ExtinctTech

  "Out with the old, in with the new." 

Yes, change is always harsh to the old... especially to technology, which, after being replaced, is laughed at when used and forgotten soon after.

 

 

Evolution in technology is VERY MUCH important, of course... but I figured it's probably about time to pay our tech's grannies a visit.   

 

 

 

We live in an era where technological evolution is absolutely evident. The new buzz today could be a relic of the past tomorrow... *or next week. 

There's always a time when the next big thing is "in", people would think that this would last forever. Like I said *probably a lot of times before*, people find ways to make things easier. What we don't realize is that by making new tech stuff, we are also creating oldies.

Beeper 

 

This thing is usually a BIG example of tech antiquity  during our lessons in Computer Fundamental classes... But, to be honest, in the past few years of my existence, I did NOT  know there ever was a beeper. It's probably because I was yet to exist in its heyday...*or I was too young and oblivious with everything at that time*. 

But my parents said that beepers used to be an icon of importance. Back then, when you had beepers, *or "pagers" as they used to call it*, you are someone HUGE like maybe a businessman; a doctor; a lawyer....or a drug dealer. Now, when someone is seen wearing it, you might be more likely labeled as a junk enthusiast.

Betamax

Yup. Gaze upon the ancient betamax.

It's so old, Sandwich made a song in honor of its oldness. And it goes like...

"...Wala pa nung MYX, wala pa nung MTV
Wala pa nung internet
Wala pa nung ipod o mp3
Wala pa nung cable
Wala pa nung cellphone
Wala pa ring cd o dvd
Meron nang Betamax..."

Phonograph 

 

If i might guess, Courage doesn't like phonographs very much too.

Vinyl Records

 

Today, vinyl records have become a collector's joy or awesome make-shift frisbees. *:p*

Cassette Tapes

 

When I was WAY younger, I'd sleep to the sound of "Old MacDonald" and "Old King Cole"... in now old cassette tapes.

Pulse Telephone Networks and Rotary Phones

 

I'm sure you guys have met our cellphone's great grandparents... 

...and I'm pretty sure your reactions are the same as these kids.

  

Typewriters

People used to think that typewriters will last forever since it was an essential in office life... and then the desktop computer was born.

...so it's pretty much LONG dead.

Floppy Disks

 

When i was three, I used to take the colorful floppy disks in my mom's classroom 'cause I thought it would somehow make me look like some busy professional... please don't tell my mother.

CRT Monitors

 

Today, technology aims in getting thinner and smaller *...!...* , that CRT monitors are considered dinosaurs in an individual's work zone.

 

 

Boom Box

I remember old music videos with dudes carrying heavy boom boxes on their poorly developed adolescent shoulders everywhere they went. Now, carrying boom boxes might be a bad move with the ladies...

...even when you're hotter than James Reid.

Diskman

My aunt used to own one of these. 

And every time my father and I would sleep over in my grandparents' house, she would take this out and we'd listen to music with huge-a** headphones plugged in this thing while I watch her study and wonder what life in college would feel like... Now that I'm in college, I wonder why I wondered back then.

Walkman

Ah... this takes us back to when our fathers had perms...

which, like the walkman and everything else in this page, is long gone. *thank goodness*