Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom Path: ...!news.misty.com!news-vm.kithrup.com!kithrup.com!djheydt From: djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) Subject: Re: Things I never thought would disappear Message-ID: Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 01:04:49 GMT References: <95lggjdsbkjgknic0e49dodeemhq3je3qc@4ax.com> Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 1729 Lines: 39 In article <95lggjdsbkjgknic0e49dodeemhq3je3qc@4ax.com>, Joy Beeson wrote: > >Things I never thought would disappear: > >wool socks [Hal Heydt] Check a good sporting goods/outdoor store, like REI. >canned tomatoes (You can get what we used to call "salad tomatoes", >but not tomatoes that are simply canned.) Still avail, so far as I know. Last bought a couple cans about a year ago. Still see them on the shelves. >Definitive stamps that allowed one to mail a letter without affixing >an opinion. I didn't even know that plain, ordinary not-special >stamps *had* a name. I think non-self adhesive postage stamps are an endangered species. >Road maps. You can still get them from AAA. The local office has them in a couple of vending machines (no cost, it's just a way to select what you want) in their lobby. >User manuals. Nowadays, the time to go obsolete is about half the >time it takes to write a halfway-decent manual. The Raspberry Pi folks release their manuals in both electronic (PDF) form and as "dead tree" versions. >Mattresses that it's possible to tuck a sheet under. Wouldn't that lead to the demise of fitted bottom sheets? Can't speak to the rest of the list.