amigas? beepers? - Georgie Bestie

i love spriographs! what about spinart? punch cards? 8-tracks? meg, joe says you're not welcome in our home if you keep slagging segways. - Georgie Bestie

i always wanted cuecat. what about the pneumatic subway? dittomachines? - Georgie Bestie

the incandescent light bulb. leaded gasoline. The big deal new top of the line iPhone/Xbox/Blackberry/etc from 1 year ago. - Your Neighbor Steve

Millions of parents worldwide will testify that Velcro is by no means dead. Those pneumatic tubes you used at the drive-in bank teller window, however, ARE dead. - Catherine Pellegrino

It is interesting to think about what "dead" means in this context. If it means "unlikely to be improved and so ubiquitous as to no longer seem like technology," then velcro is dead. If it means "superseded by something else, still working but no longer loved," then my examples are probably dead. If it has to be dead as a doornail--no longer available new and very few working examples extant, then I like beepers and pneumatic tubes. - Your Neighbor Steve

(I mentioned the pneumatic tubes, knowing full well that there are banks in my town that still use them.) - Catherine Pellegrino

Velcro was doa then - Jason (not an Argonaut) from iPod

pssst, Kendra, you can still get a CueCat: http://www.librarything.com/cuecat Or just chat with Tim Spalding at a conference. - Catherine Pellegrino

Jason, not to the astronauts, it wasn't. Velcro technology contributed to the deaths of Grissom, White, and Chaffee in the Apollo 1 disaster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Your Neighbor Steve

well I don't think the inventors of velcro had tested it for space travel, so I don't think they are liable. - Jason (not an Argonaut)

My mother still carries a pager, and they still use pneumatic tubes at the hospital where she works. - laura x

Dot matrix printers? And love, definitely love. - laura x

beta/vhs - αnnα vαȵ scoyoç

Daisy Wheel printers? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... except for the fact that: "Daisy-wheel technology is now found only in some electronic typewriters." - Jason (not an Argonaut)

I still have a cue cat that I use.... I'd suggest a record player but those are making a resurgence - Hedgehog

CDs and DVDs will be dead soon. Mouse could be dead if iPad touch interface breaks the market. - ɥsıuɐʎɹ

Ryan: I thought the mouse was one of those 'perfect technologies' that could never be improved upon? lol -I guess if touch interface is the only interface then there is no need for them. I haven't heard any iPad people saying they would give up their computer for the iPad though. wonder if that'll happen. Personally I think the future is embedded micro sensors in fingertips - Jason (not an Argonaut)

Velcro isn't dead. The military makes extensive use of them on the new uniforms. No more sewing all your ranks and company patches on. My co-worker uses a trackball and I still prefer one to a mouse. You know what's dead though? Capacitance Electronic Discs or CEDs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Dan: Bibrarian

haven't you see Project Runway? Zippers are very much alive my friend. Hey they were even featured in the (albeit losing) hair of one of the top contestants on Shear Genius... - Jason (not an Argonaut)

anything developed for the Y2K fiasco - Elise Daniel

laserdiscs are completely dead (unless you're one of 5 or 6 professors at MPOW). Incandescent lightbulbs, *I'm* the old fogey about - or at least I will be until they come up with a substitute that doesn't give me headaches. I go to my particular drive-up bank expressly for the joy of the whooshy pneumatic tubes, but I concur that they (and beepers) are the functionally deadest examples mentioned. - Marianne

Hmm. Bundle outdoor extension cord for lawnmower. What bundles it? Velcro. Wrap rainhood back into jacket enclosure. What keeps it there (and closes interior pocket)? Velcro. (What closes the jacket? Zipper.) Sounds dead to me. (Ryan: Really? The CEO of Netflix says they'll be mailing DVDs for 20 years to come. Good luck with that prediction.) CEDs--yep, those are dead (never really much alive). - Walt Crawford

atari! cassette tapes? I wish the fax machine were dead. the credit union where I work has pneumatic tubes in all the branches with drive-thrus. also, I have a Wired-branded cuecat that I got at a used-computer place for free because I knew what it was. :) I use it as cubicle decor. - Elaine is trying to write

floppy disks - αnnα vαȵ scoyoç

AM radio in english and Larry King. - SteVe C

Zip discs - Jason (not an Argonaut)

I cannot believe that no one's mentioned 8-tracks yet...how about a nod to cathode ray screens, since more people are using plasma screens? And actually, if we want to get all history-buff about it...why not Victrolas, wax cylinders, the telegraph? - Jennifer Parsons

velcro is alive and well and living in Hell. srsly, this stuff is used all the time in aerospace and the music business. - Joe The Sausage

the amiga will never die! daisy wheel printers though, I think they're pretty much dead. the pneumatic tube lives! water fountains rock! cassette tapes and CRTs, pretty dead. - Richard Akerman

8tracks are interesting because they're self-destructive. As for CRTs...well, going but not quite gone (and likely replaced mostly by LCDs and eventually OLEDs, since plasmas are such power-hogs). [Will there still be CRTs for graphic designers who need precisely accurate color displays? I have no idea.] - Walt Crawford

Walt, that makes CRTs interesting, though...they're an example of a technology that is quietly being phased out right before our eyes. - Jennifer Parsons

CRTs are interesting--they lasted much longer than could reasonably have been predicted, they're the major remaining use of a mostly-dead technology (outside of specialist hifi), that is, vacuum tubes or "valves"--and the phaseout has been going on for a *very* long time. - Walt Crawford

Vacuum tubes will never die. They sound so good! - Georgie Bestie

8 track tapes, those HUGE laser discs. - The Ghost of Library Past

Our first and only laser disc was 'Time Bandits' - Jason (not an Argonaut) from iPod

I'm happy nobody has said vinyl yet because that also will never die. - Georgie Bestie

The tone generating box that came with your old answering machine. You'd keep it in your purse to prove you're you before they started using DTMF tone codes. - Kevin Fox

You know what's probably never coming back? Video game cartridges. No more blowing a gust of air over the contacts before popping it in your Nintendo or Sega or whatever. Everything's going to either be on disc or downloadable content. - Dan: Bibrarian

Hypercolor t-shirts FTW - Curdy G

Disco - SteVe C

I think that thinking about dead technology is dead. - Your Neighbor Steve

"MARC is dead" is pretty dead. - Your Neighbor Steve

Not to flog a dead clockwork horse, but I think it's so wonderful that we all went after Velcro™ with such gusto, but no one stood up for Love® - Your Neighbor Steve

Velcro is dead? Guess I'll have to stop using it to organize the cables in my home theater now. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

except Velcro™ is alive and well and being used EVERYWHERE. - Joe The Sausage

VCRs. Laserdiscs. Floppy discs. Cassette tapes. 8 tracks. 8 bit computers. 16 bit computers. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

diskettes and videotape aren't actually dead, just obsolete. there's a small difference. - Joe The Sausage

No, they are dead...I killed them! - Scoble, Alex Scoble

nope, my diskettes still work. and you can still buy DVD/VCR combos at Best Buy. with built-in DTV tuners. - Joe The Sausage

D E D...DEAD - Scoble, Alex Scoble

in yore haid, boi! - Joe The Sausage

GODDAMMIT WHY DIDN'T ANY OF US SAY FRIENDFEED? - Your Neighbor Steve