(I never used Blockbuster. Indeed, I never rented a video. For most of the period when video rentals were a thing, I didn't own a TV, never mind a VCR.)
@cstross rented a video, but not from Blockbuster because they weren’t a thing in Germany.
But I never owner an encyclopedia, so that’s one point for me (my parents did, but that doesn’t count).
pretty sure I used a digital fax sendy thing for a document once, but that was basically just uploading a PDF to a web page.
I can't remember if I ever sent a postcard... pretty sure I bought a few over the years, but sending them always seemed pointless to me.
I'm taking "paid with a paper cheque" to include paying in a cheque. they weren't accepted in the UK by the time I was old enough to have a bank account, but I remember cheques and transfer paper.
@cstross I never used lawn darts or filofaxes. I owned a portable record player, I used my parents' 78rpm record changer, and I still have a slide rule lying around…
@bunnyjadwiga@paul_ipv6@cstross Oh, I knew how to use mine. But I'm nerdy enough that when I was ~10 or 11, I taped some alphabet strips to the (blank) back as an aid to doing Caesar and Vigenère encryption…
@jwildeboer Funnily enough, WalMart moved into the UK by buying Asda (the #4 supermarket chain), made a big noise about taking over the supermarket sector … then five years later tried to sue Tesco (the #1 chain) for monopolistic practices, lost, and fled the market weeping. (Asda is now owned locally again.) Equally funnily, Aldi and Lidl seem to have no problem competing! It's just the American interlopers (Whole Food Markets also flopped over here).
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