Times are changing. You use to call on the telephone for certain things and information. Now there are apps for that. And one more cultural treasure has become a casualty of 21st century technology.
The Moviefone phone service, which gave us movie tickets and times through a male computerized voice, is going silent. All you had to do is call 777-FILM. In the 1990s, they were getting 3 million calls a week. Moviefone?got so popular it was featured on a Seinfeld episode. ?But by 2000, after AOL bought it out, those calls were already starting to decline. Consumer and technological changes have only increased.
For example, Moviefone’s app will go on. Now people are turning to the?movie app, Fandango, Movie Tickets.com and other online choices. I good as I like the convenience of today’s technology, but I am saddened when icons like this have to suffer. I will miss Moviefone. Heck, sometimes I even miss my CD player and record store; I’ll admit it. Moviefone founder Andrew Jarcki says, “?There are very few things that really come to the surface in pop culture and manage to occupy a quirky, special place.” You know when you’re being spoofed on Seinfeld, Married with Children, Saturday Night Live, and other aspects of pop culture, you built something special. Now that something special is gone. Do you have favorite Moviefone memories?