Ties
8-Tracks
Cartoons on Saturday morning only
College Football games on Saturday afternoon only
Movies only viewed in Theaters (No VHS, Digital Copies, Cable TV, etc.) If you wanted to see a movie you had one shot, until . . .
Video rental stores - Which are also no longer around except for that one Blockbuster store in Oregon . . .
Socks - To be very specific, Tube Socks
Hitchhiking
Going outside without sunscreen
Brutal Playground Equipment (I really miss this . . . )
Zero crowds at the Beach - well, at least after Jaws came out in 1975
A world without Star Wars - After May 1977
Small pox Vaccines
School House Rock - a mainstay on Saturday morning cartoons in the 70's
Ditto machines in School - and their unique smell (The machine before copiers)
Manually moving the TV antenna to get better reception. And . . .
Getting up to change the channel or change the TV volume
Typewriters
Smoking
Trying to figure out the 1971 song "American Pie" lyrics
No seat belts or bicycle helmets
The Patty Hearst saga in the mid-1970's
Fixing mistakes with White-Out
Getting your film developed
Cigar boxes doubling as your pencil / pen case for school
Tang
Email accounts you had to pay for
Pet Rocks
Floppy Drives / CD's / DVD's
Brady Bunch
Jackson 5 / Osmond Brothers
Taping songs off of the Radio
Physical Maps
TV Test Pattern
Television stations signing off for the night
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Things that I think are headed for the same fate as some of the items mentioned above:
Fax machines - (See copiers / cameras / the end of paperwork . . . )
Paperwork - (Cloud based documents will soon be the norm)
Paper receipts - (Digital will be the norm)
Textbooks - e-textbooks
Reference Books - (see the Internet)
Travel Agencies - (see the Internet)
Car Keys
Truck Drivers - (Soon will be automated)
Delivery Drivers - (Drones and Robots)
Parking Meters -
Taxi Cabs -
Headphones with Cords
Checkbooks -
Payphones
Landline Phones
Alarm Clocks / Calculators / Analog Watches / GPS Devices (All replaced by the phone)
411
Newspapers / Magazines (All moving to digital platforms)
Buttons on phones . . .
Keyboard and Mouse soon to be replaced by voice commands (It is amazing that we are still using the same input technology that we were using over 40 years ago)
Long Distance Charges
Phone Books
Getting Bills in the Mail
Privacy (Self-Explanatory)
Never being out-of-touch (This one I'm convinced is doing real harm to our mental and emotional well-being)
Record Stores and iTunes (Going, Going, Gone . . .)
What did I miss?
