Brad Kellett: ObsoleteSkills.com and Network Solutions
Pierro
· 1 year ago
I hope, many People support/ contribute this nice Project!
Everett
· 1 year ago
Brad, what a fantastic idea and it brought back some real memories. I had a laugh under 'R' and saw Robert Scoble. I hope you don't mind but I linked your site to my page... http://www.helluvajob.com./sboj/forumPost.do?aa...
matt
· 1 year ago
I wouldn't have been able to resist someone telling me to buy a domain either.
Carl Zetie
· 1 year ago
Great site. What fascinates me is how short-lived some of these "essential" skills were. Dialing a rotary phone was useful for roughly 100 years, making a mix tape on cassette for about 30, burning a music CD for about 10... It's amazing to me how many technologies and associated skills were NEW in my adult lifetime yet will be completely gone before my son is old enough to know them. "Daddy, why is it called 'dialing' a phone number?"
Sara Blaszczak
· 1 year ago
The ability to operate a keypunch machine was vital to businesses just 30 years ago. When I remember the monthly ritual of sending customers their statements, I shudder.
Earlier I worked for a credit card company mid 1970's, and when you wanted to find a customer's file, you searched through through boxes arrayed on tables alphabetically and found the right oversized index card, then I had to mark it up and initial it before giving it to a file clerk to be refiled.
When you registered for college courses, you had to stand in line at the table where faculty members would write down your name on their class list, and the popular classes always filled first (just like now!) But you could really tell which classes were the pits! Nobody was in the short lines.
Bill Kennedy
· 1 year ago
Great site idea! And sorry, but I just can't resist this one:
Obsolete Skill: Web spelling.
Because when one makes an IE7 shortcut to your new site, it says "Obsolete Skils Main-Home Page."
And the name in the title bar is "Obsolete Skils: Main/Home Page."
You're welcome... ;-)
Brad Kellett
· 1 year ago
Bill: Cheers for pointing that out, I've fixed it now.
Jim
· 1 year ago
Driving a car is an obsolete skill? And I still adjust the dwell on my '67 VW.
When you have the time, go to Network Solutions and search for skdfjkfjslkdj.com, ksdjfkd.com, hfjdhfjdh.com and any other potential domain name you can type in under 3 seconds.
It should cost them a few pennies every time you do this.
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Earlier I worked for a credit card company mid 1970's, and when you wanted to find a customer's file, you searched through through boxes arrayed on tables alphabetically and found the right oversized index card, then I had to mark it up and initial it before giving it to a file clerk to be refiled.
When you registered for college courses, you had to stand in line at the table where faculty members would write down your name on their class list, and the popular classes always filled first (just like now!) But you could really tell which classes were the pits! Nobody was in the short lines.
Obsolete Skill: Web spelling.
Because when one makes an IE7 shortcut to your new site, it says "Obsolete Skils Main-Home Page."
And the name in the title bar is "Obsolete Skils: Main/Home Page."
You're welcome... ;-)
Call me a dinosaur.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_tasting
When you have the time, go to Network Solutions and search for skdfjkfjslkdj.com, ksdjfkd.com, hfjdhfjdh.com and any other potential domain name you can type in under 3 seconds.
It should cost them a few pennies every time you do this.