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Gen X quiz. What do you score?

420 sats \ 26 comments \ @kepford 3 Apr culture

I score zero points. How about you?

I almost called this a boomer test but its more of a Gen X test.

Credit to Jack Spirko for sharing this on Twitter.

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47 sats \ 0 replies \ @endothermicdev 3 Apr

Elder millennial and I feel like most of these were still pretty common in my youth. My grandparents still had a rotary phone, which I recall being a pain in the ass to use, and I used my mom's electronic typewriter a few times - IBM selectric maybe? It was cool because it had a memory and you could backspace a time or two before it had even printed the actual character. 0 points for me.

75 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan 3 Apr

13.5

(Vinyl half point, since it got all "cool" and hipster a couple of years ago)

73 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 3 Apr

I scored a 5

Never used a typewriter
Never listened to a vinyl record
Never listened to music on a walkman
Never listened to music on a boombox outside
Never recorded music from radio to cassette

72 sats \ 1 reply \ @Coinsreporter 3 Apr

That's cool. My score is 10. Passed or failed?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford OP 3 Apr

There is no pass | fail. Just the score.

71 sats \ 0 replies \ @senf 3 Apr

Two... I never recorded a song off the radio and never owned an encyclopedia.

63 sats \ 0 replies \ @gnilma 4 Apr

I've done all 20 things on the list, so I guess I have 0 points.

76 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bitcoiner1 3 Apr

54 sats \ 0 replies \ @_stacktoshi 3 Apr

A perfect 0. I'm old AF

52 sats \ 1 reply \ @dingding541 3 Apr

Remember those machines they had when you were paying by card,

They had to place the card under a carbon copy slip, and force that plastic contraption over it,

It always messed up and just never worked smoothly 🤣🤣

15 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford OP 3 Apr

I do! I think there's a local tire shop that still uses them. Insane right?

39 sats \ 1 reply \ @TNStacker 3 Apr

Hell, I've done many of those this month! 🤣🤣🤣

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford OP 3 Apr

Ha!

54 sats \ 0 replies \ @Roll 3 Apr

19..Damn it :D :D

38 sats \ 0 replies \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 3 Apr

Same.

7 sats \ 0 replies \ @OneOneSeven 3 Apr

Just 1 point for #12.

I was still using paper maps to drive across the country in 2014 lol, didn't have a phone with internet on it yet.

(millennial, not gen X)

27 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb 3 Apr

5 sats \ 1 reply \ @krispy_donkey 3 Apr

This is depressing, why are we doing this. I scored 100%, or 0 points rather. Wasn’t sure about 9 but no, yes that happened at some point somewhere, I remember the hassle of finding enough double D batteries. Blockbuster never came to my home country (too small) but I lived in another part of the world and they opened there, fairly sure my first blockbuster rental was braveheart. Now that’s a fun memory test, all the video stores I ever rented from. It’s a pretty long list!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford OP 3 Apr

No one's forcing you...

5 sats \ 1 reply \ @Aardvark 3 Apr

Whatever, I don't care.

I obviously win now

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford OP 3 Apr

That's the spirit!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 14 Apr

https://www.reddit.com/r/GenX/comments/1jyi6cr/i_never_realized_the_generational_gap_until_i/

this is funny, the comments are absurd, over the top pearl clutching

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Blank 4 Apr

2 - Never paid with a cheque, but I have been paid with cheques. I have never sent a post card either, I don't think.

I still listen to music on CD's, send and receive faxes (rarely), and own a dictionary. All of the rest I would probably not do again, except maybe listen to vinyl records.