Things that are archaic

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...i feel so young (26.. 27? need to count, remind me sometime next week).

off the top of my head from things i grow up with that are disapearing for more and more of my generation:

home phones (smartphone+skype+wifi & turn your data off when your home)
cable/satalite tv setups (websites for movie streaming of ill repute)
wall hanging or floor standing clocks (mobiles)
wall hanging calanders (screensaver widgets if you want changing pics)
books of local road maps that always used to be out of date (GPS)
magazines (currently fashionable only because they are archaic)
CDs/DVDs (not big enough for anything you can't just upload anyway)
music players (download MP3s on the pc and upload to your mobile)
dictionaries & encylopedia's (urban dictionary / google define / wikipedia)
fixing services (howstuffworks + youtube + free time)
globes (google earth/maps)
peep shows (online porn)
newspapers (everything)

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by traceur

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wall hanging or floor standing watches (mobiles)

Not quite sure what this one means. Do you mean clocks?

[it]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Not quite sure what this one means. Do you mean clocks?

fixed. now lets pretend that never happened.

[Griff]

From the way we're moving today, my dog and I are archaic.

[Sundae]

WOW! Now I feel BLOODY old.

Originally Posted by traceur

home phones (smartphone+skype+wifi & turn your data off when your home)
Our home phone is still the best way to get hold of any of the three occupants in this house

wall hanging or floor standing clocks (mobiles)
We totally rely on these in school, and the clock in the kitchen updates itself to GMT, so we set everything by it

wall hanging calanders (screensaver widgets if you want changing pics)
We need to know who is doing what when - all appointments and holidays are on there, so if someone is out you can still ascertain their availability

books of local road maps that always used to be out of date (GPS)
I've written about this before - I still value them

magazines (currently fashionable only because they are archaic)
eh? I just bought my neice a magazine subscription. Not everyone can access the internet all the time.
Dads has just subscribed for a second year to a mag I introduced him to - he loves having bite sized world information (and it's not as biased as their newspaper - shhhhhh)

dictionaries & encylopedias (urban dictionary / google define / wikipedia)
I use online for immediate spelling, but I use paper at school for spelling and specific meanings if I am wary of my knowledge. Both should be used more!

fixing services (howstuffworks + youtube + free time)
? Professionals + job well done = no worries about home insurance

globes (google earth/maps)
?!?! Still have globes in school and they are especially useful when showing where things happened, where people are moving to or even where people have been on holiday. They give a great sense of scale and distance. Some things need to be seen 3D

newspapers (everything)
Broadsheets are still worth reading. Tabloids never were anyway

I'm not disagreeing with the post.
I'm just explaining how it is different to me/ my generation and/ or why some of these things are still relevant to me/ us.

I'm not anti new technology, if I have a use for something I'll use it archaic or not.

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Our home phone is still the best way to get hold of any of the three occupants in this house

most of it really depends on whether you have internet avalible to you at all times or not, which really depends on what companies are availble to you and where you live, and its usually best to research for the companies you don't know about and check for "competiton encouraging" laws enforced on providers in your local mancupality.

for example for me (israel) there's a law that phone companies are required to treat new customers who got their phone elsewhere exactly like they would if they bought it from the same company.. including the payment reinversement most payment plans have.

now if you buy a smart phone online from a supplier rather then a service provider, and then use a 12-24 month payment program, you will actually make a profit of the reinversement.

in other countries (canada) companies will give you a completely free smartphone because they expect most customers to have no idea how much their data packs (mobile internet access) will be. other countries have their own tricks. there's always something.

either way, that is why is the first thing you do is download a desktop app to turn data on/off easily. you get a skype or a google-call number, you set up a referal to your actual number, and you pretty much get free calls and no data charges or nearly so whenever your in a wi-fi zone (malls, resturants, office buildings, and ofcourse set it up in your house).

limit your time using the data pack and phone service within the range which will give you the reinveresement for the payment (if it depends on it). get an app to monitor it. beyond that use it for emergencies only.

now yes, there are many packages that combine internet and cable tv and phonelines and mobile lines and they tell you that the other services are free... which is always bullshit. google unlimited highspeed internet [insert your area] and its likely their will be a few companies giving internet only services for a much lower flat monthly price.
place a cable between your tv and a convenient spot for your laptop and add links to your ill-reputed video streaming websites of choice, and you pretty much got all of the services you would have gotten otherwise. alternatively their are "Streamers" which are gadgets that streamline the process.

most households can save hundreds of dollars a month.

[Lamplighter]

Address numbers on business buildings, or painted on curbs

Good Humor ice cream trucks

Hiking boots that don't leak

Leaded gas