Obsolete items

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  • Newspapers

    Newspapers

    Statistics say newspapers have been going obsolete all the way since 1950 because when television became a thing everybody got hooked on that.
  • Public pay phones

    Public pay phones

    Stats say payphones started going obsolete all the way back in 1970, less and less being placed in the US.
  • movie rentals/movie rental stores

    movie rentals/movie rental stores

    By 1995/early 2000s the internet started to blow up and a lot of movies went online.
  • Fax Machines

    Fax Machines

    Fax machines have been replaced by texting and emailing and have now been obsolete since 1996 according to statistics.
  • Landlines

    Landlines

    Cellphones became obsolete around the 90s-early 2000s especially when the first iphone launched with it's touchscreen.
  • Maps

    Maps

    Maps went obsolete around 2001 when car companies started implementing them into their vehicles.
  • VCR's

    VCR's

    In 2003, VCR'S started to die out because of online movies and DVD'S.
  • CD'S

    CD'S

    By 2005 apple had outpaced CD sales with the iPod, CD'S then started to die out
  • Floppy disks

    Floppy disks

    Floppy disks have been overtaken by "the cloud" or icloud saving and have been obsolete since 2010, in 2010 apple also announced they're stopping the production.
  • Paper

    Paper

    Even though paper is still used a lot in schools, some places have everything online, for example this intro to business class is paper free, all work is online, I say paper starting going more obsolete during COVID too with everyone learning from their computers.