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!

Books.
I prefer using a kindle, there now you all hate me!
TV schedules. I don't know why we still bother with these. TV on demand please!
Fountain pens. I wish these faffy objects were fully obselete. My son's junior school only allow fountain pens and no biros. My son can't manage a fountain pen without making a terrible mess. I struggled with one through school and really I don't know why they're used.

"Retractable car aerials" do you remember retractable phone aerials? The first time I got a phone without an external aerial I was extremely sceptical how well it would work.

Re-suction chutes.
My local hospital has one that goes from the phlobotonists room (spelling might not be right, room where they take blood) to the labs. Yip they send the blood samples through it.
Hospital is only about 16 years old.

Windows installation CDs
Savings stamps
MySpace - anyone remember that from not long ago?
Barometers
Grandfather clocks.

Barometers and grandfather clocks only seem to be decorative nowadays, and the clocks only in large houses which they suit.

Tickets in little pockets in library books

Pull off ring pulls. The alleys used to be littered with them.

I remember when the modern push down ones first came out in the mid-eighties, my school friend had a can of Cherry Coke in her lunch-box and we were all rather perplexed by it.

Party lines.
Hair mascara.

Serving hatches.
Match books in bars/restaurants.
Hitch hikers

@Graphista

On a very quiet night shift a number of years ago, I perfected the art of taking my own BP with a manual sphyg

Yy to not accepting results unquestioningly. "Look at the patient" was probably the single most important sentence spoken during my training.

Stamp vending machines are rare now.

Dymo label makers: the sort where you had to emboss them letter by letter. (I use an electronic label maker.)

Fuse wire instead of circuit breakers: probably plenty of houses still have it in place though.

I wonder why serving hatches fell out of fashion?

There was a serving hatch in my grandparents’ old house (the house my mother grew up in). It linked from the kitchen to the living-room, though. Perhaps the living-room was once a dining room, but not when my mother was growing up nor when I visited the house.

My PiL have a serving hatch from the kitchen into the dining room. They eat every meal in the dining room; breakfast, lunch, tea, 24/7/365. Yet every single item for every single meal is carried round the corridor. At Christmas I tried the hatch doors (they work fine). FiL just said “we don’t use those”. Very factual, no apparent reason.

Immersion heaters? Does anyone still use them?

Some people keep immersion heaters just in case their boiler breaks.

I've been asked to sand something by fax and sign two cheques in the last week, so not obsolete.

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We've got immersion heater which is the envy of our friends when their boilers break down. We had a month with no boiler
one winter but with the immersion, woodburner and a couple of electric heaters we were fine.

We have tippex at work for our lunchtime crosswords. We have clocks on our mantelpieces, I use a chequebook occasionally and use the landline (plus answerphone) more than my mobile due to poor reception. Also keep a plugin one which is useful during power cuts. Still buy DVDs too if we can't stream something we
want.

Dolly tub and mangle. I must be really old as I still use a darning mushroom, cassettes (including my old mix tapes!), paper diary, bolster (La Reroute sell them), fountain pen, cheques, a husband ... and my town has cobbled streets!

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Milk vending machines. Used to be everywhere, particularly at railway stations and bus depots.

Cigarette/Cigar vending machines in pubs and clubs. My best mates dad owned a business that dealt with the machines (refilling, maintenance etc). It took him all over the North and would always give you a lift. He was a lovely bloke his dd was a nightmare though. I often wonder what happened to him business wise.

We still have milk vending machines though unfortunately our local potato vending machine has been removed!

Some of the things listed here are really not obsolete!

Manual chokes.
Manual handbrakes seem to be disappearing too.

4 star petrol
Carburettors

Do people still have standalone MP3 players (as opposed to phones)?