Obsolete Skills

[.Alex.]

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Philuva,

Researching information without the Internet!

It's hard to imagine the way we had to write reports looking up stuff in card catalogs and microfilm and stuff at the library. Oh man, that sucked. The difference between being good at that or not was incredible in terms of how long it took to get a report or research paper done.

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This still applies for research on the internet!

How about all that time they spent teaching us to write in cursive in elementary school?

[Alobar]

fast forwarding between songs on a cassette tape

[stinkypete]

[stinkypete]

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fast forwarding between songs on a cassette tape

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remembering track numbers on cds

[adsman]

Remember telephone numbers.

[Michael Davis]

Limit poker.

-Michael

[theblitz]

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grammer

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Spelling? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[theblitz]

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Nice one though most of the people here won't even know what that is!

I once managed to spill all the little rectangles from the collecting box underneath. This was in a carpeted room. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Event Duality]

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grammer

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Spelling? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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"Leveling" people still seems to be alive and well, though.

[Ron Burgundy]

Remembering which positions the TV antenna should be for every station. Oh wait... my parents still do this lol.