Never Have I Ever - Retro Edition

[TJ]

I saw people posting this on Twitter.

I scored 2 points. I've never sent or received a fax. I had a printer that had a fax machine built in, but I never had the need to send or receive one directly myself. I've never had a MySpace account.

How many points did you score?

[Dude111]

I got 4 points buddy!!

[biffbronson]

I scored a 2: Never used a Walkman and was never on MySpace.

I had never sent a fax until just a couple of years ago, when the IRS asked that I fax info from a charitable organization. So I would've scored 3.

Some of those I still do, like sending postcards, listening to music CDs, & writing paper checks. Also I have a detailed area paper roadmap I refer to once in a while.

[GentlemanJim]

2...never been an AOL person, never had a Myspace account.

I remember when facsimile machines required you to mount the document to be sent on a rotating drum, that spun like 200 times to send one 8.5 X 11 sheet of text. When they came out with linear feedunits, I felt like we had entered the space age.

I've also used "radio fax", which is an even bigger dinosaur.
I could plug a short wave radio into the sound card on my PC, and receive radio transmission from an overhead satellite that was sending "weather satellite" imagery to government weather offices, basically seeing the source data used to make images that would be on the tv weather shows later in the day.

Since the satellites were not in stationary orbit, they passed overhead several times per day, and you had to listen to this specific frequency until you heard the bird transmitting, to get the image you wanted.
Tedious, to say the least.

[ThisLittlePiggy]

I got zero! I've done it all. LOL

[stevea]

I got a 5. I've never:

Used a floppy disc
Listened to a boombox (I might need to take this one off, because I've probably heard one someplace where I didn't know it)
Had a MySpace account
Had an AOL Email address
Accessed the internet by dial-up

[Caroline13]

I've done MOST and don't feel like counting the ones I never did...I never had a walkman.

[opus]

Did it all I’d say. Used a floppy disc but then a little Viagra cleared that right up.

[PhoenixAcres]

I scored 10.

[Babalu]

No My Space or AOL.

[Wawwie]

I did everything except for two: paper checks and myspace.

[cd637299]

2—no AOL or MySpace.

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[JamesG]

I've done it all except for 2 of them - send a fax and use a typewriter.

I've used a word processor which was pretty much a typewriter with a screen. This was the mid-90s and I remember I was one of the few students who handed in typed homework assignments.

I've never directly sent a fax, but I've been to places that do it (Check Cashing) when I had to send one out.

[Dude111]

Originally Posted by PhoenixAcres

I scored 10.

Congrats Phoenix you have the highest so far honey

[TJ]

Originally Posted by Dude111

Congrats Phoenix you have the highest so far honey

You want the lowest score. It means you are more retro. ThisLittlePiggy and opus are the most retro members here.

A score of 10 seems high. You would have to be very young and didn't get to fully experience the 1980s or 1990s. I think most people over 30 could have accidentally done at least 10 of them once or twice.