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@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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This question is the topic of the dead media project ( http://www.deadmedia.org/), which is itself dead.

My favorite nominations:

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.

The Telephonic Newspaper (e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telefon_H%C3%ADrmond%C3%B3).

Christian

So, can anyone come up with another information technology that has

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definitively and verifiably vanished completely from use? Specific products don?t count.