things we no longer use

[IM469]

A sound the youth of today can't comprehend ...

 

[tml]

explorezip said:
Pay phones - They are still around too and at least they don't track you and compile a data file on you. There's one around Royal York Road and Evans and another around Dundas West and Dufferin. True, but how often and why would people use them when almost everyone has a cell phone?


I used one last month. I was in a parking lot and my car wouldn't start. I crossed the street to the local No Frills and called the CAA. I do not have a cell phone.

 

[barnacler]

Slot screws/screwdrivers.

God, they were horrible things, when the edges would get bent, and you would exert more energy pushing the damn screwdriver INTO the screw then actually twisting it.

 

[Robert Mugabe]

explorezip said:
Pay phones - They are still around too and at least they don't track you and compile a data file on you. There's one around Royal York Road and Evans and another around Dundas West and Dufferin. True, but how often and why would people use them when almost everyone has a cell phone?


I used one last month. I was in a parking lot and my car wouldn't start. I crossed the street to the local No Frills and called the CAA. I do not have a cell phone.

That's a big reason they are gone. Lack of tracking. Your cell phone is now your spy in your pocket. Can actually put you in jail. I remember my favorite pay phone just outside High Park Subway Station. Always spit out about 50 cents in dimes every time I hung up. I got into the habit of hammering on the receiver lever or whatever it was called on all the phones I used in Toronto at the time to see if they would oblige. Nope.

 

[JackBurton]

Danni’s Hard Drive

 

[unassuming]

Before smart phones where you have internet on the go, anyone use the public pay internet booths?

 

[shakenbake]

Film.

Kodak Says It's Committed to Making Film 'As Long As There Is Demand'

Kodak will continue to make film as long as there are people willing to buy it.

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