Skills you have which aren't needed anymore?

[Trevor]

Film projection for me: the last time I threaded a projector was 2013, sadly.

[LilCerberus]

I got out of high school knowing how to run a one color offset press....
Unfortunately, I was such a lousy janitor, they wouldn't let me get a job doing it....

A lot of facets of lithography were already changing at the time....

[Alex]

How to find obscure records and movies in second-hand shops. Now Kristi just orders them on Amazon. 

[RCMerchant]

I got out of high school knowing how to run a one color offset press....
Unfortunately, I was such a lousy janitor, they wouldn't let me get a job doing it....

A lot of facets of lithography were already changing at the time....

I know how to operate one too!  
I took a year of commercial art and printing in Vocational school!

[indianasmith]

I can send and receive in Morse Code, using a telegraph key.
At least, I could at one time.

[Trevor]

How to find obscure records and movies in second-hand shops. Now Kristi just orders them on Amazon. 

There's a store like that in Cape Town called Mabu Vinyl and Digital which does that locally.

[Allhallowsday]

Tariff publishing. 

[LilCerberus]

How to find obscure records and movies in second-hand shops. Now Kristi just orders them on Amazon. 

There's a store like that in Cape Town called Mabu Vinyl and Digital which does that locally.

There's one or two shops in downtown Richmond trying to keep to art alive....

[zelmo73]

I am an excellent typist. I'm not talking about just typing words per minute, I mean working an electric typewriter. I can change and fix an ink ribbon like I invented the damned things. Try putting that on a resume nowadays though...

[Trevor]

I am an excellent typist. I'm not talking about just typing words per minute, I mean working an electric typewriter. I can change and fix an ink ribbon like I invented the damned things. Try putting that on a resume nowadays though...

I still have an electric IBM typewriter in my office: wrote the first draft of my film research on that.

[WingedSerpent]

I learned how to develop my own film in a dark room.

[Trevor]

I learned how to develop my own film in a dark room.

That's another skill I have which isn't needed in my job anymore: everything is digital.

[RCMerchant]

When I was a kid I was real good at shooting marbles.
But who plays marbles any more, even children?

[claws]

When I was a kid I was real good at shooting marbles.
But who plays marbles any more, even children?

I don't know who plays them but they have tons on sale on places like amazon. Usually listed under Games: Dice & Marbles. My guess it has become more of an indoor game over the years. That said, my niece collects marbles in glass jars for decoration.

I had mad skills dialing with my thumb on rotary phones  

[pacman000]

When I was a kid I was real good at shooting marbles.
But who plays marbles any more, even children?

I don't know who plays them but they have tons on sale on places like amazon. Usually listed under Games: Dice & Marbles. My guess it has become more of an indoor game over the years. That said, my niece collects marbles in glass jars for decoration.

I had mad skills dialing with my thumb on rotary phones  

Marbles are also good for marble runs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_ball_sculpture

On the topic of the thread, I used to know a fair number of MS-DOS commands.