These 27 everyday things quietly disappeared and we didn’t even notice (you don’t have to be old to appreciate this, but it helps)

14.

‘Buying a new game and having a thick chunky manual filled with game lore which you would read before playing and so heighten the anticipation of the game itself.’
nevorar960

15.

‘Water beds.’
valthonis_surion

16.

‘When you turn off the TV, how the image would shrink to a dot before slowly fading away.’
ConcreteCubeFarm

17.

‘I think people have noticed now but at the time, nobody noticed it was happening: 24 hour stores. I live in a major city and we don’t have a single 24 hour grocery store ever since the pandemic.’
anxiousfamily

18.

‘Telephone books.’
Flat_Satisfaction428

19.

‘Ring tones. Jay Z said no more and they were done.’
jablair51

20.

‘Public spaces where you have a reasonable expectation that you are not being filmed.’
Wazula23

21.

‘Google+.’
JBAnswers26

22.

‘Travelers Checks.’
Anileh

23.

‘Wallpaper. It used to be everywhere, but at some point we as a society seem to have come to an unspoken agreement to just stop using it.

‘Which is fine by me, honestly. It was a pain in the ass to put up and even more of a pain to take down.’
lrdwlmr

24.

‘Pay phone booths!’
Namor_Survives

25.

‘Facebook poke wars.’
Hot_buttered_toast

26.

‘Picture in Picture WhoDoesntLikeADonut

27.

‘Yo-yos, they were all the rage back in my school as a kid and they just disappeared overnight, nobody even noticed it was just a fad that died.’
Realistic-Gear-1613

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