I came across this list of obsolete skills. Reading it just makes me feel old. Some of the more ancient skills I possess:

• Adjusting a television’s vertical and horizontal holds
• Adjusting the levels for recording to audio tape
• Balancing the tone-arm on a turntable
• Changing the C120 film cartridge in an Instamatic camera (yes, I had one)
• Editing audio tape with a razor blade and splicing block (video tape too!)
• Typing in code for “freeware” programs from a computer magazine
• Using Gopher (the early days of the internet before the world-wide-web)
• Loading data from a cassette tape (my first computer, an Atari 800 had a tape drive)
• Punching a hole in the shell of a single-sided 5.25″ floppy disc to make it double-sided (I even owned a special hole-punch for this)
• Rewinding an audio cassette using a pen or pencil
• Ripping the little holes off the sides of continuous feed computer paper
• Setting a baud rate, parity and stop-bits
• Setting up a modem using AT commands
• Switching a cars headlights to high beams by stomping a button on the floor
• Using a flash cube (on my Instamatic camera, of course)

All now useless bits of information, just taking up brain cells…