# The List of Disappearing Products **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 23, 2008, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-list-of-disappearing-products/474094 "2008-11-23T14:15:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![jakesteele](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ed8c4c/32.png) [@jakesteele](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jakesteele)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-list-of-disappearing-products/474094/121 "2008-12-12T16:01:21Z")
\*Slide rules \*8-track tapes \*mom-and-pop local corner stores. \*civility in society \*constitutional rights ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-list-of-disappearing-products/474094/122 "2008-12-12T16:09:45Z")
> [@jakesteele](#): > > \*civility in society Rubbish. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-list-of-disappearing-products/474094/123 "2008-12-12T17:43:33Z")
> [@Student\_Driver](#): > > All of these are licensed US releases; > > \ > > Dreamcast: NFL 2K2, 2002 NFL 2K2 was released on October 23, 2001 and wasn’t the last DC game. The final mass-market DC game was NHL 2K2, released on February 14, 2002. However, the final Sega first-party Dreamcast game actually was Puyo Pop Fever, released on February 9, 2002, although it saw a release in Japan only. A multi-platform third-party game, called Radilgy, saw a Dreamcast release on February 25, 2006, again in Japan only. It was also released for the GameCube and PS2. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-list-of-disappearing-products/474094/124 "2008-12-12T17:49:22Z")
> [@jakesteele](#): > > \*Slide rules Oh, good one! I may have one of my dad’s somewhere. I’ve no idea how to use it. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-list-of-disappearing-products/474094/125 "2008-12-12T20:01:23Z")
> [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](#): > > Oh, good one! I may have one of my dad’s somewhere. I’ve no idea how to use it. I’ve forgotten how to use one. I guess that means that my own brain is disappearing over time. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-list-of-disappearing-products/474094/126 "2008-12-12T20:14:23Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > However, the final Sega first-party Dreamcast game actually was Puyo Pop Fever, released on February 9, 2002, although it saw a release in Japan only. Damn, lost the edit window. :smack: What I meant to say was, Puyo Pop Fever came out on 2/9/2004, and not 2002. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-list-of-disappearing-products/474094/127 "2008-12-12T20:44:28Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > I’ve forgotten how to use one. I guess that means that my own brain is disappearing over time. The physical items my disappear, but [things live forever on the internet](http://www.sliderulemuseum.com/SR_Course.htm). ---
**Author:** ![Surok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@Surok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surok)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-list-of-disappearing-products/474094/128 "2008-12-12T20:55:50Z")
Blotting paper. You can still get it in Germany and Russia, just about. Getting it in the UK? Dream on. Even in a fancy store that sells sealing wax and pen nibs. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-list-of-disappearing-products/474094/129 "2008-12-13T02:49:17Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > NFL 2K2 was released on October 23, 2001 and wasn’t the last DC game. The final mass-market DC game was NHL 2K2, released on February 14, 2002. > > However, the final Sega first-party Dreamcast game actually was Puyo Pop Fever, released on February 9, 2002, although it saw a release in Japan only. A multi-platform third-party game, called Radilgy, saw a Dreamcast release on February 25, 2006, again in Japan only. It was also released for the GameCube and PS2. Good catch, I read NHL and transformed it into NFL when typing my response. I have Puyo Pop Fever, and have read of other shooters for DC coming out in Japan in 2007 (!). Always surprised me how long Japan could support a platform after its market death… IIRC the PC Engine was another platform that was seeing licensed commercial releases for years after its demise. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-list-of-disappearing-products/474094/130 "2008-12-13T02:51:07Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Wiki says the last 1st-party (ie., published by Nintendo) release for the SNES was _Kirby’s Dream Land 3_ in November '97, and the last licensed release was _Metal Slader Glory Director’s Cut_ in December '00, but that was Japan-only. Frogger came out after Kirby; I listed licensed games, not just first-party games. And, as my list stated, I covered final US releases, and noted that releases in other countries would differ. ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-list-of-disappearing-products/474094/131 "2008-12-13T04:17:13Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > Microfiche. I think almost everything is digital these days, although you can still access old microfiche records in some places. I work at a college library and we have LOTS of microfilm and fiche. Fiche is way easier to use than film too, but bigger stuff (newspapers) are put on film and magazines and journals on fiche. We have newspapers back to 1800s including local papers not around anymore and get lots of types of people coming in looking up dead relatives and stuff. Wish it would all be digitized though because the reader machines are expensive pieces of shit. ---
**Author:** ![audit1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@audit1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audit1)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-list-of-disappearing-products/474094/132 "2008-12-13T04:59:17Z")
This was the last election for the old lever voting machines in New York State, last state to use them. Next year electronic video machines. ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-list-of-disappearing-products/474094/133 "2008-12-13T05:30:07Z")
Mimeograph machines and spirit masters. (Sniffing your purple-text homework assignments is a pleasure modern day youth will never know.) All of the digital video tape formats for camcorders will be gone in 5 years, I predict. The flashcard- and harddrive-based video cameras are very cheap. And what the hell happened to Honey Nut Corn Flakes?!? Bring it back, you Kellogg bastards! ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-list-of-disappearing-products/474094/134 "2008-12-13T05:42:15Z")
[126 cartridge film](http://cgi.ebay.com/Kodachrome-64-Color-Film-126-Cartridge-Unopened_W0QQitemZ270316051169QQcmdZViewItemQQptZFlim?hash=item270316051169&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50), for your Instamatic 104 or X15 ---
**Author:** ![bat312](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c77e96/32.png) [@bat312](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bat312)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-list-of-disappearing-products/474094/135 "2008-12-13T06:56:15Z")
Don’t laugh because you know where to find one, but I cannot find one. A can flattener…you know a can smasher. You remember the thing. You mount it on the wall and squish your cans flat. ---
**Author:** ![Satellite\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Satellite\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satellite_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-list-of-disappearing-products/474094/136 "2008-12-13T07:13:25Z")
> [@Hippy\_Hollow](#): > > Mimeograph machines and spirit masters. (Sniffing your purple-text homework assignments is a pleasure modern day youth will never know.) Damn you!! I was about to post that, as I thought to search out what it actually was called, remembering the smelly blue copies in elementary school. I just discovered that they’re called [Spirit Duplicators](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_duplicator)… beaten by just over an hour and a half… :smack: S^G ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-list-of-disappearing-products/474094/137 "2008-12-13T07:43:32Z")
> [@dwc1970](#): > > PS/2 keyboards and mice could be added to the list of disappearing products. In general, everything that can be replaced by USB will be: It’s easier and cheaper to buy one kind of connector in massive bulk than to buy multiple connectors that only work with one or two kinds of peripheral. That means PS/2 (mice and keyboards), Centronics (printers), and RS-232 (really old mice and probably some printers, but mainly old voiceband modems) are all going away on standard COTS (Commodity Off-The-Shelf, as opposed to special-order) desktop and laptop systems. This also means USB 3.0 might become the way cheap monitors connect to desktop computers: It won’t be as good as a specialized connector, but it will likely be good enough for most purposes. ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-list-of-disappearing-products/474094/138 "2008-12-13T08:17:28Z")
> [@Satellite\_Guy](#): > > Damn you!! I was about to post that, as I thought to search out what it actually was called, remembering the smelly blue copies in elementary school. I just discovered that they’re called [Spirit Duplicators](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_duplicator)… beaten by just over an hour and a half… :smack: > > S^G I started my teaching career in a school that had one. In 1995! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-list-of-disappearing-products/474094.md?page=6)