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13 THINGS ABOUT TO BECOME EXTINCT
13. U.S. Post Office They are pricing themselves
out of existence. With e-mail, and and on-line services
they are a relic of the past.
12. Yellow Pages Print Yellow Pages will continue to
bleed dollars to their digital counterparts on the
Internet.
11. Classified Ads The Internet has made so many 5. Hand-Written Letters - In 2006, the Radicati
things obsolete that newspaper classified ads are Group estimated that, worldwide, 183 billion e-mails
another item on a long list.
were sent each day.
10. Movie Rental Stores While Netflix is looking up 4. Personal Checks - Bill payment remains the last
at the moment, Video Warehouse keeps closing store stronghold of paper-based payments -- for the time
locations by the hundreds.
being. Checks continue to be the most commonly
used bill payment method.
9. Phone Land Lines According to a the National
Center for Health Statistics, at the end of 2007, nearly 3. Drive-in Theaters - During the peak in 1958, there
one in six homes was cell-only. Today that number is were more than 4,000 drive-in theaters in this coun-
1 in 4
try, but in 2015 only 395 drive-ins were still operating.
8. DVDs For three decades, the VCR was a best-
seller and staple in every household until being deci-
mated by the DVD, Netflix and Hulu are the demise
of DVDs
2. News Magazines and TV News - While the TV
evening newscasts haven't gone anywhere over the
last several decades, their audiences have. In 1984,
in a story about the diminishing returns of the evening
news, the New York Times reported that all three net-
7. The Swimming Hole Swimming holes are be- work evening-news programs combined had only
coming a thing of the past. '20/20' reports that swim- 40.9 million viewers. Fast forward to 2008, and what
ming hole owners are closing them out of fear some- they have is half that.
one will sue.
1. The Family Farm - Since 1930, the number of
6. Cameras - In 2006, Nikon stopped making film family farms has been declining rapidly. According to
cameras.With Cell phones, people no longer use a the USDA, 5.3 million farms dotted the nation in 1950,
camera or want to lug around the camera bag.
but this number has drastically reduced by half.