Recent Changes for "Skills" - Obsolete Skills Wiki

Skills

jeremyepstein — 2009-08-07 13:44:55

Pre-1980s, disk and disk drive were separate and required skill to insert/remove

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	+ * ["Inserting or removing a disk from the disk drive"]

Skills

PhilipNeustrom — 2008-03-16 20:56:15

removed HTML

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- * ["Editing with HTML instead of WIKI"]

Skills

2008-03-12 20:43:13

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	+ * ["Winding clocks"]

Skills

2008-03-10 08:01:19

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	+ * ["Hand colouring photographs"]

Skills

2008-03-09 22:19:12

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	+ * ["Making coffee in a percolator"]

Skills

2008-03-08 08:22:59

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	+ * ["Buttoning up your fly"]

Skills

2008-03-08 08:21:32

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	+ * ["Mowing with a push lawn mower"]

Skills

2008-03-08 07:43:49

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- * [Splicing magnetic tape in a reel to reel tape recorder]	+ * ["Splicing magnetic tape in a reel to reel tape recorder"]

Skills

2008-03-08 07:42:31

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	+ * [Splicing magnetic tape in a reel to reel tape recorder]

Skills

RichLindvall — 2008-03-05 03:56:54

+ a couple more

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	+ + * ["Filling A Fountain Pen With Ink"]
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	+ + * ["Ironing Clothes"]
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- * ["Using NCR paper to make copies"]	+ * ["Using NCR paper to make copies"]

Skills

2008-03-04 14:21:07

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	+ * ["Looking up books using a card catalog"]

Skills

2008-03-04 14:18:36

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	+ * ["Using NCR paper to make copies"]

Skills

2008-02-28 23:22:49

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	+ * ["Using an Abacus"]

Skills

JasonAller — 2008-02-28 00:49:09

(quick edit)

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- * ["Writing in Longhand (Cursive Writing"]	+ * ["Writing in Longhand"] (["Cursive Writing"]) + * ["Writing on a slate"]

Skills

JasonAller — 2008-02-28 00:48:27

(quick edit)

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	+ * ["Bluebox"]

Skills

2008-02-27 21:49:55

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	+ * ["Assembly language programming"]
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	+ * ["Compass navigation"]
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	+ * ["Cursive Writing"]
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	+ * ["Using a sextant for navigation"]
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	+ * ["Writing thank-you notes"]
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	+ * ["Writing in Longhand (Cursive Writing"] +

Skills

2008-02-26 21:55:29

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- * ["Decolating (removing carbon sheets) from multi-part continuous printer paper"]	+ * ["Decollating (removing carbon sheets) from multi-part continuous printer paper"]

Skills

2008-02-26 21:53:39

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	+ * ["Decolating (removing carbon sheets) from multi-part continuous printer paper"]

Skills

2008-02-26 17:00:44

Make sure those edges aren't folded and your stacks are neat.

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	+ * ["Loading Punch Cards into a reader"]

Skills

2008-02-26 16:59:22

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	+ * ["Novell NetWare NLM Development"]

Skills

cathedral107 — 2008-02-25 20:36:00

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	+ * ["Popping popcorn in a pot on a stove"]

Skills

2008-02-25 13:40:47

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- * ["Defragment an hardrive"]	+ * ["Defragment a harddrive"]
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- * ["Format a floppy disk"]	+ * ["Formatting a floppy disk"]
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- * ["Load tractor feed paper into a printer"]	+ * ["Loading tractor feed paper into a printer"]
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- * ["Navigate by the stars"] - * ["Navigate using a sextant"]	+ * ["Navigating by the stars"] + * ["Navigating using a sextant"]
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- * ["Using an real airbrush"]	+ * ["Using a real airbrush"]

Skills

JabberWokky — 2008-02-25 01:43:28

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	+ * ["Singing shape note music"]

Skills

2008-02-25 01:34:42

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	+ * ["Reading neumes"]

Skills

JasonAller — 2008-02-23 02:51:24

(quick edit)

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	+ * ["Using an real airbrush"]

Skills

2008-02-23 01:41:25

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	+ * ["Crystal set radios"]

Skills

2008-02-23 01:33:36

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	+ * ["Parking with curb feelers"]

Skills

2008-02-22 02:49:47

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	+ * ["Party lines"]

Skills

JasonAller — 2008-02-21 02:36:51

cleanup

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- *["Correcting typing errors on a mimeograph stencil"]	+ * ["Correcting typing errors on a mimeograph stencil"]
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- *["Clamping roller skates onto hard-soled shoes with a skate key"]	+ * ["Clamping roller skates onto hard-soled shoes with a skate key"]
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- Running a stencil through a mimeograph machine - - Running a ditto machine	+ * ["Running a stencil through a mimeograph machine"] + * ["Running a ditto machine"]
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	+ * ["Thread a spool of film into a camera"]
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- Thread a spool of film into a camera

Skills

2008-02-20 23:26:30

Differences for Skills

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- * ["Bowling Scores"]	+ * ["Bowling Scorekeeping"]

Skills

2008-02-20 23:17:30

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	+ * ["Bowling Scores"]

Skills

2008-02-20 22:20:46

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	+ * ["Margarine dyeing"]

Skills

2008-02-20 21:43:25

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	+ * ["Adjusting the spark on your automobile"]

Skills

2008-02-20 19:59:07

Gone are the days of wet, purple-inked, copies that smelled good.

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	+ * ["Using a mimeograph to make copies"]

Skills

PhilipNeustrom — 2008-02-20 17:11:56

Revert to version 44.

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- * ["Fucking your mom in the ass"]

Skills

2008-02-20 16:46:39

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	+ * ["Fucking your mom in the ass"]

Skills

JabberWokky — 2008-02-20 16:25:23

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- * ["Churn butter"]	+ * ["Churn butter by hand"]

Skills

2008-02-20 16:24:05

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	+ * ["Writing a printer/screen driver"]

Skills

2008-02-20 14:45:43

my 2 cents

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	+ * ["Defragment an hardrive"]
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	+ * ["Format a floppy disk"]
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	+ + * ["Play a computer game in 16 colors"]

Skills

GrahamSeaman — 2008-02-20 14:03:27

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	+ *["Clamping roller skates onto hard-soled shoes with a skate key"]
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- *["Clamp roller skates onto hard-soled shoes with a skate key"]

Skills

GrahamSeaman — 2008-02-20 14:02:41

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	+ *["Clamp roller skates onto hard-soled shoes with a skate key"]
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- clamping roller skates onto hard-soled shoes with a skate key	+

Skills

GrahamSeaman — 2008-02-20 14:01:39

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- *["Calculating with a slide rule"]

Skills

GrahamSeaman — 2008-02-20 14:00:31

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- Correcting typing errors on a mimeograph stencil -	+ ["Calculating with a slide rule"] + ["Correcting typing errors on a mimeograph stencil"]

Skills

2008-02-20 05:52:33

(quick edit)

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	+ Correcting typing errors on a mimeograph stencil

Skills

2008-02-20 05:51:43

(quick edit)

Differences for Skills

No differences found!

Skills

2008-02-20 05:51:17

(quick edit)

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	+ Running a stencil through a mimeograph machine + + Running a ditto machine

Skills

2008-02-20 05:48:24

(quick edit)

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	+ Thread a spool of film into a camera

Skills

2008-02-20 05:47:11

(quick edit)

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	+ clamping roller skates onto hard-soled shoes with a skate key

Skills

JasonAller — 2008-02-19 01:27:25

(quick edit)

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	+ * ["Load tractor feed paper into a printer"]

Skills

JasonAller — 2008-02-19 00:04:52

(quick edit)

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	+ * ["Operate a Gristmill"]

Skills

JasonAller — 2008-02-19 00:00:14

(quick edit)

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	+ * ["Start a steam locomotive"]

Skills

JasonAller — 2008-02-18 23:59:32

(quick edit)

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	+ * ["Light a streetlamp"]

Skills

JasonAller — 2008-02-18 23:55:59

(quick edit)

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	+ * ["Milking a cow by hand"]

Skills

JasonAller — 2008-02-18 23:37:09

(quick edit)

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	+ * ["Reading a log table"]

Skills

PhilipNeustrom — 2008-02-18 22:41:01

Blowing on an NES cartridge to make it work

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	+ * ["Blowing on an NES cartridge to make it work"]

Skills

JabberWokky — 2008-02-18 04:41:11

(quick edit)

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	+ + * ["Forage off the land"]

Skills

JabberWokky — 2008-02-18 04:40:38

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	+ * ["Bootstrapping a computer from ROM"]

Skills

JabberWokky — 2008-02-18 02:58:34

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	+ This is a complete '''list of skills''' that people have proposed or written about. The skills listed with ["This entry should never exist, delete me!" dashed underlines] are not yet documented. If you know how to do an undocumented skill, please contribute to our wiki by logging in and adding a writeup about how to do the skill. Or, if you can think of an obsolete skill that is not listed, add it! + +

Skills

JabberWokky — 2008-02-17 23:14:18

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	+ * ["Writing using a dip pen"]

Skills

JabberWokky — 2008-02-17 22:55:07

I'll photo this first and then write it up.

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	+ * ["Using a fountain pen"]

Skills

JasonAller — 2008-02-17 22:43:03

(quick edit)

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	+ * ["Crew a muzzle loading cannon"]

Skills

JabberWokky — 2008-02-17 20:27:25

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	+ * ["Adjusting the tracking on a VCR"]

Skills

JasonAller — 2008-02-17 20:19:05

(quick edit)

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	+ * ["Ride a penny-farthing bicycle"]

Skills

JasonAller — 2008-02-17 20:00:03

(quick edit)

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	+ * ["Shave with a straight razor"]

Skills

JasonAller — 2008-02-17 19:59:44

(quick edit)

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	+ * ["Trim the wick on an oil lamp"]

Skills

WesHardaker — 2008-02-17 15:31:38

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	+ * ["Navigate using a sextant"]

Skills

PhilipNeustrom — 2008-02-17 05:18:14

sending a letter

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	+ * ["Sending a letter"]

Skills

JasonAller — 2008-02-17 04:59:16

(quick edit)

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	+ * ["Navigate by the stars"]

Skills

JasonAller — 2008-02-17 04:58:59

(quick edit)

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	+ * ["Setting type for printing"]

Skills

JasonAller — 2008-02-17 04:53:23

(quick edit)

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	+ * ["Churn butter"]

Skills

JasonAller — 2008-02-17 04:42:58

(quick edit)

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	+ * ["Hand crank a car to start it"]

Skills

JasonAller — 2008-02-17 04:41:51

(quick edit)

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	+ * ["Using a 16 mm film projector"]

Skills

JasonAller — 2008-02-17 04:40:23

(quick edit)

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	+ * ["Changing vacuum tubes"]

Skills

JasonAller — 2008-02-17 04:24:52

(quick edit)

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	+ * ["Using a typewriter"]

Skills

JasonAller — 2008-02-17 04:23:56

(quick edit)

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- * ["Harness a team of oxen"]	+ * ["Harness a team of oxen"]

Skills

JasonAller — 2008-02-17 04:23:45

(quick edit)

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	+ + * ["Harness a team of oxen"]

Skills

JasonAller — 2008-02-17 04:12:39

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- * ["Adjusting a television’s horizontal and vertical holds"]	+ * ["Adjusting a television's horizontal and vertical holds"]

Skills

WesHardaker — 2008-02-17 04:08:27

+ more

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	+ * ["Courting a lady"]
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	+ * ["Editing with HTML instead of WIKI"]

Skills

JasonAller — 2008-02-17 03:30:46

added some from the comments to the article

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	+ * ["Making a deer fat poultice"] + * ["Making change in shillings and pence"] +
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	+ + * ["Operating an IBM 029 key punch"]
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	+ * ["Using correction fluid"]

Skills

JasonAller — 2008-02-17 03:14:43

may have to re-standardize skill names later

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	+ --> + \|\|<: -26>'''Index'''\|\| + \|\|<: #E0E0FF width="25">[#A A]\|\|<: width="25">[#B B]\|\|<: #E0E0FF width="25">[#C C]\|\|<: width="25">[#D D]\|\|<: #E0E0FF width="25">[#E E]\|\|<: width="25">[#F F]\|\|<: #E0E0FF width="25">[#G G]\|\|<: width="25">[#H H]\|\|<: #E0E0FF width="25">[#I I]\|\|<: width="25">[#J J]\|\|<: #E0E0FF width="25">[#K K]\|\|<: width="25">[#L L]\|\|<: #E0E0FF width="25">[#M M]\|\|<: width="25">[#N N]\|\|<: #E0E0FF width="25">[#O O]\|\|<: width="25">[#P P]\|\|<: #E0E0FF width="25">[#Q Q]\|\|<: width="25">[#R R]\|\|<: #E0E0FF width="25">[#S S]\|\|<: width="25">[#T T]\|\|<: #E0E0FF width="25">[#U U]\|\|<: width="25">[#V V]\|\|<: #E0E0FF width="25">[#W W]\|\|<: width="25">[#X X]\|\|<: #E0E0FF width="25">[#Y Y]\|\|<: width="25">[#Z Z]\|\| + <-- + + [[Anchor(A)]] + = A = + + * ["Adjusting the rabbit ears on your TV set"] + + [[Anchor(B)]] + = B = + + [[Anchor(C)]] + = C = + + * ["Changing the ball or ribbon on your Selectric Typewriter"] + * ["Changing the gas mixture on your car’s carburetor"] + * ["Changing tracks on an eight-track tape"] + + [[Anchor(D)]] + = D = + + * ["Developing film/photos"] + * ["Dialing a rotary phone"] + + [[Anchor(E)]] + = E = + + [[Anchor(F)]] + = F = + + [[Anchor(G)]] + = G = + + * ["Getting off the couch to change channels on your TV set"] + + [[Anchor(H)]] + = H = + + [[Anchor(I)]] + = I = + + [[Anchor(J)]] + = J = + + [[Anchor(K)]] + = K = + + [[Anchor(L)]] + = L = + + [[Anchor(M)]] + = M = + + [[Anchor(N)]] + = N = + + [[Anchor(O)]] + = O = + + [[Anchor(P)]] + = P = + + * ["Putting a needle on a vinyl record"] + + [[Anchor(Q)]] + = Q = + + [[Anchor(R)]] + = R = + + [[Anchor(S)]] + = S = + + * ["Shorthand"] + + [[Anchor(T)]] + = T = + + [[Anchor(U)]] + = U = + + * ["Using a slide rule"] + * ["Using carbon paper to make copies"] + + [[Anchor(V)]] + = V = + + [[Anchor(W)]] + = W = + + [[Anchor(X)]] + = X = + + [[Anchor(Y)]] + = Y = + + [[Anchor(Z)]] + = Z =