[SIGCIS-Members] Members Digest, Vol 36, Issue 14

[Patricia Galloway]

I'd suggest that people might want to investigate the Dead Media Project:
http://www.deadmedia.org/

Pat Galloway
UT-Austin

On 6/27/2013 11:00 AM, members-request at sigcis.org wrote:
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>     1. Re: Telegram service ending soon - have any other info
>        technologies actually died? (Christian Sandvig)
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> From: Christian Sandvig<csandvig at umich.edu>
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> Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Telegram service ending soon - have any
> 	other info technologies actually died?
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> This question is the topic of the dead media project (
> http://www.deadmedia.org/), which is itself dead.
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> My favorite nominations:
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> The Myriorama.  Once you have a motion picture, a motorized three-mile-long
> panoramic painting on rollers (shown while a performer narrates and plays
> the piano) fails to draw a crowd. Although actually now that I think of it
> I would pay to see a myriorama today.
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> The Telephonic Newspaper (e.g.,
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telefon_H%C3%ADrmond%C3%B3).
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> Christian
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> So, can anyone come up with another information technology that has
>> definitively and verifiably vanished completely from use? Specific products
>> don?t count.
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