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I have done all except: Never had a MySpace account, never ordered from Columbia House, never had an AOL account.

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Holly molly, I scored a 20. Somebody beat me please.
 
Also 20. I had a Compuserve account - predates AOL. Still have the LPs from Columbia.
 
Basil: I have done all except: Never had a MySpace account, never ordered from Columbia House, never had an AOL account.

Same here! All others - I did often, and remember well.
 
Things that were omitted from that list:
Use a phone booth
Get on a plane with a paper ticket
Adjust the rabbit ears
Have the gas station attendant fill your tank
 
23 here - no MySpace account. Don't even know what that is/was...
 
Have the gas station attendant fill your tank

Remember when they were called "service stations"? Batteries on display, fanbelts on the wall by the cash register, lube hoses hanging from overhead reels, the "ding ding" bell when someone drove over the customer cables?.

Come to think of it - are they still called "cash registers"?
 
NutmegCT said:
Remember this?


Ah, the sweet sound of 300 baud.
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Not only do I remember it, I once ran a very popular dial up "bulletin board". I had four phone lines coming into my house and four US Robotics 14.4k high speed modems. One of the modems was one that I won in a contest that US Robotics had to design a logo for their use on their own bulletin board. I designed an ansi-based logo and won a new modem.
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I'm at 21 as well. No MySpace, Columbia or AOL.

Had a P.I. pal who went to the expense of having a T-1 line run to his house, set up a small server farm in his garage. He "rented" access to folks.
 
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