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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.
A knocker-up's job was to rouse sleeping people so they could get to work on time. A knocker-up was often employed to wake up workers on shifts, particularly in factory areas, but was also sometimes self-employed. [72]: 164 As alarm clocks became less expensive and more reliable, there was no longer a need to pay a knocker-up. [118] [119] Tech ...
This is a list of defunct (mainly American) consumer brands which are no longer made and usually no longer mass-marketed to consumers. Brands in this list may still be made, but are only made in modest quantities and/or limited runs as a nostalgic or retro style item. A set of signs promoting Burma-Shave, on U.S. Route 66
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
The closest thing available today, according to Old Time Candy: The Sky Bar, which was recently brought back to life after maker Necco folded in 2018. Related: Wonder Bread, Wheaties, and Other ...
A&P. Perhaps one of the best-known defunct grocery store chains, A&P, or the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, traces its roots back to 1859, beginning as a mail-order tea business in New York ...
Products and services by year of discontinuance (86 C) A. Discontinued Apple Inc. products (2 C, 62 P) D. Delisted digital-only games (5 C, 96 P) F.
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 ...