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Obsolete Technical Skills
Ponca City, We Love You writes "Robert Scoble had an interesting post on his blog a few days ago on obsolete technical skills — 'things we used to know that no longer are very useful to us.' Scoble's initial list included dialing a rotary phone, using carbon paper to make copies, and changing the gas mixture on your car's carburetor. The list has now been expanded into a wiki with a much larger list of these obsolete skills that includes resolving IRQ conflicts on a mother board, assembly language programming, and stacking a quarter on an arcade game to indicate you have next. We're invited to contribute more."
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Of course it's obsolete.
Another thing that's obsolete is like maths, because we always have calculators now.
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You ever tried to write 5318008 or 71077345 on a computer and then turn the monitor upside-down? Calculators are not - and will never be - obsolete and there, gentlemen, I rest my case.
I was gonna simply say sex, which became an obsolete skill once I got married.