These Common Household Objects Will Be Obsolete In a Few Short Years

Fax Machines

If anyone's office still has a fax machine, tell them 1985 called, and they don't want it back. Email and digitally scanning PDF documents have definitely made the need for a fax machine totally obsolete. That's just one less phone number to have to remember.

iPods

What can an iPod do that your smartphone can't? The iPod has slowly been phased out of use with the introduction of every new version of the iPhone. That little rotating clickpad thing was also super annoying to use anyways.

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The More You Know

  • The idea that a man should spend two months salary on an engagement ring was popularized by De Beers' ad agency.
  • Reed Hasting started Netflix after receiving $40 in late fees when returning Apollo 13.
  • The 442nd Infantry Regiment, a largely Japanese American unit that served during WWII, did so while their families were held in internment camps. Their motto was "Go for Broke" and they were the most decorated unit in U.S. military history.
  • Commercial flights were allowed to fly any course to their destination and would often detour over points of interest. This ended in 1956 when two planes crashed mid-flight over the Grand Canyon.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.