50 things that are being killed by the internet

this came from here but pls don't look at it if you have no idea wtf some of these entries mean.

Aren't they dead?

^^ being able to google dead people kills them a 2nd time!

newspapers? #34 I guess (tho not all are mainstream, eh)

excuse my impertinence, but I hardly suspect some of these suggestions are quite gasping their swan-song just yet

Memorizing phone numbers, 100%. I have this nagging low-level anxiety that I will be in a Very Bad Situation and will have access to a phone but not to my cell phone, and won't know who the hell the call since I can't remember anybody's phone number anymore.

9) The myth of cat intelligence

xxp i dunno man take those complaints to "the telegraph"; i am just a humble c&p'er

this list posted free of context is actually kind of funny

that's why i posted it yo

PUNCTUALITY MOTHERFUCKERS

Ceefax and Teletext have already disappeared from my TV and now I don't know what to do with my mornings. Going on the internet in that brief period of time I have before it's time to go to work - BAD IDEA.

Been playing a lot of minesweeper recently.

but it's surely mobile phones rather than the internet that are killing punctuality and knowing phone numbers.

I know someone who recently beat Spider Solitaire playing with all four suits. It's a good way to go out.

44) Trust in Nigerian businessmen and princes

quite tickled by that one. is that so wrong?

i always had the highest respect for nigerian royalty, but since 96...pssh

51) wayne's chances of it happening

Punctuality? Call me back in 10 minutes.

btw i don't know what i'm voting for yet but expect a strong showing for the myth of cat intelligence out of you all.

Dead time. The internet has destroyed dead time so effectively it actually turns dead time into negative time, sucking up the surrounding time a la a black hole.

i used my router to kill a spider, does this count?

1) The art of polite disagreement

OK this is not dead, and if it is, it was dead long long long before the internet.

Letter writing/pen pals

This, for me, absolutely. I loved letter writing and did it tons up until the early 90s. You could call it my proto-internet - I had a lot of penfriends and even a couple of long distance dates/boyfriends.

I miss fat envelopes with 15-page roundy scrawls from my friend Henry who'd stick photocopied pics of Peter Murphy and Robert Smith all over his envelopes.

Ceefax/Teletext...sorry, I mean, AUSTEXT.

i suppose this is when i ask someone to explain to me what the hell ceefax/teletext is

I object to fanzines being in that list too! Theyre so not dead, theyre doing a roaring trade - in Melbourne at least.

#1 was killed by cable news.

Theyre so not dead, theyre doing a roaring trade - in Melbourne at least.

they are?

Fanzines.

that wasn't the question

Jim: well there's a whole store that sells them in Degraves underpass, but ok, maybe it doesnt do a "roaring trade". And lots of stores like missing link seem to sell some.

They're not completely dead was all I'm sayin.

fair enough, those aren't really the sort of places i go but still surprised anyway

20) Order forms in the back pages of books

and old magazines. i voted for this. i miss 1/8-page ads with dodgy mail-order addresses.

Hoaxes and conspiracy theories

They must be joking about that one, the internet's catnip to those wackos.

Yeah good point, wtf.

I suppose what they were thikning is that sites like Snopes debunk stuff quickly - but it doesnt stop truthers and whatnot one bit.

44) Trust in Nigerian businessmen and princes

Hey, a women I used to work with (and was in charge of overseas accounts) actually received a letter from Nigeria containing the usual spiel. And this was back in 1989 or '90 or thereabouts.

24) Dogging
Websites may have helped spread the word about dogging, but the internet offers a myriad of more convenient ways to organise no-strings sex with strangers. None of these involve spending the evening in lay-by near Aylesbury.

^very much just sayin here but I think this might be missing the point of the pastime slightly?

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no one ever explained ceefx/teletext to me.

A friend of mine told me how his father once watched the Ceefax football scores, in the desperate hope that in one of the crucial matches, neither team playing would score. Apparently sat there, very tense, staring at the screen, hoping it would stay 0-0 for 90mins.

WHAT IS IT

cad - it was a kind of basic text-based news service that came over your television. So you could flick to a teletext channel and you'd get pages of text based news and weather and whatnot. A sort of proto-internet, in a way. Like a BBS.

thank you trayce!

sounds like old-skool weather channel

Yeah pretty much! I saw it more when I visted the UK than ever in Aus; though I'm sure they used to have it here it never had the uptake the brits seemed to have for it.

I like to think it's been replaced by the Wii News channel =)

Who voted ceefax, as it's still available online.

http://www.ceefax.tv/cgi-bin/gfx.cgi?page=302_0&font=big&channel=bbc1&ma01=0210081&ma02=2020081

not the point! There's nothing on Ceefax/Teletext I can't get better elsewhere online, but they don't have the same frustrating and slow and rubbish allure.