# The things we love that may soon be 'innovated' out of existence...

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 20, 2012, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-things-we-love-that-may-soon-be-innovated-out-of-existence/610174 "2012-01-20T22:11:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smoke)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-things-we-love-that-may-soon-be-innovated-out-of-existence/610174/61 "2012-01-23T21:02:41Z")

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> [@Vicullum](#):
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> Good news: you can still find vendors selling the [IBM Model M](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_M_keyboard) keyboard. Bad news: I haven’t been able to find one that they modified to work with USB.
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> —Signed, Vicullum, who regrets to this day throwing out all his father’s old computer parts and misses clicky keyboards too.

You can buy a USB version directly from Unicomp, [here](http://pckeyboard.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Store_Code=PCK&Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=UltraClassic)

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**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2012, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-things-we-love-that-may-soon-be-innovated-out-of-existence/610174/62 "2012-01-25T00:41:15Z")

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I miss main streets of smaller cities and towns. You can’t just go for a walk in a suburban big-box complex and an empty, vacated downtown at night just doesn’t feel good. One thing I think about from my past (I’m 52) is the experience of getting out of a movie theatre at night, onto a busy downtown sidewalk and being able to walk a block or two for a meal or drink.

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**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2012, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-things-we-love-that-may-soon-be-innovated-out-of-existence/610174/63 "2012-01-25T10:00:57Z")

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> [@velomont](#):
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> I miss main streets of smaller cities and towns. You can’t just go for a walk in a suburban big-box complex and an empty, vacated downtown at night just doesn’t feel good. One thing I think about from my past (I’m 52) is the experience of getting out of a movie theatre at night, onto a busy downtown sidewalk and being able to walk a block or two for a meal or drink.

You can still do that in Wichita, Kansas. They even have one of those movie theaters where you can get food served while you watch the movie. That said, downtown Dallas pretty much shuts down completely at 8PM. Very annoying when I was in town for an anime convention and got hungry after Dealers’ Room closed.

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