Technology We'll Miss When It's Gone

Technology We'll Miss When It's Gone

As tech speeds inexorably forward, many gadgets and services will be left in heaps on the roadside. Problem is, we'll truly miss some of them.

Christopher Null, PC World
Nov 16, 2009 9:00 pm

The times, they are a-changin'. When haven't they been? But change isn't always good. Here are ten tech items whose days are numbered, and we're going to miss them all--though some more than others--when they're gone.

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"What will we do, what we will we do without our MP3 players and no programmable mouse?!"

I have to echo one of the comments on that page -

I miss spelling and grammar. Trying to read some of the crap on the net today gives me a headache while trying to decipher the often unintelligible drivel that passes for communication.

Written Language has always been dynamic and constantly changing, but what passes for net speak feels like a devolution rather than an evolution.

I miss not being able to avoid a phone! Remember the good old days... if you were not home people tried back later? If you were on vacation, you were unreachable!

Darryl Licht said:

I miss not being able to avoid a phone! Remember the good old days... if you were not home people tried back later? If you were on vacation, you were unreachable!

No freaking kidding...I purposedly let my cell phone die and stay dead for as long as possible...

If I don't...I will be hounded to death by calls

7. MySpace

We hasten to say: MySpace is horrible. We certainly won't miss the gaudy wasteland that fills 99 percent of MySpace space. Rather, we're going to miss the original idea underlying this social network--of a place where in theory you might go to find out where your favorite band is playing, listen to their latest tracks, hear a comic try out a few new jokes, and maybe keep in touch with your friends. Instead, MySpace has become a useless (and dying) magnet for spammers, clueless preteens, and attention addicts, none of whom seem to be in on the joke. Good riddance.

Dear god, YES.


~Lordbob

Zidane24 said:

Darryl Licht said:

I miss not being able to avoid a phone! Remember the good old days... if you were not home people tried back later? If you were on vacation, you were unreachable!

No freaking kidding...I purposedly let my cell phone die and stay dead for as long as possible...

If I don't...I will be hounded to death by calls

I do this once a week. I work at a union, I know what you're saying. If I don't turn my cell phone off at least once a week, I'd have to throw it to the steet so that a truck would run over it!!

Despite all those gadgets that eventually get replaced by something newer I never could quite come to part with some old pc games. Well besides Duke 3D I was able to get the 8bit original going on the 64bit 7 by way of DOSBox when you look at the MS Windows part seen there showing 95.

Looking back however I probably won't miss 3.1, 95, 98 that much since seeing 7!

One thing I miss are the BBS's that were around in the early 90's. Most of them were pretty "plain jane" setups, but they were all we had and were alot of fun. I am in Houston and all the BBS I called were in Houston (to avoid the long distance phone call). I met alot of people through them that have become long time friends. That is not possible on the internet since people are all over the world.