Everything Today is Thoroughly Modern

I am so going to have one of these! I can just see myself lying on my deathbed with the bubonic plague, and a little yellow thermometer shoved up my ass cheerfully tootling the 'Spongebob' theme.

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A wiki about obsolete skills. Some of the ones listed are by no means obsolete, such as focussing a camera, or using FTP from the command line. Much of it is weirdly part of the past, though. Using a rotary phone, for instance. There are young adults today who have never done that. I know that somewhere, right now, someone is looking at an old pen made with a ball on the non-writing end, and wondering why it was designed that way.

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The Sorrows of Young Werther email server. A stunningly imaginative, and appropriate, use of technology. Young Werther sends his letters to your mailbox. It's sometimes the simplest ideas that are the most impressive.

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A dystopian, but ultimately well written and interesting, Rudolph fanfic. The author apparently can't conceive that anyone would ever volunteer to be a reindeer, though.

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Land Ironclads. I especially love the bronze war-rabbit.