The rate at which the technology progress these days is quite incredible. Have you ever thought about the fact that some things you thought would be forever in your life will probably vanish really soon? There are things out there that our grandchildren will never believe us existed, here’s my top 5 :

Video Cassette Recorder (VCR)

Yep! We could record TV shows on this, and rent movies! But don’t expect to be able to find a particular scene juste by entering the number in your remote. It would take also at least ten minutes to rewind a tape after use (oh and, the movie rental place would charge you extra if you didn’t “rewind” )

Postcards

Before the internet and e-mails/instant messaging/texting/electronically instantly forwarded thoughts, we used to send people we like postcards when we were away from them. Sometimes, we would even get back to these loved ones before the postcard even get there.

Music CDs

You know, we could stick at least a dozen songs on those if we were lucky.

“Cordless” phones

What do you mean? There was a time when you couldn’t use a phone if the receiver wasn’t plugged in? There was a cord on it?

Newspapers

Unbelievable, but there was a time when people would pay up to a couple of bucks to learn about news that happened a day or 2 ago…

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