I miss having a watch that you had to wind up every day. (It was a nice morning ritual for me.) These days all watches seem to be battery powered. I also miss vinyl records with their crackling imperfections.
Remember rotary phone dials? My brother used to have a phone with a picture of the medieval scholar Roger Bacon in the dial hub. I saw this documentary Manufactured Landscapes once where they showed a dump in China with about a million phone dials! (They had to go somewhere...)
Ever been in those big high schools and such that they built about a century ago? Back then the door to each room would have a transom window on top so they could let out the hot air. But today buildings have air conditioning so they aren't needed now. Too bad, they were an elegant feature.
I also remember the age of paper grocery bags. Back then they had bags of double-lined paper for frozen foods! And we also got milk in glass bottles instead of plastic pouches and cardboard boxes. And there were also freezers that you had to defrost!
I suppose that when I get a little older I'll start feeling obsolescent myself. But such is life!
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