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A New Style of Age Verification for Websites [Humorous Image]
Being asked to verify your age at different websites is nothing new, but the MyCrysis website decided to take a different approach…
Are there any particular items that you think would be funny to use for something like this? Let us know in the comments!
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- Published 06/16/11
Genius
Not really effective, I’m 17 and I remember them.
@Jonny, because asking for your age does work…
I’m 15 and i still remember them :D
A rotary telephone
An 8-track tape… better yet, a Beta tape – that would trick up @Jonny
How about a Beta! It was better than VHS anyways.
How about a LaserDisc
Reminds me of the age verification system that the old Leisure Suit Larry games used to use. It would basically ask you questions that only an older person ‘should’ know the answers to.
punch cards? 1/2 magnetic tapes on reels? card readers/punches? Atari PDAs? Compaq luggable PCs? Apple Newton? typewriters? carbon paper? the list just goes on and on…. :-)
5-1/2″ Floppy, 14.4 Modem, Dot Matrix Printer with the tear off side holes and tear your own sheets paper supply. Slide Ruler, Mighty Mouse (cartoon), or a ditto machine.
A TRS-80, I would laugh my ass off. 10″ floppy, though they do look a lot like the 5.25″ floppy. Apple II on the plywood. Apple III, three inch drop FTW. Atari cartage, preferably the E.T. one.
Most of these suggestions might work on the average person, but I suspect they wouldn’t work for the average How-To Geek reader. I’m fifteen and I can identify most of those things even though many of them were gone before I was born.
What company made OK cola?
@Derrick how do you imagine to answer that question if you’ve never been in usa?
Ah, but see, the kids these days just “Search Google with this image” ;)
Now that Google offers their “Google Goggles” in a browser, this will only work until people catch on; you can pick whatever from way back, and Google Goggles will identify it.
Ah, @Age you beat me to the punch, I should have reloaded the page before posting.
A hole puncher for single-sided 5.25″ floppy disks
A Commodore 1541 disk drive
A slide rule
A picture of Spot and Puff
A picture of Tom Terrific
A picture of Captain Kangaroo
For really old people like me, a picture of Miss Frances from Ding Dong School
A picture of Wernher von Braun
How about The Three Stooges
A picture of a ‘Jubbly’ …. don’t think I can describe it! anyone else old enough to remember it?
A Library?
@LadyBizBiz
The most epic, refreshing, thrist-quenching ice-lolly known to man. Wrapped in cardboard and frozen to create an icy prism of joy and wonder, the jubbly is unparalleled.
A condom. That way we are all safe…
@ Bob that would work for some but it won’t fix stupid as stupid would forget to use it.
Rabbit ears TV antenna
Adding maching with a handle to pull
Typewriter
Grandpa Guitar
A picture of a teenager giving his seat on a bus to an older person.
Pic of a burroughs OCR
An old Wang Disk Drive with the removable platter stack that weighed a ton and only held 288 mg worth of data. Had to drop and turn to load. Remember carrying them down 8 flights of stairs for fire drills in the 80′s.
vacuum tube?
@Tidus
And impossible to get into…
More radical please:
an IBM punch card
better yet, a punch from an IBM punch card
a carburetor
a distributor cap
an ice truck
a bicycle (oops, just kidding)
a fedora
a computer tape drive
a teletype machine
a piece of punched tape
a pot on the stove in the kitchen
Oh well…
A wax cylinder
Name this former country (acronym) and a picture of DDR or USSR
micro bicycle with two wheels inside
Add a photo of some of the first mobile phones on the Market….They’ll describe it as a Cash point machine with a Stripper pole on top!…
@LadyBizBiz I grew up calling those push-ups & @Tidus excellent description… I knew exactly what you were both talking about from your description… Do they still make those? Now I want one.. lol….
PS: a paper check.. and in the near future.. cash!
Mothballs
Nice but some 12 years guys know the names and some time 30 years old do’t :P :)
infmom – I’ve been dying for years to tell someone that Miss Frances (Ding Dong School – early to mid 50′s) once told us that “white” was no color, and “black” was all the colors mixed together. I eventually learned that was wrong, and have never trusted TV, since!
Does anybody remember Winkey Dink – where we all colored on our TV sets? Or radio serials?
Film. Some actual 35mm or better yet, 110 film. That would stump the lil ones…
“What is the U for on this dial?”, accompanied with a pic of an old TV channel dial.
2 things from the early 90s
A Walkman
A Pair of Z Cavaricci pants.
I’m 13, and I still can recognize it.
@Chronno – those were 8 inch floppies and held 72k. And what about a picture of a drum of Agent Orange?
Crystal Pepsi.
Zubaz pants.
Zips
Stompers.
The dials from the old style gas pumps.
A photo of Woody Harrelson behind the bar at Cheers. Better still: a video clip of Woody Harrelson behind the bar at Cheers.
A photo of Michael Richards on the “Seinfeld” set.
Trouble is, you could easily put the image into an image search engine and find out what it was within seconds.
@Cal: Most teenagers I know (myself included) would give up their seat to an elderly person (and do, regularly). Don’t believe stereotypes.
I would say this doesn’t work due to Google and the ability to look something up but hey that does take more time then putting in a fake birthday
a walkman
Well, imo it’s better than the usual “Enter your age verification”, where the user may put whatever, such as “1/1/1900″ :b
I saw varied disk drives listed here by people, but seems everyone has forgotten the gigantic 8″ drives. Just showing their picture would be a trick, since they was identical in looks (just larger) than the 5.25″ drives.
Another thing to look at would be screenshots of specific games. For example, not the remakes/cleanups, but the first edition of Hero’s Quest and so forth. Could even use cars.
Doesn’t work very well, I’m 12 and I still use them to record programs for my gran on,
I’m almost thirteen and I know what these are.
Still, this made me LOL. XD
Made me lol big time, but efficiency is indeed low.