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Jewish World Review
How Stuff Works: What went obsolete in the last decade?
By
Marshall Brain
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | (MCT)
As we stand here at the beginning of a new decade, have you thought about everything that died in the last one? As new technologies rise up, they often kill off older technologies. Let's review some of the death and destruction that has occurred over the last 10 years.
For example, think about the record store. This is hard to believe today, but just 10 years ago people bought all of their music at record stores. Napster, which marked the beginning of the end for record stores, was invented in June of 1999. Prior to that, no one had ever heard of an MP3 file. Napster made the MP3 file a household name, and dramatically boosted the idea of portable MP3 players (invented in 1998). The iPod first appeared in 2001, along with iTunes. With the rise of digital music, the need to go to a physical store to buy music died, and record stores started closing. Today they are almost all gone.
The CD is now in its death throes, as it is being replaced by electronic music files. And with death of CDs the concept of an "album" has lost much of its power. People now buy their songs one at a time.
The cassette tape also died. It lived alongside the CD because you could record onto a cassette, and cars and stereos all had cassette players. The portable MP3 player killed the cassette.
Other forms of tape died as well. DVD players were still rare in 2000, having been first introduced in 1997 in the United States, so everyone was using video tape cassettes for their videos. Most answering machines still used tape and camcorders all used tape in 2000. Video cassettes have been completely replaced by DVDs. Camcorders may still use tape, but more and more the tape is replaced by flash memory, so this last vestige of tape is about to disappear as well.
Speaking of answering machines, they are pretty much dead, having been replaced by voice mail systems that come with your cell phone plan or your telephone service.
Speaking of cell phones, the entire telephone industry has been transformed in the last decade. In the year 2000, just about everyone had a land-line connection to the local phone company, and then had an account with one of the big long-distance carriers (AT&T, MCI, sprint, etc.) to handle non-local calls.
With the rise of cell phones and VoIP services like Vonage, things have changed quite a bit. Many people today have no connection to the local phone company at all, and the concept of long distance has largely died. Most telephony is now handled by your cell phone or your Internet connection.
The digital camera killed film. In 2000, a good digital camera had 2 megapixel resolution, very little memory, poor battery life and cost about $500. Digital cameras were luxury items, and if you wanted a "decent" picture you still used film. Today film is almost completely dead. Even the movie industry -- the last big user of film -- is rapidly going digital because the cost of film and processing is so high.
Then there is all the stuff the Internet has killed: Everyone used to get TV Guide. That's dead through a combination of cable boxes and the Internet. Stock quotes in the newspaper used to be common (and you used to call a stock broker to do a stock trade). That's been completely replaced by the Internet.
Remember when every household had an encyclopedia or you went to the library to use theirs? Encyclopedias died along with phone books and the Yellow Pages. We once used paper maps in the car. Remember folding them? They were replaced by online mapping sites, which were then replaced by GPS receivers. Classified ads in newspapers were replaced almost completely by CraigsList and similar sites.
Remember the cathode ray tube? Your TV and computer monitor were as big as buses. Now they are thin and light.
Today there are several centuries-old technologies in their death throes because of the Internet. Book stores face the same problem that record stores did.
Printed newspapers and magazines are in peril (although most will survive in new digital form). The audience for the network news has been falling as more and more people get their news from the Internet.
The next decade could be even more interesting, and we will get to watch it happen before our very eyes.
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Previously:
How cholesterol works
How leather works
How vaccines work
How the smart grid works
How sea level works
How employee screening works
How to avoid catching a cold
How bread works
How a home energy audit works
How Omega-3 fatty acids work
Social networking
How trick birthday candles work
How electric cars like the Nissan Leaf work
How a manned mission to Mars works
How gold works
How bad breath works
How the ultimate sunglasses work
Any rocket is easily converted to a missile
How to have a great staycation
How a black box works
How a solar roof works
How nuclear bombs work
How the Hubble Space Telescope works
How hay fever works
How to know when to rent vs. buy
How swine flu works
How a kidney dialysis machine works
How children die in hot cars
How a trillion dollars works
How electronic cigarettes work
How chimpanzees work
How in vitro fertilization works
How supertankers work
How poisons work
How corn works
How dog ID chips work
How President Obama's limousine works
How emergency power works
How aircraft carriers work
How antibiotics and vaccines work
How mucus works
How iron and steel work
How aspirin works
How igloos work
How the Predator UAV works
How retention ponds work
How water absorbers work
How melamine works
How digital music works
How coal mining works
How an economic depression works
How the liver works
How 3D movies work
How oil pipelines work
How jet packs work
How seismographs work
How Olympic technology works
How Personal Rapid Transit works
How 3G works
How the Global Position System (GPS) works
How octane works
How cruise missiles work
How submarines work
How miles work
How octane works
How food preservation works
How beer works
How holding your breath works
How smoke detectors work
How heat pumps work
How your night vision works
How concentrating solar collectors work
How your key fob works
How the common cold works
How the Large Hadron Collider Works
How making a TV show works
How dry cleaning works
How exoskeletons work
How an oil refinery works
How landfills work
How the Orion spacecraft works
The cutting edge in HDTV
Redefining the CD
How the HDMI cable scam works
How glow-in-the-dark toys work
How the subprime mortgage crisis works
How gift cards work
How Tasers work
How giant TV screens work
How foreclosure works
How Air Force One works
How wildfire fighting works
How vitamins work
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How reattaching limbs works
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© 2007, How Stuff Works Inc. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.
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