Obsolete skills

I found an enjoyable and amusing website today and thought I would share it with everyone. http://obsoleteskills.com/

I especially enjoyed the list of obsolete skills, complete with descriptions. Who knew I possessed so many, now rendered useless, bits of information and technical abilities. Here is a very short list of just a few of the items in the site that I am capable of doing and have done:

• Autoexec.bat editing
• Burnishing a cartridge connector with a pencil eraser to ensure a solid connection
• Changing vacuum tubes
• Cleaning head of a VCR
• Cleaning the balls inside a computer mouse for better traction
• Configuring Trumpet Winsock
• Config.sys editing
• Entering “freeware” programs from a magazine
• Finding channels on UHF
• Gopher
• Jumpers on a Motherboard
• Swapping floppy disks
• Switching to high beams by stomping on a button in the floor
• Using carbon paper to make copies
• Using a card catalogue
• Using correction fluid
• Using a filmstrip projector
• Word Perfect 5.x

I suddenly feel quite old, but wise.

6 comments March 2nd, 2008