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Phone booth
Phone booths help people locate a pay phone, and place a call while out running errands in a private space. Due to the growing adoption of mobile phones, which provided more convenience, accessibility, and cost-efficiency, phone booths were rendered obsolete. Their demise was also influenced by a lack of absolute privacy, maintenance expenses, and the rise of internet communication. -
Fax machine
A fax machine is an electronic device that sends and receives documents using telephone lines.
The widespread use of quicker, more affordable digital communication tools like email, the environmental issues related to faxing, the inefficiency of faxing large documents, and the obsolescence of fax machine technology as manufacturers shifted their focus to digital alternatives all contributed to the fax machine's demise. -
Film
Roll film is usually reserved for film wound up on a spool with an interleaving light-tight backing paper to protect the wound-up film.
Went obsolete due to digital technology, which offered cost saving, the ability to preview photos, better quality, and convenience. -
Newspaper classifieds
Newspaper classifieds helped you find jobs that were hiring at the moment. Due to the emergence of affordable, more extensive, and user-friendly online classified advertising systems that provided real-time updates, search capabilities, direct user engagement, and environmental advantages, newspaper classifieds have become outdated. -
Atari
The Atari was a pioneer in arcade games, home video game consoles, and home computers.
Atari had lot's of competition for example Nintendo. They also had major quality control issues and eventually the 1983 video game crash would really hurt them. The video game industry is consistently evolving and they got caught behind -
CD's
CDs joined tape cartridges in generally replacing the phonograph record for playing music.
Due to the portability, accessibility, and convenience of digital media, as well as environmental concerns, the loss of CD players, shifting market dynamics in favor of digital downloads and streaming, and the comeback of vinyl records, CDs became outdated. -
PDA's
PDA's are handheld device that provides computing and information storage and retrieval capabilities for personal or business use, often for keeping schedules, calendars and address book information handy. PDAs were rendered obsolete as a result of smartphones' all-in-one solutions, which enhanced connection, user experience, app ecosystems, consolidated devices, improved hardware, cost, and user demands by ceasing to support PDAs. -
Phonebook
The Yellow Pages were used to find businesses, and the White Pages helped find people's phone numbers and addresses. Due to modern technology you can now access all your maps, friends contacts and directions digitally and on your phone, no longer the environmental issue of having of to keep a big heavy printed book to scroll though. -
BlockBuster
Blockbuster Video was an American video rental store chain.
The rise of digital streaming like Netflix really hurt their company since its much more assessable. They started having financial problems as less people used VCR's and DVD players and started to shut down. -
VCR
The VCR is a electromechanical device that records, stores, and plays back television programs on a television set by means of a cassette of magnetic tape.
They became obsolete due to things like DVD's and DVR's, as well as new steaming service like Netflix. VCR became less practical.