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Pat<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@Jason844" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Jason844</span></a></span> denying credit cards to women. 😎</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow</span></a></p>
Layla Low<p>Syncronize our watches by turning the little knob, then make a plan to meet up at a certain place and time. <br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow</span></a> <br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontNow</span></a></p>
Adoxograph<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@Infrogmation" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Infrogmation</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://toad.social/@murodegrizeco" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>murodegrizeco</span></a></span> and we had to call through the list to see where everyone was if we were trying to meet up with multiple people. This took a long time particularly on a rotary phone. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow</span></a></p>
MugsysRapSheet Blog ☑️<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mas.to/@johnettesnuggs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>johnettesnuggs</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@johnmastodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>johnmastodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow</span></a> <br><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/HashtagGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HashtagGames</span></a> <br>Using a Hole Punch to turn a Single-sided floppy disk into a "Double-sided" floppy disk. 🤔</p>
Grumpy Penguin 🇦🇺 🇮🇱 🕯️<p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow</span></a> </p><p>Watch a slide show on a pull-down screen or wall, using an actual slide projector and actual slides</p>
Caracabe<p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontNow</span></a> <br><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow</span></a><br>Look up people’s home addresses and phone numbers in a book that was distributed free every year, and if you didn’t want to have your info listed you had to pay extra.</p>
Trendy Toots<p>Today's top ten tag trends:</p><p>10: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vendredilecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vendredilecture</span></a><br>9: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bruckentag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bruckentag</span></a><br>8: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/thesmiths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thesmiths</span></a><br>7: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WindowFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WindowFriday</span></a><br>6: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/thingsweusedtodobutdontdonow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thingsweusedtodobutdontdonow</span></a><br>5: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rejectedcandy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rejectedcandy</span></a><br>4: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fensterfreitag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fensterfreitag</span></a><br>3: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JukeboxFridayNight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JukeboxFridayNight</span></a><br>2: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/surfingthenewwave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surfingthenewwave</span></a><br>1: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/thingsweusedtodobutdontnow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thingsweusedtodobutdontnow</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trendytoots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trendytoots</span></a> 📈</p>
George Station<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@doctorjaymarie" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>doctorjaymarie</span></a></span> You gave me a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/flashback" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>flashback</span></a> to The World Almanac, which my dad bought for us two years in a row. And which I dipped into and read randomly for grins, not just when I needed to look something up for school.</p><p>(Pictured: the 1966 edition I remember.)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow</span></a></p>
Shaun Burch 🫶<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow</span></a> </p><p>- Sit in front of the TV with friends and play N64 (GoldenEye, Super Smash Bros., Perfect Dark)<br>- Haul a tower / CRT to friends house to play LAN games<br>- Forget to feed a Tamagotchi<br>- Rush home from school to watch DBZ<br>- Swear these beanie babies were going to be worth a lot<br>- Slap holographic cardboard circles<br>- Rip open booster packs looking for that Charizard<br>- Sub-“away message” people on AIM</p><p>(✨ 🧠 away messages were the inspiration for Twitter)</p>
Smerks1109<p>Find a book in the library using the Dewey Decimal card catalog. </p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow</span></a> <br><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/hashtaggames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hashtaggames</span></a></p>
Infrogmation<p>Take photographs, and have to wait for the roll of film to be developed before we found out if we got the intended shot. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow</span></a></p>
Luke MacNeil<p>I went out last night to take an epic 8k time lapse of the milky way. I brought a little robot camera slider out into the wilderness and had it take pictures for a few hours. </p><p>My genius ass had the slider moving in the wrong direction though, away from the milky way. </p><p>Oh Well. Try, Try, Try Again.</p><p><a href="https://home.social/tags/MilkyWay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MilkyWay</span></a> <a href="https://home.social/tags/Failure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Failure</span></a> <a href="https://home.social/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://home.social/tags/Timelapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Timelapse</span></a> <a href="https://home.social/tags/ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow</span></a></p>
Infrogmation<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://toad.social/@murodegrizeco" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>murodegrizeco</span></a></span> <br>Maybe we had the telephone number memorized, maybe we had it written down on a piece of paper. Maybe we carried around a little booklet with the names and numbers we called regularly. <br>And if one needed a number you didn't know and didn't have in your little booklet, that's what the big book hanging down from the pay phone was for. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PayPhone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PayPhone</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow</span></a></p>
Sarah Fackrell<p>Actually apply the statutory requirement of ornamentality to design patents.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow</span></a></p>
Muro deGrizeco :toad:<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@stonebear" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>stonebear</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@doctorjaymarie" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>doctorjaymarie</span></a></span> </p><p>Ooh, Pat Fleet! Was she the Time Lady?</p><p>We used to dial "popcorn" on the phone to get the current time. Maybe just the prefix, 767, and then any four digits. </p><p>And then Time Lady would come on the line and tell you the time!</p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_lady" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_l</span><span class="invisible">ady</span></a></p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TimeLady" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimeLady</span></a></p>
Muro deGrizeco :toad:<p>Stick a coin in one of these, and punch buttons with a number we'd memorized.</p><p>Ooh, or maybe punch in a calling card number, to charge the call to that.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/thingsweusedtodobutdontdonow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thingsweusedtodobutdontdonow</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/payphone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>payphone</span></a></p>
SpaceHistory, etc<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zirk.us/@APBBlue" class="u-url mention">@<span>APBBlue</span></a></span> - I once spent 90 minutes in a travel agency, planning a trip. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow</span></a></p>
Adoxograph<p>Sit in that bench seat that faced backwards in the station wagon<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow</span></a></p>
Tim Ruppert 🌻<p>Study a map before a road trip and use the table to see how many miles between cities. 🚗🗺️<br><a href="https://poboy.social/tags/ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow</span></a>
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