"How to load paper into a dot matrix printer."
"I can wire two VCR’s together to pirate movies onto blank video tapes."
"I can develop and print black-and-white film."
"I can load slides into a projector for a presentation.
I can also prepare transparent sheets (acetates/overheads) for a different type of presentation."
"Lifting the other phone in the house up silently and breathing quietly and not laughing, to be able to listen in on your family’s phone conversations."
"I can remember several landline phone numbers."
"Start and drive away in a car with a choke."
"Stop recording before the DJ starts talking."
"I know how to use a microfiche reader."
"I commune with the mysteries of the rotary dial phone."
"Use a pencil to fix my tape of MC Hammer, hate it when it gets eaten up by the tape recorder."
"I can imitate the busy signal tone perfectly."
"If we go bowling, I can keep score on a sheet of paper."
"I have the magical ability to … MAIL MERGE. Seriously, no one on my staff can grasp this function."
"I know how to use a rotary phone. I can decide if a floppy disk should be write protected or not. I know how to make a collect call. I have used a TV that has a dial, not a remote."
"Someone from a third world country here: Sharpening a pencil by safety blades, professionally wrapping books with brown paper or any other paper, polishing shoes with brush and wax."
"I know how to use a slide rule."
"DOS commands, and that the A: and B: drives are for floppy disks, which is why your hard drive is C:."'
"I know how to take apart a VCR, clean the heads manually (usually using vodka and a cotton swab), and put it all back together. Also, I can replace the housing on a VHS tape and still have it be playable, the trick is to fast forward and rewind it slowly a few times to re-tension the tape spool.
Growing up poor without internet gives you lots of motivation to find and fix stuff you couldn’t afford, but people threw away once it was “a little bit broken.”"
"I know how to clean roller PC mouse."
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