Submitted by Mary R, tonight she’ll be takin’ no calls ‘cuz she’ll be dancin’!

Why do I think that answering machines are an epic win? Well, let’s just say it’s a lot harder to hack into someone’s voicemail to erase embarrassing messages you left while drunk. KIDDING! Kind of…Anyway, voicemail has replaced answering machines (also called “answerphones” or “ansaphones” in the UK) as the preferred message service. Answering machines are still around (though to find one sold separately from a phone would be rare, I think), but are the thing to have if you like to keep tapes with old messages on them. And who doesn’t like to do that?!

Submitted by Amber H, who lives in a house with wood paneling.

What is there to say about giant wooden televisions that they don’t say about themselves? They weren’t just televisions, they were furniture. Practically works of art. They added that “something special” to your sitting room. They were a status sym…OK. They were ugly. We can admit it. However, they evoke memories of a specific era, a specific style, and therefore they are a major nostalgic WIN.

Submitted by Babalou, iPod hater.

Oh, the time before iPods (and other mp3 players, of course)! I went through many generations of portable CD players, including one that looked a lot like the original Sony Discman (though it must have been a later model). Unfortunately (yes, I said it!), people don’t really listen to CDs anymore, and so these machines have become obsolete. Not to say that mp3 players don’t have their conveniences, but something must be said, I think, for listening to a whole CD all the way through, the way it was meant to be heard. Plus, you got to enjoy the artwork printed on the CD itself.

Submitted by Diana R, anti-DVD lobbyist.

In the age of the DVD and Blu-Ray, it’s easy to forget that, at one time, we had to eject those big bulky VHS tapes and rewind them in separate machines made to look like foreign sports cars. Well, you didn’t have to use one of these machines to rewind a tape, but it did excite the process a little. It is true that they performed their sole function a lot faster than the VHS players did, and so it would be hard to argue that they didn’t serve their purpose. It’s just nice to have the extra shelf space these days, I guess. Although, were I to still use VHS at all, I would probably try and find one of these rewinders to serve all of my rewinding needs.

Submitted by Kristie C, iPhone hater.

Those of us who are of a certain age most definitely used a telephone booth at least once in the past. The younger generation, the one raised on it-can-do-everything cell phones, may never have actually used one. But we all know what they are, what their function was (and still is, to a very small extent), and how they work. You see less of them around these days, of course, because there isn’t the need for them. But I doubt they’ll ever disappear completely. And, hey, London’s phone booths have become tourist attractions, so not all of them are faring too badly. I recently had to use one after my car was towed in a foreign country. And, yeah, it was pretty nostalgic.