Is now obsolete
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For me personally, I used to use a wind up alarm clock to wake me up for school. Now I use my phone's alarm feature.
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Cassette tapes aren't obsolete, but I think that they will be soon.
Car carburetors also aren't obsolete, but outside of older/vintage vehicles, they are on their way out.
Black and white film - it's only mainly used for artistic purposes now.
I didn't grow up with it, but the town I live once had it's own local beer by the town name. It was phased out years ago, and good riddance - it was absolutely awful. It actually tasted like vomit and was on the menu at several local restaurants.
Seeing a tobacco pipe smoker is pretty rare nowadays, although in my youth I knew one.
Volkswagen buses and bugs.
Video game parlors, like the type one must put quarters into to play are still around but are scarcer since home computing and home gaming solutions. I don't see them lasting long.
Because of digital technology, I see film developers mostly on their way out. One used to have to go to them to get film developed at all.
Video rental stores are now pretty much obsolete in most places.
Car carburetors also aren't obsolete, but outside of older/vintage vehicles, they are on their way out.
Black and white film - it's only mainly used for artistic purposes now.
I didn't grow up with it, but the town I live once had it's own local beer by the town name. It was phased out years ago, and good riddance - it was absolutely awful. It actually tasted like vomit and was on the menu at several local restaurants.
Seeing a tobacco pipe smoker is pretty rare nowadays, although in my youth I knew one.
Volkswagen buses and bugs.
Video game parlors, like the type one must put quarters into to play are still around but are scarcer since home computing and home gaming solutions. I don't see them lasting long.
Because of digital technology, I see film developers mostly on their way out. One used to have to go to them to get film developed at all.
Video rental stores are now pretty much obsolete in most places.
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VCRs, TVs that were as deep as they were wide.
As Strav said a few things are obsolete in the sense that very few people use them but are still out there, even if considered "retro". I had a Sony Walkman that played cassettes, then later on had another Sony that played digitised music from a Sony-branded memory stick (it played its own proprietary format, but was a kinda sorta precusor to MP3 players). Now it's all about music on phones.
Camera film is all but obsolete, outside the realms of a few purists. Ditto music on vinyl.
Curiously wood fires seem to be gaining popularity as a way of heating homes, even when natural gas appears more convenient in just about every way. Unless you're going to go out to the woods and harvest the wood yourself it doesn't seem like it's a whole lot cheaper.
I have vague memories of old fashioned washing machines where you had to do some of the agitation yourself, and then you'd put the clothes through something that I think was called a mangle, that was basically two rollers that squeezed water out of them. Then you'd hang them out on the line to dry in the sun. I haven't seen anything like that in decades.
Oil lamps seem like neat things but outside of older people and communities like the Amish you don't see them very often. I've got a few lamps in my house that were once oil lamps that have been converted to electricity. I sometimes consider turning them back into oil lamps, just because. We don't have a lot of power failures in this area but it often seems like it would be useful to be able to keep the lights on when the power goes off.
One thing I don't miss is dial-up modems. They were fun in the day though, when it was the best we had and seemed very futuristic.
As Strav said a few things are obsolete in the sense that very few people use them but are still out there, even if considered "retro". I had a Sony Walkman that played cassettes, then later on had another Sony that played digitised music from a Sony-branded memory stick (it played its own proprietary format, but was a kinda sorta precusor to MP3 players). Now it's all about music on phones.
Camera film is all but obsolete, outside the realms of a few purists. Ditto music on vinyl.
Curiously wood fires seem to be gaining popularity as a way of heating homes, even when natural gas appears more convenient in just about every way. Unless you're going to go out to the woods and harvest the wood yourself it doesn't seem like it's a whole lot cheaper.
I have vague memories of old fashioned washing machines where you had to do some of the agitation yourself, and then you'd put the clothes through something that I think was called a mangle, that was basically two rollers that squeezed water out of them. Then you'd hang them out on the line to dry in the sun. I haven't seen anything like that in decades.
Oil lamps seem like neat things but outside of older people and communities like the Amish you don't see them very often. I've got a few lamps in my house that were once oil lamps that have been converted to electricity. I sometimes consider turning them back into oil lamps, just because. We don't have a lot of power failures in this area but it often seems like it would be useful to be able to keep the lights on when the power goes off.
One thing I don't miss is dial-up modems. They were fun in the day though, when it was the best we had and seemed very futuristic.
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Speaking of obsolete, I managed to get my old PlayStation 2 working. I wasn't sure if I had all the parts but I did, and it comes with a handy RCA output that can connect to my TV.
I never had a huge selection of games for it and it's been so long since I last played it that all the souped-up cars I unlocked in the racing games spend more time crashing into barriers than doing much else. It's another option now the evenings are drawing in ever-earlier....
I never had a huge selection of games for it and it's been so long since I last played it that all the souped-up cars I unlocked in the racing games spend more time crashing into barriers than doing much else. It's another option now the evenings are drawing in ever-earlier....
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I don't even know where to begin. A lot have been mentioned, but there are so many more
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8 track tapes and tape players.
cassette tapes
cassette tapes
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Everything that Stravinsk said. Rotary phones. 45 and 33 rpm vinyl records. Slide rules, well actually I didn't have one, my brother did in high school. I didn't take tough enough classes to require the slide rule. Bias-belted tires sized in letter designations, still remember my car took G78-15. Oil can spouts:
