Listening to a boombox outside was the only one I hadn’t done. My boombox stayed inside 
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I was giving myself a point for having never listened to a boombox outside then realised it didn’t say it had to be my boombox.
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Same on TI 99/4A. It was my age, but the only computer I had for a while.
One paper cheque to pay a small amount for something that would not accept other payments. Can‘t remember what it was.
And filmed to Super 8 format with no sound track! Shouldn‘t that be on the list?
Result is zero, if it does not have to be Blockbuster or Sony Walkman. Was it Aiwa? Or Elsa? Hmm… it was cheap and eating the tape a lot. 
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We didn’t have the money for a Sony either. I had an Aiwa that worked decently. Occasionally the old rubber band and pencil (or just a pencil when it was the right size) trick had to be done, but not too often.
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I feel personally attacked.
I’ve watched a movie on Laserdisc, does that get me to -1 as well?
Also I was the kid with the boombox. Probably because my parents didn’t want it in the house 
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Nope, no minus points.
People of roughly that age group (I’d say youngest boomers to oldest Millenials) have done plenty of things that are not on the list.
The fun thing is that really old people gain points again.
My grandma for exanple never rented a video, taped a song from radio, used a fax machine or dial-up Internet, a floppy disc or a Walkman and thus would have at least 6 points, similar to a friend born in the 2000s.
You could make a list that peaks for people at her age, it would probably include stuff like churning butter by hand, walking behind a plow, using an old school gramophone, using a telephone without any means of dialing, writing telegrams and so on.
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Last gasp gen X, or eldest of millenials here.
Ironically out the list above, the only one I haven’t done I use a telephone with no means of dialing. Honestly fresh home made butter and whipped cream are amazing and pretty easy to make at home.
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That’s funny, because I am also an “Elder Millenial” and one of the two things of that list I did was using a phone with no means of dialing.
We had those in the army, they were called “FF-OB/ZB” (short for “Feldfernsprecher, Ortsbatterie-/Zentralbatteriebetrieb”) and worked surprisingly well.
And yeah, I made butter myself, but in a modern machine and not a butter churn (plunger or barrel type). My grandma had an old plunger-type butter churn as a decoration and had to tell me what it was.
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That’s “Betamax” Mr!
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And Aginor has demonstrated yet again why the highest scores possible in Scrabble are made by using German words. 
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Also we had FM-radio channel broadcasting software. Just record with tape recorder and load with C-64. Amazing.
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Whoa, never heard of! Need to do some googling.
I recall that ZX Spectrum was not able to read from a tape with a crap copy. Maybe the C-64 was more forgiving in that sense?
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I remember I had an Amstraad CPC-6128. It had a 3 inch floppy drive, and the discs (yes, that’s how they were spelled in the manual) would just stop working after some random period of time, or even if you tried to write a file that was too big. I bought an external tape drive (at a non-trivial price for an 8 year old) so that I could load up my friends CPC-464 games. It was crap and slow, but still more reliable than the stupid disc drive.
However, the monitor came with a TV receiver unit and doubled up as my TV for about 10 years or so. I used to watch snooker at night on it. Good times 
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just rewind the tape … Load"" and fiddle with the volume control… and the 64 always took far longer to load anything
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20 here. I’m 64, done all those things
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