Older Adults Are Sharing Their "Outdated Skills," And As A Millennial, I Had To Google Half Of These

— — "Also, rewinding or fast forwarding a cassette by spinning it on a pencil or Bic pen to save the batteries in your Walkman." — — "I spent so much of my teen years learning chemical photography. Thank goodness for digital, but I resent the wasted skill points.

" — — "I tested off the charts on map reading/navigation back in fourth grade. Centuries ago, I could have had a . Now, my brilliance has been usurped by a free app.



" — — — "I used to do that as well. If I had to dial a number more than a couple of times, I'd memorize it. Now I know three numbers: mine, my wife's, and our landline (yes, we are dinosaurs; I give it to businesses that actually need a phone number).

Well, four if you count my home phone number from when I was a kid, which I haven't dialed in nearly 40 years." — — "I learned Morse code around 2005. It was outdated then, and I don’t remember it, but I think it’s good some people still know it.

Just in case." — — "OK, using a slide rule is definitely an outdated skill but wicked cool. I have some of my dad's, and one day, I will figure them out.

I know he showed me the basics like 40 years ago." — — — "I'm 52 and my son is 13. I'm trying to teach him how to write cursive.

I got a card written in cursive just yesterday, and he couldn't read it." — — — "My fourth-grade teacher spent half a day teaching my whole class how to do the subway fold for the New York Times!" — — — — — "I still use Gregg shorthand! I haven't had to use it at work for about 10 years, but I use it for notes for myself all the time. Warning: it ruins your regular handwriting.

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