35 Thing That Have Disappeared From Reality.

These just quietly went away.

Published 2 years ago in Wow

These just quietly went away.

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Ownership. We used to pay money and then the thing actually belonged to us. Now everything is rented or leased. Everything is sold "as a service". Music as a service. Movies as a service. Software as a service. Even printer ink as a service. We spend and spend and in the end we hold nothing in our hands.

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Taco Bell used to have a chihuahua as their mascot. Little dude just disappeared one day and anyone born after 2000 probably doesn't even know what I am talking about.

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Service clubs. e.g. the Rotary, the Lions, the Shriners. Oh, they're still around. But a common complaint among them is they've got no members under 70 and no new members are lining up to get in.

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Acid Rain. It was a huge environmental issue in the late 70s thru the early 90s. Rain was acidic and damaged fertile areas among other things. In the US there was much research done and eventually industrial regulations were put into place. Companies were allowed to decide what approach they chose to take as long as the results showed the appropriate amount of reduction in sulfur dioxide emissions. Unfortunately, positive news doesn't sell, so news outlets did not do justice to reporting this success. As we went into the 2000s hardly anyone remembered what was done.

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I think people have noticed now but at the time, nobody noticed it was happening: 24 hour stores. I live in a major city and we don’t have a single 24 hour grocery store ever since the pandemic.

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Buying a new game and having a thick chunky manual filled with game lore which you would read before playing and so heighten the anticipation of the game itself.

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When you turn off the TV, how the image would shrink to a dot before slowly fading away.

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Free samples. I used to see free sample stands every time I went to a store, now they are gone. I now realize ( from all the comments ) that Costco apparently still has them.

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Landlines in residences. The jacks are still in almost any house but I rarely see anything plugged in anymore. The only people I can think of with them are all over 60.

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The American Chestnut Tree. We sing “chestnuts roasting over an open fire” every year and yet never question why we have no chestnuts. All the chestnut trees are dead is why, you see.