I don't know if this list makes feel old or not (I used to have to use a lot of these skills, dangit!), but this list is a great illustration of how technology can have a direct impact on how we live our lives. At one time people had to spend some portion of their lives mastering these skills to survive. Now you can get by without them just fine. Heck, you might be like me and not even remember that you had one or more of these skills at one time in the distant past!

Some examples:

• Adjusting the rabbit ears on a TV.
• Adjusting the horizontal and vertical hold on a TV.
• Balancing the tone arm on a turntable.
• Booting off a floppy disc.
• Churning butter.
• Config.sys editing.
• Dialing a rotary telephone.
• Typing in "freeware" programs from a magazine.
• Looking up information with Gopher.
• Programming Hypercard.
• Lining up the paper on a dot-matrix printer.
• Sending Morse code.
• Making popcorn on top of the stove with a pan and oil.
• Operating a mimeograph machine.
• Typing ditto stencils.
• Setting up a modem using AT commands.
• Using a sliderule.
• Programming a VCR.
• Inserting formatting codes in WordPerfect.
• Creating multi-disc ZIP file archives.