Obsolete Items

  • 1200

    maps

    maps
    people use to use paper maps to find their way to a destination. now we use gps's and our phones to figure out where we want to go. they have been used for so long and stopped using them when they invented phones and gps's.
  • 1490

    first ever oven

    first ever oven
    this was the first ever oven that they used to make food and was very useful back in the 1400's until the 1800's. now they have remodeled it and is a better product. nowadays they don't use the old models of the oven.
  • puplic payphones

    puplic payphones
    when their weren't mobile phones they had payphones all around so that if you had to make a call you could. this item was made in 1889 and was very popular until they created mobile phones around 2007.
  • getting bills in the mail

    getting bills in the mail
    because we didn't have emails we use to get our bills in the mail. this method has been going on for a while but its slowly starting to be obsolete as we use email now.
  • landline

    landline
    since their were no smartphones invented people would have landlines so that they could both call and receive calls. people started buying this item in 1945 just after world war II. after people started getting smartphones that they could carry not as many people bought or had landlines.
  • backing data on floppy disks

    backing data on floppy disks
    people used floppy disks primarily as a means of storing and transferring data from the late 1970s through the 1990s. later they found that flash drives have better storage and are more compact and easier to carry.
  • pong the game

    pong the game
    one of the first games ever created and was basically tennis on a computer. it was popular in the 70's to the 90's and its popularity ended in the 2000's
  • fax machines

    fax machines
    people use to have fax machines that they would use to send messages or photos and more. now that we use phones we don't need fax machines to send messages. this item was popular in the 80's and slowly started to be less used because of phones and computers.
  • blockbuster

    blockbuster
    people used to rent movies to watch and get memberships at places like blockbuster. now we have Netflix and Disney plus that we can watch movies on so theirs no need to rent one. places like blockbuster were most popular in 2004 and closed in 2014
  • apple ipod Nano

    apple ipod Nano
    people would use the iPod Nano to listen to music. it wasn't really meant for texting and calling. this item was very popular in 2007 until 2010 until Apple came out with new phones.