Typewriters
ah correction. It still has a pump, it is just that the pump is demand driven by an electric motor, not turned all the time via a belt on the engine.
I don’t know when the last car was sold in the US that came with a carburetor, but is was before 1999. Probably before 1996, I’m not real sure, but by 1999 dead, gone and buried.
It was a hell of a lot more active (and fun!) in the 1980s, when there was still a Cold War. Most countries seemed to have a strong English broadcast that could be heard in the US. Now at least in the US, there’s not much to listen to; a lot of private religious stations, Radio Havana, and Voice of Russia. Maybe more stations are directing their signals into areas where Internet penetration is low, such as Africa, so a SWL there would hear more than just Gene Scott and yet even more about the Cuban Five.
Standalone PDAs, such as the PalmPilot. There are still plenty of PDAs, but now they’re all smartphones.
I did just buy one; definitely affordable if it lasts as long as other CFLs (in other words, it costs three times as much as an incadescent, but should last four times as long). It doesn’t work quite as well as an incadescent, though – it has a definite lower limit on how dim it will get.
Incadescent bulbs for fixtures aren’t quire obsolete, but incadescent bulbs for flashlights or other battery-powered devices are. And I think sometime in the last ten years was the cut-off.
Or a car with breaker points. And I’m unsure about these… but I don’t imagine that even cheap cars like Hyundais have distributors any more.
Only niche flashlights have anything other than incandescent bulbs. Last time I was flashlight shopping was July in Michigan prior to camping. I do have a couple of LED flashlights. They were gifts, so I’m assuming they were inexpensive because they’re both utter pieces of crap that don’t give off white light. (I have a flourescent lantern, but prefer the propane one.)
Aha! Got one! Typewriters! Darn…someone beat me to it! LOL
My 2000 Geo Metro had a little one.
Not a car, but my 2007 Honda Shadow Aero has a little one, probably about the same size.
Come to think of it, I think the motorcycle and the car had the same size engine.
Oddly enough today I was at Target looking for something else, and saw an endcap display full of these flip-number clock (only one type, something like a long white cylinder w/ cutouts for the number displays). I think the sales pitch on the product box was 'Stylish flipping number display" 
Fax machines are still used all the time in real estate. According to my Realtor wife, a signed/faxed document is considered as good as a signed original but a signed/scanned/e-mailed one is not. I don’t know if this is a case of the laws not having caught up technology or not. (She says scan/e-mail is not considered valid because it is much easier to fake a signature on a scanned document than on a fax)
Was it an actual carb, or just a throttle-body with an injector?
Heh … Hijack!
I have a copy of Win98 but I lost the activation code. It asks for the activation code AFTER you’ve wiped the hard drive and installed Win98, so if you don’t have the code, you don’t have an OS. So I can’t run Win 98. But I DO have a WinXP upgrade. But ya can’t load just the upgrade–you have to install it over Win98. So when I’m building a jalopy computer I go through the Win98 install and then reboot when it starts asking for the code. It reboots into WinXP upgrade and, clever program that it is, it says, "Oh Goodie We get to upgrade! Heeeeyyyyy, there’s something wrong with your Win98. Either insert the original Win98 disk or hang yourself as a pirate. It sniffs the 98 disk and says, “Ok, you’re legit, proceed with installing XP…” It’s an imperfect system, but it gets the machine moving again.
Manual transmissions in cars? They’re not exactly obsolete, but with the exception of fancy pants sports cars, automatic transmissions get better gas mileage than manual gearboxes. They cost more, but in the long term, for the average driver, they save money, carbon deelis and therefore, the planet.
A fax is a scanned document.
In 1999 you could still pick up floppy drives off the shelf from a bunch of stores without looking around too much.
in 2009, not so much.
I probably should’ve expanded on the “niche” use though. I think I could have said “general use” but that still would be up for interpretation.
It’s a bit of a dead horse, but I also can’t believe faxes are still being used. Man, just scan/save as pdf and email. Electronic copies are WAY more convenient than hard copies.
Most of the stuff I work with is created in Word and saved as a pdf. This way, you can easily search for terms, so they’re much easier to use than a faxed document. If I don’t have a document in electronic format, it’s as good as lost to me. I guess there’s some legal advantages to Faxes that I am not familiar with, but in my office world, faxes are for dinosaurs.
I may not be representative, but CDs and VHS tapes are dead to me. DVDs will be dead to me within 5 years. Ditto for CRTs. Electronic organzers were pretty big in 1999, I think. As mentioned above, those are all smart phones now. How about those daily organizer books? Those have also mostly tranfered to smart phones. Finally, calculators. Again, those are on even the cheapest cell phones. Or just use your computer.
I had to go to Europe last week and I needed a car. The best online deal was from Hertz. When I made the booking, Hertz sent me an e-mail stating that they needed to send me a fax confirmation. Not living in the dark ages, I don’t have a fax machine. I e-mailed the local Hertz location,asking them if I could use their fax machine to receive a fax from Hertz. Hertz said that they would receive a fax from Hertz, confirming a Hertz booking. I had to drive to Hertz to pick up the Hertz fax from Hertz. I showed the Hertz fax from Hertz at the Hertz desk in Frankfurt and they checked the information in their Hertz server. The fax from Hertz, picked up at Hertz was acceptable to Hertz, once they’d confirmed the online data from Hertz.
So, I guess faxes are useful for … 
Yeah, it’s just an old fogey’s comfort-level issue. If I have to fax something, I scan all of the pages into my computer and then fax them from my computer via a web-based fax bridge service. E-mailing is really not much different–just less convoluted, from my perspective, and gives a better permanent record.
How would such folks feel about me signing my signature digitally onto those pages with a Wacom pen (as I have often done)?? Probably make their heads explode to know that ink never touched the pages.
It’s like a… cycle… or comething.
FTW.