Gone But Not Forgotten

Gone But Not Forgotten was Originally Posted on April 8, 2013 by lavarock

I was talking with a friend the other night about Voice over IP causing traditional telephone service to be fairly obsolete. When you compare paying $40 a month to get service that others are exceeding for $10. you wonder how useful traditional telephone service is.

How long did 8 track tapes last? Then we had and eliminated VCRs in exchange for CDs which soon were made somewhat old technology by DVDs and then BlueRay.

A decade or more ago, I looked up my stomach problems on the internet and found a study that showed the combination of 2 acid reducers had dramatic effect in solving the problem. When I mentioned this to my doctor, he was amazed. He had just recently gotten a computer and did not realize that some articles from the Journal of American Medical Association was online and this article was quite new.

Car phones used to be giant things costing thousands of dollars. Then as cellphones took hold, they could be free with service. How many people have more than 1 cellphone at home that are obsolete now?

Beepers. Need I say more?

Pay phones. Again, most long gone.

Even traditional TV has changed dramatically lately. Why wait fro hours and arrange to be home at 9pm to watch a program, when others just stream the same program after the fact? Many of the programs I am watching are time-delayed (although some I enjoy are decades delayed

It used to be that to get to an unknown location we used a map. Now we can use an up to date routing system using a cellphone and even see photos of the location we need to turn at.

Instead of getting an English to Spanish dictionary, I can speak into my phone using Google Translate and have the cellphone speak my sentence in Spanish (or other languages, seconds later.

There are many other examples I can give, but suffice it to say that much of our old technology is, well, OLD!