December 28, 2008
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How Old Skool are you?
Some of you didn’t recognize my Rodney King quote, which caused me to realize (yet again) that I’m getting old. The riots were in 1992! How time flies… some of you were born in that year.
Anyway it got me thinking how I watched the riots on CNN (back when it was the only cable news network), and how much media has changed over the years. With that in mind, I’ve pulled together a list of 20 old skool media experiences.
Each one that you’ve experienced adds one point to your Old Skool score:
- You had a TV with no remote control and had to walk up to the TV to change the channel (i.e. you WERE the remote control).
- You had a rotary phone, and disliked calling people who had phone numbers with high numbers in them (because you had to wait for the rotary dial to come all the way around).
- If you liked a song, you had to wait until it started playing on the radio and then record it onto a cassette.
- You had a pager and can tell me what 143, 99 and 43770 mean.
- You’ve made a mixtape for someone (burning it to a CD still counts, uploading a playlist to YouTube does not).
- You had a subscription to TV Guide (can you believe they sold entire TV Guide magazine for one dollar?!)
- You had a pager code number (your birthday, a nickname) so that other people could refer to you by name in pages.
- You memorized the phone number of all of your friends, since you had to dial them by heart.
- You’ve played games on an Atari or Commodore 64.
- You’ve played a record on a “record player” (it doesn’t count if you use it to DJ).
- You’ve owned an 8-track (you get half a point if you know what an 8-track is).
- Sometimes you couldn’t get the TV antenna to work and your show wouldn’t come up… so you would have to download it off the internet. Just kidding – if you didn’t watch it live, you were screwed.
- You’ve played NES (Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!), Sega Genesis (Altered Beast!), or TurboGrafx 16 (Bonk’s adventure!)
- You’ve written a school paper on a typewriter (doesn’t count if you’re filling out a form).
- You used to carry around change, in case you needed to use a payphone.
- You’ve owned a dictionary or encyclopedia (ideally a paper one, although a CD-ROM will get you half a point).
- You watched films on a projector in school (yes, they really did count down 10 – 9 – 8 – 7 – 6 – 5 – 4 – 3 – 2 – 1)
- You’ve had your newspaper delivered to you by a paperboy.
- You would get doubleprints of your photos, and physically give them to people you wanted to share them with.
- You would get phonecalls from people and if you wanted to know who it was, you had to pick up the phone (before Caller ID came along, and changed dating life forever).
My wife told me to take the questions about records and 8-tracks off my quiz. “Nobody on Xanga has owned an 8-track!” Sadly, we bought one at a garage sale growing up and the free tracks it came with were one of my primary sources of entertainment as a child. We also owned many classical music records, as I grew up playing the piano.
I actually only got an 18/20, since I never owned a pager.
How Old Skool are you?
Comments (137)
Photo prints………. argh, I do NOT miss traditional photo developing. At ALL.
I got 10/20. =]
i got the same as you! though we actually HAD an 8 track player (purchased new, not at a garage sale!) and used it regularly… actually, i miss that thing.. it was awesome! i dont think i know anyone who had a pager… but i have one now, i’m on call for work… something tells me that doesnt count!
I’m pretty old school but some of these are US only like the paper boy and TV guide. Still got 13 though:)
I got 5/20
#3. MIX TAPES! literally! ahahaha
#4. 143… HAHA. “nighty-night” “hello” and don’t forget “637″
#5 been there, done that
#7. “57″
#8. YEP
#12. what’s cable? CABLE?!
#13 Sonic the Hedgehog on SEGA
#15. OH YEAH! 2 dimes. then it jumped to 35 cents and I freaked out.
#16. YEP. and a thesaurus.
#17. only until 5th grade, then it was ova’
#18. my friend in elementary school WAS the paperboy
#19. OMG… double prints were a MUST. flickr? photobucket?
#20. HAHA… oh man… this is when you could dial your crush and hang up if the parent picked up.
16.5
haha i like that i get half a point for knowing what an 8track is, even if i never owned one.
btw, i still get my newspaper delivered by a paperboy!
17.5
Your wife’s right. I have plenty of friends born in early 1970′s and THEY didnt even have it.
You had my laughing at the typewriter. I still own one actually. My big brother used to yell at me bc I would press backspace (white-out) to erase too much. He was scared Ima use it all up and it costed money.
Oh yeah…and my house STILL had rotary dial even when our phones were up to date in the 1990′s. We would hear it dialing and we wait..and wait..and wait. I think we finally had it updated in 2001, maybe 1999, maybe.
@oOBuBBLes711Oo - Ha well we were poor and I was uncool, so I was a decade or so behind the times…
@oOBuBBLes711Oo - holy cow, typewriters have whiteout built in now?! i would have to do it by hand (our typewriter wasn’t electronic, so you had to strike each key pretty hard). plus we had to make our own ink out of cow’s blood. life was hard in the 70′s.
14 for me and I’m 30 years old.
I got 13, but I think that’s pretty oldschool for someone who’s only 19! haha
and what does 43770 mean? haha
everything except the tv antenna ones… those are for losers
Aw shit, I”m not really oldschool
nine.
43770 means hello! can you see it?
John, I got 19 out of 20!!! I’m not Old Skool, I’m just freakin’ OLD!!! (I missed #13.) Thanks for posting this.
14 for me….I am 26.
19/20…. I was just playing Mike Tyson’s punch out yesterday lol
17.5 – same as you, the pager tripped me up.
I’m 34
15. If I had played more video games or had a pager, I would have had a perfect score! Thanks for the fun memories!
18/20 because I also never owned a pager.
Number 10 ,16,18, 20. . . . 4/20 It seems I am not very old skool. But one of them was a record player, so I think I should extra points for that
i’m an 8. blame 21st century. i didnt do much in life before that. hah.
OH John my dear… I am beyond old skool!!! I got 18/20 but I don’t think I (or you) should discount the pager questions. I may not have owned one, but every friend of mine did. So if we know WHAT they are and they were part of our lives, we should count them…so…
20/20 (my mom was poor, I shouldn’t be penalized for that lol)
Tell your wife that there are LOTS of us oldies out here on Xanga. 8 Track tapes? Are you kidding, I STILL have mine. Wish I still had a player that worked too. LOL
Thanks for making me feel sooooo old today!
12.5 and I was the paperboy… eh girl.
i have a 12/20. i’d say that’s decent for someone my age.
I missed a couple of the pager ones, but otherwise 100%.
I also:
watched filmstrips in class, where the accompanying audio track would beep when you were supposed to forward to the next slide.
Had cable back when changing the channel meant turning a dial on the cable box and there was no premium cable channels – just HBO.
Remember when I was the only parent with a video camera (and/or digital camera) at school events
NES? Before I had an Atari Entertainment System, I played Pong on my tv.
Had a VCR where you had to physically press down buttons like a cassette player.
Had to worry that my betamax VCR was going to be obsolete
remember when only drug dealers and doctors had pagers
downloaded games on to 5.25 floppies over 1200 baud modems from “websites” that could only accept one caller at a time and was amazed when we upgraded to 14.4k.
and so on…
@esch99 - Good ones. Too true. I can relate to many of the ones you just listed here. Thanks for the memories!
I did recognize the Rodney King quote. I’m pre-pager old school. I’m so old school I can’t bring myself to spell school with a “k”. We had an eight track player in our car when my husband and I got married. We still have his portable player (blue with a plunger type handle on top to change tracks) and one tape (Arlo Guthrie – One Night) to show young whippersnappers as a history lesson. My first vinyl record was a 45 RPM of Joy to the World by Three Dog Night. When I was in Junior High I’d walk across the field behind our house to the bowling alley where I played pinball and the new-fangled thing called a video game – Pong. We bought the first generation Nintendo system in the late 80s and played The Legend of Zelda on it – the original game and still the best. I got 18/20 because I’m too old to have ever had a pager. Do I get bonus points for that?
19 / 20 — no pager, but I know what 43770 means. Can I add a point for owning one of the first pocket calculators? It was the size of a brick and cost an arm and a leg.
do I get a half a point for remembering when it was spelled School?
17 1/2 – never owned a pager (Mum did, does that count? She’s a vet, needed it for after hours calls), but didn’t own an 8-track, either (altho’ being a child of the 80s I knew what one was). I also had one of those tape decks you plugged into your analog TV with the big clunky channel buttons in order to play chess on it, and you could print out your moves on a receipt till type of printer. It used silver paper, and I thought it was fabulous. And I remember when our Apple II-e was cutting edge..
Ahhhh reading these other comments I remember upgrading from a 1400 baud modem to a 14.4k, playing on my brother’s BBS, and had a betamax.. I even remember when Blockbuster a: dealt only with videos and b: had a Beta section.
19/20
i had a record player but did not have an 8-track. although i no longer have a record player i still have vinyl records. i remember how much of a pain it was to find the right “needle” for my record player.
back in my days in Brazil you had to have the britannia encyclopedia in your bookshelves to be cool.
i got 20/20! my dad had an 8-track player, we also had a betamax!…add that to your quiz
also, i think it was 07734 not 43770
Holy crap, I’m 17 and I got 17 of those.
Now it scares me how much the world has changed.
oh yea, and before atari and nes, there was magnavox odyssey.
i also played pong. that was my first video game.
Well, first of all you can’t even spell school correctly! Seriously John, you must use spell check.
I know about all of these even though I didn’t experience most of them (mostly b/c of lack of money and such).
I knew the Rodney King quote. I remember the riots (I was in 2nd grade at the time so I don’t remember them as clearly) and we study them constantly in my Criminal Justice courses.
18/20 for the same reasons as you
I never had a pager, but everything else there fits. Whatever, I’m old…My brothers had an 8 track in their car and we’d listen to Hall & Oates. I bought one later on Ebay and just recently gave it to the guy who started Trovata. I love NES and my son plays it still. Battletoads, anyone?
18/20! the pager stuff got me…
you know, i STILL own my Atari, and it works, mostly.. i love pulling it out and watching my friends jaws drop!
Also, in highschool, i wrote all my papers on the typewriter, even when my friends had computers and internet. my family couldn’t afford it, so I was forced to be… old skool!
8/20.
I guess I’m not quite old school. Oh well.
18 – and I owned an 8 track. (and I was so proud when I got a stereo with an 8-track player and a turntable for Christmas one year!)
and, yes – I am old…
Did you ever play that game “Below the Root” on Commodore 64? Damn, I loved that game! L337.
I totally forgot about double prints…memories of the good old days. I got a 18/20. (I never owned a pager, but my friends all did-or had a subscription to tv guide. (we just knew what was on.) Thanks for a trip down memory lane…I actually remember when we finally got cable. It was almost as exciting as getting a remote control.
yes to 16/20. thanks for making me feel old!
I got 16.5…or 17 if I can count my dad’s 8-track as mine.
I still have a dictionary! I got rid of the 1960 encyclopedia, though.
I got 15.
13/20
I’m with you, I never had a pager so I only got 18/20.
As for the 8trak thing, my neighbors had an 8trak player in their station wagon, but they had only one actual 8trak album, Neil Sedaka. We used to sit in the back of the station wagon (in the cargo area with NO seat belts!!!) and sing “Calendar Girl” and “Breaking Up is Hard to Do” while driving to the shore in the summer.
13/20… 28 yo.
I’m in between with 10/20 . I definitely remember having to mess around w/ the antennas of a tv and having to get up to change the channel. Used to have a TV w/ a dial to change channels, and it only allowed you to go to certain ones! My have things changed.
I’m 22 btw.
I had many paper routes growing up..
we have a record player that ALSO plays 8-track. bought in the 80s or early 90s when my family would buy old crap from yard sales and swap meets. I’m a child of the 80s. haha.
I would’ve gotten 20 if I’d had a pager or liked video games–but I think I should get points for having played Pong. And do people really not own dictionaries any more? That’s just wrong.
20/20 for me. I’m curious about why your wife thought no one on Xanga would ever have owned an 8-track. Maybe the target demographic here is a lot younger than I realized.
what’s #4′s 143? i never had an 8-track
goddamn, im old.
haha my bf is embarrassed because he’s done 15 or more and i’ve only done like four of these… there’s only a four year age difference!
14… how the hell did you not have a pager? i got my ass kicked by my parents for having a pager because they thought only drug dealers carried pagers.
#3 is hilarious
LOL. 3/20. Ouch. D:
Hah. I liked rotary phones. And I still listen to records.
@john – The Smith Corona I mentioned had a special ribon in it that would stroke the key three times and remove the toner from the page. It took forever if you wanted to remove a whole line.
I didn’t know that the Rodney King riots were in ’92. For some reason, I thought they were back in the ’70s. I did recognize the quote, just didn’t have anything to say about here.
And here we go
1. My mom had an old 13″ black and white TV. I’m surprised you didn’t say anything about black and whites.
2. I remember rotary phones but can’t remember if we had one or not.
3. I recorded a Casey’s Countdown live off the radio once.
4. I never had a pager either. I’m guessing the first one is I love you and the third is Hello. What’s the 2nd one?
5. I took my classical music and made several mixes for a friend.
6. We never did do TV Guide, but I remember going to people’s houses and looking at the various covers.
7. We would always put in our number + 911 if it was imperative that Dad call us ASAP.
8. Sadly enough, I have numbers memorized from before I got my cell phone. The bad thing is if my phone got destroyed now, I don’t know if I’d know my parent’s number by heart. I did, however “back up” everything to Gmail so I could get my contact information for friends and family provided I had an internet connection.
9. We had an Atari in the game room at an orphanage I lived at for a year.
10. I can do you one better. I’ve played 45 singles.
11. Mom had tons of these and the stereo system in my room would play the radio, 8tracks, vinyl and cassettes.
12. Rabbit ears were a bane.
13. I’ve played NES and Sega Genesis, but not the Sega game you mentioned. Does this count as 2/3 a point?
14. I learned to type on a Smith Corona electric typewriter out of a book that folded over on itself so it was free standing. I didn’t have my own computer at the time so there was a period of time that I forgot how to type. I taught myself again with the book and also Mavis Beacon. To this day, I cannot effectively use the number keys above the alphas, but the 10-digit keypad is no problem.
15. I’ve used my fair share of pay phones but moved from Chicago when I was 8, so this was never an issue for me.
16. I have a dictionary and a thesaurus on my shelf. I’ve lived in two different homes that had the full World Book encyclopedia sets. I wished I had a dead tree copy of the Oxford English Dictionary. Will you get me one as a belated Christmas present?
17. Never watched a film on a project in school but transparencies were de facto. We did break out the old 16mm projector to watch some home movies my grandparents made once.
18. I don’t recall ever being subscribed to the paper. An older foster brother once had a paper route. I remember putting the papers into bags and then the foster father driving while I threw papers out of the back window.
19. We made Walmart rich on photos that we never look at and are disintegrating to death in some damp box in storage somewhere.
20. This is why the answering machine was invented. Remember when you had to pay for Caller ID?
So let’s see, my score was 12 2/3rds. And since everyone is given their age for free, I’m 23.
I have an 8 track! It works and it’s pink with one speaker and I have one *cassette* to put in it – Saturday Night Fever soundtrack! NO! it wasn’t mine but my dads! jl
19/20 and I’m 40. I STILL have some 8-Track tapes, but no way to play them, alas.
6. But I was born in that year you mentioned, so I think it counts for something! I want to fix the record player so bad, but the motor is shot… Glad I got to hear a Beatles RECORD when I could.
18.5
i didnt own an 8 track and we never got the paper.
10/20
We never ever owned an 8 track.. we were too poor for that high tech stuff. We just had to sing our own songs and be happy about it. But the rest of them……yep. I got em all!
15.5
Oh boy, I got 14/20. I took typing in school, it actually came quite handy when the switch from word processors to computers came. I also remember writing notes in school and lending my perfume to a friend when she wanted to spray a bit of it onto of her letters to a certain boy. In my house, we had encyclopedias in two languages. You can imagine the shelf space. And mix tapes? Those were the days, sometimes I did not get it quite right and recorded a bit of a commercial, but no matter, mix tapes and a Walkman…beautiful.
@ClockworkBunny - You and I should get a discount at the movies, correct?
Oh. And I do recall having computer classes with those gigantic floppy disks and terms like “parking the hard drive”.
17.5 (no pager)
But I’m pretty young so I dunno about this list.
15/20.
Ah, the 80s were great.
I got about 17. LOL I know of 8 track and TV guide(never had the subscription), and i never had the newspaper delivered to me.
great list john. cracked me up!
11 out of 20 for me. Not bad for someone who was born in the late 80s.
I know how to work a “record player” because my parents used to and still own one.
These things on your list are only considered “old skool” to people who grew up in the States. In other parts of the world, people still use 8 tracks and make mixed tapes for their friends and watch documentaries on projectors and look up words they don’t know in dusty, yellowing dictionaries.
12/20 isn’t bad for not having been born until 1988.
wow, this post is great. I so remember doing those in the past… god old days!!
recording fave songs from the radio was one of the things I used to do.
I scored 15.5.
Ha ~ I got 12…..I’m older than I thought. Actually, I grew up in South Africa and we didn’t even have TV until the mid 70′s!!!!!!!!
I got 10/20!
And my mom still has the paper delivered to her on Sundays. A paperboy doesn’t bring it though. Some elderly guy in a van pulls up in front of the driveway and throws it in the yard…
I do remember the riots, and I even got the year right when I thought about it. But I’d just never heard that qoute. or any qoute from Rodney King. Just newsfeeds about the riots
my score, 8, 9, 14, 15, 17, 20
#7 isn’t old skool to me. I got #13 if the specific games aren’t necessary. So that’s a pretty solid 19.
I am old.
I got 6. That’s … more then I thought I would get. >___<
I still memorize some of my friend’s numbers & I still use the paperback dictionary. ;D
I got 12/20 – I gave myself a half a point for the rotary phone one because I’m not sure if we owned one or if it was my grandparents… but I totally hated dialing 9s and 8s and such. And we totally had a record player – and I got the 1/2 point for knowing what an 8-track is.
I need to find a record player – I still have some old albums.
Ha! Fun.
3, 5, 8 (though I only had like, 2 friends), 10, .5 on 11 (heh), 15, 16, 17, 19, 20.
So—9.5/20! Yay!
How about if you watched the JFK funeral in black and white?
Old…..
10.5
16 1/2. No pager. No 8-track, but I do know what one is.
I don’t think I’m old, but I’m starting to think I am when I say something like, “I listened to that song in junior high, um…18 years ago??”
7/20
14, and I’m only 18…….gotta love living in the good ole bfe
15/20
I got an 8. And I still own a rotary phone. Rotary phones are bad ass.
7
2 points.
16 and 17
i feel too young
well, i actually am…
i wish i couldve seen how it was in the 80s.
or at least early 90s.
(born in 93)
10/20!?
@maebemaebenot - and you’re older than me?!
*embarrassed* maybe my family was old schooled.
I got the same score, which would have been higher if I had ever dealt with a pager. And I remember when 8 tracks were COOl and NEW, and oh-so-handy to have all your music stored on them. And I know a LOT of Xangans who would be right up there with me!
16 out of 20. I didn’t really use a pager until I was in my 20′s. I do remember the Comodore 64. My score would have been higher if I’d played video games, I *did* sell them when I worked at Toys R Us, did that count? I’m almost ancient, lol, at 31.
let’s see, i was born in 85 so…..
….. i got 18.5
If this quiz is for real, I already flunked miserably! (I know some of the other ones but never had ‘em although some of the family members did – such as the pager, etc.) The result: 9 points and I still do it for #15 since I’m the idiot who keeps forgetting my cell phone at home half of the time when I’m out the door.
omg, 19.5 and i’m only 32! some of those really brought back memories…
@rhetorical_soul - LOL!!!
01776 – 7415 9057 11165 41113501773!!!!
Now I feel old. I’m 17yrs old and I got 15/20. I don’t think I should’ve gotten that many being only 17. =(
14/20 @_@
I got 9 1/2.
I still do #8..I HATE how technology makes people lazy.
I got a 12/20, which is pretty good, I think, since I’m only 18. xD
15/20. Old school I guess I can’t answer the pager related one because I never owned one. I was too old school for that, so should I get like 2 extra points? so that will be like 17/20 then…
i never bought an 8 track but my parents had one and i used it a few times. otherwise i have done everything on your list. lol.
omg, i’m a “yes” to all 20 questions, with a few half-point exceptions:
#4 and 7 — i had a pager (called beeper in the good ol days!), but i don’t remember what those numbers stood for. i know ’99′ is nite nite, but the others require more thought than i’d like to spend on a blog. also, i didn’t have my own code number!
#6 — my family didn’t have a TV Guide subscription (cuz my parents were chinese), but I remember when they used to be 59 cents!!
#10 — strangely, i owned a few records, but not a record player. does that count?? although, i did handle the record player in school for elementary school parties.
#11 — i guess i get a half point here since i did not own an 8 track (my parents were immigrants! we couldn’t afford one!), but i know what it is!
#18 — we had the paper delivered for a short time, but it was an old man, not a boy!
I too did not ever have a pager… I got 18.
7.5
18.5/20.
I owned a CAR with an 8-track player in it. (My first one, a 1981 AMC Eagle!)
Missed #6, never used TV Guide, just the Friday papers which would give next week’s TV listings.
I gave myself 0.5 for #1 since we did own an old-skool TV, but I wasn’t old enough to change the channels.
Gawd…I’m old
14/ 20 but I am pretty sure some of those are more because of cultural differences than not being old skool enough! Only my dad had a pager cause I was poor! XD i used to play that little froggie game in the atari and watch the Muppet Show at night! Also we were into Candy Candy and Heidi.
20 for 20 Jon…I’m so old school…I should have a degree… lol
hmmm i listen to old rap instead of the new stuff…lil wayne is an exception
I got all of them except for #11, the one about the 8-track. I agree with your wife! I think that if you were born in the late 70s or early 80s, you would get most of these.
What a great entry! 18.5 (half point for knowing what an 8-track was). I didn’t get points for my newspaper being delivered by a paperboy. 15 years ago, tt was delivered by a man driving a car and I think still is. I lived in Brooklyn! Nobody rode around in bikes at 5am in the morning delivering newspapers. lol.
-ray leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I got 12.5.
I’m 19, but I grew up with old school things around me since they are things that my parents and me used to do before CDs became the “cool” thing and photos became digital.
Not sure how I’d score – I’ve owned an 8 track, my brother bought one new. School papers, or homewark as we called it, was done by hand, I was the paperboy. In my first job the photo copier was a photo copier – you had to create a neaitive image and then feed it through again to get the positive. We needed botles of chemicals to process it and you didn’t leave the copy paper in the sun. We didn’t have a phone rotary dial or otherwise. The nearest call box was 30 yards away -we used that. I you’re in the UK do you remember what button B did in a call box.
14.5/20. am I already old at 17 years old?
17, if what the family household owned counts for a lot of the answers.
I am old school enough to have owned an 8 track, an atari, and a commadore 64, World Book encyclopedia, and the rotary phone. I can even recall my mom calling me into the living room to change the channel on the television because we didn’t have a remote. The only thing I didn’t have was a pager because in my world..only dealers had pagers.
I can honestly say, and I’m 28, that I got a 18/20 only because I didn’t have a pager, either. Only a cell phone.
xo Amy
i got 11/20. i’m 21 years old, btw.
1, 3, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 20.
Notice I said #11. You can tell your wife she is wrong.
I got a 16/20, and tell your wife that I still own 8-track tapes! I’ve got the soundtrack to Honeysuckle Rose, and I’ve got Steve Martin’s standup comedy routine “Let’s Get Small” on 8-track, too! (I turn 38 in six weeks.)
Know what other thing you need to add to your list? “You played football on a handheld, all-in-one device with blips and beeps for touchdowns and players.” (They came in green and white — there were two brands… what were they called?!)
I’d also get music onto a cassette this way: Wait for Solid Gold to come on and then hold the tape recorder up to the speaker on the TV (the TV set that looked like a cabinet that sat on the floor) when the song came on. heeeheee
1/20. I had a rotary phone… but I was 6 years old then! I loved that thing!
8 out of 20.
#3
#5 – It didn’t hit me until reading this list that burning mix CDs was “old school”… I still do it, granted, very occasionally…but still!
#6 – Ha! I know right? Mildly embarrassing.
#8 – Oh, DEFINITELY.
#12
#15
#16 – Of course. Still have them lying about… Do I get extra points for having those encyclopedia SETS–you know, “A-Ce,” “Ch-F,” whatever.
#19
#20 – Haha. Novel concept right? I remember feeling disgruntled when Caller ID appeared, because that was part of the charm of using the telephone–it was a surprise waiting to happen. I won’t say I wish there weren’t Caller ID, but that is an element of phone-calling that certainly is gone forever.
17/20
i had a pager, but i don’t recognize those codes. though my friends and i did us a lot of other codes.
man… i’m old.
17/20 for me and I am 27…pager codes were the original leetspeak
16.5. my family was poor, so my folks never threw anything away and we were always about three years behind (and spending my childhood in illinois didn’t help). we literally just got rid of our 1991 set of “the new book of knowledge” encyclopedia a few months ago.
i got 3 right how so young was born in 1992 i dont what half that suff is.
I am guilty of all of the above. Why is it that this quiz will result in the only perfect score of my life