Top Ten Things that have outlived their usefulness
10. Junk mail : Even though it was never actually useful to begin with, now they can electronically junk mail you 7000 times a day.
9. Subbuteo : The fact that Subbuteo is to be discontinued made national news here, but given a choice between getting down on hands and knees flicking little men and FIFA 2000 or some other 3D all-singing, all-dancing video football game then my joypad's coming out of the drawer. And that's real.
8. Burglar/car alarms : Tell the truth - when one of those goes off, are you thinking "Oh my gosh - some pour soul's being robbed?" Hell no! You're saying "Will someone please turn that damn alarm off?"
7. "Multimedia speakers" : run that PC through your stereo, son, trust me - it's the move.
6. Cordless phones : now everyone and their mother are rocking mobiles...
5. Marathons : Marathons were invented in ancient Greece to find out who could run fast over long distances so that in times of war you could get that person to carry messages. Nowadays - couriers, e-mail, telephone, etc, etc...
4. Ties : I don't need to tie a noose round my neck every morning to remind myself I'm in captivity :-)
3. Bad Boy Records : Now there's no Biggie (RIP), and not even any LOX, why are they still around?
2. Security cameras : They're now so common (and so often fake) that everyone, including the crooks, totally ignores them (except when I pull a spin move while walking past "hidden" cameras).
1. Floppy disks : these are actually pretty weak, you can hardly store anything on them and they have a habit of dying on you at just the wrong mo-
Data error reading from drive A
Abort, Retry, Ignore?