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And yet, you must admit that Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for a reason! At least for the phrase The Times, They Are a-Changin', which perfectly embodies the ruthless flow of time. And indeed - just yesterday something or someone was literally on everyone's lips - and now it is already in the past. Just like Dylan himself...

But old Bob is still with us, and there are things that have disappeared completely without a trace, although it would seem that only yesterday they worried our minds and were of interest to the whole world. And this viral thread in the AskReddit community is dedicated to just such things. So please fasten your seatbelts, our time machine is about to dive into the misty depths of the past...

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#1

Person Wonders “What Eventually Disappeared Without Anyone Noticing?”, Receives 35 Various Replies Fireflies aka *lightning bugs. I live rural and I used to see hundreds on a warm summer night. Now I get excited if I see just one. I mentioned it to other people who live in the same area as I do and they were just like "Huh. Yeah. You're right!"

motohod671 , Takashi Ota Report

Final score:
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#2

Person Wonders “What Eventually Disappeared Without Anyone Noticing?”, Receives 35 Various Replies Saturday Morning Cartoons

jay_man4_20 , Tim Green Report

Final score:
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#3

Person Wonders “What Eventually Disappeared Without Anyone Noticing?”, Receives 35 Various Replies Somewhere along the way 9-5 turned into 8-5

jivemic240 , KoolShooters Report

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Some of the things you'll find in this Bored Panda selection have lost their meaning simply because the phenomena they were directly associated with are gone. For example, telephone booths - just because there is no more need for street pay phones. Some have moved into the category of museum exhibits simply because they found a replacement - like video game cartridges. And some are still with us, but we do not pay the same attention to them as before.

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#4

Person Wonders “What Eventually Disappeared Without Anyone Noticing?”, Receives 35 Various Replies I never see swarms of Monarch butterflies anymore.

morana9870 , Renee Grayson Report

Final score:
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#5

Person Wonders “What Eventually Disappeared Without Anyone Noticing?”, Receives 35 Various Replies Places children and teenagers can hang out without supervision

Portlander , Greg Goebel Report

Final score:
254points
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#6

Person Wonders “What Eventually Disappeared Without Anyone Noticing?”, Receives 35 Various Replies Someone answering the phone at businesses.

motohod671 , Markus Winkler Report

Final score:
239points
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For example, postcards. Back in the '90s, postal services around the world sent millions and probably billions of postcards for festive occasions... and for no reason at all. But communication standards have changed several times since then - and who would think of waiting a whole week for a postcard when you can just call and see anyone's face on Zoom? Postcards have gradually become an anachronism - although you will agree that getting this small modest piece of cardboard with handwritten (another anachronism, isn't it?) words is still damn nice.

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#7

Person Wonders “What Eventually Disappeared Without Anyone Noticing?”, Receives 35 Various Replies A healthy sense of shame

Endlessbeachday , Samson Katt Report

Final score:
231points
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#8

Person Wonders “What Eventually Disappeared Without Anyone Noticing?”, Receives 35 Various Replies Privacy

Helpful-Natural6300 , Pixabay Report

Final score:
218points
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#9

Person Wonders “What Eventually Disappeared Without Anyone Noticing?”, Receives 35 Various Replies Those coin-operated rocking horses you used to see in front of grocery stores.

kanna172014 , wallpaperflare Report

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By the way, have you noticed how we gradually forgot how to write by hand? Moreover, with the spread of voice messages, even the skill of typing is gradually losing its importance and significance. And still, nostalgia is not the same as grumpy lamentations, as it was good before. In the end, in the years of my student youth, when we had to take notes a lot, I would have literally sold my soul for one of the voice transcription services widely available nowadays...
#10

Person Wonders “What Eventually Disappeared Without Anyone Noticing?”, Receives 35 Various Replies Having many Family photographs in homes.

Not completely gone, but homes used to be plastered in them. The only times I really notice them is in homes of older people.

jivemic240 , Rodolfo Clix Report

Final score:
216points
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#11

Person Wonders “What Eventually Disappeared Without Anyone Noticing?”, Receives 35 Various Replies Video Game Manuals

pops992 , Generic Brand Productions Report

Final score:
193points
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#12

Person Wonders “What Eventually Disappeared Without Anyone Noticing?”, Receives 35 Various Replies Telephone booths.

RogerKnights , Erik Mclean Report

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Be that as it may, times are changing, and we are changing with them. And yes, for the first time this phrase was uttered back in the days of Ancient Rome, and it cannot be said that all the innovations of humanity since then have been to its detriment. So please feel free to scroll this list to its very end, enjoy this slightest touch of nostalgia and be sure - the best is yet to come!
#13

Person Wonders “What Eventually Disappeared Without Anyone Noticing?”, Receives 35 Various Replies Longevity in careers – this is a big one nobody seems to have said.

Longevity in careers has largely gone away. People used to get a job and after being there for decades reap the benefits of being seasoned employees (higher salaries and better perks).

Maybe it’s because I work in the Entertainment industry, but I feel that longevity in careers has gone away. Meaning, people can be amazing at a job, but after 5+ years the employers start wondering if they could be doing better with a younger/cheaper candidate for the job.

I understand if you ever want to move up in a works place they expect you to bring your A-game, but 30+ years of being incredible is hard. Some years will be better than others, and if employers don’t have loyalty to their employees anymore, it is likely the good employee will be fired or let go at some point.

I feel like in recent decades this has forced many people who normally wouldn’t, to switch careers. Can someone work successfully up the ladder at any job without having to shift to another company for a promotion?

A combination of employers halting upward movement of their staff while they look for new employees to fill higher roles, and the fact that they “get bored” of their seasoned employees has largely killed the idea of anyone having a single career.

yelexiw438 , Rool Paap Report

Final score:
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#14

The magnetic tape from a crushed audio cassette blowing across the sidewalks and roadways.

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#15

Person Wonders “What Eventually Disappeared Without Anyone Noticing?”, Receives 35 Various Replies Phone books

QosmoQueen , Sue Thompson Report

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141points
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#16

Walmart opened for 24 hours.

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Final score:
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#17

Person Wonders “What Eventually Disappeared Without Anyone Noticing?”, Receives 35 Various Replies Epstein's client list

wetforhouseplants , Ivan Samkov Report

Final score:
127points
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#18

Person Wonders “What Eventually Disappeared Without Anyone Noticing?”, Receives 35 Various Replies Ask Jeeves

PsychologicalBit5422 , ask Report

Final score:
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#19

Person Wonders “What Eventually Disappeared Without Anyone Noticing?”, Receives 35 Various Replies Those plastic lanyards people used to braid and make.

Cacacaaaacac , Douglas Paul Perkins Report

Final score:
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#20

my favorite illegal streaming websites

pebiv28351 Report

Final score:
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#21

Person Wonders “What Eventually Disappeared Without Anyone Noticing?”, Receives 35 Various Replies Custom ringtones.

(obviously I know some people have them but we somehow went from virtually everyone having them to almost no one giving a s**t.)

Xarpotheosis , Abdulla Al Muhairi Report

Final score:
111points
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#22

Person Wonders “What Eventually Disappeared Without Anyone Noticing?”, Receives 35 Various Replies We're in the process of full size can of Arizona teas for $.99 disappearing.

I'm seeing a lot of places starting to carry the smaller plastic bottles for $.99 or the larger plastic bottles for more. I'm honestly surprised that they've lasted for this long at the same price.

pebiv28351 , Kirsi Report

Final score:
107points
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#23

Person Wonders “What Eventually Disappeared Without Anyone Noticing?”, Receives 35 Various Replies Postcards.

And not just in the usual places, like museum gift shops and tourist traps.

There was once a time when you could buy at any truck stop or roadside motel a postcard of the small town you were driving through. But not anymore.

No point when you can just text your friends a photo.

morana9870 , Quinn Dombrowski Report

Final score:
105points
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#24

Newspaper machines at random corners

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Final score:
95points
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#25

Person Wonders “What Eventually Disappeared Without Anyone Noticing?”, Receives 35 Various Replies TV bumpers. There used to be a little sequence between the show and commercials. Some of them were really interesting and creative. I think my generation remembers the "wand IDs" on the Disney channel (where a Disney celeb would use a wand to make the logo). There were also bumpers that were PSAs or other actual content.

Edit: yes I watched THAT documentary on YouTube. It's amazing. Everyone go to Defunctland's channel and watch the one on the Disney channel jingle. Just trust me. Don't look up spoilers.

motohod671 , altotemi Report

Final score:
86points
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#26

Limewire

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Final score:
80points
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#27

"Ringback" tones or "CallerTunes". Where you could assign a song to play when people called you instead of them hearing ringing.

RichLyonsXXX Report

Final score:
77points
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#28

Person Wonders “What Eventually Disappeared Without Anyone Noticing?”, Receives 35 Various Replies The hole in the ozone.

Chuffer_Nutters , Markus Spiske Report

Final score:
68points
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#29

Person Wonders “What Eventually Disappeared Without Anyone Noticing?”, Receives 35 Various Replies Lobster tanks in grocery stores! Not that I particularly want them back, but those are nostalgic af

yelexiw438 , Jack at Wikipedia Report

Final score:
67points
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#30

Person Wonders “What Eventually Disappeared Without Anyone Noticing?”, Receives 35 Various Replies People fainting when something unexpected happens. And people carrying smelling salts for just such an occasion. It’s so 19th century…

jivemic240 , David Pursehouse Report

Final score:
60points
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#31

Person Wonders “What Eventually Disappeared Without Anyone Noticing?”, Receives 35 Various Replies Automatic seatbelts

Steamforge , Luke Miller Report

Final score:
56points
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#32

McDonald’s salads.

justhereforthefunnyZ Report

Final score:
56points
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#33

Blimps, helium is expensive and drones can do some of their missions.

jivemic240 Report

Final score:
55points
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#34

The spirit of the 90s that was alive in Portland.

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Final score:
55points
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#35

Person Wonders “What Eventually Disappeared Without Anyone Noticing?”, Receives 35 Various Replies Sobe drinks.

motohod671 , AlienFood Report

Final score:
49points
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#36

Person Wonders “What Eventually Disappeared Without Anyone Noticing?”, Receives 35 Various Replies l33tspeak.

I can't even nail down the decade it disappeared.

motohod671 , Morgan Report

Final score:
25points
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#37

Intense dark lipstick from the early 2010’s

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Final score:
16points
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#38

The clouds of bugs during the summer

PulsingFlesh Report

Final score:
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#39

Fidget spinners

PrisonerV Report

Final score:
11points
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#40

Person Wonders “What Eventually Disappeared Without Anyone Noticing?”, Receives 35 Various Replies Reddit live

FordBeWithYou , Brett Jordan Report

Final score:
7points
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#41

Person Wonders “What Eventually Disappeared Without Anyone Noticing?”, Receives 35 Various Replies Carrot Top. What even was that guy?

Lapras_Lass , Hoggarazzi Photography Report

Final score:
6points
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#42

Person Wonders “What Eventually Disappeared Without Anyone Noticing?”, Receives 35 Various Replies Ellen degeneres

arnelthelionjr , Alan Light Report

Final score:
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