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 always use attended filling stations.

Lift attendants - John Lewis used to have them along with toilet attendants who would wipe the seat between customers!

Pedestal mats round the loo.

Soda siphons

Floppy disks?

Still a million cheques a week written you know, not very obsolete.

Microfiche. Bane of my life at university.

Typewriters.

Bed valances

Kids playing outside. Where the hell are they?!!

Outside my house from March to October

Trousers presses? Maybe it’s just DH ego doesn’t have one, as he doesn’t need to wear a suit very often.

Sheets and blankets

Badbilly - there’s still an attendee filling station in my mum’s town in Somerset.

I always used to make a point of stopping at one In Devon on the way to holiday in Cornwall, but they improved the road and it now by-passes the village it was in.

It was all part of the holiday experience😁

Free pens and blankets on all flights
Cassette video recorders
Portable CD players
Immobilisers on cars that you had to manually switch off
Manual chokes on cars
192 for telephone numbers
Yellow pages
Cheques
Soda stream

Internet cafes.

I really wish Cremola foam wasn’t obsolete.

Cassette tapes

Massive road maps which used to sit in your car.

Soda Stream were advertising massively around Christmas, as a low plastic alternative to buying lots of bottles of pop.

Floppy Disks

Still used quite often by computer technicians, especially in recovery situations.

My favourite band sells a lot of cassettes still! Their new album last year was on CD, vinyl and cassette (and download).

I got a Soda Stream for my birthday in December. I love fizzy water and it saves lots in buying it and also in single-use plastic waste.

No idea why, but the dog howls every time I use it (which is most days!!)

Pagers are still really useful. We use them at work because you can activate a whole team of people, without knowing their individual phone numbers, even if they don't have a mobile phone signal.

Obsolete:
A to Z maps
Manual sphygmomanometers
Smallpox vaccines

I use talc and I have a paper diary!

And I have a giant road atlas.

Word processors ... those electric typewriter type ones. Pagers. Those printers that only print paper with the detachable hole strips.

Mangles. Coal scuttle.

I use road maps. I have them for all of Yorkshire and Derbyshire in my car. I go to a lot of fairly rural places for work, and digital mapping just sometimes can’t cope.