Things that are obsolete since the advent of the internet.

It's probably been done before. Let's do it again.

Inspired by Skink's "Hello, and welcome to movie phone" thread.

OBSOLETE:

Movie Phone

Thomas guides

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of course, now I can't think of any more.

Yours?

At least they've become obsolete for me.

but I'll bet they don't get used much.

I don't have to boot up the computer to look up a phone number or address.

the front porch to the recycle bin.

:(

(Not completely obsolete, but I don't know many besides myself who hand write letters, thank you notes, etc.)

hand write thank you notes, and notes to friends who need encouragement.

Glad to see it's not completely a dieing art.

to dust.

Well, newspaper in general, it seems.

Newspaper want ads are a joke now

Newspapers are also great to read in the tub: if you drop one in the water, you're not out anything because you were going to recycle it anyway. Dropping your iPad in the water...well, that's a different story.

PeeWee Herman would never have been busted

:rofl:

I think from now on I'll just do all my hiking online

You can also exercise together with someone from China on your WII!!

...or at least, they should be!

Also, CDs, DVDs and (in my house, very soon I hope) Cable Television!

Small loss, as I hate people. :P

That's hilarious because it's true. And yeah, people basically suck. Far better to let our fingers do the walking as opposed to dealing with a bunch of idiots face-to-face

:evilgrin:

:D

BTW, how you doing after your fall?

Most folks don't need cook books, dictionaries, phone books or How-to manuals on their electronics, appliances, even cars. These things are available free on the internet and don't take up space in a bookshelf.

:shrug:

I would be lost without the travel agent I use at work. The firm has its own travel department, and I know those people work their asses off every day, but they are hopelessly overburdened and understaffed and just can't make it work. My agent can find me the perfect trip in less than ten minutes. I am very fortunate.

But for personal travel -- yeah. Totally obsolete.

When my mother was dying. She even got me a "bereavement" rate which was half the normal fare.

For emergencies like that, a travel agent is a godsend. For planning a vacation, they're obsolete.

Poor Gamestop...

My bills are either automatically deducted or I pay them online. I hardly ever use stamps. Also, the last time I used a teller in a bank was to get change.

internet and technology has changed the nature of bank-tell work and there are more of us, just less client-facing ones. I only deal with corporate, 501(c)3/4 and wealth-management accounts, most of my teammates work desks now as hybrid FSRs...but yeah, totally less window-telling work.

Guess who manually has to perform every transaction you do through the ATM or online though? A teller. Every single transaction passes before a second set of human eyes during batch-processing and a third occasionally during verification if there is a flag, alert or the appearance of error or discrepancy. It's actually rather client unfriendly to fully automate the process to human-free as we're more accurate than the computer because they can't make a computer think rationally or correctly intuit what you're trying to do.

The internet and ATMs have just made my work-life easier. It does the heavy lifting and record-generation and I simply say "yup" or correct its' errors.

automated devices rather than actual people.

Or, more accurately, the order forms inside them. When was the last time anybody used one of those? I order by phone or I go to the website if I wish to place an order.

My company still puts a great deal of money and scrutiny into its catalogs. Customers 40+ often prefer them to web shopping, and I can understand why (for one thing, they aren't subject to IT foulups).

I'm surprised.

I don't have numbers on it. My department doesn't handle mail orders, so I couldn't say with accuracy, but we do take care to monitor whether incoming telephone customers are using catalogs, and which edition of the catalog they're using. It's most interesting, because it gives an impression that a significant number of customers rely on the physical catalog.

It may just be habit for many of them, but it may also be a mindshare issue; it's easy to totally ignore a website and, at the same time, pay attention to a catalog sent directly to your house.

In fact, I'd say at least 80% of my mail nowadays is junk mail. :grr:

Hell, anything getting under 20 mpg is obsolete, but look how many people still have those.

is the first thing that comes to mind :bounce:

The ides was that these amazing data files could actually help you plot your trip from point A to point B, and with a subscription to the service you would get periodic updates to the maps.

(or "script" as we used to call it)

In primary school in the mid-'80s, I was instructed in cursive script. Online or on your phone, text is text, but I still tend to use it now in personal notes, because my cursive hand is rather elegant and my freehand is ugly.

At least in the school my grand daughter goes to. They don't, however, spend much time on it.

I don't know why; it still comes in handy (thank you notes, grocery lists, etc.).

It's not on the NCLB test.

I looked down the thread to see if anyone posted "privacy" which was my choice.

with a deck of cards. I remember my mother played solitaire several hours a day. I am sure if she were still alive when pc's became common, she would have not used cards, but played on the computer.

Yearbooks to go with the WBEs.

Rolodex