Camera Film
Gone are the days of hearing the film rewind in your camera, then driving it to a photo lab and patiently waiting for days to find out how amateurish your snapshots look. You got one chance to make the shot count. Todays digital cameras are an endless blank slate, where the number of shots you can take seem limitless and mistakes are erased with a single click.

Landline Phone
Before there were cell phones, text messages and instant messengers, there were landline phones. Some were even the rotary kind. Today, everyone has a cell phone. Another side effect of the cell phone age is that pay phones have all but disappeared, answering machines are a thing of the past.

Real Books
Does anyone remember the Bookmobile? Or the door-to-door Encyclopedia salesman? Those days are gone forever. More and more people are reading ebooks, with sales of electronic editions besting hardcovers for the first time this summer.

Music Videos on MTV
Remember when MTV played music videos? Remember when the M in MTV stood for “Music”. The television station once famous for forward-thinking music videos like Duran Duran’s “Rio” or Michael Jacksons “Thriller”.

Walkman
Back when the world was analog, we listened to cassettes, and carried portable audio cassette players with pride. Yesteryear’s Walkmans were indispensable, allowing us to take our beloved mix tapes everywhere. But the equipment was overthrown. First came the Discman, a portable CD player. Today, all that has been replaced with MP3’s and the iPod. The word “rewind” has lost all meaning.

Tan M&Ms
If you were born in or before the 1980s and your parents allowed you to eat candy, chances are good that you encountered tan M&Ms. But for those of you who had your first chocolate experience in the mid-90s, you will probably know the current M&M color line up, which includes the color blue. In 1995, the Mars candy company decided that having two shades of brown M&Ms were unnecessary, so they did away with the light brown ones, leaving only the colors red, yellow, green, dark brown and orange. Mars held a replacement contest, and the color blue won. M&Ms never looked the same again.

USSR
Today’s kids know very little of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or USSR. They’ve never heard of the cold war, and they can’t understand why the Russians wanted to destroy the US. Kids today must also be wondering what the letters KGB mean and why it was feared in Eastern Europe and even in some countries in the West.

The Terminator
Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Austrian-born politician, started out as a bodybuilder, winning Mr. Universe 4 times. He was unforgettable as the Terminator (which of course got him his nickname the Governator) and also starred in hits like Conan the Barbarian.

Nick at Nite
Traditionally, Nick at Nite was the place for the classics: The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Munsters and later The Brady Bunch, Happy Days and The Wonder Years and more. That was then. Since, the network has made a switch to contemporary shows like George Lopez, Malcolm in the Middle and Everybody Hates Chris. Classics? I think not.

Being Lost
The days of asking for directions are done. Smart phones make life so easy. Now countless apps can utilize GPS technology to pinpoint your location and direct you to your desired locale with ease and precision. The days of asking for directions are done. Smart phones make life so easy.

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