22 things that have become obsolete since 2000
Track, VCRs, fax and pagers.
When we think how far we have come from 2000, it's easy to focus on what we have won. We got iPods, smartphones, driverless cars, text messaging, GPS, social media, Wikipedia, each television show and a human existence movie available on request, and a computer based on the Have who can hit the buttocks of allDanger. It's amazing and wonderful - no doubt about it. But what about what we havelost-The things that no longer exist? The thematic music "in memorial" while we take a moment to watch 22 things that everyonetook for granted in the 20th century But have become almost fully obsolete today.
1 Computer Laboratories
Wait, wait, hear us. In high schools and even colleges, there was a specific room on the campus where they kept all computers. No seriously,all of them. Nobody had his own computer. At that time, it was so absurd that "I could fly commercial, but I prefer to fly my own plane." So, you went to these rooms and used one of the computers, then you left and you no longer have access to a computer before coming back to that room!
2 The busy signal
It's really strange the obsolete things you miss. Back in the day of fixed lines, call someone and get a signal charged to be bored. But today, in the era of digital phones, we would give anything to hear a busy signal. Because if you hear one, you had strong information. The person you were trying to reach was at home, just on another call. Go directly toVoicemail can mean anything. But thisbeep-beep was a reason of hope!
3 Watch the TV of the shit day for sick days
You know why so many seniors at the end of the 20th century have such memories of the oldThe price is right hostBob Barker? Because when we stayed at home sick and watched the television all day, we always ended up watchingThe price is correct Because it was the only thing on. It was or a little terrible soap or local news. Can you imagine someone today by looking at agame show They were vaguely interested in and again and again because it was the only option?
4 VCR
DVDs arrived in the United States in 1997, and it did not take long for the new format to make video recorders like cave drawings. It looked bad whenThe Washington Post Given the obsolete products a language show in 2005- "She died peacefully after a long illness caused by chronic technological insignificance and a lack of director's commentary tracks" - but when Japanese Japanese Nikkeirang the nacelier of death For VCRs last summer, it was officially finished.
5 Get developed movie
Pass beyond a "film transformation" office in a pharmacy can be downright scary. It's like driving by aabandoned Training cinema theater. You want to burn your neck to get a better look, as if you may get the ghosts of old guests, picking up their photos and saying, "I can not believe I've developed them in less than 24 hours!" The next time you are there, take three dozen photos of the film development station with your phone, then look at them immediately, just to remind you how much we came.
6 Dot matrix printers
The only places where perforated impressions still reign is at the "Electronics" sections of savings and car rental offices. Even if they were painful during their quality, especially when they stuck (which was, you know,always), we can not stop us from helping you get some misty eyes when we hear the purring ofA matrix of points in action.
7 Static television
If there is no picture on your TV in 2017, it simply means that you have not paid your cable bill. But even then, we never get the electromagnetic noise that was as frustrating (and closely comforting) for several generations of TV watchers. It seems that younger generations are even their own television because everything is available in streaming services likeNetflix and Amazon Prime.
8 Phone Sex Ads rear free weeklys
Weekends free city were once overloaded with content, with the last dozen pages or more pages reflect almost entirely of advertisements for sex phone services such as 1-900-Wish SEXX. You can still get news for free and pay for women you talk dirty, but it all happens on computers today. Orsmartphones, We know that all soaps are simply tiny computers.
9 Diaposidifications
Is it possible that future generations will never experience the horrors to sit through an auntHoliday pictures In a slide projector room showing your feelings of torture in the water in which you have to pretend smile? How right away?
10 Fax
When was the last time you made a new friend and he told you, "keep in touch. Want to exchange fax numbers?" Okay, maybe it does not even take place in the twentieth century. The point is that no more fax! And if you have one, no one wants the number because no one will send you a fax on any of these obsolete products. Already.
11 Polaroid "instant" pictures
Children today are so easy. For them, a picture "Instant" is a picture they capture on their smartphone and is accessible nanoseconds after taking it. But with polaroids, which stopped making instant film 2008- "Instant" meant "in a few minutes after shaking violently photo for any reason, then wait and wait and wait for what seems like an eternity SlooooOOWLY the image. "It's hard to believe we were ever so patient with these obsolete things.
12 landlines
The phones were once connected to the walls with fiber optic cables. No, I'm not kidding. They worked like any other phone, except there was no screen or internet, and it does not tell you the time, and it had zero applications.
13 Paying for pornography
Yes, in the old days, you had to make an effort and buy magazines with images of carnal exchanges in your local stores or movies from being dirty dirty people in your rental local video store (another obsolete thing) . But then you had to deal with another human being and say, "I want to pay you money to make this magazine or video with images of people engaged in sex at home with me and ... Well, you know, do not judge me. "But of course theywere judge you.
14 Remote access
To connect to the Internet required a phone line (see # 14 above) that you plug into your computer. Then, your computer would try to "call" Internet. It was a whole thing. And sometimes, your connection would be interrupted if someone in the house picked up another phone and you screamed, "Mom! I try to check my email!" Compared to what we are used to, it was a nightmare. But there was something about the sound, jarringelectronic Catéraudage It meant that you were AAAAAAALLOAlly Online. Somehow, this sound became one of the many icons of decades obsolete products.
15 To get lost
Before each car and each cell phone do not come with their own global positioning systems, it was quite possible that you can risk yourself in the world and you have no idea where you were. It was called "to be lost", either that you had to find someone to give you guidelines or find a card (see above.) Or maybe you just stay lost and continue so far. 'What you are stumbled on something familiar, or just thought outside where you were lucky. Being lost was not so bad, if you can believe it. It was a strange thrill of having no idea when, or evenifYou will arrive at your destination. Nowadays, it would causepure panic.
16 CD housing binders
There are many things that feels remarkably absent now that music has become digitized and no longer a physical thing. No one has aWalkman or Discman more. But one of the strangest obsolete products is the cd binder, which you fill in music before a car trip or an outdoor excursion, then always realize too late that you have forgotten thea CD You wanted to hear. Darn you, limited number of plastic storage sleeves!
17 "Let's blind go
There was a strange thrill of going for afirst date And having no idea what the other person looked like. No more. Thank you, Tinder.
18 Cursive writing
Children today can not only write in cursive, but some of them toocan not even read it. Does it matter? Other thanSignature of a check (Another thing we stopped doing during the last decade), the cursif could very well be a lost art. Of course it's cool, but it's cool like being able to readBeowulf In the old origin of origin is cool. It has no applications from the real world.
19 Floppy disks
Pre-2000, a cloud was a collection of condensed water vapors hanging in the sky. That's what has made rain, not where you have registered all your computer files. If you wanted to record important documents, you need something like afloppywhich could contain up to 240 MB of memory. But then came the imac without a disc in 1998 and possibly the iCloud, which made floppages seemingly picturesque. If you still have dozens of floppy disks, do not throw them away yet. You can reuse them as a plant holder, among other things.
20 Library card catalogs
You know what would be a much more entertaining version ofTheHunger games? A group of 2017 children competes in a death match where they have to find a book in the library using only the Dewey decimal system. In the end, everyone gets paper cuts and no one finds theirdelivered.
21 Calculator
They were like tiny computers whose sole jobonly work-Was to domath. It was literally all he did. You could not do something else with it in addition to adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing. Oh sure, it could make words of fun skulls. 8008 Kinda looked like a boob. And type 7734, then turn the calculator upside down and that looked like hell. But you certainly could not get time, your email or playing Minecraft on it.
22 Beep
If even drug traffickers do not want to use these obsolete products, they have officially survived their cultural utility.
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