“NO Ads”: 30 Nearly Obsolete Items People Prefer Over Modern Alternatives

Nothing better than an actual book. They don't need electricity or anything.

These are not obsolete. That's ridiculous

I'm a huge fan of books, especially old books, but I've come to love my little iPOD touch because I can carry so many books in such a small, light way. AND, added bonus, some of the books have dyslexia fonts and different text colors which are easier for my eyes to read.

My ageing eyes love ebooks more. I do have a mini library at home, but most of my readings are in e-reader format nowadays.

Have kindle and physical copies.. i love my books more

There's something so satisfying about flipping switches and turning knobs that you don't get with a touch screen. Now, if only they could make modern car doors slam like the doors of my childhood, and find a way to let you hang up dramatically on a smart phone ...

When I read "Knobs in cars", I immediately assumed they were talking about the drivers...

There needs to be a law that requires a car's infotainment systems to be navigatable by blind people without braille. Not because they're expecting them to drive, but if a blind person can quickly and easily navigate it, a driver won't need to remove their eyes off the road to do the same.

I like knobs - they tend to have one or two functions and you don't have to hunt through menus and sub menus to get it to do the thing you want.

This.Some things are fine on a touch screen but putting HVAC and wiper controls on a touch screen buried in a menu is downright stupid and dangerous.

Same for clocks on the wall. I refuse to carry my phone on the production floor and I refuse to wear a watch with all the machinery I work with. I like having two hands and ten fingers.

That reminds me of another thing. Bulletin boards and a refrigerator with magnets holding notes and children’s art (since stainless steel has become so popular fewer homes would be able to use magnets on them.)

it's not that you can or can't see it. It's that the digital one beeps at you and reminds you. I never used a paper one because I never remembered to look at it. Also, I am very busy, so each day typically has 10 appointments or so. Meaning Unless I look at my desk calendar EVERY HOUR I will definitely miss something. Whereas with digital it just pesters me and reminds me. So as a result I miss nothing. Good riddance to the paper in this case.

At work, I just leave a tab open.

Have 3 hanging in the house- all different, but all are chickens!

This! I've walked out of places that point me to their QR code.

Here in my area, a recently opened bar had to muddle through around two weeks without any chance of a menu because they were all set on QR codes - only those did not work, as they had them printed on some fancy tables with no contrast, so they had to design and print physical menus while already open. I recently was complimented out of a burger joint because my phone battery went flat and they had no way of letting me order in person. I do not like this development at all.

Nooo! We still need menus, I hate looking online.

Fortunately I never seen restaurant without actual printed menu.

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I can't stand it now that most places you have to use the QR code, I want to browse a menu and using the codes also cuts the interaction with the waiting staff to almost zero which used to be an integral part of the dining experience

Please teach me your ways, sensei!

It's the only way to plan alternative routes for long distance travels. Zoom out on electronic maps and you're left with just highways. Also not and issue with drained batteries or malfunctioning. Keep it safe from fire (and huge amounts of water) and you're good.

I get it. I sat doing, learned and practiced how to fold maps correctly and I was proud of myself too. One good thing about maps that is getting lost is memorizing the route, even if generally before setting out since you obviously couldn’t open a map on the freeway. You’d run through the directions and memorize which street to take and which way to go at each intersection from point A to point B for the whole trip or just a segment before getting on the road. You might remember a “if you see this street you’ve gone too far” too.

You guys would laugh at our travel arrangement. When we do 10,000 mile road trips across North america, we've got several maps for every state/province. And the maps are so out of date. Usually there's one that's within 5 years of being current, and the rest are from 20 years ago, 40 years ago.... And you might say why have a map so out of date? It's because some maps used to show railroad lines clearly marked with the name of the railroad on it and that's very helpful when you are a traveling rail fan. So we have an entire box of maps when we're traveling, Plus as a navigator I use the GPS built into the car, and maps features on a smartphone, so using the paper maps we can see what used to be there, and using the electronic ones we can see what's there now, and I can look up things like if the town has any old stations or preserved depos or railroad buildings that they've turned into a museum... Traveling is quite the adventure

My mom was 'Fiddle-footed', she loved to move. I became the Navigator, planned our route, and stayed awake to keep her awake and ensure she didn't miss an exit. I started at ten and was so proud when I got my first Rand McNally Atlas. I was a weird kid.

This. Amazon, Netflix, Peacock, Spotify, etc can't delete your physical collection whenever the feel like it. I'm reminded of what recently happened with WarnerBrosDiscovery & Sony. They ended their partnership and deleted entire video collections from people's devices, videos people had paid hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars on. And both Sony & WBD refused to issue refunds because the "user agreement" basically says they can rip you off if they feel like.

Ohhh bring back recordstores