What have you seen developed, delivered and redundant in your lifetime ?

[WATFORD zero]

From something mentioned on the Sky dish thread

What have you seen developed, delivered and redundant in your lifetime

I'll start with Betamax video recorders and Worthing Aquarena

 

[GOM]

CD's soon to be followed by DVD's

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Fax Machines.

I remember being open-mouthed when one was demonstrated to me.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Satnav

 

[Goldstone1976]

Blimey.

Floppy disks
C5
1g, 2g, 2.5g mobile phones
early versions of wifi
Lots of Windows OS
...

 

[Silverhatch]

Concorde - from completed design in 1960 to last flight 2003.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Sony Walkman and Discman

 

[Surrey Seagull]

Blimey.

Floppy disks
C5
1g, 2g, 2.5g mobile phones
early versions of wifi
Lots of Windows OS
...

Following on....DOS, M$ made it idiot proof by making sure idiots couldn't possibly use it!

 

[Gullflyinghigh]

Minidisc players, HD-DVD and quite possibly the DVD in the near (ish) future.

 

[StonehamPark]

HD-DVD
Brighton i360

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

Numerous antibiotics - eg ampicillin, methicillin...............

 

[knocky1]

UKIP

 

[Papa Lazarou]

CD's soon to be followed by DVD's

Certainly not apostrophes. They're everywhere.

 

[happypig]

Dial-up internet

 

[ditchy]

ME

 

[narly101]

VHS
Betamax
Minidiscs
Cassette Tapes (particularly Scotch tapes - rerecord not fade away)
HD-DVD
Floppy Discs both 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 inch
Colour CRT (although commercially available in 1954, it wasn't really prevalent in the home until the 70's)
Cadburys Smash

 

[Poyningsgull]

Apollo Space rockets

 

[GT49er]

British railways standard class steam locomotives.
The SDP.
Surprise Peas.

 

[GT49er]

Certainly not apostrophes. They're everywhere.

Yes, but in the good old days, they knew their place!

 

[GOM]

Yes, but in the good old days, they knew their place!

As did commas