Why would we judge you? The poll on that is running about even.
Heh. I’d forgotten even voting in that poll!
It can. But in general, the populace thinks of a bony fish as a fish. I mean, how many times has someone been corrected when they called a Porpoise a “fish”? But the term “fish” has lost all scientific meaning, so - why not?
Somebody’s been watching March Madness today. I didn’t vote.
How in the hell is fair officiating not an option given that I am the official (in the hypothetical)?
No vote.
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My high school was about five miles from the beach. One of the signals that it was going to rain was when we saw seagulls on campus. If we had to have gym class inside the gym because of rain, you could see their webbed feet on the skylights in the roof.
Seconding.
I concur.
Yeah, i skipped that one, too.
I’m not actually sure about the rotary phone, except that it’s been a while. It might have been a decade earlier than I checked. I’m pretty sure about the typewriter, though, because I was doing employees’ W2s on carbon copy forms. The typewriter’s still in the office, underneath a desk, gathering dust.
Yeah, I just took my best guess, but those polls needed an “I don’t remember” option.
Both of my cars have CD players. The daily driver has bluetooth but I use a dedicated MP3 player as I only (occasionally) listen to music when running. I don’t run with my phone & the MP3 player is much smaller & lighter than a phone so it’s better to carry. I don’t keep music on my phone, save both space & battery life that way.
The MP3 player won’t pair with the car despite having bluetooth because the car wants you to enter a code when you pair it & there’s no way to do that on the MP3 player. The car is old enough that non-phone MP3 players were normal when it was new & therefore it’s a huge miss in the vehicle interface.
You’re right. They are more properly called “Eastern Lunch Stealer”.
They are common by her house but not by mine. There is a small strip shopping center around the corner from her & they always sit in one section of the parking lot there. There were 50+ the other morning. All I can guess is that there is some underground piping there that makes that section warmer than the rest of the lot.
Agreed. I’m pretty sure when i last used a typewriter, but today phones? Floppy disks? A long time ago, but using them wasn’t very notable, so neither was it notable when i stopped using them.
(I remember hanging onto the rotary phone for a while because the phone company charged a little extra to upgrade to touch tone, and i didn’t care enough to pay for it. So… Whenever it became free, or the phone company forced it on me, i guess.)
When I was 16 or 17 (in the late 70s) my parents became so annoyed with my living room phone calls that they got me my own push-button phone in my bedroom (not a Princess, however, just a standard block phone). I probably used the dial once or twice after that, but I said 70s.
I would disagree with that. Considering we’re not exactly conducting scientific research here, your best guess is perfectly fine for these polls. I don’t see the need for an “I don’t remember” option.
I do remember the last time I used a typewriter – filling out college applications, which would have been 1997. I think that was actually the only time I ever used a typewriter to create a real document. My family had a computer since the late 1980s, so most school papers and such would have been written in a word processor. I only need the typewriter in this case because I needed to fill in fields on the colleges’ paper application forms. That was probably the very end of the era where you had to fill out college applications on paper.
Rotary phones: My parents replaced the old 1970s rotary wall phone in the kitchen when they remodeled the kitchen circa 1990. So most likely I last used it in the 1980s, maybe the very first part of 1990 at the latest. I guess it’s possible I used one at a friend’s house in the 1990s, but I think 1980s seems most likely.
Floppy disks: I bought my last computer with a floppy drive in 2005. Even then, Dell didn’t offer them standard; I remember having to pay extra to get a floppy drive. As it turned out I didn’t really use the floppy drive all that much, but I did use it a few times. I replaced that computer in 2008ish and I didn’t bother putting a floppy drive in the new PC, so last floppy drive usage would have been 2005-08.
So, you have a good guess. I don’t. 
Typewriter thread: I answered never. I’m younger than a lot of posters (born mid 1970s) so I did learn to type on a typewriter in high school, but I also had a computer with a crappy dot matrix printer by then. So anything I wrote after I learned to touch type was computer printed.
So plenty of documents created on a typewriter, but none reaching the “useful” criterea.
Rotary phone: Last used in the 1990s. Very early 1990s, I was was in summer camp near Bemidji, MN, and spent one night in a cheap hotel before flying home. That place looked like it hadn’t been updated since the 1960s and was dingy. Not dirty, but tired, old and warn down (and cheap). They had one of those big clunky rotary phones built like a tank at the front desk where you could make local calls (under supervision) for free. I used it to get a taxi to the airport, and that was the last time IIRC.
Floppy disk: 2010s, a 3.5" floppy, but a special case. My wife, who was working on her masters and PhD was dealing with lots of ancient equipment that had lots of limitations on media. And of course the school had no budget, so we ended up buying our OWN 3.5" drive and a dozen disks (hard to get!) so she could connect to the antique machines, bring the disc and drive to her more-or-less modern device in her school office, and then load the information to the local drive. I helped set up the initial config and formatted the discs, along with a couple of test files to make sure it was working.
I don’t think I ever used a floppy; because by the time I got a computer it was 2002 and it was already using CD’s.
I have a working rotary phone in my basement, an old payphone. However I admit I haven’t used it recently because I have my fax machine plugged into the payphone’s jack. It’s this style of payphone
https://i.postimg.cc/J4TWM6fC/Payphone.jpg
Nice. My father has the old candlestick phone and ring box from the farmhouse my mother hrew up in.