It was an early morning for me today. I had a full schedule of client meetings and was out the door of my house pretty soon after sunrise (which admittedly in England at this time of year isn’t that early). On my way to the park-and-ride, I saw an older chap pull quickly up to the kerb, jump out of his car and run into the phone booth.
“Blimey!”, I thought, “You don’t see that very often any more.” The mobile phone has pretty much done away with the pay phone these days. Not entirely, mind you, but it’s become enough of an old dinosaur that I certainly didn’t expect to see someone using it this morning.
So, what else lingers about these days but doesn’t really get much use?
(On a related note, over the weekend, I found myself having to explain to a 4-year old what a cassette tape was and how it doesn’t get really get much use anyone, at least not in the West.)
I think at least as interesting is old technology that makes a comeback, ie the record player being more popular.
How did she even become aware of cassette tapes?
@ Kieran –
How popular is the record player? I know there’s a bit of the nostalgia factor behind phonographs, but is it a full-on resurgence?
Re: the tape, it fell out off the shelf where I keep CDs. It started a little conversation about gone-by technology.