6d ago

THIS is a real test of how old you are. If you score 20 your future is short

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Do they mean a mix tape?

What's a phone bo?
- Book, probably
- What’s a phone bo?
  More importantly: Why is there aa jizz stain at the o?
  
  The second column is all misaligned too.
  
  A watermark was removed, which got rid of the OK
  
  AI is my guess given the lack of structure
- The reason you didn’t get 20.

20 is a typo, it's actually phone bō and it's the art of fighting with a phone staff.

Elder millennial all 20
- I know right. I'm 39, all 20.
  
  To be fair I spent a lot of time with my grandparents
- 37, got 19. Never had a mix tape.
  
  Whattt? I feel like I should make you a mix tape
  
  Same. Plenty of "mix tape" CDs but no tapes. Unless you count the one I stole from my aunt. Also not sure if I can count a word processing machine as a type writer. I've used a real typewriter but just for fun.
- I have them all, except 5 and 12. Not from the States, so no aol. And cheques were fazed(?) out really early here, so have never seen one in use. The crossover breed of XMillenial here.
  
  You can't start with I have them "all". Then put in exceptions. That's not how all works.

Mixed Tape
Does this mean a mix tape or is that something else? 🤨
Also: I've used a rotary phone, but only because I had bought a novelty modern phone that used a rotary dialer in the 90s.
I got 19 or 20, depending on the answer to my question about the "mixed tape" thing.
- I think "mixed tape" refers to when you could take a cassette and record different songs onto it. Though I don't remember how it was done unless you caught a song playing on the radio at just the right point. Using a novelty dial phone wouldn't really count.
  
  Right, but that’s usually called a “mix tape”, not “mixed” unless that’s some kind of regional thing. I’ve never heard anyone call that a “mixed tape” before this post.
  
  You’d often see cassette players with two tape decks, so you could play one while recording with the other.
  You could also record from radio, record player, or whatever else your stereo had. Boom boxes with two tape decks were fairly common.
- Smithers, I really feel like a free spirit. And I'm really enjoying this so-called "iced cream."

I am assuming Phone Bo is Phone book.
- The meme creator got lazy and just didn't do the last two letters?
  
  He must have died while typing...
  
  Their time was shorter
- Same here. I have used everything on this list at least once.
  
  I have used them all so many times I lost count.
- yes

20/20 and I’ll add Atari, illegal cable hookup, and limewire.
- Add Napster, ICQ, and AOL chatrooms ... A/S/L?
  
  I'll add Saturday morning cartoons, planning your week around when shows came on TV, and renting movies from a grocery store/pharmacy.

19 out of 20. Unless just testing a waterbed counts....
- Yeah it counts. I've "tried" them but never owned them. So that counts
  
  I am not being euphemismistic.

19/20. Only because I refused to use AOL.
- 18/20 because waterbeds weren't a common thing here and I already had internet access and a mail address before AOL was a thing. Whoever made that list should have added usenet.
  
  I'm still on usenet.

Terrible distribution of options. A good list would have a series of technologies and tools that became obsolete at different times. Almost all of these became obsolete with the rise of broadband internet in the early 2000's, while a handful were earlier (rotary phones) or later (paper maps, paper checks).
- The point of this "meme" is for OP to toot they own horn. This selection is a good choice for that. Effective means for an ill end.

This title/post combination is peak 2005 myspace/facebook posting
- The choices also tend to center around 2005, with only a handful of technologies that were made definitely obsolete before 1995 or after 2010.

5 makes no sense outside of USA
20 What is phone bo? book?
19, 20 if NZ equivalent of AOL
- AOL was more international than you think. Free beer mats for everybody.
- phone book or booth, either works.
  double points if you've used a phone book in a phone booth
  
  Woot! 2X.

17/20. I'm 25
- Yeah, in don't think many of us touched a Phone Bo. They're impossible to find after we started making bo staffs out of better material like wood.
  
  In my family's house growing up, we duct taped our only phone's receiver to a Bo staff so we could pass the phone between rooms without having to leave the room.
  
  Very unfortunate that we never got the chance.

I'm assuming that "phone bo" means phone book? If that's true then I'm at 20/20.
I plan to live forever. So far, so good.

19, but only because waterbeds were never really a thing in the UK

I got all 20, but I never used vinyl records until just a few years ago

You don't scare me.
AOL never was available in my country. Check books? I've never even seen someone actually using one, I think.
I will never get to 20, yay!
- Waterbeds also not a thing.
  Not being American gets you 3 extra... years? decades? life units? Which does seem still accurate.
- Same. I've seen people using cheques when I was a kid, but they were issued as separate sheets not in a form of a book

Bingo!

Does it could if I've used them for the novelty?
- doesn't count
  
  Then I got 8

Half of these are still in use simply because some people think they're cool, or when someone prefers to not have to rely on technology (e.g. paper maps don't run out of electricity while you're on a long hike).

Did you really need to use ai to make a text based meme? I completely lost hope in humanity after seeing this

Lol #9 is mix tape 🤣😂

I don't see cocaine on this list. That takes some years off as well.

19; guess which one I've never used?

20/20, waterbeds were awesome.

i work at a library it isnt fair for me to compete. i only use the fax machine because the government won't let old people email them and they dont know how to anyway.

Are we censoring books now?

Everything but 5 and 13. Guess I'll go die, then.
- I highly suggest finding a typewriter, they're actually really fun.

I’ve used everything on this list, I win!

I never had my own AOL email account but I did throw away AOL signup disks and I sent email to AOL accounts... so I guess 20/20 assuming "phone bo" is a phone book.
As for not being long for this world... there are a lot of ways to go that don't link with being old, so I guess that checks out anyway.
- AOL disks were great when they were sending out floppies.. free disks!

20/20

Water beds are making a comeback. This coming year, I swear!
20/20, y’all invited the my funeral. Apparently any day now
- Guess we dying in our mid 40's.. What is this? The middle ages!?
  
  Since no one can afford health insurance, vaccines are apparently bad, and our government is prescribing horse dewormer …. We’re getting there

AOL is very American, could've written dialup. Check books were also gone here long before they were in the US.
- Why did check books leave in the EU long before in the US?
  
  We phased them out because of security reasons. Paying by card was introduced, at least in the Netherlands, in the 80s.

18, damn.

Does it count if I own a typewriter, even though I've never used it?

What about watching "Creature Double Feature"?
Godzilla and all his removed!

number 20 does elude me
- It's when you are smelly while using a phone

13 i mean postcard? My work made me write post cards for Christmas even.

18 cause I'm not American.
- TIL dictionaries and encyclopedias are exclusively American.
  
  I'd guess cursive and AOL.

16, but I like vintage shit, nahmean?

Add this number to 35 for your age.
- According to that, I should be 53.
  That's over a decade older than I am right now.
- I'm not even thirty and have like 10 points though
- I got 18 and I'm not even 35 yet lol
- Weirdly enough, I find that accurate.

Post card?
Cursive??
water bed????

6 with many of them in my childhood or because of under-equipped schools

17 points, I'm 43, no AOL address, no check book or waterbed.
- 40 here, scored a 19. I'm fascinated that you were able to avoid checkbooks all this time. Back in the day it was the only form of rent payment my landlords would accept, so I didn't have much choice.
  I've also had to use them in oddball situations recently, like paying a passport application fee. The passports weren't even for me. I was just the only one in the friend group that still has checks from when I first opened my account.... almost 20 years ago. They're my age, so maybe it's me who's the outlier here, haha.
  
  Avoiding checkbooks? Easy, be not american.

Never had a water bed, never did a mix tape. No film camera, either.

Surely that should be 'mix tape'? I scored 17 so I anticipate living for another hundred years!
Plus also, what the fuck are you doing on my lawn, ooh innit cold, the price of stamps these days, look at how young those policemen look, fucking cloud!

I am a little old for a Bo dont ya think?

Dude. I still use 8 of them. And you'll only take those eight from my cold, dead fingers. Which, apparently, won't be long...

I was too poor to have a waterbed, walkman and chequebook

Never had VCR, AOL or phone bo. Don't think AOL ever was a thing here anyway, it was Sol or Kvasir and then Hotmail. The rest my 37 years have included.

1 :)
- 3
  Edit: or probably just 2
  
  Just 3 for me, one of which actually being a waterbed. my parents had one until we had to sell the house in 2019
- Only one? You really missed out on so many fun things
  
  I like to think I would've loved the internet circa 90s-2000s.

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