For you lazy fuckers. Here's the list.
25. Pit toilets
24. Yellow Pages
23. Classified Ads
22. Movie Rental Stores
21. Dial-Up Internet
20. Phone Landlines
19. Blue Crabs
18. VCRs
17. Ash Trees
16. Ham Radio
15. Swimming Holes
14. Answering Machines
13. Cameras that use film
12. Incandescent bulbs
11. Bowling Alleys
10. Milkmen
9. Handwritten Letters
8. Wild Horses
7. Personal Checks
6. Drive-Ins
5. Mumps/Measles
4. Honey Bees
3. News Magazines/TV News
2. Analog TV
1. Family Farms
And now some commentary.
Pit toilets? Yeah, indoor plumbing is a good thing.
Yellow Pages. As more people go online, this is a natural progression. Not really a good/bad thing, but more of a nostalgia thing.
Classifieds. Same thing. Print is giving way to digital. Some lament that without Classifieds, print newspapers wont survive much longer, and that does bother me.
Movie Rental Stores. one word:Netflix. And really, Video Rental stores never should have gotten a foothold in the first place. That was Blockbuster bullying Studios into making VHS available for $200 initially or some shit like that, and only being sold for $49.95 months later, so people would be forced to rent their fave films at first. When DVD came out the studios told Blockbuster to fuck off and started releasing them for sale same day as rentals. That was the beginning of the end.
Dial-Up. Ugh. My parents still use dial-up. Why? I don't know.
Phone landlines. Everything is going cellular. Eventually, they can take down the hundred million miles of phonelines crisscrossing the country and ruining the view.
Blue Crabs. First thought is who gives a crap? But if you think about it, it disrupts the entire economy of an entire region of the country and that will eventually ripple out and affect everyone. Scary.
VCRs. Just as Vinyl gave way to cassettes gave way to CDs. Its called progress people.
Ash Trees. They goeth the way as did the mighty Elm. Gargantuanly shitty. Goddamn foreign bugs. Probably from France.
Ham Radio. Uhmmm..yeah. That's because this isn't 1970.
Swimming Holes. Nobody wants to get sued.
Answering Machines. This goes with the no landlines thing.
Film in Cameras. This will always be a niche thing. But the huge implication is that movies will eventually be shot and distributed digitally, which will save BILLIONS of dollars long term ( but you will still have to pay $12 for a ticket because the studios will pocket all that savings)
Incandescent bulbs. This is not a bad thing. If they had found a way to make energy saving eco friendly bulbs a hundred years ago, they would have. Stop clinging to useless old ways.
Bowling Alleys. There will always be bowling alleys. Just not as many. Or they will be in Chuck E. Cheese.
Milkmen. Really? There are still milkmen? Wow. Let it go, man.
Handwritten letters. This makes me sad.
Wild horses. These are seen as giant rats and are discussed in terms of selectively euthanizing them.
Personal checks. I saw this coming. Think of all the paper we'll save.
Drive-ins. There will always be drive-ins. Somewhere.
Mumps and measles. This isn't a bad thing. WTF? Who the fuck gets nostalgic over disease??!
Honey Bees. This is pretty fuckin' serious and nobody seems to realize it.
News. Also pretty sad when you think about the implications.
Analog TV. Is this absolutely neccassary? I don't know all the details but this seems likes it being foisted on us by somebody who would benefit from digital transmission, like cable and sattelite companies.
Family farms. Also pretty serious. Unless you're a "family tobacco farm" with your government subsidies. Who the fuck are you kidding? Makes me want to slap all of Washington DC upside the head.
