Author: ungodly bright friendly grandma really tough guy all of them the real test is 'how many are you still doing in 2026?' |
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Date: February 25th, 2026 11:05 PM Author: Cobalt space checks, dictionary, encyclopedia, vinyl records.
sent a postcard a couple years ago to my mother.
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Date: February 25th, 2026 11:16 PM Author: deranged exciting philosopher-king 21. Owned a manual transmission automobile
22. Called 311 for information
23. Used a coin-operated pay phone
24. Regularly arranged events (something with family, friends, a date, etc.) and had to just show up without checking in repeatedly that it was still on
25. Driven to someone’s house and ringing the doorbell without being expected
26. Used a money order (e.g., Western Union)
27. Purchased something on layaway
28. Order from a catalogue
29. Read a hard copy of a hobby magazine
30. Attend a civic meeting
31. Sat quietly in public with no external stimuli, nothing but your own thoughts, while waiting
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Date: February 26th, 2026 12:00 AM Author: Cobalt space all except 21 & 27
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Date: February 26th, 2026 1:27 AM Author: beady-eyed nofapping chapel all (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49695994) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 6:18 AM Author: very tactful milk mad-dog skullcap it’s 411, not 311. There was the saying “what’s the 411?” (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49696094) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 9:21 AM Author: deranged exciting philosopher-king Cr. I'm wrong. I swear I remember regularly calling 311 though. It might have been to report hours for my underage work permit to some municipal/state department?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N11_code |
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Date: February 25th, 2026 11:20 PM Author: pearly misanthropic laser beams All, except it's possible I didn't do 12 and 16. I just don't remember. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49695781) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 12:08 AM Author: flesh cerebral tattoo i dont believe all you people claiming to have used typewriters unless you mean early word processors (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49695892) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 1:28 AM Author: beady-eyed nofapping chapel my uncle had a typewriter and he let me write some things on it for fun when I was a kid now that I think about it so did my grandmother |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 2:34 AM Author: pearly misanthropic laser beams we had a typewriter that i played around with for fun as a kid (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49696051) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 9:18 AM Author: deranged exciting philosopher-king My grandma had a nice IBM selectrix that she'd used to prepare our family's genealogy records. I used it to type all of my papers until the 10th grade when the family finally got a PC. I'm in the 40-45 age bracket (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49696212) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 9:20 AM Author: talented toaster fanboi My mom had one. I remember her using it for forms they would otherwise be hand written. You couldn’t do those in an early computer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49696215) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 9:40 AM Author: Contagious abusive digit ratio death wish They're everywhere, if you went to a Liberal Arts College.
Oh, you didn't go to a Liberal Arts College? |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 12:22 AM Author: Contagious abusive digit ratio death wish I've done all 20 EXCEPT listen to vinyl (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49695911) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 1:33 AM Author: Turquoise razzle corner doctorate I'm 20 for 20. I must be old. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49696001) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 2:36 AM Author: dull office Wtf (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49696056) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 2:37 AM Author: Fiercely-loyal swollen ticket booth fat ankles every single one except rotary phone and typewriter. i have fucked around on a mechanical typewriter a number of times and my parents had an old one around the house when i was young but never used it for a real task. i did have an electronic 'word processor' that still banged out ink type onto the page.
huge majority of the rest of the list should be near ubiquitous for people starting in late 30s. |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 6:30 AM Author: bossy stimulating pisswyrm deer antler all of them (I’m 44 btw) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49696096) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 6:43 AM Author: rose supple rehab Fax machines are still used. I had my hotel send a release form by fax to a clinic that would not accept email only a few months ago. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49696101) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 9:19 AM Author: talented toaster fanboi The retarded medical industry still uses them, yes. Very annoying (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49696214) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 7:09 AM Author: fragrant state coffee pot I used a typewriter until at least 2002. I'm sure you guys used them- there was a time when all rpreprinted forms required this.
But no, sitting and typing a 6 page document no. |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 9:27 AM Author: Rambunctious aqua piazza I'm 23 and I've done all of these lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838482&forum_id=2,#49696223) |