Obsolete Skills Website

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http://obsoleteskills.com/

Robert Scoble came up with the idea in a recent blog post to make a list of 'obsolete skills.' He describes these skills as things we used to know that are no longer very useful to us, a few examples include:

Dialing a rotary phone
Putting a needle on a vinyl record
Changing tracks on an eight-track tape
Shorthand
Using a slide rule
Refilling a fountain pen
Operating a dictaphone
Using the eraser ribbon on a typewriter

The community has started to create a much larger list of these obsolete skills, check out the full A-Z list.
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Note: Cursive handwriting is on the list. I confirm that this is a skill that is being lost. I know young people who can't write in cursive other than to sign their names.