Successful deletions

Carthage, Troy, Tyre, Angkor, Pompeii...!

Dodo, quagga, the great auk...!

Mostly sadly for the folks here the Libraries of Alexandria and then later of Constantinople.

Rotary phones. Floppy discs. Leisure suits.

Telegrams.

8-track tapes. Carburetors. Carbon paper. Slide rules. Spats.

French franc, Italian Lira, Deutsche Mark...

Greek Drachma (?)

>2 Graccus: and the Han Lin Academy library in Beijing...

Small pox, flint chipping.

Working on polio

>6 marq: With the current state of the Eurozone and Euro banking..... maybe we shouldn't throw away our francs, lira, and marks quite yet.

Herman Cain

>10 timspalding:
Yeah, but that deletion can't really be described as permanently successful. Just that his 2012 candidacy is effectively so.

Tubes in radios

Dials on phones

ETA: Uh, again. Theoria noted this deletion at #3.

>13 paradoxosalpha:
And land lines are headed that way. Which means I need a cell phone, pronto.

> 14

If land lines go, how will my DSL work?

And you'll have to wedge that cell phone between my cold, dead, selectively Luddite fingers.

>14 AnnaClaire:
Well, they might not be deleted for internet use, but it seems like fewer and fewer people bother with the land lines anymore.