The Decade's Most Obsolete Stuff

Technology’s come leaps and bounds this past decade, leaving a trove of everyday items in the aughts' dust. New York magazine runs down some of the stuff we won’t really miss:

• Answering machine—Swingers proved why this thing had to go.
• Lickable stamp—Collectors still like them, but the rest of us want self-adhesives.
• Foldable road map—Please, these days you can have Snoop Dogg read your GPS directions.

• Cathode ray tube television—LCD screens finally beat out their ancestors in 2007.
• Incandescent light bulb—Already banned in Europe, these inefficient bulbs are being phased out here, too.
• Paid porn—You can get plenty of it free online.
• Fax machine—Pretty obsolete, though the Japanese still love it.
• Floppy disk—1.5mb used to seem like a lot.
• Phone Book—Still automatically delivered, but pretty useless outside of World’s Strongest Man competitions.
• Rolodex—No match for its digital counterparts.

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