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Obsolete technology Replacement Still used for Bathing machine: No longer required due to changing social standards of morality Hourglass: Clock: Tasks where a fixed amount of time can be measured with a low-tech solution: Exposure time tracker in saunas (where electronics might be damaged by the heat or ultraviolet light); retro kitchen timers, board games, other short-term timers.
Child safety/security change, for example climbing boys became unacceptable because of the danger to children involved in the job. [4] Debunked as pseudoscience, for example phrenologists [5]: 266 [6]: 137 Economic change, for example the reduction in domestic servants caused by increased wages and alternative employment opportunities.
The company that used to maintain it went bankrupt or ceased to exist for a variety of reasons, and no other company is going to maintain it (even if it was not officially discontinued) Abandonware; Software not to include in this category: Video games, because most video games would otherwise meet the definition above after a short period of time
Well, for the most part it is because these are industries with jobs that can either be performed by a computer or outsourced to another country where labor is cheaper, thereby making people-our ...
Say it with me now: L-O-L. Poor Miller's Outpost was big in the '70s and '80s, but it just could never be as cool as The Limited in the '90s, no matter how hard it tried. Getty Images 5-7-9
Interbreeding and disease meant the breed’s extinction by the mid-nineteenth century, with the last remaining examples, a mother and her pup, now on display in the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa ...
Abandonware is a product, typically software, ignored by its owner and manufacturer, which can no longer be found for sale, and for which no official support is available and cannot be bought. [1] Within an intellectual rights contextual background, abandonware is a software (or hardware) sub-case of the general concept of orphan works.
Sallie Mae has been fully privatized and is no longer administered by the federal government. Foreign Economic Administration (FEA) Federal Theatre Project (FTP) General Accounting Office (GAO) Renamed "Government Accountability Office" in 2004; see #Legislative Branch, above. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Formed in 1953.