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Full time employment: Posting here.
Manual shift transmission linkages on the steering column.
CoBoL
Punch cards may be out but COBOL is still running the world.CoBoL
I remember learning it at University as part of my finance major. Never used it in the real world.
It was such a pain having to punch holes on the cards, only to have the computer spit out a huge report with all my errors. That put me off computer programming for good
I would beg to differ about the station wagon.... look at the Honda Venza and a few other whatever they are called now.... that is a station wagon if I ever saw one.... just raising it up a bit does not change what it is...
Slide rules
TV dials
Drive-In theaters
Hey! I use one almost every day. Most craft beers are not twist-off, and my home-brew is bottled in capped bottles (though I'm putting more and more of it in 'mini-kegs' that fit in a standard non-converted fridge).Church keys
This saddens me.Cursive writing. (It's not being taught in school any more).
I wish they were, but I still get a few jamming my mail box.Elevator operators ("Third floor, Ladies' lingerie")
Paper catalogs.
One of my grocery stores still has the scales. Not the same ones, but these print out a bar code price tag so you can scan it with your hand held scanner so you can check out without emptying your cart, having scanned everything while shopping. Sure they are different, but so are cars and everything else.Small paper bags in the produce department, and those large rectanglar scales that the produce clerk would use to weight and price your produce selection.
I've seen 2 candy shops, one was a kiosk in a mall and the other counter in a resort hotel. They still exist, maybe just re-sized. And I know that in my old home town there's a decent sized retro candy shop.Nut shops, candy shops, and bakery shops.
Books are quite definitely not dead, yet. For some they may be, but even after getting a kindle I've checked hardcopy books out of the library, since their e-book collection is small. And my son still buys hardcopy college textbooks.Books printed on dead trees.
omni
Not true. A ton of mainframe code - which is still the backbone of many large companies - run it, it works, and the original programmers are retiring at an increasing rate. There is still a demand for the skills. Even to covert it to another language requires understanding how it works.
Service stations that pump your gas, check your oil and clean the windshield.
omni
Paper grocery bags.
omni
Not going to be obsolete anytime soon in my state because it is the law. We are not allowed to pump our own gas. .
Similar thread from last Fall FWIW... http://www.early-retirement.org/for...es-are-already-obsolete-to-you-now-63473.html