dgar,
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#ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow
#HashtagGames

Rewinding tapes.

Extra points: Rewinding cassette tapes with a pencil.

otte_homan,
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NormanDunbar,
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@otte_homan @dgar Rotary dialling a phone number.

Recording one TV programme at a time, on video tape.

Vinyl records (Ok, making a comeback in the UK).

Cassette tapes (Ok, also coming back!)

Going into the bank to get money.

Paying cash!

Ordering stuff by phone and waiting two week for delivery

#YesImOld

stuartl,
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@NormanDunbar @otte_homan @dgar

I still do pay cash.

I expect to be one of the first people to notice King Charles III on a coin. Or maybe a very rare QEII 2023 coin.

vecrumba,

@NormanDunbar @otte_homan @dgar
Still have a rotary phone.
Still have my high-end VHS VCR.
Still have Time-Life Classical Library, et al.
Never really got into cassette tapes, had a few and a Walkman, never a tape deck.
I still go into a brick-and-mortar bank to do stuff.
However, don't pay cash anymore.
And never ordered anything by phone.

philmyboots,

@vecrumba @NormanDunbar @otte_homan @dgar

Come to Germany. There are still lots of place where you can only pay cash 🙂

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  • ChrisMayLA6,
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    @NormanDunbar @otte_homan @dgar

    In my house #vinylrecords never went away....

    garretguy,

    @NormanDunbar @otte_homan @dgar Using an early hole-in-the-wall machine to extract £10 (the only option) and then having to wait for the bank to send the card back to you in the post before you could use it again.

    jwcph,
    @jwcph@norrebro.space avatar

    @dgar Extra extra points, breaking off the little tab to prevent recording over your awesome mixtape.

    Extra extra extra points, putting a little piece of cello tape over the tab hole to record an even awesome'r mixtape.

    dgar,
    @dgar@aus.social avatar

    @jwcph 😆

    stuartl,
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    @dgar That reminds me… I have to see why the re-wind and fast-forward won't work on my tape deck.

    alice,

    @dgar All the bonus points: rewinding DVDs or de-magnetizing CDs.

    You may think I’m joking?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH4v8b1tGSQ

    dgar,
    @dgar@aus.social avatar

    @alice 😂

    frainfostudent,

    @dgar Having different toll rates for intra- versus inter-LATA (regional versus further afield) phone calls. At least I’m the US. And if you lived in a metropolis like Dallas or Fort Worth, having to understand them to not get a surprise phone bill for calling an intra-LATA bbs for three hours.

    likelyjanlukas,

    @dgar

    Typing papers for other people.

    JustinMac84,

    @dgar I just used to do it with my finger.

    ChrisCPS,
    @ChrisCPS@mstdn.social avatar

    @dgar Changing a stylus on a turntable

    dublugly,

    @dgar

    Roll down car windows

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