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In 2012, the Encyclopaedia Britannica announced that, after 244 years, fifteen editions and selling more than 7 million sets of its volumes, it was going out of print. The 32 volumes and 44 million words of the 2010 edition were its last.

September 25, 2020 in Communications, Print.
Argos logo

The Argos catalogue

The book of dreams is dust.

July 31, 2020 in Communications, Retail.
Apple logo on the back of a blue iPod

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.

June 26, 2020 in Communications.
Printed material with Fax

Fax machines

Fax machines are vanishing from the NHS. By order. Although they are still surprisingly healthy in other parts of the world.

April 24, 2020 in Communications.
Handwritten French "J'aurais..."

Handwritten letters

A note written especially for you. By hand. A rare thing, except maybe, perhaps, at Christmastime.

December 27, 2019 in Communications.
Sign on Police Box: Police Post / Public Call

Police boxes

In some ways, they started as refreshment kiosks and returned to their fate as refreshment kiosks.

July 26, 2019 in Communications.
A TV transmitter

IBA Engineering Announcements

Always a ghost programme to begin with, the IBA Engineering Announcements are now truly a ghost.

June 28, 2019 in Communications, TV.
Close-up of a gold spiral phone cord

Untangling the spiral phone cord

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.

January 25, 2019 in Communications.
Green graphic of stylised man falling through cracked ice

The Y2K problem

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.

December 28, 2018 in Communications.
Black telephone with rotary dial

British Telecom

The name vanished in 1991. Except not quite…

November 30, 2018 in Communications.

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