@Jo_Caulfield Really, 13 should be "Rented a VHS from a video shop that wasn't a Blockbuster" because they took over the video shop business by the year 2000. Ritz and other chains disappeared/got bought up.
@LindenG@Jo_Caulfield I think one of my grandparents might have had one but I didn't use their phone to make calls as a child.
One thing about rotary phones is if you try using one nowadays (I tested one some years ago), it takes a bit of time to dial the number cos phone numbers are longer now.
@Jo_Caulfield Actually typewriters, I never properly used one to write something, just played with some a few times as a kid.
So to be totally honest, 16 out of 20.
@Jo_Caulfield I'm 41, have done all except 9 and 11. Though using a rotary phone, I tested one a while ago but I don't know if I ever used one properly to make a call to someone. Didn't grow up with one in the house and payphones had upgraded to push button phones by the time I got to use one.
@LoveCompTech@jonoread I remember watching Trans World Sport for a while because there was nothing else on and I didn't know what else to do until the cartoons came on. I did sometimes look at the kids pages of Ceefax with Wesley the worm. I still had a VCR though.
@LoveCompTech@jonoread Surely you didn't stare it at for hours during the daytime, unless something went seriously wrong one day! It probably just felt like hours.
@LoveCompTech@jonoread Well, that was before my time. I remember sometimes in the 90s I'd wake up a bit early on weekends and would see Test Card F with the high-pitched noise.
I'm looking through old issues of @empiremagazine and noticed this. The Pianist only got a 2 star review from Ian Freer in 2003, but gets a 4 star review on the website, under Ian Freer's name and still with the same negative review summary. When was the website review written?