Sunday, December 13, 2009

Maybe I Should Be on This List, Too

A Catalogue of Everyday Stuff That Has Become Extinct - The 00's Issue-- New York Magazine

12 comments:

Darren Mitchell said...

I have nine of these obsolete items in my home or office.

Mike Dennis said...

Rapidly heading for that list: the telephone.

Todd Mason said...

You mean, the telephone that is solely a telephone?

I'm surprised the Hydrox revival has perished (or perished again).

Gerard Saylor said...

I still regularly use: the phone book, telephone answering machines, fax machine, foldable road maps.

Todd Mason said...

Bill Criders are obsolete? Or simply classic?

Leigh said...

There's nothing like a map to give a big picture. Of course we've heard stories of those who've keyed a destination into their GPS and driven hundreds of miles in the wrong direction.

Richard Robinson said...

Of 17 items, I have 11 here. No lickable stamps, subway tokens or rolodex, no Hydrox (Oreo were and are better), If my CRT television would ever die - or even act up, I'd buy a flat screen, but it keeps on going. I happily use a land line telephone (w/ an answering machine but no caller ID, and a telephone book). I f I want to take a photograph, I use a camera. Due to sound quality issues, I even avoid Mp3 when possible.

I wonder if many of the replacements for these items won't themselves disappear in a decade or two?

Unknown said...

We have a Rolodex, which gets a real workout because Judy doesn't even know how to turn on a computer. We also have a landline phone, a CRT television set (but we do have a couple of flat-screens, too). And so on. We're very much obsolete here. I think we even have some lickable stamps.

Cap'n Bob said...

I have a lot of them, too. Bulbs, TV, fax (never use it, tho), answering machine, phone book, rolodex, stamps (not to use, just admire), and road maps.

Cap'n Bob said...

Oh, and I thought Hydrox cookies were Oreos for the poor. If my mother bought them I thought I was being punished.

Todd Mason said...

Oddly enough, Harlan Ellison wrote an essay about how much better Hydrox was than Oreos. The Sunshine product had a more cakelike wafer, the Nabisco Oreos a more candy-like one...recently posted here was the citation of the filling, similar in both, as being among the least healthful foods we eat...

Deb said...

Still clinging stubbornly to folding maps (not that I have any sense of direction one way or the other, so it really doesn't matter how I get the directions) and my landline phone at home.

One thing that bothers me about the new lightbulbs is that they don't fit every light fixture. I have a couple of ceiling lights in my house that absolutely will not take a new bulb. I suppose I'll have to get new fixtures before 2012.