# What became ubiquitous then went away in your lifetime?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 10, 2026, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-became-ubiquitous-then-went-away-in-your-lifetime/1029180 "2026-04-10T22:01:18Z")\
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Electric typewriters!

I used my dad’s old manual typewriter from grade school through my undergraduate days. In graduate school I used an electric typewriter. In the 1990s, to write something, I first had to learn DOS commands, and it just cyberized up from there. Nowadays I would not even know where to find a typewriter.

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