Cast your minds back...
Before we had the internet we used to get our information from something called books. Before books we had VHS and slightly before that we had beta or betamax to give it's correct name. At the tender age of ten I could strip an old betamax machine down to it's raw components using household objects such as knives, screwdrivers and a brick in less than 2 hours. I could then unravel all the copper and lay out the microchips and other contents to cover an area of no larger than 4 square metres. Purely coincidentally this happened to also be the area of our passage.

My powers for disassembling inanimate electronic objects are still as strong as ever. I AM CAPTAIN DISASSEMBLE!
(The Archduke of South London I'm in your Girlfriend eating her organs, Thu 7 Jul 2011, 11:23, 6 replies)

And before Betamax there was
SVR
VCR-LP
VCR
EIAJ
Wesgrove
Telcan
TeD

...bet not many of you remember THEM!

Now THAT'S obsolete knowledge

*edit* Oh, and I think you'll find that books were around a little before VCRs. Just a millennium or two.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Thu 7 Jul 2011, 11:29, closed)

No they weren't.
Books were only invented in 1997. I have one to prove it.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 7 Jul 2011, 11:50, closed)

When it says "First edition"
It doesn't mean FIRST edition, you know.

Anyway, didn't they stop teaching kids to read around 1997?
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Thu 7 Jul 2011, 12:03, closed)

No you're thinking of contraception.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 7 Jul 2011, 12:13, closed)

Disassembling things is fun
Reassembling things so that they work again is not so much fun because it's difficult. I used to leave that step to my sister and blame her for it all.
(richardm, Thu 7 Jul 2011, 11:32, closed)

Disassembling things with bricks
The universal disassembly tool
(libman, Thu 7 Jul 2011, 13:15, closed)