Skills you have that are obsolete

[Value Of Pi]

What's a newspaper? btw what do people use now to line bird cages?

Probably bird cage liner made from old recycled newspapers, packaged in non-biodegradable plastic. That's called progress.

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

I can make a Jefferson airplane.

[jazmunda]

Making trailers for Art Bell. Too soon?

[Robert]

My dad was a stripper  .

And I used to prop up a hooker.

[zeebo]

Interpreting modem connection sounds.

Rewinding cassette tapes with a pencil.

Cleaning out the rubber ball inside a mechanical mouse.

[Astrid Galactic]

Not that I was any good at doing so but driving with a manual transmission.

[jazmunda]

Fast scrolling past Falkie's wall of texts has been replaced by quick bursts past bobo's posts.

[Billy Joe Mulgreavey]

Not that I was any good at doing so but driving with a manual transmission.

I have a 1962 ford F100...3 on the tree.  No power steering or brakes....I struggle.

[starrmtn001]

Hammer and chisel print technician.

[Astrid Galactic]

Again, not that I'm a whiz, but doing math without a calculator.

[Value Of Pi]

Again, not that I'm a whiz, but doing math without a calculator.

Compared with many younger people, you're probably a whiz. Did you have to memorize the
multiplication table in school? Right there, you're way ahead of more and more people who can barely add single digits in their head, much less anything halfway complex.

[Walks_At_Night]

Have these been posted already?

Find a book in the Library using a card catalog.
Use a T-Square, Drafting Table and a Pencil to make a Mechanical Drawing.

[Astrid Galactic]

In the spirit of flaunting my age - walking a mile to school in the snow. 

[Walks_At_Night]

In the spirit of flaunting my age - walking a mile to school in the snow. 

Uphill.   Both ways

[Walks_At_Night]

From a Tech Standpoint:

Cabling up an ethernet network using AUI Transceivers or 10base5 cabling
Hooking up an Analyzer to a Source Route Bridged Token Ring Network and understanding the results
Configuring a Multiprotocol Router for TCP/IP, IPX, Apple Talk, Banyan Vines, Decnet and SNA

[GravitySucks]

Landing the Space Shuttle.

[chinaclipper]

how to duck and cover and get under your desk if you saw the bright light of a nuclear bomb

[GravitySucks]

Have these been posted already?

Find a book in the Library using a card catalog.
Use a T-Square, Drafting Table and a Pencil to make a Mechanical Drawing.

Drats. Took one of mine. Don't forget the French curve, triangles and scale.

[trostol]

breathing

[GravitySucks]

Finding Top Dead Center
Using a timing light
Using a dwell meter
Setting points
Rebuilding a carburetor (Holly, Rochester, Carter)

[GravitySucks]

Using PROFS

[Walks_At_Night]

Using PROFS

PROFS - Ugh.  I forgot about that hell.   Now I'll dream about it.    You bastard Gravity   

[MV/Liberace!]

Configuring a Multiprotocol Router for TCP/IP, IPX, Apple Talk, Banyan Vines, Decnet and SNA

heh heh, ipx... that brings back some memories.

[GravitySucks]

Tuning a CB antenna with an SWR meter

[bateman]

If there's anything more satisfying than this, I don't know what it is. Except in stop & go traffic.

[GravitySucks]

If there's anything more satisfying than this, I don't know what it is. Except in stop & go traffic.

You need to get out more.

[Walks_At_Night]

If there's anything more satisfying than this, I don't know what it is. Except in stop & go traffic.

Except you have to move up to a more manly shifter.   Here watch Grumpy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAOxhpEAkQo

[Value Of Pi]

Tuning a CB antenna with an SWR meter

Why is this obsolete? Are the antennas self-tuning now? And what happened to single-side-band? I saw some expensive new CB radios that didn't have it. I thought SSB was the future. At least in the past it was the future.

[akwilly]

Being a god at ms packman and galaga

[Astrid Galactic]

Horseback riding.

Making a Bloody Mary from scratch instead of using one of those nasty, gut renching mixes.