{"id":2410,"date":"2009-12-28T10:30:10","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T16:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=2410"},"modified":"2009-12-28T10:30:10","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T16:30:10","slug":"obsolete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=2410","title":{"rendered":"Obsolete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keith at BagOfNothing.com posted an interesting list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bagofnothing.com\/2009\/12\/12-things-that-became-obsolete-this-decade\/\" target=\"_blank\">12 Things That Became Obsolete This Decade<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I know people who still use some of them, such as land lines and dial-up Internet. I still occasionally use a fax machine for work because there&#8217;s no better way to transfer certain documents using the provided technology, but I find it extremely annoying to use and avoid it whenever possible. I also still call people sometimes out of necessity, even though I would rather email or text. <\/p>\n<p>However, Jenny and I rarely if ever use the other items on the list, even CDs. Jenny and the boys got me a couple of audio cables for Christmas that allow me to connect my iPhone or MacBook to my car stereo and home theater. Since I have my CD music imported into both devices, I can use them as my music source instead of fumbling with the CDs. I&#8217;ve actually downloaded more music this year through iTunes than I&#8217;ve bought in CD form. <\/p>\n<p>To Keith&#8217;s list, I would add:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Full-service, high-fee brokers of stocks, options, and mutual funds<\/li>\n<li>Writing checks<\/li>\n<li>Paying bills through the mail<\/li>\n<li>VHS tapes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Can you think of any other items or practices that became obsolete this decade? Do you disagree with any of these?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith at BagOfNothing.com posted an interesting list of 12 Things That Became Obsolete This Decade. I know people who still use some of them, such as land lines and dial-up Internet. I still occasionally use a fax machine for work &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=2410\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,23,39,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}