That's a whole epoch in the history of the Internet, and eons in the shelf life of consumer electronics; the chunky televisions Paik tinkered with, the building blocks for his most famous installations, are now obsolete.
Bell started by targeting the local market, but eventually improved its technology and entered the long-distance market, rendering telegraphs obsolete.Sony became famous as a serial disrupter, starting in the 1950s, when its transistor radios skewered the radio standard of the day, vacuum tubes, and that technology's incumbent, RCA.
The famous Never Trumper thinks conservatism is "obsolete," but will Republicans listen to him?
Apple may be famous for products that ruthlessly strip out obsolete parts in pursuit of ease-of-use and simplicity, but that philosophy hasn't reached its legal department.
Faxed is the first history of the facsimile machine the most famous recent example of a tool made obsolete by relentless technological innovation.
But innovation in Schumpeter's famous phrase is also "creative destruction". It makes obsolete yesterday's capital equipment and capital investment.
And so the famous border crossing sign, Caltrans officials say, has become largely obsolete.
The famous "arithmetic" in the last election illustrated perfectly why FPTP is an obsolete system.
Even Clarke's famous Third Law, about advanced technology being indistinguishable from magic, is declared obsolete.
In March, he described NATO as "obsolete". In his first foreign policy speech, he proclaimed "America First," using a famous isolationist slogan last heard in the 1940s.
