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

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Mickey7@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    *cheque book

    And why people from other countries than USA would necessarily use AOL?

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    • jambudz@lemmy.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s check book in the states, where the majority of native English speakers live.

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  • Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • lastweakness@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    17/20. I’m 25

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    • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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      • lastweakness@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Very unfortunate that we never got the chance.

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      • Nasan@sopuli.xyz ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        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.

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  • jdnewmil@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Omgpwnies@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      AOL disks were great when they were sending out floppies… free disks!

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  • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Does it could if I’ve used them for the novelty?

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    • Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      doesn’t count

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      • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Then I got 8

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  • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    1. Never had a water bed, never did a mix tape.
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  • Jeeve65@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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!

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    • MudMan@fedia.io ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Waterbeds also not a thing.

      Not being American gets you 3 extra... years? decades? life units? Which does seem still accurate.

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    • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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

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  • unknown1234_5@kbin.earth ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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  • Griffus@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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  • infinitevalence@discuss.online ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Surely that should be ‘mix tape’? And I assume 20 is ‘Phone Box’, not ‘Phone BO’? If so, what’s the difference between a phone box and a phone booth? 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!

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Everything but 5 and 13. Guess I’ll go die, then.

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    • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I highly suggest finding a typewriter, they’re actually really fun.

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  • tino@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    18 cause I’m not American.

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    • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      TIL dictionaries and encyclopedias are exclusively American.

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      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’d guess cursive and AOL.

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  • Enkrod@feddit.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    17 points, I’m 43, no AOL address, no check book or waterbed.

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    • GiantChickDicks@lemmy.ml ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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      • Enkrod@feddit.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Avoiding checkbooks? Easy, be not american.

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  • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    19; guess which one I’ve never used?

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    • Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Waterbed?

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      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s a check are you were rich and old.

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    • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Check book

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      • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        exactly.

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    • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Phone Bo?

      (I really want to make a bo staff out of phones now)

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  • stiephelando@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    3/20

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    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Child.

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  • RagnarokOnline@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    16, but I like vintage shit, nahmean?

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  • tflyghtz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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  • troed@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    number 20 does elude me

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    • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s when you are smelly while using a phone

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  • Bruncvik@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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…

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Luckily we didn’t have AOL emails where I lived.

    But checks? Still use them, they’re dead useful for school stuff, sport events for the kids and so on.

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  • konalt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    1 :)

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    • Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Only one? You really missed out on so many fun things

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      • konalt@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I like to think I would’ve loved the internet circa 90s-2000s.

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    • Hjalamanger@feddit.nu ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      3

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      • Caesium@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Just 3 for me, one of which actually being a waterbed. my parents had one until we had to sell the house in 2019

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