Obsolete things

[FourEyesGood]

Please can you help me? I’m trying to compile a list of things that are now obselete, like fax machines and VHS tapes. (They don’t have to be technology-based, though.) This is for an amateur film I’m loosely involved in planning.
Thanks!

Just thought of another one: cheque books!

I haven't sent a fax since 1998.

Credit card carbon copy paper swipe machine things.

I was in a shop less than a month ago that was having to use one of these as their internet connection was down. I felt like a time traveller. I got a handwritten receipt as well.

Type writers
Cine film
Spools of film for cameras
Coal fires
Boom boxes
Blow air storage heating

Banda? Things from before photocopiers

Big iron lung machines

Diving Bell helmets

Handmuffs?

Blackboards

Overhead projectors in schools

Slide rules?

Hairnets?

Incandescent light bulbs.

Suspenders for socks! My dad had them. Before elastane and Lycra and their mates, fabrics just didn’t keep their shape as they do now.

Telephone boxes- as telephone boxes (I did see a drunk using one as a urinal today, though).

Mercury arc rectifiers! They look really cool but also a tad dangerous.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-arc_valve

m.youtube.com/watch?v=yjMZ5qtyCUc

Children with mumps.

My mum had a beef mincer, twin tub and a pantry. Prob all obsolete now!

Also, Filofaxes, yellow pages, Thompson’s directories, an A-Z.

Rickets

Dot matrix printers
Green computer screens - MS Dos?
Sanitary towels with loops
Polaroid cameras
Handheld video cameras with little tapes
Texas bars, Cremola foam and lion bars
Twin tub washing machines
School blackboards (and throwing the board rubber)
Corporal punishment
Black and White TV
Big square TVs
Phone cards
Postal orders
Travellers cheques

I use a fax everyday (NHS). We also use cheques.

My patents use vhs and I bought them some new tapes for Christmas.

I still use a phone attached to the wall. I plug it it whenever I have to make a call to a utility or insurance company.

We own a VHS machine and have have tapes

Dial up modems.

I saw an old lady today in a plastic rain hat - of the type that unfolds from a folded strip and ties under the chin.Haven't seen one for ages- when I was growing up everyone ( it seemed!) had one,and a plastic Mac!

But I still use cheque books and the speaking clock....

Magazines like Smash Hits and Just Seventeen.

Insomnibrat front drum brakes are still alive and well (assuming they are the same as hub brakes) - Pashley still sell trikes with them today. I couldn't describe them as the most effective brakes I've used...

Remote controls that were attached by a cable to the TV
So many shops - Woolworths, BHS...
Passports that were made of cardboard and only lasted for a year (Visitors Passports?)

Single glazed windows with white painted metal frames.

I still use my cheque book regularly when I buy stuff from our local farm shop and three clients of mine still pay me by cheque despite asking them to pay by bank transfer. The vhs tapes from my children's nursery school, etc can also be played in our vhs/dvd player!

Pathology lab assistant here, we still use dictaphones!

Betamax!

Typewriters.

My gran had one of those plastic rain hats.
Are cagoules still a thing? Everyone seemed to have one when I was growing up.

Dial a Disc.

Last time I was in Boots I saw sanitary towels with loops and belt. Who uses these? I’m over 50 and I never used them!

Records played at 78rpm.

OHPs are still alive and well at the university I'm at!