20+ Nostalgic Tech Items GenX and Millennials Never Imagined Would Become Obsolete in 2025

It's 2005, you are sitting in front of your dad's PC, putting in a new CD so you can burn some of the new hit songs you heard on MTV through your satellite TV. You can't be more excited to put that CD in the player in your mom's car every day on the way to school. After that, you might pick up the landline to call your friend up, so they can bring their film camera, and you can go outside to take some random pictures at the park.

How many of the things we owned in the early 2000s would you have imagined would become obsolete only 20 years later? Back then, it felt like every new technology we were introduced was here to stay, and it seems crazy just how many of these technologies are long gone from existence. 

If you want a reminder of some nostalgic 2000s items that have absolutely no business existing in 2025, keep scrolling and read through the list below. Maybe it will remind you of the good old days, or maybe it will help you appreciate the tech we have today even more…