Saturday, January 8, 2011

20 things that become obsolete this decade

If interested read the original article by the Huffington Post here

It's weird how baby's born in 2011 and this decade won't know the common things my generation - holla holla 90's babies - lived and grew up with. Items like maps, travel agents, and CDs are being replaced with GPS, Travelocity, and digital music downloading. Here's a quick least from the article
  1.  VCRs and VHS tapes
  2. Travel Agents
  3. The separation between work life and personal life (thank you smart phone)
  4. Forgetting
  5. Bookstores
  6. Watches (I can't see them going out as an accessory though)
  7. Phone Sex Via 1-900 numbers
  8. Maps
  9. Calling
  10. Classified in newspapers
  11. Dial-Up Internet
  12. Encyclopedias
  13. CDs
  14. Landline Phones
  15. Film and film cameras
  16. Yellow Pages and Address Books (once again thank you interwebz)
  17. Catalogs
  18. Fax Machines (how do you use one)
  19. Wires
  20. Hand-written letters
Another great leap is how much they will keep in touch with ALL of their friends. Thanks to Skype, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Blogspot, and the internet, people born this year and beyond will probably never say the words "Oh wow I wish I had stayed in touch with that person from elementary school." They'll be more connected than any generation before them.

It really makes one wonder and excited for what crazy stuff happens this decade. 




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