In: Ask Reddit, Humanity, Nostalgia
Skills People Learned Pre-2000s, That Are Completely Useless Today
Man, I used to think I was the king of CD burning.
Napster + CD-RWs + a new Sharpie = Music producer in the 2000s.
Life at the turn of the century trained us in a whole aresenal of now-pointless talents.
Are any of these skills useful today? No.
Do I have a box of hundreds of CD-RWs, mostly all loaded with the song “Blue” by Eiffel 65? Yes.
So it goes.
Here’s a victory lap of gloriously obsolete tricks we’ll never learn, courtesy of users on Reddit answering the question, “People born before 2000, what trivial skill do you have that no one uses anymore?”