What is a piece of technology that became popular within your lifetime only to be defunct today?

[Kayla45]

[Lliam]

45rpm records

Transistor radios.

4 track and 8 track tape players in cars.

Quadraphonic home music systems and records.

Betamax video cassette recorders.

Laser discs.

Rotary dial phones were already popular in my lifetime, but are now defunct

Mimeograph machines (like copy machines) were also around before I was born.

[Kayla45]

Old school cool

[Lliam]

Thanks for the MHO, Kayla!

[Still-alive]

Pagers

[Likes2drive]

A zume mp3 player, a Walkman cassette player, pay phones, and so many others

[1073sucks]

Too many

beepers! Someone calls you and you have to find a pay phone (<—another one) fast to get back to them lol

CD players! I used to bump my cd 💿 boombox in my riom facing the street so all the neighbors could hear my awesome Backstreet Boys songs lol

instant cameras or whatever their real names were. You would click to take pic and the photo would print out shake it in the air as it reveals itself. I see today many are coming up with mini similar devices to mimic those.

cars that had phones attached my parents had the Lincoln navigator with the giant phones in the middle. I thought they were so cool phones in the car 😂 😎 📞 🚗 beep beep!

Typewriters: we already had computers but I remember my aunt had typewriter and we would play with it typing stuff

[1073sucks]

I never had a beeper or an instant camera but my dad did. That’s why I remember this. But I’m not crying for any of this no longer inexistente. I really don’t care. Just fun to remember these things.

[abc3643]

That BECAME popular then obsolete in my lifetime so far. So, generally, I will not be predicting things that will become obsolete in my lifetime.

Oh, gee, there's a lot... and that's a valuable life lesson to learn: Don't get invested in the hip technological / media craze of the day because it will quickly be obsolete.

1. Cassette tapes and using a cassette tape and a cassette recorder as a storage mechanism for computer programs.
2. 8-track tapes.
3. Quadraphonic stereos.
4. Compact Discs (aka CDs).
5. CD-ROMs.
6. Laser Discs
7. Betamax then VHS videotapes.
8. "Blue Ray" discs.
9. Seagate storage.
10. Every size of floppy disk and disk drives.
11. Most handheld calculators.
12. Cryptocurrency... (Well, it WILL become obsolete because it is anything BUT crypto... It never really was not-obsolete because it is a fundamentally worthless technology.) NFTs.

I could on and on.

[Minky17]

Vine
Those music playing toothbrushes
Purple ketchup
Ipods
Ipod Nanos
Mp3 players
Ps2
Ps3
Gameboy Advance
Gameboy DS
Wii U
Wii
GameCube
Nintendo 64
Gameboy Color

[just_a_potato]

I had an mp3 player... does silly bands count? 😂😂😂

[slatyb]

8-track tapes, cassette tapes, VHS. Porn sold on 8mm film or video tape.

[Skinhead-1979]

Pagers, Dial up Modems, Car Phones, Commodore 64, Amiga 500, MSX 2, Walkman, 5 1/4 inch floppy disks and 3.5 inch hard disks

I think I'll leave it at this

[HighValue]

CDs, VHS, Cassettes, Walkman, singing fish decoration.

I still have hundreds of CDs, Cassettes, 2 Walkmans, and hundreds of VHS tapes. I still use my CDs too.

[4ngelic]

ipods

dvds (if that gained pop in the 2000s and not the 90s)

nintendo ds

wii

[Lynx122]

Way too many. Discman, Minidisk, iPod/mp3 player, the fat computer screens, the early mobile phones, floppy disks.

[Sarah2007]

I'm only 17, based on what I seen so far in my personal experience..

It has to be Sony PSP - Game Boy - BlackBerry phone

[MysticDevice]

PSPs, gameboys, Ipods and MP3s.

Its all mobile games now. And music streaming.

No one pirates music anymore, its kinda sad in a weird way.

[lightbulb27]

so many... cassette tape.

digital phone dialing

[Dongie]

Computers.
That's just me. I hate them even tho I have to use them daily. I prefer the simple adventurous days of the past when they were talked about but did not exist yet.

[RavVid]

I have seen video tapes tumble into obsolescence

[AviatorTom]

PDAs... Blackberrys and Palm Pilots, for example.

Also, VHS video tapes.

[exitseven]

There are a lot of them. VCRs, CD players, Walkman, Cassette tapes,

[gorydetails]

too many to count. VHS tapes, cassettes, CDs, plasma TVs

[MrGSpotHer]

By defunct you mean not good no more or dont work at all?

[Twalli]

CD, for information storage (replacing floppy disks).

[avery58]

MP3 players/iPods

[IslaTheWitch]

encyclopedia...

[llorando]

Dialup internet.

[TheRealPepperPotts]

Portable CD players.

[MisterWack]

iPod…. Dead now

[NathanDavis]

dictionaries...

[jshm2]

The cassette tape. Windows 98...

[dolemite58]

I miss vhs players

[TommyMountainFigure]

Palm pilot.

[kylee2437]

VideoNows!

[Wiredone]

Beepers, walkmans

[TallAnon]

The wii was pretty popular

[noohair]

Yideo tape rental. Sony walkman.

[animesenpai]

Blackberry

[eagle1951]

cb radio

[Hanssolochibaka]

Blackberry