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Remember the last time you rented a movie in a video store? Paid an invoice by check? Cracked an encyclopedia to help write a report? Maybe you always do - but the chances are good that you have replaced a lot of what was accustomed to being fluent in daily actions with cooler technological trends.

It is difficult to imagine that we once the daily basis can be thrown on the pile of ashes ofthe story; Yet we are here, at the height that the family car was once a horse and a stroller. Here is a look at 17 once everyday remaining with us while walking quickly to the obsolescence.

Ah, the teenage shopping center, shops and lounges, food courts and shopping center walkers. Once an American suburbs of several thousand square feet, the shopping center lets search shops and kiosks in a climate controlled comfort. But the advent of online shopping announced the death of the mall: by 2022, analysts predict thatAn American shopping center on four could come out of business. To combat this trend, developers are trying to transform shopping centers into recreation centers including attractions such as parks, cinemas, gyms and even aMadame Tussauds Wax Museum.

What is a gym journey or a walk on the train without unraveling a macrame from the fist size of your cords from your helmet? From the Walkman to the iPod to today, dirty cables and easily hung have long hanged pocket ears. But with the omnipresence of Bluetooth headphones and Elegant Apple airports, the days of the headset cord are undeniably numbered.

It was a resum on Friday Night: the family trip to Blockbuster to pores on motionless DVDs and view the weekend visualization. When the Blu-ray disk player has been introduced in 2003, the added clarity and features of the format have made an even more popular video rental, with almost19,000 open video stores in America.

But with the advent of video on demand (VOD) and streaming services such as Netflix, the video rental shop once routine has fallen ride; This yearCNBC Reported that DVD sales dropped by 86% in the previous 13 years, which led innumerable video stores open to a decade at the beginning of the shutter. Finally, DVDs will go the way to the VHS bands that they are replaced in our home movie collections, more and more unnecessary at the age of streaming.

Who can forget simultaneous delight and fear of arriving for a blind date? Not knowing what to expect was an added thrill to Tinder. And bumble. And Okcupid. And a large network of online dating applications that are now aMulti-billion dollar industry.

A 2019 study published in theActs of the National Academy of Sciences Noted that, by 2017, 40% of the opposite sex (and 60% of the same-sex seniors) reported an online meeting. At the same time, being set up by friends who fell among the couples of 33% in 1995 to only 20%.

Ah, the faithful mobiles that were exclusively called, sent SMS, and maybe offer a quick snake game. In his day, the non-smartphone was a wonder, an affordable upgrade and the size of a pocket to automotive phones once and brick-size pocket mobiles. But this precursor of the smartphone becomes more and more rare, replaced by an Internet access handle and an infinite number of applications.

Do not forget to push a cell phone button three times to securea correct letter? Since IBM has published the first touch screen in 1992, the buttons on cell phones have crossed the Dodo path. And since the 2018 iphone x debut, facial recognition and sweeping gestures further eliminate the need for buttons at home, allowing elegant surfaces and touch-sensitive glasses.

How many times did you leave a message to the beep? Voicemail technology has made tape recorders attached to the fixed lines to the services offered by telephone companies to the storage of cloud messages for mobile devices. But today, more and more Americans - especiallymillennium-AN Avoid their voicemail if they have even bothered to set it up. US companies are more and moreEliminate voicemail absolutely. Instead, texts and e-mails have largely replaced humble voicemail and messages that always arrive, Google Voice and iPhone offer instant text transcription.

No high school student student has been prepared without a Texas instrument graphic calculator - a punching cushion of numbers, symbols and undicherable flagship of promising mathematical responses with just a few strokes. Faced with the most complex equation in 2019? There is an application for that - in fact, there are dozens of calculator applications only for the iPhone alone.

Portable GPS navigation devices such as TomTom and Garmin were an affordable and convenient upgrade for car travel, making the original obsolete paper card. But their models are a dying breed: not only most smartphones offer this feature, but most new vehicles come with navigation systems mounted at the tip out of the factory.

It's not so long ago, making work or school in time required the diligence, responsibility and an extremely strident awakening. Today, they have been replaced by waiting - the smartphone, not just like clock / alarm, but also with a chronometer and an integrated timer. In fact, a 2012 report byCisco Noted that 90% of young people use their smartphone as a key watch.

Over the past decade, we said goodbye to compact disk backups and hello to elegant external hard drives and inch players. But soon, even these will be a distant memory: In the "cloud" era, all our data is preserved in online storage services such as iCloud, Google Drive and Microsoft Azure.

How often did you give up parking in a measured location for lack of a coin handle - or simply risked the exorbitant parking ticket? In many cities, parking can now be paid with an application, with the time added to the need instead of the race with neighborhoods. Nowadays, traditional parking is more likely to be transformedin public art.

At the boom of the dot-com, the future of the Internet cafe looked insured - soon, they would be up to cities all over the country. Also known as "cybercafe", the shops once Ubiquit have allowed to surf the Internet, send an email, play or chat with friends online. But in the mid-2000s,half of all houses had web accessAnd laptops have allowed owners to get a Lightning-Fast connection via Wi-Fi and mobile hotspots. Today's "Internet Café" is much more likely to be ... an ordinary cafe.