As you know, today is the last day of Windows XP. I thought we could look back at some other technologies that have left us. Moment of silence, please.
10. Windows XP : It’s been around for 12 years. The following, Windows Vista, was a bust. It was so successful people didn’t want to let go. It’s over. Let it go.
9. Napster: This file sharing, and music sharing website was the target of jokes, lawsuits, and celebrity controversy. In December 2011, they were bought out by Rhapsody.
8. Floppy Disk: Can you believe between 1970-2000, this was the premier way to save and protect your files?
7. Pagers/Beepers: For those born after 1995 here’s how it worked: someone called your pager number. You called them back at your nearest land line phone, even a pay phone. That’s right: you wouldn’t know what a pay phone is either.
6. Commodore 64: For many in the 1980s, this was their first home computer. It ran a family only $595 (around $1,500 in 2014 dollars). An Apple that decade cost you $2,000, that’s in 1980s dollars.
5. Atari 2600: For many in the 1980s, this was your first home video game system. Forget Angry Birds and Halo; we were lucky to have Frogger and Pac Man.
4. Walkman: Headphones, cassettes, and the freedom to blast those racy lyrics your parents will never hear.
3. Personal Digital Assistance: In the ’90s, these electronic gadgets let you organize your so-called personal life. We have smartphones for that now.
2. Record Player/Turntables: This was the premier way of listening to music from the early 1900s-80s. Now, many DJs don’t even use them in the club. The Mac Book serves as their ‘wheels of steel’.
1. Record Stores/Video Stores: No more mega chain stores like Virgin, Tower, Blockbuster. Then again, who needs VCR’s, VHS’s? cassettes, or CDs?
Wow Windows XP. You’re in good company.