Skills you have that are obsolete

I'll start: Print newspaper design and driving a manual transmission.

 

I know a lot of great Polack jokes.

 

I used to be an ace at X-acto knife target throwing.

 

You can still get a stick.

 

Identify the year and company of any baseball card on sight.


Change my own oil.

 

Yeah, but I could very easily live out my days without ever driving one again. Unless I somehow get rich and buy a Lotus or something.

Cursive still technically exists too, but has pretty thoroughly outlived its usefulness.

 

Hooking a Trash-80 to a phone using couplers

 

Paying for porn.

 

Adjusting the timing on a V8 (or straight 6) with mechanical points and a timing gun; and also adjusting air/fuel mixture on a 4 barrel carb to max efficiency.

 

Hooking up a VCR.

 

Obsolete skill: Striking a match on a matchbook.

I actually came to the Anything Goes board with the idea of starting a thread on products you never see anymore. Got the idea from a Facebook post where someone put up pictures of matchbooks from her grandfather's old tavern. Made me think, "When is the last time I've ever even seen a matchbook?"

Anyone who smokes has a lighter. And there are now those bigger, long lighters for lighting your grill or your campfire.

Taverns used to have matchbooks all the time for their patrons who smoked. Now you can't smoke in a tavern.

 

Minimizing the transition of songs on "mixed tapes."