I used the comic section from the Sunday newspaper.

This should still be important. What you or your kids become separated and they have no battery power on their phone, so they have to find another phone, or their phone gets lost/stolen?

This is still relevant i think

Be kind, rewind

I loved doing this in 4th grade lol

My daughters are 14 and 15 and they were both taught it as well

I made a teddy bear for my gf from a kit in the evenings whilst I was stuck in hotels for work. I overstuffed him a little and he was known as "muscly bear". :D

I got kicked out of trival pursuit matches in my friend group. My husband is a wealth of sports trivia. I'm more of a generalist.

And understand the meaning of "I have the 1" when the total is £9.01. ;-)

The local libraries still use them here, but the database is on the computers.

Address is needed if you send a physical letter/ card. Everyone still likes to get these!

Very bad idea in modern cars, as you can poison the catalytic convertor. I had to bump start my first car in the basement of the apartment building I lived in - had to get a neighbour to help who dumped the clutch whilst I pushed. I was very trusting of her, as she had to put the clutch straight back in again before we hit the wall at the far end!

I had a 3-in-1 that could record to audio cassette from TV. I still have the Dallas episode of Who Shot JR?

Long time since I did it, but we had a darkroom at school and I have developed my own B&W photos in there.

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Reading a map and orientating yourself without GPS is essential if you move around in the wild. You need to be able to find your way even if the phone/gps gadget gives up.

Still have a landline and I find it useful. I have it for my apartment buzzer and in case of emergencies where we can't find our phone or the battery is dead. I have both a cordless and corded one.

Follow the folds

Try programming in Cobol

Oh god. I hate this. My mum has a phone that still uses it and it takes me ages to get back into doing when she asks me to update her contacts for her!

Still the most common type of car in the UK (approx 70%). Much better to learn on that and then get an automatic than the other way round.

I remember being so terribly bored back when I was a teen it made me lightheaded. There was nothing I wanted to do. The feeling was like an extreme cringed out feeling. Haven't felt it since I've been an adult. I don't think I get bored at all. There's always something to do.

Mix tapes

I can fold the edges into little paper stars... I may still have a box of them hiding in the back of a.closet somewhere, which I intended to string into Christmas tree garland. I suppose that has been a work-in-progress for 25-30 years now.

I dusted off my grey box Nintendo for my daughter when she was young. She thought I had magic powers, because I could get a cartridge to work by blowing in it and fidgeting with how it was seated.

Came in handy if someone had put a lock on the dial.

Working on IT, I still use DOS commands regularly. Some Windows system administration tasks are still not implemented in Powershell, so sometimes it is still just easier to write a batch file.

BP missed this k n o b!

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How about titian?