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Over the four-ish decades I have graced this planet I have seen my share of hardware, services and human philosophy disappear or get close to extinction.  Below in no particular order are some examples -


  • Sewing machines and the tailor shop that housed them
  • Fountain pens
  • Ball point pen refills
  • Log tables
  • Stand alone PND (personal navigation devices) or GPS (bad slang for said devices)
  • Stand alone digital cameras
  • Polaroid cameras
  • VHS tape recorders and players and cameras
  • Blockbuster (a movie rental business)
  • CDs - new and recorded (for audio and music)
  • Borders (the book store)
  • Toys R Us  (were us)
  • Circuit City (electronics store)
  • Cobblers (although some shoe shine stalls still prevail at railway and bus stations)
  • Filament bulbs
  • Rotary dial phones
  • Public Phones (that operated using a quarter)
  • Flip phones
  • Home phone line (people are disconnecting the copper wire to the house entirely)
  • Morality
Apparently vinyl records are making a comeback.  Wonder what the whales think about that?

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