These Common Household Objects Will Be Obsolete In a Few Short Years

Dial-Up Modem

Since the invention of the wireless router, dial-up Internet has become totally useless. It's slow and usually only allows one person to be online at a time. Now, with the use of things like the Xfinity app, you can set up and control your Wifi remotely.

Floppy Disk

Unless your computer was built 40 years ago, you don't need to use floppy disks. They used to hold games, software, and important programs, but now they're just chunky pieces of plastic that don't serve any purpose. Now, most software is downloadable, negating the need for any physical disks at all.

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The More You Know

  • Saint Patrick's Day began as a "feast day". To honor him, Christians could put aside their Lenten restrictions on food and alcohol consumption, which is why excessive drinking has become linked to the celebration.
  • If you ate nothing but rabbit meat, you would die from protein poisoning.
  • All the Professors in Pokemon have been named after trees.
  • Only ¼ of the Sahara Desert is sandy.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.