Obsolete Technologies

Last  week you explored some emerging (and recently emerged) technologies.  But I thought it might be fun to look at some things that are now obsolete!

From the Houston Chronicle:

Former AOL employee and writer John Scalzi videotaped his daughter Athena holding a record for the first time, he put the video on YouTube, it was picked up by Huffington Post and has now been seen almost 200,000 times.

The 13-year-old girl find the thing fascinating, at first believing it must hold a lot of songs because it’s so big and ending up disappointed to find it only holds 10 to 15 songs. She then learns to play it you put a needle on it and seems incredulous. (Why would you put a needle on it?) 

Scalzi tells the Huffington Post the video is one hundred percent real and not faked, although it sounds as if some YouTube commenters doubted that. He has since disabled comments. 

It would be a fun experiment though. Hand your kids a record, a floppy disk or a Walkman and see if they know what to do with it. 

Here's more:  

• 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
• 21 Things That Will Become Obsolete by 2020
• The Best Obsolete Technologies
• Obsolete Technology:  40 Big Losers
• Obsolete Learning Technologies

Which of the obsolete technologies are new to you? Which of the "emerging technologies" will be the first to go?  

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