Obsolete technologies
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Legacy systems
Hourglasses
Unit record equipment
Sundials
Historical scientific instruments
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Orphaned technology
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Water clocks
Teletext
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Typewriters survive in evidence rooms and court filings that refuse electronic forms
Broadcasters still carry teletext because it costs almost nothing to keep running
Floppy disks lingered in industrial machines long after home computers dropped them
Landline telephones are still installed in homes that will never use them
Obsolete military hardware is often sold on rather than scrapped
Studios sit on back catalogs recorded on formats no machine can still play
VHS tapes won the format war against Betamax and then disappeared anyway
Orphaned technology keeps working after the company that made it disappears
CRT monitors gave way to flat panels but retro gamers still hunt them down
Why some technologies vanish in five years while others take fifty
The planned obsolescence debate: when manufacturers design products to be replaced
Which obsolete technologies still quietly hold up critical infrastructure
Why companies keep paying to maintain software nobody wants anymore
Collecting vintage electronics has turned into a serious hobby and market
Water clocks lost to mechanical escapements because they froze and clogged
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