Um, flirting? Since when did that go obsolete?

Freethinking has been made obsolete by modern media coverage? Think again.

Blowing The Dust Out Of A Nintendo Cartridge

How about anything involving math and a pen and paper.

I smell and elljay meme.

i have a red rotary phone just like the one in the theme pic. it weighs about 5 pounds and confuses most people age 25 and under - i've actually had to show people how to dial it...

Killing all the megafauna on a continent was another one that caught my eye. I'm not entirely sure that we don't still try in one way or another.

Come again?

I probably do not remember how to change the ribbon of a typewriter. And I bet my kids wouldn't know one if they saw one!

Can getting up off the couch to change the channel really be thought of as a skill? I suppose if you somersault and stick the landing it could.

I have well over half of those 'obsolete' skills, and I've had to use several of them in the past year.

The title should be changed to "Obsolete Skills for People Who Live in Giant Cities Who Will be Clueless when Left in the Country or the Bush"

Damn, you beat me to it.

How? I thought those phones were self explanatory.

I have a LOT of these skills. I used to be "The Man" when it came to loading device drivers in the right order to fill similarly sized gaps in the Upper Memory Area, leaving DOS with as much lower memory as possible. Ah, C:> prompt... sigh.

i always thought so too, i certainly never had any problems as a kid. touch tone dialing replaced the rotary and i've met a few younger people who'd never seen one before, they thought the push buttons were in the holes and didn't know you had to turn the dial.

Livejournal meme... something my friends seem to be awfully fond of. Basically, list all the things you can dooooo....

They never watched vintage cartoons I take it.

You know, it's a wiki, so go right in and edit it :P

i'm guessing not. i know people who've never seen an episode of 'i love lucy' or 'the carol burnett show', and never heard of 'penny candy', 8 track tapes or metal skates that you strapped onto your shoes so you could skate on the sidewalk. they've never seen a train go by that had a caboose attached at the end and a guy in the window waving at the kids in the cars. the stuff just isn't around anymore. kinda like how i grew up not knowing who fibber mcgee and molly was and never experienced life without television (although back then we only had 4 channels and tv signed off the air every night). it happens to every generation...