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Going, going, almost gone! To keep up with the changing times, check out this list of stuff experts predict will very soon go the way of the dodo bird and dinosaur.

1.  Telephone landlines are becoming absolete, thanks to cell phones. According to USA Today between 2004 and 2007, the number of cell only homes leaped 159-percent.

2.  Answering machines can also expect the same fate of landlines because of cell phones. When customers dump landlocked telephones, those phones electronic message takers go into the trash too.

3.  Yellow Pages: When people need to find a business or service, more and more folks prefer to skip the once popular pages and let their fingers do the walking across computer keyboards or smart phone keypads to use search engines like Google or Yahoo.

4.  Ham radio operators have helped civilians stay in touch during disasters and international upheaval. But young people today prefer to spread the word via cell phones, text messages and e-mail. In the past five years alone, the number of licensed ham radio operators has declined by 50,000.

5.  Hand written letters along with writing and reading have become a time consuming luxury that many people can’t afford while trying to keep up with the ever increasing pace of the world, a pace fueled daily by the billions of e-mails, text messages and cell phone calls.

6.  Movie rental stores like Blockbuster, once a video rental powerhouse, have been closing stores by the hundreds as customers either defect to Internet based Netflix, which delivers more DVDs to their homes, or choose to download flicks directly from the internet via their computers or high tech phones.

7.  Incandescent bulbs has a dark future in this new age. Consumers are already turning to compact fluorescent lightbulbs, which burn longer meaning less trash, and cooler meaning less global warming.

8.  Film cameras have essentially been wiped out by digital cameras. The film business has gotten so bad that the makers of Nikon cameras, considered the standard for professional photographers, gave up making film cameras in 2006.

9.  Personal checks could become as rare as dinosaurs as people become more and more dependent on dibit cards and on paying their bills online. The American Banking Association says about 23-percent of U.S. consumers already plan to slash the number of checks they write.