In this world of smart phones, Skyping, texting, iPads, Facebook status updates, Foursquare and touch screens that have the world at our finger tips in seconds, there are many things have become obsolete over the last 10 years. Who uses videos? Who plays CDs?
The Huffington Post gives us a rundown of 20 items that have become so out of fashion you wouldn't be seen dead near them. These include VCRs and VHS tapes, travel agents, the separation between work life and personal life, forgetting things like old emails, bookstores, wristwatches, phone sex on adult chat lines, phone calls, classified ads, dial up Internet, encylopaedias (replaced by Wikipedia), CDs, landline phones, film and film cameras, yellow pages and address books, catalogues, fax machines, wires and hand written letters.
Not a bad list but you can add a few more items. Like PDAs, maps, long distance charges, public pay phones, phone books and dictionaries, backing up your data on floppies and CDs, and record stores. For that matter, who pays to get photos developed these days?
It's a chilling reminder of how technology has changed our lives. Yes, it's destroyed some industries but then it's created a raft of new ones.
I have VHS tapes from 20 years back and they still run great. My kids use to make pyramids out of them them and they are still intact now that the kids are grown! I can still buy them on the internet and thank goodness they make DVD/VHS dual players! Most of my DVDs disappeared (because of my kids even though they were older). I am not a DVD fan but for the car CDs are ok. Car tape players were not made so sturdy and ate tapes too easily.