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Robert Scoble [[http://scobleizer.com/2008/02/16/obsolete-skills/|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:

  * [[Skills/DialingARotaryPhone|Dialing a rotary phone]]
  * [[Skills/PuttingANeedleOnAVinylRecord|Putting a needle on a vinyl record]]
  * [[Skills/ChangingTracksOnAnEight-trackTape|Changing tracks on an eight-track tape]]
  * [[Skills/Shorthand|Shorthand]]
  * [[Skills/UsingASlideRule|Using a slide rule]]
  * [[Skills/RefillingAFountainPen|Refilling a fountain pen]]
  * [[Skills/OperatingADictaphone|Operating a dictaphone]]
  * [[Skills/UsingTheEraserRibbonOnATypewriter|Using the eraser ribbon on a typewriter]]

The community has started to create a much larger list of these obsolete skills, [[Skills/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.