The Museum of Obsolete Media

Friday 13th October, 2023 - Bruce Sterling

*One lone, heroic hobbyist is running this epic thing.

https://obsoletemedia.org/obsolescence-decade/

Media by Date of Obsolescence
This is a list of all the media currently in the collection, by approximate date by which it could be considered to have become obsolete. For lists of when media were introduced, visit the audio, video, data or film timelines.

1880s
Ambrotype (early 1850s – 1880s)

1890s
Music box cylinder (1862 – 1890s)

Herophon (early 1880s – 1890s)

1900s
Carte de visite (1854 – 1900s)

Brown wax cylinder (late 1880s – 1906)

Sterling Record (1904 – 1908)

Marconi Velvet Tone Record (1907 – 1908)

Pocket Rotoscope (1902 – late 1900s)

1910s
Gold-Moulded Records (1902 – 1912)

Jougla Omnicolore (1907 – 1912)

Amberol Records (1908 – 1912)

Pathé cylinder (1894 – 1914)

Kinora (1900 – 1914)

1920s
Standard Disc Record (1904 – 1920)

Stereoview (1850s – 1920s)

Organette cardboard disc (late 1870s – 1920s)

Organette metal disc (late 1870s – 1920s)

Organette roll (late 1870s – 1920s)

Organette spool (late 1870s – 1920s)

Cabinet card (1863 -early 1920s)

Little Briton records (early 1920s)

Indestructible Record (1907 – 1922)

Pigmy Gramophone (1923 – 1925)

The Bell records (1921 – 1926)

Dixy records (1926)

Little Marvel (1921 – 1928)

Mimosa records (1921 – 1928)

Edison Disc Record / Diamond Disc (1912 – 1929)

Blue Amberol Records (1912 – 1929)

Organ cobs (late 1880s – late 1920s)

1930s
Kiddyphone record (1924 – 1930)

Tintype (1850s – 1930s)

Victory records (1928 – 1931)

Pathé vertical-cut disc record (1905 – 1932)

Edison Bell Radio records (1928 – 1932)

Filmophone Flexible Record (1930 – 1932)

Durium record (1932 – 1933)

Broadcast records (1927 – 1934)

Broadcast Twelve records (1928 – 1934)

Eclipse records (1929 – 1935)

Kid Kord (1930s)

Crown records (1935 – 1937)

9.5 mm Bing British / Bingoscope film rolls (early 1930s – 1939)

1940s
Whiting Sculptoscope (1913 – early 1940s)

Speak-O-Phone (1926 – early 1940s)

Voice Record (1930s – early 1940s)

Magic lantern (17th century – 1940s)

Vogue – The Picture Record (1946 – 1947)

Recordgraph (late 1930s – late 1940s)

V-Disc (1943 – 1949)

Federal Perma Disk (1940s)

1950s
Memovox (early 1940s – 1950s)

Graphophone / Dictaphone cylinder (1887 – early 1950s)

Ediphone (1888 – early 1950s)

Soundmirror (1948 – 1954)

12-inch 78 rpm record (1903 – mid 1950s)

Autochrome Lumière (1907 – 1955)

Recordon (1948 – mid 1950s)

AT&T Peatrophone (1951 – mid 1950s)

Record album (late 1900s – 1950s)

Connecticut Continuous Tape Cartridge (1950s)

Cook Binaural record (1952 – 1958)

Pye magnetic disc (1953 – late 1950s)

Highway Hi-Fi (1956 – 1959)

1960s
10-inch 78 rpm record (1901 – 1960)

9.5mm film (1922 – 1960)

etc etc