25 things that have disappeared in the past 25 years. Some are obvious -- indoor smoking, typewriters, phone booths. Some, like New Coke and Betamax, were barely here in the first place. Some are not lamented -- good riddance to carbon paper. If I may say so, No. 22 is premature, if only slightly:
22 The afternoon newspaper
Remember the kid on the bike who never quite reached the porch with your afternoon daily? He moved on, as did lifestyles and the media world. City afternoons became lonelier for newspaper readers.
