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The Floppy Disk, Typewriter, Phonograph And More Dead Tech In The Museum of Obsolete Objects

Time to get all misty-eyed about technology from the past.

In the never ending race to give us the technology of tomorrow, many a once loved object is left trailing in the digital dust. Remember Betamax? Or the 8-track? Once beloved pieces of equipment that now reside on the scrapheap of history, relics of a bygone age, testament that when it comes to technological progress, there are winners and losers. There’s always a young pretender waiting to steal the crown, be it mp3 player or iPad.

But while we as consumers may be a fickle bunch, susceptible to the beguiling charms of the new and shiny, we always have a fond place in our personal databases for the technology of our childhood—tech that inspired, entertained or simply got the job hone. And in celebration of this nostalgia, we finally have a place where good gadgets go to die: The Museum of Obsolete Objects.

Created by advertising agency Jung von Matt, the “museum” is actually a YouTube channel that aims to get you all misty-eyed for a time when the cassette tape was the pinnacle of audio formats and pocket calculators made you too cool for school. Collated here for old school giggles and retro-reminiscences is a whole range of technological devices from the humble abacus to the floppy disk—peruse the objects at your leisure by the year they went obsolete. Then weep for these fallen heroes.