Obsolete items

Newspapers

Apr 23, 1950

Statistics say newspapers have been going obsolete all the way since 1950 because when television became a thing everybody got hooked on that.

Public pay phones

Apr 22, 1970

Stats say payphones started going obsolete all the way back in 1970, less and less being placed in the US.

movie rentals/movie rental stores

Jan 20, 1995

By 1995/early 2000s the internet started to blow up and a lot of movies went online.

Fax Machines

Jan 1, 1996

Fax machines have been replaced by texting and emailing and have now been obsolete since 1996 according to statistics.

Landlines

Jun 22, 2000

Cellphones became obsolete around the 90s-early 2000s especially when the first iphone launched with it's touchscreen.

Maps

Feb 12, 2001

Maps went obsolete around 2001 when car companies started implementing them into their vehicles.

VCR's

May 20, 2003

In 2003, VCR'S started to die out because of online movies and DVD'S.

CD'S

Aug 10, 2005

By 2005 apple had outpaced CD sales with the iPod, CD'S then started to die out

Floppy disks

Jan 4, 2010

Floppy disks have been overtaken by "the cloud" or icloud saving and have been obsolete since 2010, in 2010 apple also announced they're stopping the production.

Paper

Apr 9, 2021

Even though paper is still used a lot in schools, some places have everything online, for example this intro to business class is paper free, all work is online, I say paper starting going more obsolete during COVID too with everyone learning from their computers.