mgk920
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Since the daily question has gone bye-bye, I thought that I would do a one-shot attempt at a replacement.
What still commonly available and/or used products and/or services would you consider to be 'obsolete'? In this sense, 'obsolete product or service' would mean that it is still widely available or used, perhaps even advertised, but has newer products and/or services that are in the process of or will likely soon supplant it, that you would recommend that little or no further practical research and development be done on it.
Items on my list include:
-Pagers -- these much reviled phone-number eaters of the 1980s to mid 1990s have been almost totally eliminated by cell-phones;
-Cathode-ray tubes -- you are seeing fewer and fewer of them available in electronics stores, supplanted by the various 'flat screen' technologies;
-Residential traditional land-line telephone service -- cellular phones are quickly doing that in, too, but OTOH I don't see businesses or government giving up their landlines anytime soon;
-Incandescent light bulbs for lighting and signalling -- much more efficient and longer lived compact flourescents and light emitting diodes (LEDs) are steadily doing these in;
-Pre-recorded audio CDs -- digital downloads (both legal and 'illegal'), the IPod (and its clones) and the attitudes of the record labels are going to quickly eliminate these icons of the 1980s and 1990s.
Let's see some of yours.
Mike
What still commonly available and/or used products and/or services would you consider to be 'obsolete'? In this sense, 'obsolete product or service' would mean that it is still widely available or used, perhaps even advertised, but has newer products and/or services that are in the process of or will likely soon supplant it, that you would recommend that little or no further practical research and development be done on it.
Items on my list include:
-Pagers -- these much reviled phone-number eaters of the 1980s to mid 1990s have been almost totally eliminated by cell-phones;
-Cathode-ray tubes -- you are seeing fewer and fewer of them available in electronics stores, supplanted by the various 'flat screen' technologies;
-Residential traditional land-line telephone service -- cellular phones are quickly doing that in, too, but OTOH I don't see businesses or government giving up their landlines anytime soon;
-Incandescent light bulbs for lighting and signalling -- much more efficient and longer lived compact flourescents and light emitting diodes (LEDs) are steadily doing these in;
-Pre-recorded audio CDs -- digital downloads (both legal and 'illegal'), the IPod (and its clones) and the attitudes of the record labels are going to quickly eliminate these icons of the 1980s and 1990s.
Let's see some of yours.
Mike
