The only one I could not get was the record player speed selector. I thought I was looking at a solid object and could not tell that the black portion was a slot and not a part of the object. If it were better drawn then I would have figured it out.
Also the ones I ever saw said 33, 45, 78, or just 33 and 45. I had several turntables in my lifetime and none ever said “16” speed.
I remember, a few years back, I was listening to the pop radio station, and The Chainsmokers’ “Lemme Take a Selfie” played. And all I could think was, this is the DUMBEST song I’ve ever heard.
I would not have figured out the car cigarette lighter. The shops are scattered about, but there are old audio repair and restorations around (for old boom boxes et al). Y’might can still get a floppy disc reader that will fit a pc’s usb port. Many files may no longer be readable, but you could still regain some of the text documents.
A floppy disk is still the icon used for the “save” button on most programs. They’ll have to change that, since fewer and fewer people know what a floppy disk is. I’ve only come across one program that has changed it – the Linux text editor Xed.
It’s not on there, but I always thought that the headlight dimmer was better on the floorboard. Also, I explained a car cigarette lighter to my grandson just yesterday.
The truly fun thing is the mystified look on all of those young people’s faces as they look at those objects before confessing that they have no idea what they are.
You’re old if you remember when you had to get up and walk across the room to change the TV channel. And sooner or later , the knob would fall off and get lost, so then you turned the spindle with a pair of needle nose pliers.
My 24-year-old car has a cigarette lighter. It still has a use: There’s this thing called an “FM modulator” that you can plug into it with a flash drive, and it plays the music on the flash drive through the radio.
Personally, I think the image of the page should have been the first frame, including only the “how many” question. This would allow those of us who start with the first frame to try without seeing their answers. Then the second frame they answer, and the third we get told we are old.
And I can identify them all, and that more than half of them are younger versions.
Kinda funny that we still use the floppy disk (well, the “stiffy” disk) as a universal “save information” indicator when we’re three generations removed from its common use.
How does identifying a “foot measuring device” make you old? I haven’t had to have my shoe size measured in decades, but don’t they still use those same devices? If not, then how do children and adolescents whose feet are still growing find out what their current shoe size is?
That one on the bottom right is a diskette, or a “ket.” A floppy disk was larger (5 1/4 inches) and made of thin cardboard. A ket was 3 1/2 inches made of plastic.
Omg, I still have my records, my cassette tapes and cd’s. And I watched the landing on the moon in 1969, drinking tang while Armstrong made his first step. Man, I’m old!
16 in a phonograph? I had to Google that one. (Actually 16⅔, which is ½of the 33⅓) They were quite rare and were never considered commercially viable as they were mainly for spoken word, not music. My first record player was in the early 60s. My parents had a nice one for the time that likely dated to the mid-50s. And I have had many different turntables over the years. Every single one was 78-33⅓-45. I never saw one with 16 rpm.
16 RPM phonograph record?? When did that happen? (I would have guessed, in a pinch, 33 45 78, but I don’t remember ever seeing a turntable that would play both 33 and 78 rpm.)
rclarksworld 3 months ago
Guess I’m old, too.
Asharah 3 months ago
I’m old
PaulAbbott2 3 months ago
Yep, knew them all
Panufo 3 months ago
At least phonograph records are coming back…
kangtourcat Premium Member 3 months ago
The one that measures your foot is called a Branock Device. Now old does that make me?
Baslim the Beggar Premium Member 3 months ago
Also, the fact that you are reading this on a sheet of paper instead of a screen is a dead giveaway to your age…
Notaspy 3 months ago
They still use foot measurers at shoe stores
snsurone76 3 months ago
They ID’d six out of eight items—not exactly “aced”.
Enter.Name.Here 3 months ago
The only one I could not get was the record player speed selector. I thought I was looking at a solid object and could not tell that the black portion was a slot and not a part of the object. If it were better drawn then I would have figured it out.
Also the ones I ever saw said 33, 45, 78, or just 33 and 45. I had several turntables in my lifetime and none ever said “16” speed.
Johnny Q Premium Member 3 months ago
I remember when floppy discs were LITERALLY floppy!
thevideostoreguy 3 months ago
It happens when you least expect it.
I remember, a few years back, I was listening to the pop radio station, and The Chainsmokers’ “Lemme Take a Selfie” played. And all I could think was, this is the DUMBEST song I’ve ever heard.
And that’s when I got old.
Mordock999 Premium Member 3 months ago
Gee.
They left out:
Typewriters.
Phone booths.
Those X-Ray Machines that they used to have in shoe stores where you could look at the bones in your feet for GAW only knows what reason.
And a roll of caps and cap guns from back in the day when parents weren’t so Nam-by Pam-by about letting their kids play with them.
And oh how I miss the smell of fresh fired caps. ;-)
Wilkins068 3 months ago
Heck I still have most of those things layin around here somewhere..
kendavis09 3 months ago
Where can I buy a Boom-Box that does it all?
hfergus Premium Member 3 months ago
There are pull tabs that remove the whole top of my dogs canned dog food. Also the same for some soup cans.
Aladar30 Premium Member 3 months ago
Whoever writes these quizzes has a weird sense of humor and I love it! I have no idea what a Flash cube or a Phonograph speed changer is.
live2read 3 months ago
Aren’t these jokes about being old getting, well, old?
WaitingMan 3 months ago
My car is a 2014. No cigarette lighter. No ash trays. What is this world coming to?!?!
OneTime59 3 months ago
I would not have figured out the car cigarette lighter. The shops are scattered about, but there are old audio repair and restorations around (for old boom boxes et al). Y’might can still get a floppy disc reader that will fit a pc’s usb port. Many files may no longer be readable, but you could still regain some of the text documents.
SeaSnork 3 months ago
Officially old.
noktar Premium Member 3 months ago
What you used in the past will get you caught
Purple People Eater 3 months ago
A floppy disk is still the icon used for the “save” button on most programs. They’ll have to change that, since fewer and fewer people know what a floppy disk is. I’ve only come across one program that has changed it – the Linux text editor Xed.
French Persons Premium Member 3 months ago
Why is it on a piece of paper?
LawrenceS 3 months ago
There were 16 rpm records?
And what if you had a 78 rpm shellac disk you wanted to play? (From the days before vinyl.)
mourdac Premium Member 3 months ago
Rotary dial phone. B/W TV. Newspaper. Too many others.
SquidGamerGal 3 months ago
Aw, you’re just upset there are no more woolly mammoths to hunt, Frank!
[Traveler] Premium Member 3 months ago
It’s not on there, but I always thought that the headlight dimmer was better on the floorboard. Also, I explained a car cigarette lighter to my grandson just yesterday.
Gen.Flashman 3 months ago
Old enough to remember shoe stores having x-ray machines to check fit. If they are about 50 they would have been in high school in 1990s
GerryRoss 3 months ago
And how many folks out there actually had 16 RPM records?
Newenglandah 3 months ago
I got them all, but the record speed changer should have had a 78 rpm setting.
Ellis97 3 months ago
I can name all those things.
GirlGeek Premium Member 3 months ago
I remember the credit card machine from old movies lol
Ignatz Premium Member 3 months ago
What? No plastic yellow 45-record adapter?
divingpetrel Premium Member 3 months ago
The truly fun thing is the mystified look on all of those young people’s faces as they look at those objects before confessing that they have no idea what they are.
BillGrigg 3 months ago
We might be old, but at least we know stuff!
davidlwashburn 3 months ago
I don’t mind being officially old. It means I’m still alive.
timzsixty9 3 months ago
oh BOY….I needed a REMINDER!
ranck1967 3 months ago
oww
eced52 3 months ago
At least his brain still works.
Namrepus 3 months ago
You’re old if you remember when you had to get up and walk across the room to change the TV channel. And sooner or later , the knob would fall off and get lost, so then you turned the spindle with a pair of needle nose pliers.
BJDucer 3 months ago
Uh-oh…….Not only did I identify them all, but it was so EASY to do so.
baskate_2000 3 months ago
Been there, done that …..
chassimmons Premium Member 3 months ago
How about the ability to produce cursive text and perform long division?
Ignatz Premium Member 3 months ago
My 24-year-old car has a cigarette lighter. It still has a use: There’s this thing called an “FM modulator” that you can plug into it with a flash drive, and it plays the music on the flash drive through the radio.
mindjob 3 months ago
If cameras didn’t go digital, flash cubes might have evolved into flash octahedrons
mike75035 3 months ago
Brannock Device = “foot measurer”. :)
divad27182 3 months ago
Personally, I think the image of the page should have been the first frame, including only the “how many” question. This would allow those of us who start with the first frame to try without seeing their answers. Then the second frame they answer, and the third we get told we are old.
And I can identify them all, and that more than half of them are younger versions.
The Wolf In Your Midst 3 months ago
Kinda funny that we still use the floppy disk (well, the “stiffy” disk) as a universal “save information” indicator when we’re three generations removed from its common use.
Darwinskeeper 3 months ago
The only one I missed was the phonograph speed changer, mostly because I didn’t see the numbers. Mind you, I didn’t need this test to know I’m old.
Rob Smith Premium Member 3 months ago
You call that a floppy disk? Why, I still have an 8 inch disk that holds (if I remember correctly) 80 kilobytes.
jpooch99 3 months ago
Yes, if it had been for the current generation, it would have been a picture of a smart phone and nothing else!
gigagrouch 3 months ago
If you remember 16rpm discs, you really are old!
prrdh 3 months ago
You call that a floppy disk?
MuddyUSA Premium Member 3 months ago
They gotcha!!
ncorgbl 3 months ago
I did. I am.
But far too many close to me did not.
Retrac Premium Member 3 months ago
Good one! I asked my 45 year old daughter if her teenage daughters could connect the names with the correct object. They are baffled.
rob 3 months ago
A phone cord really shouldn’t be included since most businesses still use landlines.
Just-me 3 months ago
I knew them all, including the Brannock Device, the foot measuring tool.
sheashea 3 months ago
I’m proud to be officially old.
Joe1962 3 months ago
I guess i’m old! They left out phone cord.
poppacapsmokeblower 3 months ago
If you’re really old you remember floppy disks in paper sleeves, not protected in plastic. Unfortunately, I remember paper tape and core memory.
fjc007 3 months ago
16?
AZfroggie 3 months ago
I believe the “foot measurer” is called a Brannick device (not sure of the spelling).
Lord King Wazmo Premium Member 3 months ago
Frank is a joyless fuddy-duddy and Nancy’s a ditz. They deserve each other.
atomicdog 3 months ago
Aced it.
txmystic 3 months ago
Anyone ever step on one of those old pull tabs?
…several times a day?
seismic-2 Premium Member 3 months ago
How does identifying a “foot measuring device” make you old? I haven’t had to have my shoe size measured in decades, but don’t they still use those same devices? If not, then how do children and adolescents whose feet are still growing find out what their current shoe size is?
Lynnjav 3 months ago
Or perhaps you are simply aware of things around you.
The Quiet One 3 months ago
Yeah, that’s how it usually works.
Scoutmaster77 3 months ago
That foot measuring thing is a Branok device…
Hello Sweetie 3 months ago
The foot measurer is still to be found in shoe stores. Took the kiddos to get their new shoes yesterday and all of them used it.
sjsczurek 3 months ago
That one on the bottom right is a diskette, or a “ket.” A floppy disk was larger (5 1/4 inches) and made of thin cardboard. A ket was 3 1/2 inches made of plastic.
namelocdet 3 months ago
Foot measuring device AKA Brannock Device.
WF11 3 months ago
The foot measuring thing (whatever it’s called) is still used, isn’t it? What is it called anyway? I have no idea.
JPuzzleWhiz 3 months ago
For those who are interested, here’s today’s omitted title panel:
Https://fostersdailydemocrat-nh.Newsmemory.com/
JPuzzleWhiz 3 months ago
(It’s on Page 4 of the comics section.)
anaditz 3 months ago
Here’s an idea: What about a week with a storyline focusing on the dad? We don’t even know what he does for a living.
Geophyzz 3 months ago
That is not a floppy disc. It is a stiffy; but I don’t remember which came first.
FireAnt_Hater 3 months ago
I knew them all, and I already knew I am old… Getting older beats the heck out of the alternative.
sincavage05 3 months ago
Omg, I still have my records, my cassette tapes and cd’s. And I watched the landing on the moon in 1969, drinking tang while Armstrong made his first step. Man, I’m old!
BlitzMcD 3 months ago
“Old”, meh. I have 78s in my record collection. Age is a state of mind.
rugeirn 3 months ago
It’s the Brannock Device.
carpediem329 3 months ago
I forgot about flash cubes!
limarick 3 months ago
16 in a phonograph? I had to Google that one. (Actually 16⅔, which is ½of the 33⅓) They were quite rare and were never considered commercially viable as they were mainly for spoken word, not music. My first record player was in the early 60s. My parents had a nice one for the time that likely dated to the mid-50s. And I have had many different turntables over the years. Every single one was 78-33⅓-45. I never saw one with 16 rpm.
Kenmazing 3 months ago
They’re really old if they are playing that game from a piece of paper!
patrickab7 3 months ago
8/8.
Aww…
lnrokr55 3 months ago
Foot sizer (or shoe sizers?) still come in handy, at least for kids
[Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce] 3 months ago
The tobacco industry once ruled the world when theyput ashtrays in cars. But we have DRIVEN T HE INVADERS INTO THE SEA!!
AndrewSihler 2 months ago
16 RPM phonograph record?? When did that happen? (I would have guessed, in a pinch, 33 45 78, but I don’t remember ever seeing a turntable that would play both 33 and 78 rpm.)
DevilDog2001 Premium Member 2 months ago
“Foot Measurer?” That’s a BRANNOCK DEVICE! And shoe stores still use those!
Argythree 2 months ago
Why no new ’toon for August 19?
montylc2001 2 months ago
Actually the foot measurer is still used in many shoe stores.
hcreagan33 2 months ago
Isn’t the foot measurer still in use?