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Obsolete Skills

Ther's been a meme running throujgh the blogosphere lately on things we learned in the past that are now best forgotten. Indeed, I think this is one of those times where I feel like a geezer - I've forgotten more than I know now. And, be warned, describing any of these obsolete skills around teens will result in eye-rolling.

Anyway, there is a long list here:

Obsolete Skills

Don't just read the list. Some are quite under debate (e.g. Dewey Decimal System)

Yes I have dialed phones, adjusted rabbit ears, and used white-out.

As for libraries, there are a few that I knew and I depended on in my early career (cue the eye-rolling):

Using Gestetner copiers
Making ditto copies
Using Carbon paper
Filling out ILL forms by hand
Using a Selectric and using different type balls
Networking CD-Roms
Unjamming pin feed paper
Using old catalogue cards for note paper
Wiggling telephone handsets into rubber couplers
Lifitng the cover on the sound baffle over the printer

Ah, nostalgia.

Stephen

Full post as published by Stephen's Lighthouse on March 03, 2008 (boomark / email).