AOL is very American, could've written dialup. Check books were also gone here long before they were in the US.
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I was too poor to have a waterbed, walkman and chequebook
Elder millennial all 20
I know right. I'm 39, all 20.
To be fair I spent a lot of time with my grandparents
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.
I got all 20, but I never used vinyl records until just a few years ago
Bingo!
Post card?
Cursive??
water bed????
Add this number to 35 for your age.
I'm not even thirty and have like 10 points though
According to that, I should be 53.
That's over a decade older than I am right now.
Weirdly enough, I find that accurate.
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.
20/20
5 makes no sense outside of USA
20 What is phone bo? book?
19, 20 if NZ equivalent of AOL
phone book or booth, either works.
double points if you've used a phone book in a phone booth
AOL was more international than you think. Free beer mats for everybody.
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
Take my depressed upvote.
Lol #9 is mix tape 🤣😂
20/20 and I’ll add Atari, illegal cable hookup, and limewire.
Add Napster, ICQ, and AOL chatrooms ... A/S/L?
18, damn.
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.
Do they mean a mix tape?
You must be 18 to post here.
20/20, waterbeds were awesome.
Are we censoring books now?
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).
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3/20
Child.
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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Did you really need to use ai to make a text based meme? I completely lost hope in humanity after seeing this
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!
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.
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