20 Things That Are Disappearing
A 12.22 HuffPost piece has listed 20 things that have either disappeared or are on their last legs since 2000. Texting has overtaken phone calling but phone calls will never disappear. Travel agents are all but gone, of course, and so are brick-and-mortar bookstores (fading), phone sex, maps, print classifieds, dial-up internet, encyclopedias, CDs, landline phones, film cameras, yellow pages, address books, printed catalogues and fax machines.
I know this makes me seem really old, but I’m never giving up my landline phone, my address book, DVDs, or CDs. Whenever I download MP3s or other musical “information,” I hardly ever play it. I still love having the physical property of a CD/DVD/even cassette tape. But I do admit that we pulled down my vinyl turntable from the attic months ago, and it’s still in its bag. And I’ll *never* giver up books!