Am I the only person in my generation who never learned to type on a number pad? It wasn't the only thing I didn't recognize from the "test", but it stuck out to me.
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How did you text?
I am a younger millenial and didnt have a cell phone until they got smart but most of the people I knew in highschool had blackberries or their knockoffs which had full keyboards. I still passed the capatcha though.
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What's odd is I instantly recognized how to type on that type of phone, but I'm from roughly gen Z.
It's called T9 typing btw. I'm old enough (30) to have had a few phones with buttons myself before the smartphone era gained momentum. I never got really good at it (didn't text much). My older sister by a few years is a racer at T9 typing though. I remember her phone was making clicking noises at insane rates.
How TF does it expect me to identify a person? I’m bad at identifying people I didn’t even know who it was. Had to keep trying random combinations. Rest were easy enough though. For the texting one, I kept trying the options button before realising I had to press verify.
Just because I still like the postal service doesn’t make me old. Ok the fact that I could’ve been referring to the band or the government agency and still been accurate might mean I’m old
I wasn't able to get past the donate to Obama phase.