1. Dial up Modems
Nowadays dial-up modems are already obsolete. We already have the broadbands, DSL and wifi that could connect to the internet faster. Dial-up modems are noisy, slow, erratic, and wired. Nostalgic?
2. Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia books are no longer used by many kids and schools because of the world of internet and computers. You can easily search and download encyclopedia's on the web. Kids are more interested in reading the encyclopedia online with great features than the books.
3. Landline Phones
As the technology advances, the landline phones is starting to fade away from households. Land line phones are killed by the mobile phones. A great thing created by technology where you can communicate anywhere and anytime. Mobile phones are very handy which you can store it in your pocket and no more annoying cable phone line. the innovation of mobile phones makes life and work so easy.
4. Film and Cameras
Film and cameras are no longer existing. The digital world emerges and dissolved the film cameras. Digital cameras are so easy to use and continues to innovate, changing shapes, sizes, weights, pixels and etc. Digital cameras--on phones, point-and-shoots, or computers--are capturing memories, instantly and cheaply, in place of film cameras.
5. Yellow Pages and Address Books
There was a time when "let your fingers do the walking" meant opening a phone book -- not typing in a search query. Phone books, address books, and the Yellow Pages have been made obsolete, their information transferred from paper onto smartphones, and the web.
6. Wires
Wireless internet, wireless updating, wireless downloads, wireless charging, wireless headphones: Although wires are still around (for now!), they're well on their way to being a thing of the past.
7. Hand Written Letters
Love letters, thank you notes, and invitations have gone being hand-written to typed, and from the mailbox to the inbox. Sending online messages is a bargain next to $.44 stamp.
8. The Separation Between Life and Work
Our way of working has changed drastically this decade. These days, we no longer have to be in the office or even near a computer to be at work or in touch. With smartphones that are ever-more ubiquitous and ever-smarter, along with ultra-light laptops and WiFi in planes, trains, and automobiles, we can reply to our colleagues on the go and are accessible anywhere.
9. Forgetting
"The web means the end of forgetting," wrote the New York Times earlier this year. "The Internet records everything and forgets nothing." Indeed, increasingly there's a digital copy of everything we do: the emails we send, the phone calls we make, the places we go, the pictures we take, the opinions we write. Google CEO Eric Schmidt even suggested (in what he later said was a joke) that young people ought to be able to change their names when they hit adulthood in order to escape their "permanent record" on the Internet. We can collect data on everything from our sleep habits to our spending, making it harder than ever for us--and the Internet--to forget what we've said, purchased, or done.
10. Maps
GPS devices keep getting cheaper, smaller, and more portable. We have GPS in our cars and on our phones. We use mobile maps for everything from cross-country trips to tracking down restaurants, and employ services like Google Maps and Mapquest to give us customized routes. Asking for directions, carrying around paper maps, and even getting lost are all increasingly obsolete.
11. Classifieds in News Papers
Not only have ad dollars followed audiences online, but the expansion of Craigslist -- from one city, San Francisco, to over 500 -- has sent chills down the spines of newspaper publishers everywhere, thinning newspapers and reducing ad sales.
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