Posted on 11/14/2018 4:10:12 PM PST by Rummyfan
We’re living in an age of unprecedented technology. It’s not the future that our elders promised to us when we were kids – I mean, where are the flying cars? – but technology has made our lives exponentially easier.
Take the smartphone for example. What used to take a computer, a Walkman, an atlas, and more now fits in the palm of your hand. In fact, the advent of the smartphone has rendered obsolete some things that we used for years.
Here’s a list of ten things that our smartphones have replaced. It’s not an exhaustive list by any means, but I think you’ll get an idea of what revolutionary technology our phones have become. Enjoy!
10. Landlines and payphones
9. Flashlights
8. Calculators
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The printed book is vastly superior.
Take a permanent black marker or pen and write across the E-book screen. LOL.
An E-book cannot do what simple pens can do. And if you do not know, you never will.
Looking at other people.
Dating.
Good Posture.
Learning.
Moving out of Mommy's basement.
Family dinner.
Remembering.
Courtesy.
Concentration.
I have an alarm bladder.
It never fails me!
My alarm bladder wakes me every hour, on the hour, without fail. I wish the damn thing at least had a snooze button..........
I consider the cell phone flashlight almost worthless. I have a FENIX flashlight and headlamp. Bright enough to light a stadium.
Define ‘old’.
I am with you plus more:
I am called a DINOSAUR by those who know me:
I have NO cell phone—not now & not ever. Had a pager once for 1 year & gave it up. One client was bugging me at all hours & I didn’t want to continue that. My house phone is a “Princess phone’ that is over 40 years old. No caller ID. No call waiting.
I use a land line & when the power goes out, I can call the power hot line. No ‘Walkabout’ phones because when power does go out, they don’t work. I have dial up internet, which take more time, but only costs me $10.95 a month.
I have at least 3 paper calendars up at all times. One—Range Magazine-— is because the photos are just gorgeous, and I support that magazine. One for planning a move to another property-—(when that happens)—one for daily stuff I dare not forget.
I also use a paper appointment book- with a separate page for each day & actual room to make notes. I keep them.
I have at least one flashlight in each vehicle—one in the bedroom- two in the kitchen- one in the living room & one at the front door. When you have lived thru a couple of really good earthquakes, you cannot have too many flashlights.
Also- a cop once told me—Have a full size Maglite in your car——it is a weapon you don’t need a permit for.
I have an alarm clock. And a timer in the kitchen.
I have at least 3 calculators....But I am a bookkeeper /accounting person for the last 61 years, so that isn’t a surprise.
I am still using a refrigerator/freezer that I bought in Nov 1965. 53 years old.....It works just fine. Have a pair—refrigerator & upright freezer from 1972. They work just fine. Newest one is an upright freezer I bought in 2008—the day after those fools elected Obama.
Have a toaster that is over 40 years old. Have a power can opener that is even older. I have tools —more than the average female—and some are older than 50 years. I have a chain saw that is more than 25 years old & I used up over 7 chains clearing my 5 acres in N Calif 1993 to 1996. Still works just fine. Have a weed whacker that is over 45 years old & it works just fine. Not many weeds here in the high desert except Russian Thistles that become Tumbleweeds....I pull those by hand. Have yard tools that I bought when I bought my first house—in 1966. Have gas cans that I don’t even know how old they are-—but the new ones don’t work on my older vehicles. Camper shell on truck is at least 40 years old & I bought it used. Still there.
Drive a 1976 Chevy 1 ton dually truck & tow a 2001 4 horse trailer with it. Over 348,000 miles on truck & I put on over 250,000. I got it 32 +++ years go.
Have a 1979 Buick station wagon for daily driving. I got it over 37 years go. It has over 215,000 miles & I put on 160,000 ++. Both were not new when I got them. Combined cost? $7500 total. Each one has a rebuilt engine done by a race car engine builder. Balanced & blueprinted. Not a problem to get parts-—I call Summit Racing & they don’t blink at the age of my vehicles. New fuel pump? $22. 4 new shocks? $86. New lower radiator hose? $12.96. Rebuild standard trans on truck? $600. New door guts to roll both truck windows up & down? $100 plus $20 freight from Kansas. Being installed now, so don’t know how much. BUT- those lasted 43 years plus, so I cannot complain.
Only New Car I ever owned was a 1965 Pontiac Catalina station wagon, I bought new in Feb 1965 for $3434 -— tax & license out the door. I put over 444,000 miles on that car & sold it in 1996 or so to a guy in Sweden who restored the body & interior. The engine ran just fine, with a rebuild at 231,000 miles.
Living room TV is a Mitsubishi I bought in about 1978 or so, and have moved it 3 times. It requires a convertor now, but I have it on every day. Hair dryer is over 39 years old. Works fine. Most household furniture is older than 30 years & some much more than that. Bookshelves over 50 years old.
I have 4 Australian stock saddles, and they all were bought in 1985 & 1986. No problems with them. Most of my gear is equally as old or not much newer. Custom made tack box is over 33 years old. 2nd tack box came from a storage sale — I don’t know how old it is.
Have 10 Rubbermaid 100 gallon water tanks for horses which were bought over 25 years ago & it does get cold here. 6 -9 the last 3 nights. Broke over 1 inch of ice the last 2 mornings. They are lasting just fine.
Walnut Office desk is over 60 years old & Oak desk is from the mid-1920’s. Mr Coffee is over 40 years old.
Don’t even ask me about some of my books. ...Or some of my kitchen utensils. Or the dishes... or the baking utensils & dishes.
I can remember phone numbers without looking them up-—and I do have a hard copy address book-—the 4th one of ones from over the years. I can still remember phone numbers better than any of the seniors at the Senior Center meals I attend occasionally. Whenever I am towing horses, the address book is on the dash of the truck.
I have some clothes I bought in the late 60’s. Some I MADE in the 70’s, and t-shirts from horse races I competed in from as early as 1985. Over 40 of them. Have 13 Sweatshirts from one annual event alone, and haven’t ridden that ride for over 12 years. I hve at least 3 atlases—one in each vehicle & one in house, and I have DeLorme atlases for the states I rode in on the Pony Express ride in 2001. Missouri-Kansas-Nebraska-Wyoming—Utah-Nevada. 2000 miles, 8 weeks, 50 miles a day 5 days a week. A REAL bucket list item!!!
I have photo albums & framed photos. All the way back to about 1957. After riding endurance horses since 1985, I have lots of ‘ride pics’ that enhance the other memories. I entered 119 events & finished 93, on different horses.
I will use a one time camera set up when I move out of this house & when I am looking for another. Getting tougher to find a one hour or even one day processing place, but I want sharper pictures.
I will be 79 in a week, and I did a bookkeeping job TODAY for a client I have done books for —— for OVER 48 years. He is a year older than I & still runs his appliance repair business. My accounting computer is 27 years old—was bought in Nov 1991-—a DOS system made by Dac Easy—and I still use it. The Panasonic printer is same age & uses tractor feed paper. Original monitor. I have had as many as 19 clients at a time on that system. No modem- keyboard only, and NOT connected to the internet. I won’t use anything made by Quick Books. Fax was new in about 1990. Same for this computer that is connected to the internet, but it has had one update when the hard drive failed about 4 years ago.
I don’t need all the electronic stuff—it is expensive & is obsolete faster than race car tires.
When the Internet fails—and the cell phones fail— & even when the power fails, I CAN STILL DO MANUAL BOOKKEEPING on paper ledger sheets-—still have a box full of them......
Scare yourself-—DO a complete inventory of everything you own-—your insurance agent will not be able to contradict you when you need to get paid for any losses.
So-—I am the dinosaur, and I don’t care......
Did I win???
good eye. the article says the only two not replaced are the speakers and the radar detector.
Forgot-—a turntable & receiver & speakers I bought in 1974. Have 2 large boxes of vinyl records, also.
Yes, a good LED “headlamp” is a GREAT tool. Some of the adjustable focus models can throw a heck of a beam. And if you need less, but still MUCH better than a phone flashlight, you can buy ‘em cheap enough to not worry if you lose it or break it. I also have a single AAA LED flashlight with adjustable focus that really works well when you want something small, but still surprisingly bright. It’s main disadvantage is short battery life, but it’s still ok for an hour or so — good enough for most anything I need it for.
Granted that a phone flashlight is occasionally handy, but I don’t have one & don’t miss it. My wife’s smart phone DOES have many useful features, but it drops out a lot in rural areas. My daughter is addicted to hers - not good!
I still have one & I depend on it.
Yep. Pretty hard to “feel” the music from a smartphone — unless you hook it up to a decent stereo. Hook up to good headphones - not too bad, but still can’t shake you on dramatic deep bass notes.
Bigger problem is that smartphones just encourage squashed recordings.
I feel naked without a wristwatch so I always wear one, have several, but I’ve got to admit, I use it so seldom for time let alone date that it’s incorrect more often than not. Use the iPhone for that.
Need landline phone to send confidential info. (like medical stuff) — many companies will not accept e-mails of such, no matter how protected, encrypted, etc.
Bump
Good one!
Good point. A well made LED flashlight is dang near indestructible by "ordinary" abuse.
Threw away my cell phone when I retired over 3 years ago, found out I really didn’t need it and yes I still have a land line.
Encyclopediae.
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