You're making a much bigger fuss of operating a slide projector than it really is or was. For different reasons, getting a modern LCD projector to show images off your laptop can be just as error prone.
I'd agree with all of your "lost skills" except for cooking. If RUclips is any indicator, it's just as common a skill as it's ever been. In fact, I've been cooking at home a whole lot more than ever these days thanks to great online recipes available for more exotic dishes which I loved at restaurants but never believed I could make myself. I'm now fairly skilled at Thai, East Indian, and Mexican cuisine. I've got a chicken adobo marinating in my fridge even as I write this which will feed me all this coming week.
Sometimes the person on the other end of the phone call was playing a prank. Or maybe it was more sinister. I was threatened with being killed by someone. I never found out who it was.
I still keep a landline...comes in handy when a cell phone is lost or broken. I can read a map, which took critical thinking, not a finger swipe. Plenty of us can sew, repairing rather than replacing. Of course, we are cooking ( a silly inclusion here) and being able to drive a stick shift is still a matter of pride! Schools are bringing back cursive instruction because they have realized that perhaps cell phones have a downside too. We've gained but we've also lost..skills that took effort, actually problem solving and resulted in a feeling of accomplishment.
What I know about computers and smart phones can be written on one side of a postit note. I do, however. know how to red red line a high performance big block V8 with a four barrel carb and a four on the floor.
I would LIKE to say that this is really nothing compared to the rate at which today's "life skills" are being obsoleted; except that mosty of today's life skills require little more than a joystick, so it's hard to see them in the same category.
video has not much idea of these things, like manual gearshift is still the norm in europe, not a boomer thing, also reading a paper map is 100 times easyer as depicted here...
You're making a much bigger fuss of operating a slide projector than it really is or was. For different reasons, getting a modern LCD projector to show images off your laptop can be just as error prone.
My generation is the last to remember using the landline phones.
I still have a landline phone in my house. I still balance my checkbook.
Punch cards. “Do not fold, bend, staple or mutilate “ unfortunately I did that once. 😳
I have essential tremors and I can’t write legibly anymore. ☹️
I'd agree with all of your "lost skills" except for cooking. If RUclips is any indicator, it's just as common a skill as it's ever been. In fact, I've been cooking at home a whole lot more than ever these days thanks to great online recipes available for more exotic dishes which I loved at restaurants but never believed I could make myself. I'm now fairly skilled at Thai, East Indian, and Mexican cuisine. I've got a chicken adobo marinating in my fridge even as I write this which will feed me all this coming week.
The Americas never had Channel 1
It was useed by radio ameturs
They still call it the 6 Meter Band
Cursive was actually made for thee fountain pen
Sometimes the person on the other end of the phone call was playing a prank. Or maybe it was more sinister. I was threatened with being killed by someone. I never found out who it was.
My car is manual and relatively new - it's not a lost skill.
In fact, automatic transmission is over 110 years old.
really? cooking skill is obsolete?... guess the new generation is rich to be able to afford dinning out... LOL
I went to school for cooking...in 2008
I still keep a landline...comes in handy when a cell phone is lost or broken. I can read a map, which took critical thinking, not a finger swipe. Plenty of us can sew, repairing rather than replacing. Of course, we are cooking ( a silly inclusion here) and being able to drive a stick shift is still a matter of pride!
Schools are bringing back cursive instruction because they have realized that perhaps cell phones have a downside too. We've gained but we've also lost..skills that took effort, actually problem solving and resulted in a feeling of accomplishment.
You should have mentioned the fact that it’s called the Dewey decimal system. Plus, if you knew how to use it, it was very effective, and quite quick.
What I know about computers and smart phones can be written on one side of a postit note. I do, however. know how to red red line a high performance big block V8 with a four barrel carb and a four on the floor.
I would LIKE to say that this is really nothing compared to the rate at which today's "life skills" are being obsoleted; except that mosty of today's life skills require little more than a joystick, so it's hard to see them in the same category.
My MSDOS command line skill is now obsolete. Unless I want to hack something.
Landline phones were still being used when milenials were young, transmission in cars is still used widely outside USA, is this channel led by zoomer?
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Kinda burried the lede here- "calculator" used to be a job title.
Held mostly by women as it was seen as lower work.
video has not much idea of these things, like manual gearshift is still the norm in europe, not a boomer thing, also reading a paper map is 100 times easyer as depicted here...
Annoying comment here: first! 😂😂😂