Answering Machine
Hit its cultural apex, and revealed its fatal flaw (beep!), in 1996’s Swingers.

Lickable Stamp
Collectors still demand lickables; everyone else sends self-adhesives.

Foldable Road Map
Pay $12.95 and have Snoop Dogg call out turns on your TomTom.

Cathode Ray Tube Television
The classic set was finally outsold by the flat-screen LCD in 2007.

Incandescent Light Bulb
Already banned in Europe, they’ll be phased out here beginning 2012.

Paid Pornography
Five of the 100 top U.S. websites are “tube sites,” a.k.a. free-porn portals.

Smoking in Bars
Violations are down 70.4 percent since the post-ban high in 2004.

Fax Machine
Increasingly obsolete, yet still big in Japan, the No. 1 faxer in the world.

Hydrox Cookie
The Oreo precursor now exists only in cookies-and-cream form at Carvel.

Cassette Tape
Sales plummeted from 442 million in 1990 to 274 thousand in 2007.

French Franc
Au revoir, Paul Cézanne 100 FF bill! Bonjour, baroque and rococo €100!

Floppy Disk
Storage capacity: 1.5 MB, about half the size of a single three-minute MP3.

Phone Book
Automatically delivered, seldom used, still good as a booster seat.

Polaroid Photo
Not dead yet! Polaroid plans to again sell film and cameras by mid-2010.

Bank Deposit Slip
Check-reading ATMs (no slip, no envelope) will soon be standard.

Subway Token
Cost when introduced in 1953: 15¢. Cost when retired in 2003: $1.50.

The Rolodex
Outlived contemporaries the Autodex, Swivodex, Punchodex, and Clipodex, but can’t beat back the digitized address book.

Fall Fashion Features

The Beefcake in the Backcourt

Big, fake, and fully able to outshine its surroundings.Big, fake, and fully able to outshine its surroundings.

The Beefcake in the Backcourt

Big, fake, and fully able to outshine its surroundings.Big, fake, and fully able to outshine its surroundings.

• Beefcake in the Backcourt
• Sometimes Apart Sometimes Together
• Beefcake in the Backcourt
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