100 Things Your Kids Will Never Know About

Over at Wired, one of the GeekDad’s has compiled a nice list called “100 Things Your Kids Will Never Know About.” Here are some highlights:

-Libraries as a place to get books rather than a place to use the Internet.
-Screens being just green (or orange) on black.
-Neat handwriting.
-Swimming pools with diving boards.
-Looking out the window during a long drive.
-Actually being able to get a domain name consisting of real words.
-Kentucky Fried Chicken, as opposed to KFC.
-Finding books in a card catalog at the library.
-Shopping only during the day, Monday to Saturday.
-Not knowing who was calling you on the phone.
-Starbuck being a man.
-Betamax tapes.

The list has gotten a lot of comments and Diggs, which I find heartening, considering that the whole thing reads a little like the contents page of Obsolete. I’d venture to say, however, that my effort is more devoted to the cause: unlike this free-to-read list, my musings come in the form of a book that will likely have to be paid for with money—and cash and books, of course, are both discussed therein. According to Wired’s Chris Anderson’s new book, Free, the notion of paying
for any kind of product at all might be obsolete all together. Anderson has been accused ofplagiarising Wikipedia in his book. Do you really want to support the theories of a plagiariser? If you don’t, then I’d suggest going straight to Amazon in order to spend old fashioned PayPal money on a pre-ordered edition…

I should mention that Obsolete started as a Washington Post Magazine article that can still be read online, free-of-charge.