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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. Feel free to contribute more if you can, and if you have the time, please make a page with a short description of the skill.
Someone also came up with the idea of listing the new skills that have been created that were once unheard of, and that list can be found here.