What have you seen developed, delivered and redundant in your lifetime ?

[Rogero]

Black and white TVs.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

8 Track tapes

 

[Discodoktor]

Metrosexuals
Soon to be followed by lumbersexuals.

 

[ofco8]

Withdean Stadium as an Albion home.

 

[brightn'ove]

Crawley Town

 

[Pevenseagull]

Mullets

 

[Rogero]

Fax machines are still used. I looked up Cadburys Smash and it is still really popular with 150million servings each year.is anyone on here owning up.

 

[LlcoolJ]

Apollo Space rockets

The space shuttle. I remember the whole school being allowed to watch the early launches because it was something so new and amazing. Now gone.

Re cassettes, they've actually made a big comeback thanks to hipsters. Can't see the same happening with DVDs or CDs somehow but fashion is a strange thing.

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

The iPod.... almost

 

[LlcoolJ]

Fax machines are still used.

Annoyingly yes, they are. I asked HMRC to email me some information for a client recently and they said "we can't email it but we can fax it to you". After asking if it was 1995 I set up a fax to email account and gave them the number.

 

[Notters]

Leon Knight

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Vinyl roofs on cars
Loon pants

 

[Prince Monolulu]

Casio (other brands available) pocket TVs and

 

[Bad Ash]

Annoyingly yes, they are. I asked HMRC to email me some information for a client recently and they said "we can't email it but we can fax it to you". After asking if it was 1995 I set up a fax to email account and gave them the number.

Fax machines would be a worthy of a new thread; what technologies should be completely redundant, but are refusing to die?

 

[DavidRyder]

Sinclair C5.

Great idea - shame about all those HGVs that make it a gauntlet run on every trip.

 

[spanish flair]

Patcham Fawcett school, what a waste of council money that proved to be, for the correct reasons I hasten to add.

 

[Discodoktor]

"One club, one ambition" slogan!

 

[Pevenseagull]

fish foot spas

 

[Buzzer]

Your mum.

 

[Trufflehound]

CDs soon to be followed by DVDs

Won't be gone in my lifetime. I like something tangible you can hold - not particulary interested in downloads.