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Rotary Dial Phone
A rotary dial telephone was a popular type of phone design throughout the 20th century, requiring the user to rotate a numbered dial to key in digits rather than press a series of buttons. The Rotary Dial Phone became popular in the mid-1950s and became obsolete in the 1980s when the push-button era was born. -
Butter Churn
A butter churn is a device used to convert cream into butter. This is done through a mechanical process, frequently via a pole inserted through the lid of the churn, or via a crank used to turn a rotating device inside the churn. From the mid-1800s through the 1940s, the hand-crank butter churn was the most commonly used household butter churn in America. Crank churns replaced simplistic wooden dash churns. It wasn't long before crank churns were replaced by electric churns. -
Obsolete Timeline
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Type Writer
A typewriter is a device that prints letters on paper when a key is pressed. This action causes a steel type to strike a ribbon, which then transfers ink to the paper. Typewriters were regularly used from the late 1800s until the late 1900s, when computers gained in popularity. Thereafter, they began to be largely supplanted by personal computers running word processing software. Nevertheless, typewriters remain common in some parts of the world. -
Pay Phone
A payphone is a coin-operated public telephone, often located in a telephone booth or in high-traffic outdoor areas, with prepayment by inserting money, swiping a credit or debit card, or using a telephone card. The payphone peaked in 1995 when they were scattered all over the country in the millions. In July 2009, AT&T officially stopped supporting the Public Payphone service. Almost everyone has a cell phone these days, so people have no use for pay phones anymore. -
Apple iPod
The first MP3 player to cram a mind-blowing 1,000 songs and a 10-hour battery into a gorgeous 6.5-ounce size was the first iPod, which was released on October 23, 2001. Apple's portable music player dominated its market for most of its heyday between 2001-2010. The iPods were gradually pushed towards obsolescence and iPod sales started declining in 2009. The reason for this was simply because of the quality, music has evolved over-time which eventually left the iPod behind. -
Cassette Tape
Cassette tapes were used for recording or playback of audio or video in a tape recorder, cassette deck, video camera, or VCR, and for storage of data by some small computer systems. The cassette tape became the standard audio format from the late 1970s to the early 90s after the first portable cassette tape players were made available to the general public to record, share, and play music conveniently. -
Record Player
The record player was an instrument used for reproducing sounds by means of the vibration of a stylus, or needle, following a groove on a rotating disc. Record players became extremely popular in the 60s and 70s when Dual released the first turntables to provide stereo playback. Due to the popularity of cassettes, the rise of the compact disc, and the later arrival of digital music distribution in the 2000s, phonograph use drastically decreased in the 1980s. -
Game Boy
The Game Boy is an 8-bit fourth-generation handheld game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. The Game Boy first appeared in Japan on April 21, 1989, and it quickly gained popularity. The entire 300,000-unit supply of Nintendo was gone in less than two weeks. Because of the discontinuation of the Gameboy in 2003, and being replaced by the Nintendo DS back in 2006, it may seem as if Gameboy has disappeared from the gaming community. -
Quill Pens
The quill pen is a writing instrument that uses ink to leave writing on a surface and is produced from the flight feathers of a big bird. The feather's tip has been modified to make it suitable for writing, and the ink is kept inside the hollow shaft of the feather where it is carried to the tip by capillary action. Quill pens became increasingly popular in the 15th century and were replaced by metal nibs by the 19th century. -
Water Ring Game
The water ring toss game works simply by pressing the 2 buttons and trying to get the rings onto the poles. The water ring game was extremely popular in the 80s and became obsolete in the early 2000s due to the fact that people nowadays tend to gravitate toward newer and more exciting games.