Redundant Technology

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#1

Laserdisc
Landline telephone

This thread been done? Big whoop, we’re doing it again.

#3

one of my favourite lines from paranoid android

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#4

Fax machines (except on transfer deadline day).
Hostess trolleys.

#5

this is as good a place as any to say that a bloke from 6th form who i barely know but am still friends with on facebook posted a picture today of his new train driving license

probably a bit late in human history for that career choice

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#6

Pagers
Dictaphones
Typewriters
School blackboards

#7

Was just clearing out ‘the drawer’ and have put about 4 old ‘slow charging’ phone chargers in for the recycling. Only from about 5 years ago, but completely redundant to my life.

#8

for all us Fletch fans, we’ll never give up the Dictaphone.

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#9

minidisc

#10

telegram dating

#11

All those budding romances ended by a misinterpreted “STOP”.

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#12

You’ve got at least 30 years before train drivers/operators become redundant. He’ll be fine.

#13

Play-by-mail fantasy football

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#14

Plotters in offices. We just got rid of ours and have gone back to sending drawings out to be plotted, like it’s the early-90s.

#15

Pagers

Oops, that’s already been said

#16

Bravo

#17

Pagers are still quite often used by doctors and nurses in care homes and hospitals.

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#18

My mum still has and uses a hostess trolley. Its made her the slowest cook in the world - I swear she cooks a meal one thing at a time

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#19

Cd changers for the boot of the car

Micro fiche. I presume anyway, @plasticniki??

#20

Almost all of them use mobiles now.

#21

When I worked in a care home, a lot of the nurses used pagers.

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