The iPod Nano
My little iPod Nano has been around the world with me. (Twice.) Surely it would be easy to find its like elsewhere.
My little iPod Nano has been around the world with me. (Twice.) Surely it would be easy to find its like elsewhere.
Fax machines are vanishing from the NHS. By order. Although they are still surprisingly healthy in other parts of the world.
A note written especially for you. By hand. A rare thing, except maybe, perhaps, at Christmastime.
In some ways, they started as refreshment kiosks and returned to their fate as refreshment kiosks.
Always a ghost programme to begin with, the IBA Engineering Announcements are now truly a ghost.
It was the activity that kept you from murder and mayhem as you waited on hold, waited for your caller to dry up, or listened to Greensleeves for the 96th time.
In the popular memory, the millennium bug was something that failed to come to pass. However, that is only because an army of coders made sure it didn’t.
The name vanished in 1991. Except not quite…
It cost too much money. It ruined political careers. It was a monument to corporate sponsorship. Welcome to the queue.
They were once a modern miracle. No longer did you have to have a pocketful of coins to make a phone call. Instead, you could reach for the magic card.
(...and sometimes from a bus)
What happens when words disappear