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Great list, Marcus! Thank you.
VirginiaR.
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Electric typewriters - doomed once word processors really took off. Ooooh - tippex and carbon paper! The twin banes of my life back then. Boy, did I jump for joy when WPs arrived! LabRat 
Athos: If you'd told us what you were doing, we might have been able to plan this properly.
Aramis: Yes, sorry.
Athos: No, no, by all means, let's keep things suicidal.
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Etch-A-Sketch
Lite Brite
Easy Bake Oven
Mr. Potato Head
Lode Runner
Atari
Game Boy
Nintendo
(Sorry, I was still a kid in the 80's & early 90's!)
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TVs and monitors with tubes rather than LCDs.
Vacuum tubes (e.g. radio "valves") generally - though the first are very late 19th century.
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And of course phones with dials rather than buttons.
Mechanical adding machines.
Mechanical watches.
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Good ones, Marcus.
Tie-die T-shirts
the bikini
and following that, the bikini wax (close your eyes,gents)
beat up vans painted with flowers
crash pads
communes (large groups living together)
following that: "don't drink the cool-aide"
TV Shows: "I Dream of Jeannie", "Bewitched" "Bob Hope Specials" "I Love Lucy"
widespread birth of surfing on longboards
two-piece bathing suits
thongs (both the shoe kinds and the bikini bottoms type)
Guess it's late. You see where my mind is.
Another one - a telephone affixed to the wall, you crank it and ask for "central"
Actual telephone operators (speaking people) who take your call at a business like a bank
Secretaries who type and take dictation
Mimeograph paper for teachers to hand out lessons(aka the blue death)
penny loafers
saddle shoes
skirts on girls and women
actual dresses on women
Drumroll "The Pill"
The only face book was if you stood next to a person and spoke to them.
All for now.
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Writing history is easy once you've lived it. - Artemis
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And of course phones with dials rather than buttons.
Direct dial telephone. I still remember trying to call my grandparents. You dialed the local operator who put you through to the long distance operator, who put you through to the international operator, who took the number that you were trying to call. Everyone hung up and 6-8 hours later when the operator made the connection, she called you back and you actually got to talk!
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Originally posted by Shallowford:
Going for the why-did-they-invent-this-in-the-first-place? vote, the odd button-dial phone. Not a rotary dial, not a touchtone--a phone with the buttons in a circle. Oooh. I love that phone! So, cool! 
VirginiaR.
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