Things That Are Extinct

Delayed gratification…

The dodo.

Dialing a rotary phone with a pencil

My waistline.

Writing letters on stationery

Decency and shame in the GOP.

Man, that processing liquid smelled terrible.

Gender binary system

The Box

Things from my teen years:

Getting film developed

Buying CDs

Printing out mapquest directions

Chadwick Boseman

Female pop singers that don’t exhale the words

The "Oh Dear" troll

Armie's career.

You can still by CD’s fool. I buy new remastered deluxe editions like Prince’s Sigb O The Times boxed set last fall.

[quote]You can still by CD’s fool.

Oh, DEAR!

(Sorry, r13)

Woolworths

Cars with BENCH seats.

Woodies

Floppy disks that held a whopping 1.4 MB

When with NATURAL bodies.

500 free hours of AOL

ALL the supermarkets from my childhood-

A&P

Pathmark

Waldbaums

Grand Union

Finast

Daitch Shopwell

Pantry Pride

Hills

I meant to say MEN with natural bodies not when.

[quote] When with NATURAL bodies.

Then but not now.

Working public telephones.

I'm OLD , I can remember when public phones even had a telephone directory chained to the phone.

Cursive writing

ANY American television manufacturers -

RCA

Emerson

Motorola

GE

GTE

Westinghouse

Zenith

Admiral

Big gay dance clubs.

Teaching real science in the public school system; e.g., XX and XY-chromosomes, DNA, etc.

8 Track tapes

Cassette tapes

Video tapes

BIG American cars

Illuminated manuscripts

OP. My kid in NYC public high school is taking a photography class and is learning to work in the darkroom.

Not totally extinct, thank goodness.

Dying and soon dead, at least in America - manual transmissions. I'm shocked by how many people cannot drive a stick shift. Yet some of these same queens rave about being DP'd and fisted. You can take a fist and you can't figure out how to work a clutch and a stick shift at the same time?

The Transatlantic accent.

My sex life

R37 it never was.

Standalone video arcades as destinations.

TEENS wearing JEANS.

Lesbians.

Carnys. The ran the Tilt-A-Whirl kind

Scruffy-faced, tank-top wearing, old denims, heavy-shoed, cigarette dangling from the lips, "hands and feet stay in the car" said with that air of authority with a tinge of fascinating menace.

Now they're in uniforms. And smoking on the job is a termination-of -employment event.

Anything like Dragon’s Lair.

Civics and History classes

Most Gay bars. Everyone's online with all their goods on full display. Whores.

Britney’s independence

Britney's underpants

Britney's happenstance

[quote] Now they're in uniforms. And smoking on the job is a termination-of -employment event.

For carnies? Really? That is very sad.

journalistic neutrality

Only on the right.

Saving my virginity.

Shut up Nestor.

My $

White men getting promoted in any government job.

Fun for fun’s sake.

R56 Right wing lunatics are not extinct on DL.

dignity

merit

meritocracy

A regular postal service.

Posting nudes just for the hell of it, without a link to your OF

The entire crew of The Shuttle Challenger

When being gay meant being private

8 track

Joy, drive, honor, love, sex...

Innocence

Busy signals.

Recipe cards - I have so many from my Grandma and Aunt with the twee illustrations

Ambrosia Salads.

Ken-L Ration

Heterosexuality

Table lighters

R72 lives inside a bubble

My 28 year old self waistline, hairline, and jawline. The only thing that has been a nice increase is my bottom lin.

Taxi cabs

“Going up! Floor, please.”

Gay magazines with nudes.

The concept of shame.

Turds

originality

Vogue's glory years

[quote]The Transatlantic accent.

Sadly, Kitty Carlisle Hart

Lol

Gay men at Stonewall

Proper grammar and spelling.

That IS the correct grammatical usage, you dolt.

"None" is always singular. It's less than one, how could it be plural?

Were you homeschooled?

cheap store bought cookies and cakes made with tasty, locally produced lard or even, gasp!, butter.

Fotomat

The good old boys.

England is a forever "at war with France" country. They got stuck in the middle ages

TV static.

In a quest to support a local business, I went to a printer and bought personalized stationery. I plan to compose letters with cursive handwriting. I bought stamps and will mail them.

Besides a few still hanging on, video stores.

TV programs like Monstervision and USA Up All Night that showed trashy horror/sci-fi/sexploitation movies late at night. I guess when 6 year olds can access porn on their tablets at any time, sneaking out of bed to stay up and watch a sleazy B movie just isn't as exciting.

Defuckto's "sobriety."

The Middle Class

Indoor smoking.

R97 only trashy people miss that.

Commitments of any kind. Even minor ones.

My ability to walk into any gay bar in the world and pick up a trick if I'm horny.

(went the way of the DODO 2 decades ago)

Normalcy

I just bought a brand new Washer and Dryer. A few things surprised me. First the washer - it's all electronic controlled and high efficiency. Second - it's all made int he United States. It's branded Amana but Whirlpool owns them. Only about $450 for each. So all total $900 for the pair. Now years ago I bought a stacked washer/dryer. That was $1,200 in 1999.

R100- You are OLD.

Who says TRICK anymore?

Sanka.

FRESCA

I have Fresca in my fridge right this moment...not extinct. Also, pre covid, I took darkroom classes at a local community college. Love b&w 35mm photography! We process our own film and print our own photos.

TAB!

SQUIRT!

The KMart Cafeteria/Eatery (which is NOT the K Cafe, NOR the front-end sandwich counters that preceeded those)!

...And KMart in general.

Chocolate pudding with whipped topping never tasted as good as when I had it at the KMart Eatery!

Whistles

Charlie

Bobby Short

[quote]Taking photography class in high school where you went into a dark room for 30 minutes to process photos.

Actually a lot of old school photographers and novice photogs are interested in and working with print film. Film is still available, but it's now more expensive,

R109- You sound like a LITTLE OLD LADY.

They didn't bring back Daisy*s either, r110. Only Bugles.

USPS rail mail. I think it ended in the late 70s.

Continental Trailways hostesses...

There were even dolls...

Manual credit card imprinters when making purchases.

Sending letters via Air Mail written on onion skin paper.

Postcards

Carbon paper

R86,

[quote]That IS the correct grammatical usage, you dolt.

I’m absolutely hysterical. Mere coincidence that your post came before mine. I was being generic, not specifying your post.

Me thinks the lady doth protest too much.

[quote]I bought stamps and will mail them.

They still sell stamps?

[quote] Also, pre covid, I took darkroom classes at a local community college.

Honey, going to the local adult shop’s arcade doesn’t qualify as “darkroom classes.”

r125 To be fair, such visits can often be learning experiences.

Touché.

Or shall I say touchy?

The three-Martini two-bottle four-hour lunch.

Flying commercial

When I was in photo class we used to smoke weed in the dark room.

OP, I just watched the web series “your Honor” and the son of the main character is in high school, studying art, wants to go into photography and develops photos by hand. The series just came out this year

JELL-O 1*2*3

my sex life

Are there still Automats around, with full kitchen staff on the other side ready to the compartment? I was watching "That Touch of Mink" the other day and I was intrigued by the process.

*ready to [italic]fill[/italic] the compartment

Kinko's. Jell-O Pudding Pops. Hot Sean Cody models.

ZIP discs, Syquest discs, CRT monitors, Mac clones.

Are laserdiscs still a thing?

^^^No, but there are devotees of the technology.

I was going to say "dot-matrix printers" but I think I've seen some businesses still using them in recent years.

[quote] When I was in photo class we used to smoke weed in the dark room.

This is going in your permanent record.

Oh, well that IS a coincidence. It appeared so quickly and there are so many real cunts around here I jumped to a conclusion, r85.

Sorry about that.

[quote]Me thinks the lady doth protest too much.

Ok, I kind of want to take it back for the use of that hackneyed quote. You're not using it in the correct context really. Generally it is used when someone is projecting, announcing a fault of their own by criticizing it in others. My grammar is fine, thanks.

Campus glory holes. Or so I'm told.

Birthday, Thank You and sympathy cards sent via USPS.

Common sense.

Dignity Especially in the US.

r144 I still send those. And there are still large card selections in stores.

The respect.

Typing classes

Home Economics classes

Calling older people or superiors with honorifics like "Mr." or "sir." Now it's first names for everyone.

R147, Yeah, and they're way overpriced. When I was a kid, the fanciest Hallmark card was just fifty cents.

[quote]Yeah, and they're way overpriced. When I was a kid, the fanciest Hallmark card was just fifty cents.

Well, they have some way to fund all of those sappy movies and keep Canadian actors employed.

Megaupload, Rapidshare, and various file sharing sites.

You could get whatever you wanted, pron, music, even games software FREE!

This bitch. Miss Trilobite was THIRSTY on her social. She had a great lower carapace but she couldn’t live forever.

Hitchhiking

Games AND software.

Though technically games are software.

Skateboards and roller skates with metal wheels

Pipe smoking

The typing pool

Twelve year old babysitters

Candy cigarettes

This item in the photo

Televisions mounted at the proper height

When they were heavy enough to require their own cabinet, the screen was perhaps eighteen inches off the ground. Bigger screens allowed cabinets to bring them up to four feet off the ground - a perfect height.

Now that the screen is huge and it weighs only 30 pounds, idiots hang them over fireplaces or tilted down from the ceiling. If I have my face pressed to a pillow, I want a clear view with my good eye without craning my head.

[quote] I want a clear view with my good eye

Sammy? Sammy, is that you?

OMG, it’s Sammy Davis Jr.!

Cyclamates (at least in the US)

Shitting in cars

G's chance for an Oscar.

Public bathrooms

Growing up in a devout Catholic family, I remember receiving presents on Easter Sunday, a la Christmas.

Gay.com

Saving it for the wedding night.

Armie Hammers career

R167, Might as well throw in mine.

Get back that line, call *69!

Party lines.

Rabbit ears on TVs.

Huge satellite discs in yard to get cable.

Metal slides on the playground (that burn the shit out of your legs during summer because they are super-heated from the sun and you're in shorts).

Video rental stores

[quote]Rabbit ears on TVs.

These made a huge comeback when cord-cutting became a thing. (And also when we switched to digital broadcasting.)

[quote] Huge satellite discs in yard to get cable.

When we were kids we would steal those to use for cereal bowls.

[quote] Saving it for the wedding night.

Saving what?

Good manners.

The Clapper

Local television shows that aren't the news;

Commercials for local businesses that aren't ambulance-chasers.

Full-service gas stations.

R177, Not in New Jersey.

Telegrams

R179, Singing telegrams.

What about Candygrams?

Calling a phone number to know the correct time.

[quote]Not in New Jersey.

Or Oregon.

John Mulaney's marriage and heterosexuality.

Making crank calls on the pay phones in the mall food court.

I’m still looking for you!

Normal fun intelligent people on DL, especially posters who aren't trolls or ReThug conspiracy assholes.

Circus of the Stars

The Bell Telephone Hour

The NBC peacock

Mimeograph machines.

Newly printed tests had a certain aroma.

r191 The aroma was from DITTO machines, not mimeograph.

Carbon paper

Credit card imprinters

Courtesy check cashing cards issued from a supermarket or department store

[quote]Local television shows that aren't the news;

Where the hell do you live? There are still local TV shows. NYC has many public access TV channels where anyone can rent time and host a show. Well, anyone who isn't a child molester.

Class.

WEHT Class?

Like insurance kiosks in airports

[quote] WEHT Class?

WHET traditions?