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You're stopped at a light, trying to get the attention of the person next to you. When you catch their eye, what do you do? You pretend to grasp a crank handle and turn it rapidly in a circle to make the universal roll-down-your-window gesture.
There's only one problem.
Almost nobody ``rolls down'' their window like that anymore. That once-needed skill has all but disappeared.
It's hardly the only example. Thanks to the rapid march of technology, a slew of once-needed technical skills are disappearing faster than dial-up Internet service. And now, in honor of those vanishing tech skills, there is an Australian Web site — www.obsoleteskills.com — devoted to their memory. Some of the skills that have been left in the digital dust are decades old, such dialing a rotary phone. Other skills are disappearing as we speak, such as adjusting the tracking on your VCR.
Here are just some of the obsolete or rapidly disappearing technologies and the skills that go with them.
