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Land-line telephones and ubiquitous pay phones pre-date me but have mostly disappeared. Touch-tone phones came and went in my lifetime. Floppy disks, 8”, 5.25
by gregjor 5y ago
Land-line telephones and ubiquitous pay phones pre-date me but have mostly disappeared.
Touch-tone phones came and went in my lifetime.
Floppy disks, 8”, 5.25”, 3.5”, and various formats like Zip disks.
Betamax, then VHS, then CD-ROM. DVD now seems almost obsolete.
Cassette tapes for music, and the Walkman-style portable players, then the portable CD players.
Fax predates me (fairly old technology made commercially viable as far back as 1948), and still hangs on in the legal and real estate professions.
CRT displays appeared before I was born but color TV was a big deal in my childhood, now obsoleted by flat-panels.
Dumb terminals like the VT-100 and Wyse-60 appeared early in my career and have largely disappeared, replaced by personal computers.
Minicomputers, appeared in the early ‘70s and died when PCs appeared a decade later. RIP Dec, Pr1me, Data General, and HP’s line of superminis.