Things which really died a death.

[Podie]

garyhun said:

‘Died a death’ I think you mean OP.

All things die of death

Maybe it's ironic.

Maybe grammar died...

[JagerT]

LordGrover said:

JagerT said:

Anybody mentioned Sinclair C5

Just once or twice...

MYOB said:

gus607 said:

Sinclair C5, massive failure.

This was the first thing I thought of.

Have a parrot

[geeks]

British Leyland

[languagetimothy]

LordGrover said:

motco said:

Anyone remember telex machines? Especially with punched tape.

Yep. The tape was brilliant - you could send the same enquiry to many vendors without having to re-key it. That was the future right there.

I used to use these in my early career,(is it a T15?) and did some temp jobs through an agency as a telex operator for a few years. Paid quite well, and I could read the tape too!
My uncle got me into it as he was an engineer For the company that built them. Later there were machines which had a small screen and a better keyboard... CASE? Got me into a good career move when I went to telex for a well known American bank and moved into other areas and changed career. So served me well.

[Francois de La Rochefoucauld]

Corbyn's kinder, gentler politics.

[captain_cynic]

IR controls - Back in the early 00's almost every laptop had one but no peripherals for it (allegedly some WinCE based smartphones did).
Fingerprint readers - Back in the late 00's every laptop had one, but no-one used them so they disappeared.

Pieman68 said:

Captain Benzo said:

i use bing!

if you login with a windows / xbox ID, each search collects points that can be exchanged for XBOX gift cards. once you factor in phone searches, it soon adds up.

Apparently the largest search on Bing is...………….Google

But
It's
Not
Google

[Shakermaker]

captain_cynic said:

IR controls - Back in the early 00's almost every laptop had one but no peripherals for it (allegedly some WinCE based smartphones did).
Fingerprint readers - Back in the late 00's every laptop had one, but no-one used them so they disappeared.

Pieman68 said:

Captain Benzo said:

i use bing!

if you login with a windows / xbox ID, each search collects points that can be exchanged for XBOX gift cards. once you factor in phone searches, it soon adds up.

Apparently the largest search on Bing is...………….Google

But
It's
Not
Google

Fingerprint readers are used on most iPhones and I think some other smartphones. We also use them for people clocking in/out of work - though granted that's a slightly different level to what you're comparing

[Nimby]

"died of death" ???

[budgie smuggler]

Shakermaker said:

Fingerprint readers are used on most iPhones and I think some other smartphones. We also use them for people clocking in/out of work - though granted that's a slightly different level to what you're comparing

Also they are reappearing on laptops. Acer Swift range has them for example. Really useful it is too now that Windows properly supports it.

[Swampy1982]

Sunny Delight

[Alucidnation]

Some are not understanding the original idea of the thread.

Or can’t read.

[P-Jay]

Bing is appalling - here's a list of businesses which have a name, a bit like the word you Googled, sorry I mean Binged have have paid us for clicks, but not the information you wanted.

Same goes for Microsoft Edge - looks nice, is crap, no amount of clocks or 'are you sure' will make anything think otherwise.

As above, our Lads set up dozens of new PCs a week for clients - here's the MO:

Open Edge, Bing, Chrome, install chrome, change default search engine to Google - remove Edge from the taskbar, done.

[nitrodave]

Blackberrys

I really hope these voice assistants disappear. Hateful things. I had an Amazon echo out of curiosity and thought it was the most pointless piece of tech ever. Sound quality was terrible too

[bazza white]

Minidisc.

Loved mine for the short time it was useful.

[Alucidnation]

Sony were producing the Minidisc format for about 20 years, and then it was superseded, like a lot of things mentioned rather than never took off.

Edited by Alucidnation on Tuesday 15th May 18:09

[anonymous-user]

electric cars
electric dirtbikes
electric race series

too soon?

[kambites]

I'm not sure how you come to the conclusion that ebook readers are dead. I know more people with them than without and most of them use them regularly... of all the electronics I own it's probably the one I use the most (I use my laptop more but that's owned by work).

amongst recent electronic devices, my vote would be netbooks. They were briefly everywhere... and then suddenly they weren't. I suppose tablets killed them off.

Edited by kambites on Tuesday 15th May 18:17

[Yiliterate]

Radion washing powder.

Saturation advertising, bright orange packaging (quite a thing back in the day!)...then, after a while...dunno...

[David87]

Diesel cars?

[hoagypubdog]

Thankyou4calling said:

And Smart cars.

I may be wildly wrong in this but I reckon they will have fallen well short of their sales estimates.

They aren't dead but i still look when I see one though in theory they are a great idea as most cars rarely carry more than you could contain in a Smart.

Used to get four dogs in mine, boot was bigger than a fiat pandas. Was my daily for two years rather than using my Duster or Defender