From: jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid   
      
   Things I never thought would disappear:   
      
      
   Stockings shaped to the leg   
      
   wool socks   
      
   unbleached muslin   
      
   plain cream   
      
   canned tomatoes  (You can get what we used to call "salad tomatoes",   
   but not tomatoes that are simply canned.)   
      
   There's not even a retronym for petroleum jelly, which has been   
   replaced by white petroleum jelly  (What's now called "white petroleum   
   jelly" didn't even exist, at least not where laymen could see it.)   
      
   Paperback books the size and shape of paperback books   
      
   Newspapers.  Replaced by press-release papers that are fading fast.   
      
   Old newspapers as a cheap, ubiquitous, and inexhaustable resource for   
   every purpose.   
      
   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.   
      
   Road maps.   
      
   Street signs are at risk of heading for the endangered list.  I got   
   very lost after one was rotated ninety degrees and nobody bothered to   
   twist it back.   
      
   User manuals.   Nowadays, the time to go obsolete is about half the   
   time it takes to write a halfway-decent manual.   
      
   The World Wide Web.  Nodes are still around, but one can't crawl from   
   one to another to another.   
      
   Mattresses that it's possible to tuck a sheet under.   
      
   Beds that one can sit on.   
      
   Carpet samples   
      
      
   --   
   Joy Beeson   
   joy beeson at centurylink dot net   
   http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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