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I’m a Baby Boomer with several Millennial friends. I don’t know if it’s because they value my wisdom, or because they find it amusing to watch me type text messages using only my index finger.

Since many of us work from home now, we see each other often on the walking trail. I get questioned about the “ancient past” (1970s and 1980s) all the time, and here are my replies.

What is a clothesline? It’s an outdoor, elevated line between two poles where your Mom hung clean, wet clothes to dry. These worked well if birds didn’t use them as toilet stalls.

How many channels did your T...