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obsolete in aughts…

in the aughts i stopped:

1. wearing a watch and now use my cellphone to keep track of the time
2. using a landline and now use my voip/cellphone/text message/facebook/twitter) as my primary form of digital communication
3. reading the newspaper and magazines now i skim news aggregators like slate, huffpost, drudge report (it’s useful to know what the right is thinking)
4. reading and buying paper books and now i read them on my kindle
5. using a thomas guide as a map and now use my nav system or google maps on the iphone
6. listening to the radio for traffic reports (again hello google maps)
7. listening to music on a stereo and now i listen on my iphone or laptop
8. using a thomas guide
9. listening to physical CD’s and mostly stopped paying for downloading music (hello lala, thesixtyone, and mog)
10. using a desktop computer as my main computer and now i use a netbook/macbookpro/iphone as my main computer
11. using windows products and became a mac and linux fanboy
12. renting DVD’s at brick and mortar stores (hello netflix streaming)
13. paying for cableTV and now we download/stream on the interwebs
14. using our analog TV and started watching TV on the wall (using an overhead projector i bought for shows and work)
15. stopped blogging on a regular basis and now i mainly tweet (except for long form posts like this)

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