18 because I've almost always had internet access since 1990, never had to resort to AOL, Compuserve, Prodigy, Delphi, etc. And I've never slept in a waterbed.
I briefly did some contract work for AOL... after 2010. So I had multiple AIM chat handles. If those count, then a solid 19.
@ardgedee @scruss I suspect that whoever put this list together is too young to have experienced most of these things, hence the misspelling.
Also: solid 20 here.
@argeedee I looked into it for a journalist once and found "mixed tape" and "mixtape/mix tape" have basically co-existed since they were first a thing. Whether it is a tape of a mix or a tape that is mixed is in the mind of the speaker. But possible it started as "mixed." The dropping of the "-ed" is typical lenition of an unstressed syllable in an initial word in a two-word compound. Compare ice tea/iced tea, shave ice/shaved ice, ice cream / iced cream, though their stories vary. With some, like mixtape and shave ice in particular, we see what linguists call "enregisterment," where the markedness of the term becomes noteworthy as a community badge or shibboleth.
I have used all of these. I currently use none of them intentionally. I'm fact, I would go so far as to say it is rather unlikely I will ever intentionally use any of these again. The single exception is a cursive signature that I most frequently replace with a drawing of a whale when signing credit card receipts. I write in block print normally.
21. Drove a Rambler
22. Drove Willys woody
23. Rode in a Studebaker
24. Read the Encyclopedias and still have the kids set.
25. Used cap pistols
26. Had a DDT truck fog your neighborhood.
27. Had 12 uncles and aunts, who fought in WW2.
28. Remember Dwight Eisenhour's Agriculture Secretary, and why he got fired.
29. Flew on a prop plane to Europe, and back.
30. Rode all of Route 66.
31. Paid $2.20 to fill a gas tank, 15 gallons.
18 - I never had AOL, but I was alive during the time it launched and could have. My dad was an early adopter with computers, so while he owned a typewriter, by the time I was typing, it was on a beige computer with a green screen. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (I was born in '81)
@dreyfusslugado cursive is one of those things that propagate like waves. It's regional and time-dependent. It missed me completely, which is good, as I didn't need more teachers telling me how lazy my handwriting was. (ADHD, not laziness)
Waterbeds likely regional too. The idea of one in a damp Scottish 1970s house is a big huge nope.
20 - used a hand cranked meat grinder to make ground meat
21- no running water, used a bucket to pull water from a well for the house
22- no running water, used an outhouse
@tonyb I still use a hand cranked grinder to make flour! Me too-ish- I went to a true one room schoolhouse, one of the last in the U.S., and it had 2 outhouses (one for girls, one for boys) but they finally brought in septic my last year there. It didn't have running water either, but did at least have a handpump.
(The "school bus" was an old hay wagon pulled by a tractor by a super grumpy old guy who also did the plowing for the county road. (In the winter you knew it was time to get up when you heard him go by plowing north, and that you needed to be dressed for school, with your chores all done and ready for breakfast, by the time he went south.) He hung a sign on the back of the wagon that said, "Honk if you can read this- a kid fell off," which was, of course, always visible. Despite this evidence of a sense of humor, the only time I ever saw him laugh or even smile was when an out of state hunter started frantically honking at him one afternoon.)
@Davezilla I never had a legit Sony Walkman, but I had portable cassette and CD players, so I counted it because as far as I'm concerned "walkman" is a generic term for those.
@1f2frfbf Yeah, was it even possible to "use" them in a good way without creating opposite waves cancelling out the movements? I don't know what I'm talking about anyways.
I still use a version of the cursive I first learnt. After I got my Ratta Supernote last year, I write a lot more by hand, and this is my fastest writing. I don't follow rules anymore, so I cut a lot of the connecting lines that don't make me faster, but I have kept many of them.
I briefly did some contract work for AOL... after 2010. So I had multiple AIM chat handles. If those count, then a solid 19.
19/20: cursive? That's for olds.
Also: solid 20 here.
22. Drove Willys woody
23. Rode in a Studebaker
24. Read the Encyclopedias and still have the kids set.
25. Used cap pistols
26. Had a DDT truck fog your neighborhood.
27. Had 12 uncles and aunts, who fought in WW2.
28. Remember Dwight Eisenhour's Agriculture Secretary, and why he got fired.
29. Flew on a prop plane to Europe, and back.
30. Rode all of Route 66.
31. Paid $2.20 to fill a gas tank, 15 gallons.
@ardgedee @dreyfusslugado AI. AI calls it that.
Waterbeds likely regional too. The idea of one in a damp Scottish 1970s house is a big huge nope.
Who are you to judge my commute?!
20 - used a hand cranked meat grinder to make ground meat
21- no running water, used a bucket to pull water from a well for the house
22- no running water, used an outhouse
(The "school bus" was an old hay wagon pulled by a tractor by a super grumpy old guy who also did the plowing for the county road. (In the winter you knew it was time to get up when you heard him go by plowing north, and that you needed to be dressed for school, with your chores all done and ready for breakfast, by the time he went south.) He hung a sign on the back of the wagon that said, "Honk if you can read this- a kid fell off," which was, of course, always visible. Despite this evidence of a sense of humor, the only time I ever saw him laugh or even smile was when an out of state hunter started frantically honking at him one afternoon.)
I still use a version of the cursive I first learnt. After I got my Ratta Supernote last year, I write a lot more by hand, and this is my fastest writing. I don't follow rules anymore, so I cut a lot of the connecting lines that don't make me faster, but I have kept many of them.