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."

Comments

Punch Cards

[tekrat]

Now that's an obsolete skill!
I'll bet half the readers of Slashdot have never even seen a punch card in real life.

Now get off my lawn!

One more for the list:

[megaditto]

Putting on a condom.

Face it, it's true. Either you are a geek not likely to get laid, or you are a hot trash stud that could use the kids to get a bigger welfare check. In neither of these cases you actually need to know how to operate a condom.