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Shane A asked in Education & ReferenceTrivia · 1 decade ago

Name something you use today, that your children won't use?

I can think of some everyday items that I have used that my children or grandchildren won't even know what they are. Here's some examples, 8 track tape, typewriter, floppy disks, and carbon paper. What can you think of?

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  • Dan H
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    clothespins (rather than potato chip bag closers)

    carburetors

    Anything not made of plastic.

    adding machine

    teletype

    rotary dial phone

    any phone connected to a wall jack

    The yellow pages or the white pages (in book form)

    wrist watch

    two tin cans and a length of waxed string

    television antennae

    Anything analog vs. digital

    Anything Mono vs. Stereo

    VHS or Beta or video discs or vinyl records or cassettes or CD's

    Walkmans, radios, discmans, CB's, paper maps

  • JuanB
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Fax machine

    CD Player

    camera film

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Sadly, possibly not even pen and paper, with the negative change of digital stuff and technology.

    A vinyl record player.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Postage stamps .

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  • 1 decade ago

    Checks. They will become obsolete.

  • 1 decade ago

    cassette players

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