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In reply to the discussion: Name something you used to do that today's whippersnappers have never heard of. [View all]Still Blue in PDX
(1,999 posts)Oh, wait . . . we do that with the wireless router when Netflix doesn't connect in the front room.
Okay, I got some.
When the un/plugging didn't work, taking TV tubes to the store to test them.
Adjusting the rabbit ears on top of the TV to get the picture just right. Trying to get back to the couch without the picture going wonky again.
When all the above didn't work, calling a TV repairman instead of just buying a new TV.
Putting colored cellophane on the front of a B&W TV to make it "color."
Calling the reference desk at the big library downtown instead of googling.
Having a 7-digit phone number, and the first two were letters, not numbers. My parents' phone number started with BU9 for Butler-9; then it became 289.
Going to an actual mom 'n' pop store where the owners lived upstairs in that building, and getting a lollipop from the guy at the counter working a big fancy cash register with lots of buttons that wasn't computerized.
Reheating leftovers in the oven.
Messing with a dot matrix printer trying to get the paper aligned and feeding correctly.