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)

Aretino Record (1907 – 1914)

Harmony Disc Record (1907 – 1916)

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 (1930 – 1933)

Durium Junior (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)

Mohawk Midgetape (1955 – early 1960s)

Dictaphone Dictet (1957 – early 1960s)

Philips EL 3581 (1958 – early 1960s)

Garrard Magazine tape (1959 – early 1960s)

7-inch 78 rpm record (1894 – 1960s)

Voice-O-Graph (1940 – 1960s)

SoundScriber (1942 – 1960s)

Voicewriter (late 1940s – 1960s)

Tefifon (1950 – 1960s)

Leningrad stereo viewer (first type) (1950s – 1960s)

Mère Picon Cinémagic (1950s – 1960s)

Reig Verbena Organ No. 728 barrel piano roll (1950s – 1960s)

Sterolist (1950s – 1960s)

Radex Stereo Stories (early 1950s – 1960s)

Cousino Audio Vendor (1952 – 1960s)

Seeburg Background Music Library (1954 – 1960s)

Vistascreen (1955 – 1960s)

Bruguière Babycolor (1960s)

Happy Time Records (1962)

Keystone View Company stereoview (1892 – 1963)

Recordio Disc (1939 – 1963)

Grundig Stenomatic magnetic sheet (1958 – 1964)

RCA Sound Tape Cartridge (1958 – 1964)

Gala Goldentone (1960 – 1964)

Rediffusion Reditune (first type) (1959 – mid 1960s)

Orrtronic Tapette (1961 – mid 1960s)

Revere stereo tape cartridge (1962 – mid 1960s)

Mini Movi (mid 1960s)

620 film (1932 – 1966)

Minifon wire reel (1951 – 1967)

Minifon tape (1959 – 1967)

DC International (1965 – 1967)

Mighty Tiny Records (1967)

Sonaband (1950 – late 1960s)

Bruguière Stereoclic (late 1950s – late 1960s)

Hickok Cardmatic Tube Tester (late 1950s – late 1960s)

Honor Teaching Machine Roll (1963 – late 1960s)

Minoltina 8 film cartridge (1964 – late 1960s)

Sabamobil (1964 – late 1960s)

Sanyo Micro-Pack 35 (1964 – late 1960s)

Orbis slide postcard (mid 1960s – late 1960s)

Americom 8mm Home Movies (1965 – late 1960s)

Mattel-O-Phone (1965 – late 1960s)

Scotch One Five Special (1960s)

EMI Voice Letter (1960s)

Mail Call Letterpack (late 1960s)

Hip-Pocket Record (1967 – 1969)

1970s

Wire recording (1898 – 1970s)

Gramophone postcard (1903 – 1970s)

127 film (1912 – 1970s)

Mark Sense card (early 1930 – 1970s)

Ribs recordings (1950s – 1970s)

Grundig Stenorette (1954 – 1970s)

Lestrade (1954 – 1970s)

IBM carriage control tape (1959 – 1970s)

35mm magnetic film for audio production (1959 – 1970)

Ampex 2-inch helical scan video tape (1961 – 1970)

Grundig EN3 / DeJUR Versatile III (1964 – 1970s)

Flashy Flickers (1965 – 1970s)

Technicolor Sound Movie Cartridge (1968 – 1970s)

Gioca Videomatic (1970s)

Kalavox sound slide (1970s)

Lamy Super 8 Automatic (1970s)

Mupi Cinevisor (1970s)

Mupi Duetto (1970s)

16⅔ rpm LP (Long Play) 12 inch record (early 1950 – early 1970s)

Red Raven Movie Records (1956 – early 1970s)

Stenocord (1957 – early 1970s)

Telefunken magnetic disc (1959 – early 1970s)

BASF Tape Letter (early 1960s – early 1970s)

Technicolor Magi-Cartridge (early 1960s – early 1970s)

Echo-matic II (1962 – early 1970s)

Philips EL 3583 (1963 – early 1970s)

Grundig Stenorette 200/201 magnetic sheet (1964 – early 1970s)

Sony EV 1-inch open reel video tape (1964 – early 1970s)

Grundig Stenorette 100 / 101 / DeJUR Execumatic (mid 1960s – early 1970s)

Olivetti Programma magnetic card (1965 – early 1970s)

Friden Computyper punched tape cartridge (1967 – early 1970s)

Shibaden ½-inch open reel video tape (1968 – early 1970s)

Grundig EN7 / DeJUR Mini-Memo (1968 – early 1970s)

Sound-A-Round Talking Puzzle (1969 – early 1970s)

4-track (Stereo-Pak) (1962 – 1970)

PlayTape (1966 – 1970)

Agfa Rapid (1964 – 1971)

Bolex Multimatic (1969 – 1972)

Cartrivision (1972 – 1973)

Emidisc (1946 – mid 1970s)

AGA Agavox (1955 – mid 1970s)

Memocord (1965 – mid 1970s)

Carnival Record Player (mid 1960 – mid 1970s)

Tri-Data CartriFile (1968 – mid 1970s)

Quadraphonic open reel tape (Q4) (1969 – mid 1970s)

Trimicron LP (early 1970s – mid 1970s)

Mattel Talking Pictures (1972 – mid 1970s)

Screen-a-Show (1972 – mid 1970s)

Little LP (1961 – 1975)

Magnabelt (1961 – 1975)

Electronic Video Recording (EVR) (1969 – 1975)

EV Stereo-4 (1970 – 1975)

Magnavox Odyssey (1972 – 1975)

Librophon (1975)

Audograph (1946 – 1976)

1-inch Type A video tape (1965 – 1976)

Dynaquad (1970 – 1976)

Optigan Program Disc (1971 – 1976)

Quadraphonic 7-inch single (1971 – 1976)

Video Cassette Recording (VCR) (1972 – 1977)

VX (1975 – 1977)

Quadraphonic 8-Track (Q8) (1970 – 1978)

Quadraphonic Sound (QS) (1971 – 1978)

Television Electronic Disc (TeD) (1975 – 1978)

Coleco Telstar Arcade (1977 – 1978)

Movin Pictures See & Hear Pack (1977 – 1978)

Matrix H (1977 – 1978)

RCA Studio II (1977 – 1978)

CD-4 (Compatible Discrete 4) / Quadradisc (1972 – 1979)

Polaroid Polavision (1977 – 1979)

Video Cassette Recording Long-Play (VCR-LP) (1977 – 1979)

Super Video Recording (SVR) (1978 – 1979)

Assmann Astromag plate (1948 – late 1970s)

Magnetic-core memory (1953 – late 1970s)

Remington / Dictaphone Ultravox (1954 – late 1970s)

Ricoh Synchrofax / 3M Sound Page (1959 – late 1970s)

Fairchild MoviePak (1963 – late 1970s)

IBM MT/ST (1964 – late 1970s)

Akai ¼-inch open reel video tape (1969 – late 1970s)

3M Sound-on-Slide (1969 – late 1970s)

96-column punched card (1969 – late 1970s)

Kodak Supermatic cassette (1969 – late-1970s)

Dynaflex (1971 – late 1970s)

EIAJ-2 (1972 – late 1970s)

V-Cord (1972 – late 1970s)

Hacmun MC 40 (late 1970s)

1980s

Wheatstone tape (1857 – 1980s)

Dictabelt (1947 – 1980)

Elcaset (1976 – 1980)

Punched tape (1846 – 1980s)

Punched card (1890 – 1980s)

Electrical Transcription Disc (late 1920s – 1980s)

McBee Keysort card (1932 – 1980s)

Cardboard record (1940s – 1980s)

10-inch LP (1948 – 1980s)

¼-inch open reel tape (1949 – 1980s)

Filmstrip (1940s – 1980s)

SoundScriber tape (1950s – 1980s)

Ditchburn Symphonaire (early 1960s – 1980s)

Rediffusion Reditune (second type) (1964 – 1980s)

1-inch Type B video tape (1975 – 1980s)

1+1 music cassette (early 1980s)

5-inch picture disc single (1980s)

Philips LFH0006 mini cassette (1980s)

Wang laser printer font cartridge (1980s)

DECtape (1964 – 1980s)

Show’N Tell (1964 – 1980s)

Tape-slide set (1960s – 1980s)

Tomy Bring-Along-A-Song cassette player (1982 – 1980s)

Quadruplex (2-inch Quad) (1956 – early 1980s)

Super slides (1957 – early 1980s)

Magnetic ledger card (late 1950s – early 1980s)

Give a Show (1959 – early 1980s)

Telephone auto dialler card (1962 – early 1980s)

Audiscan (late 1960s – early 1980s)

La Belle Commpak (late 1960s – early 1980s)

EIAJ-1 ½-inch open reel video tape (1969 – early 1980s)

RCA TCR-100 (1969 – early 1980s)

Zettler tape cartridge (1970 – early 1980s)

IGC Telemax (1970s – early 1980s)

Compact Cassette Type III (Ferro-chrome) (mid 1970s – early 1980s)

8-inch floppy disk (1971 – early 1980s)

Polaroid SX-70 film (1972 – early 1980s)

Tomy Tuneyville Choo Choo (1975 – early 1980s)

Akai VK (1977 – early 1980s)

General Instrument PC-50x cartridge (1977 – early 1980s)

Olivetti minidisc (1977 – early 1980s)

DECtape II (1978 – early 1980s)

Voltmace / Videomaster Database Games-Computer (1978 – early 1980s)

Prinztronic Tournament VC6000 (1979 – early 1980s)

Rowtron / Teleng T.C.S (1979 – early 1980s)

Milton Bradley Omni (1980 – early 1980s)

MCD cassette (early 1980s)

LEO III tape (1962 – 1981)

Talking View-Master (1970 – 1981)

IBM 6:5 (1975 – 1981)

Mego 2-XL (1978 – 1981)

Acetronic MPU-1000 (1979 – 1981)

Milton Bradley Microvision (1979 – 1981)

Playable record sleeve (1981)

SQ Quadraphonic (1971 – 1982)

dbx disc (1979 – 1982)

SFX cassette magazine (1981 – 1982)

Texas Instruments Solid State Software module (1977 – 1983)

Texas Instruments TI-59 magnetic card (1977 – 1983)

Interton VC 4000 (1978 – 1983)

Texas Instruments TI-99/4 / TI-99/4A (1979 – 1983)

CBS One Sided Single (1982 – 1983)

Sinclair ZX Spectrum ROM cartridge (1983)

Fairchild Channel F / Channel F System II (1976 – 1984)

Bally Astrocade (1977 – 1984)

Philips Videopac / Magnavox Odyssey² (1978 – 1984)

Epoch Cassette Vision (1981 – 1984)

House Martin projector (1981 – 1984)

Dragon 32 (1982 – 1984)

Emerson Arcadia 2001 (1982 – 1984)

ColecoVision (1982 – 1984)

Atari 5200 SuperSystem (1982 – 1984)

Apple FileWare / Twiggy disk (1983 – 1984)

Casio PV-1000 (1983 – 1984)

GCE / Milton Bradley Vectrex (1983 – 1984)

5.25-inch ‘flippy’ disk (1976 – mid 1980s)

Floppy ROM (1977 – mid 1980s)

Compact Video Cassette (CVC) (1980 – mid 1980s)

Philips digital mini-cassette (1980 – mid 1980s)

Metal tape Microcassette (1981 – mid-1980s)

HP 82176A Mini Data Cassette (1982 – mid 1980s)

Yamaha Playcard (1982 – mid 1980s)

3.25-inch floppy disk (1983 – mid 1980s)

Mattel Aquarius (1983 – mid 1980s)

BBC Bridge Companion (1985 – mid 1980s)

Mr Dengon micro cassette (1985 – mid 1980s)

Brother Micro Disc (mid 1980s)

Bandai micro cartridge (mid 1980s)

InterDyne MicroReel (mid-1980s)

2.6-inch micro-disk (mid 1980s)

828 film (1935 – 1985)

Commodore VIC-20 (1981 – 1985)

Coleco Adam High Speed Digital Data Pack (1983 – 1985)

Acorn Electron (1983 – 1985)

Sega SG-1000 / SC-3000 (1983 – 1985)

Holographic 7-inch single (1984 – 1985)

IBM PCjr (1984 – 1985)

Epoch Super Lady Cassette Vision (1985)

Seeburg Background Music System (1959 – 1986)

IBM 3850 Mass Storage System (1974 – 1986)

Kodak instant film (1976 – 1986)

Robotron 1370 program card (1977 – 1986)

Exatron String Floppy (1978 – 1986)

RCA CED VideoDisc (1981 – 1986)

RCA CED VideoDisc interactive (1983 – 1986)

Video High Density (VHD) (1983 – 1986)

Bee Card (1985 – 1986)

Compact LaserDisc (1986)

DC100 (1975 – 1987)

Iomega Bernoulli disk 8-inch (1982 – 1987)

ZX Microdrive (1983 – 1987)

Sega My Card (1985 – 1987)

Sega Mark III (1985 – 1987)

126 film (1963 – 1988)

8-Track (Stereo 8) (1964 – 1988)

Video 2000 / Video Compact Cassette (1979 – 1988)

Disc film (1982 – 1988)

SuperBeta (1985 – 1988)

Double-duration Compact Disc (1987 – 1988)

Worlds of Wonder Action Max Game Video (1987 – 1988)

Canon LBP font cartridge (1984 – 1989)

Sega Card (1987 – 1989)

Baseball Talk Soundcard (1989)

Stereo Realist (1947 – late 1980s)

IVC 800 series 1-inch open reel video tape (1967 – late 1980s)

Compact Cassette for data (1975 – late 1980s)

Olympia Micro-Disk (1977 – late 1980s)

8-inch hard disk drive (1979 – late 1980s)

Reel-to-reel cassette (early 1980s – late 1980s)

Commodore 16 / Plus/4 (1984 – late 1980s)

Epoch Super Cassette Vision (1984 – late 1980s)

Talking View-Master Electronic 3-D Viewer (1984 – late 1980s)

Wafadrive (1984 – late 1980s)

ISI 525 WC Optical Storage System (1985 – late 1980s)

Picocassette (1985 – late 1980s)

Mitsumi Quick Disk (1985 – late 1980s)

LV-ROM (1986 – late 1980s)

1990s

Jacquard Loom card (1801 – 1990s)

Photographic plate (1851 – 1990s)

3M Cantata 700 (1965 – 1990s)

Endless loop Compact Cassette (1969 – 1990s)

IBM 5440 (1969 – 1990s)

Bulk film magazine (1970s – 1990s)

Allen Organ Tone Card (1971 – 1990s)

Music Box Record Player (1971 – 1990s)

U-matic (1971 – 1990s)

110 film (1972 – 1990s)

Audiopak (1972 – 1990s)

U-matic S (1974 – 1990s)

Control Data Corporation 9877 (1974 – 1990s)

Digital Equipment Corporation RK07 (1976 – 1990s)

Takachiho Cartridge Tape (1980s – 1990s)

3.5-inch microfloppy disk (Double Density) (1982 – 1990s)

Betacam (1982 – 1990s)

Video single (1983 – 1990s)

Video Floppy (1986 – 1990s)

D1 (1987 – 1990s)

Hammond organ ROM cards (1989 – 1990s)

Tomy Bring-Along-A-Song CD Player (1992 – 1990s)

Philips Background Music Services cartridge (1970s – early 1990s)

5.25-inch floppy disk (1976 – early 1990s)

View-Master Show Beam (1980 – early 1990s)

3-inch Compact Floppy disk (1982 – early 1990s)

Quadraphonic Compact Disc (1982 – early 1990s)

Casio ROM Pack (1983 – early 1990s)

Akai MK (1984 – early 1990s)

Hewlett-Packard LaserJet font cartridge (1984 – early 1990s)

60-pin memory card (mid-1980s – early 1990s)

MII (1986 – early 1990s)

2.8-inch DataDisk (1986 – early 1990s)

Nintendo Famicom Disk System (1986 – early 1990s)

Sharp Pocket Disk (1986 – early 1990s)

Sony PD-1 (1987 – early 1990s)

Extended Definition Beta (1988 – early 1990s)

HP 9145A tape cartridge (1988 – early 1990s)

Mini CD single (1988 – early 1990s)

Texas Instruments Voyager (1988 – early 1990s)

LT-1 (1989 – early 1990s)

Grandstand Game Player (1991 – early 1990s)

Barco-EMT digital audio storage (BEDAS) cart (early 1990s)

HP calculator magnetic card (1974 – 1990)

Mattel IntelliVision / IntelliVision II (1979 – 1990)

Singer SewWare (1985 – 1990)

Echoplex (1961 – 1991)

Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer (1980 – 1991)

Pocket Rockers (1988 – 1991)

Roland Music Style Card (1989 – 1991)

Amstrad GX4000 (1990 – 1991)

Commodore 64 Games System (1990 – 1991)

Video Single Disc (1990 – 1991)

Polaroid Type 47 (1955 – 1992)

Atari VCS / 2600 (1977 – 1992)

Atari 400 / 800 / XL / XE (1979 – 1992)

Psion Organiser Datapak (1984 – 1992)

Atari 7800 ProSystem (1986 – 1992)

CD Video (1988 – 1992)

CD Video 8-inch disc (1988 – 1992)

CD Video 12-inch disc (1988 – 1992)

Action Replay (1992)

CompacTape (1984 – 1993)

Atari Portfolio (1989 – 1993)

Commodore CDTV (1991 – 1993)

Floptical (1991 – 1993)

Digital Compact Cassette (DCC) single (1993)

Commodore 64 (1982 – 1994)

Iomega Bernoulli disk 5.25-inch (1987 – 1994)

NEC PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16 HuCard (1987 – 1994)

NEC PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16 CD-ROM² (1988 – 1994)

HP Kittyhawk 1.3-inch hard disk drive (1992 – 1994)

Tandy / Memorex VIS CD-ROM (1992 – 1994)

CD-i Digital Video (1993 – 1994)

Commodore Amiga CD32 (1993 – 1994)

1-inch Type C video tape (1976 – mid 1990s)

DASH (Digital Audio Stationary Head) (1982 – mid-1990s)

CD-ROM caddy (1985 – mid 1990s)

Sony Writable Disk (mid 1980s – mid 1990s)

Yamaha M20P (1990 – mid 1990s)

3.5-inch microfloppy (Extended Density) (1991 – mid 1990s)

MSX (1983 – 1995)

Nintendo Entertainment System (1985 -1995)

Atari Lynx (1989 – 1995)

Bit Corporation Gamate (1990 – 1995)

Sega 32X (1994 – 1995)

Optical phonecard (1981 – 1996)

Sega Master System (1986 – 1996)

Holographic Compact Disc (1991 – 1996)

Sega Mega-CD (1991 – 1996)

Digital Compact Cassette (1992 – 1996)

3DO Interactive Multiplayer (1993 – 1996)

Pioneer LaserActive LD-ROM (1993 – 1996)

Atari Jaguar (1993 – 1996)

Atari Jaguar CD (1995 – 1996)

Nintendo Virtual Boy (1995 – 1996)

SyQuest EZ135 (1995 – 1996)

Scalable Linear Recording (SLR) (¼-inch) (1986 – 1997)

Minolta Creative Expansion Card (1988 – 1997)

Sega Game Gear (1991 – 1997)

Casio Loopy (1995 – 1997)

LD Single (1987 – 1998)

SyQuest 5.25-inch disk (44/88/200MB) (1988 – 1998)

Sega Mega Drive / Genesis (1988 – 1998)

CD-i (Compact Disc Interactive) (1991 – 1998)

CD-i Ready (1991 – 1998)

SyQuest 3.5-inch disk (105/270MB) (1993 – 1998)

Sega Saturn CD-ROM (1994 – 1998)

Sega Saturn Backup Memory (1994 – 1998)

Phase-change Dual (PD) disk (1995 – 1998)

SyQuest EzFlyer (1996 – 1998)

Syquest SyJet (1996 – 1998)

SyQuest SparQ (1997 – 1998)

Talking View-Master 3-D (1997 – 1998)

Sharp IC Card (1987 – 1999)

Nintendo Game Boy (1989 – 1999)

Psion Series 3 Solid State Disk (1991 – 1999)

Iomega Ditto (1992 – 1999)

Super Nintendo Entertainment System (1992 – 1999)

SNK Neo Geo CD / CDZ (1994 – 1999)

Nomai MCD 540 (1995 – 1999)

Mammoth (1996 – 1999)

DIVX (Digital Video Express) (1998 – 1999)

Sony Ruvi (1998 – 1999)

Fidelipac (1959 – late 1990s)

Aristocart (early 1970s – late 1990s)

U-matic digital audio (1978 – late 1990s)

Compact Cassette Type IV (Metal) (1979 – late 1990s)

QIC Minicartridge (late 1970s – late 1990s)

LaserDisc with teletext (1981 – late 1990s)

Scotchcart / Scotchcart II (mid 1980s – late 1990s)

U-matic SP (1986 – late 1990s)

U-matic S SP (1986 – late 1990s)

8mm / Data8 (1987 – late 1990s)

Optical Disk Cartridge (1987 – late 1990s)

Sony CRVdisc (late 1980s – late 1990s)

Streamer cassette (D/CAS) (late 1980s – late 1990s)

Sony NT (1992 – late 1990s)

W-VHS (1994 – late 1990s)

Miniature Card (1995 – late 1990s)

Yamaha Music Cartridge (1995 – late 1990s)

MovieCD (1997 – late 1990s)

2000s

Tiger Electronics Game.com (1997 – 2000)

16 mm microfilm (1925 – 2000s)

Aperture card (1943 – 2000s)

Open reel instrumentation and data logging tape (1949 – 2000s)

Slide carousel (1950s – 2000s)

Microfiche (1961 – 2000s)

Knitting machine punched card (late 1960s – 2000s)

Compact Cassette Type II (Chrome / High Bias) (1970 – 2000s)

QIC Data Cartridge (1972 – 2000s)

Video8 (1985 – 2000s)

5.25-inch magneto-optical disc (1985 – 2000s)

D2 (1988 – 2000s)

D1D (early 1990s – 2000s)

Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) full-size (1991 – 2000s)

3.5-inch magneto-optical disc (1991 – 2000s)

Video CD (1993 – 2000s)

QIC-Wide (1994 – 2000s)

Cigarette card (1875 – early 2000s)

Cassette single (Cassingle) (1980 – early 2000s)

S-VHS (1987 – early 2000s)

S-VHS-C (1987 – early 2000s)

Sony Data Discman (1990 – early 2000s)

D3 (1991 – early 2000s)

Sony MD Data (1994 – early 2000s)

Digital-S / D-9 (1995 – early 2000s)

SmartMedia (1995 – early 2000s)

QIC-EXtra (QIC EX) (1996 – early 2000s)

DTS 5.1 Music Disc (1997 – early 2000s)

SuperDisk (1997 – early 2000s)

Husqvarna Viking d-Card (late 1990s – early 2000s)

HiFD (High capacity Floppy Disk) (1998 – early 2000s)

Iomega Clik! / PocketZip (1999 – early 2000s)

Sony MD Data2 / MD View (1999 – early 2000s)

PokéROM (2000 – early 2000s)

5.25-inch hard disk drive (1980 – 2000)

Bandai WonderSwan (1999 – 2000)

Nintendo 64DD (Dynamic Drive) (1999 – 2000)

8⅓ rpm flexi-discs (early 1970s – 2001)

LaserDisc (1978 – 2001)

LaserKaraoke (1982 – 2001)

LaserDisc 8-inch disc (1983 – 2001)

Betacam SP (1986 – 2001)

QSound Compact Disc (1991 – 2001)

Sega Dreamcast Visual Memory Unit (VMU) (1998 – 2001)

SNK Neo Geo Pocket / Pocket Colour (1998 – 2001)

Mammoth-2 (1999 – 2001)

Yaboom Box (1999 – 2001)

Yaboom MCD Musical Key Chain (1999 – 2001)

Sony Memory Stick / Floppy Disk Adaptor (2000 – 2001)

Betamax (1975 – 2002)

Laser Juke (1986 – 2002)

Datasonix Pereos (1994 – 2002)

IBM Magstar MP 3570 (1996 – 2002)

Iomega Jaz (1996 – 2002)

Caleb UHD144 / it drive (1998 – 2002)

Handspring Springboard expansion module (1999 – 2002)

HitClips (1999 – 2002)

Sanyo iD Photo (2000 – 2002)

Pokémon mini (2002)

Minox film slides (late 1940s – 2003)

9-track tape (1964 – 2003)

Nintendo Famicom (1983 – 2003)

Nintendo Super Famicom / Super Nintendo Entertainment System (1990 – 2003)

ADAT (Alesis Digital Audio Tape) (1992 – 2003)

Nintendo 64 (1996 – 2003)

Nintendo 64 Controller Pak (1996 – 2003)

Serial Flash Module (1996 – 2003)

Nintendo Game Boy dual-mode cartridge (1998 – 2003)

Nintendo Game Boy Color (1998 – 2003)

Advanced Digital Recording (ADR) (1999 – 2003)

Bandai WonderSwan Color / SwanCrystal (2000 – 2003)

Iomega Zip U250 (2001 – 2003)

IBM 3480 (1984 – 2004)

SNK Neo Geo AES (1990 – 2004)

SNK Neo Geo AES memory card (1990 – 2004)

SNK Neo Geo MVS (1990 – 2004)

IBM 3490E (1991 – 2004)

Photo CD (1992 – 2004)

Digital Tape Format (DTF) (1994 – 2004)

Iomega Zip (1995 – 2004)

Advanced Photo System (APS) (1996 – 2004)

Castlewood Orb (1998 – 2004)

Double Density Compact Disc (2001 – 2004)

Iomega Peerless (2001 – 2004)

D-Theater (2002 – 2004)

HitClips Disc (2003 – 2004)

VideoNow (2003 – 2004)

AniMini DVD (2004)

Plasmon LaserDrive (1987 – mid 2000s)

Denon CD Cart (1989 – mid 2000s)

PCMCIA / PC Card (1990 – mid 2000s)

Travan (1995 – mid 2000s)

Memory Stick (1998 – mid 2000s)

VJ Starz Video Karaoke Machine (2002 – mid 2000s)

DataPlay (2002 – mid 2000s)

Barbie Karaoke Cam Music Cartridge (2003 – mid 2000s)

Digital Audio Tape (DAT) (1987 – 2005)

Sega Pico (1993 – 2005)

Microsoft Xbox (2001 – 2005)

Mattel Juice Box (2004 – 2005)

Tapwave Zodiac (2004 – 2005)

Nagra SN (1970 – 2006)

Sony PlayStation CD-ROM (1994 – 2006)

Sony PlayStation Memory Card (1994 – 2006)

IBM Magstar 3590 (1995 – 2006)

Polaroid i-Zone (1999 – 2006)

Copy-protected Compact Disc (2000 – 2006)

MicroMV (2001 – 2006)

Iomega Zip 250 (2001 – 2006)

Iomega Zip 750 (2002 – 2006)

Nokia N-Gage card (2003 – 2006)

miniDVD (2004 – 2006)

VideoNow Color (2004 – 2006)

Gizmondo card (2005 – 2006)

gruvi (2006)

Hi8 (1989 – 2007)

Digital Data Storage (DDS) (1989 – 2007)

9-inch single (1990 – 2007)

Betacam SX (1996 – 2007)

D-VHS (1998 – 2007)

Sega Dreamcast GD-ROM (1998 – 2007)

Digital 8 (1999 – 2007)

Nintendo Game Boy Advance (2001 – 2007)

Nintendo GameCube (2001 – 2007)

Nintendo GameCube memory card (2001 – 2007)

Superbit (2001 – 2007)

0.85-inch hard disk drive (2004 – 2007)

Nintendo Game Boy Advance Video (2004 – 2007)

Sony Professional Disc for DATA (2004 – 2007)

VTech V.Flash (2006 – 2007)

Piano roll (1883 – 2008)

MultiMediaCard (1997 – 2008)

LeapPad (1999 – 2008)

miniSD (2003 – 2008)

RS-MMC (Reduced Size MultiMedia Card) / MMCmobile (2004 – 2008)

MMCmicro (2005 – 2008)

HD DVD (2006 – 2008)

HD DVD-R (2006 – 2008)

HD DVD/DVD Combo Format (2006 – 2008)

miniSDHC (2006 – 2008)

HD DVD-RW (2007 – 2008)

HD VMD (2007 – 2008)

StorageTek 9840 (1998 – 2009)

StorageTek 9940 (2000 – 2009)

CD Cardz (2001 – 2009)

e-kara Karaoke Cartridge (2001 – 2009)

DVDplus (2002 – 2009)

Flexplay (2003 – 2009)

DualDisc (2005 – 2009)

Game Wave Family Entertainment System (2005 – 2009)

Memory Stick Micro (M2) (2006 – 2009)

CD-ROM postage stamps (2008 – 2009)

XOΔE (CODE) (2008 – 2009)

Disney Mix Clip (2005 – 2010)

Audiobooks on cassette (1969 – late 2000s)

VHS (Video Home System) (1976 – late 2000s)

Compact VHS (VHS-C) (1982 – late 2000s)

3.5-inch microfloppy disk (High Density) (1987 – late 2000s)

CD-BGM (1989 – late 2000s)

D5 /D5 HD (1994 – late 2000s)

MiniDV (1995 – late 2000s)

Compact Disc Digital Audio ReWritable (CD-RW Audio) (1997 – late 2000s)

VXA (1999 – late 2000s)

Mini DVD-RAM (2000 – late 2000s)

Orbitor 3D Viewer (early 2000s – late 2000s)

microSD card for audio (2007 – late 2000s)

2010s

Navionics Nav-Chart (1996 – early 2010s)

Compact Disc Digital Audio Recordable (CD-R Audio) (1997 – 2010s)

DVCPRO (1995 – early 2010s)

DVCPRO50 (1997 – early 2010s)

Microdrive (1999 – early 2010s)

DVCPRO HD (2000 – early 2010s)

ExpressCard (2003 – early 2010s)

SanDisk Ultra II SD Plus USB (2005 – early 2010s)

Blu-ray/DVD combo disc (2009 – early 2010s)

Advanced Intelligent Tape (AIT) (1996 – 2010)

DVD single (1999 – 2010)

Memory Stick Duo (2002 – 2010)

xD-Picture Card (2002 – 2010)

Super Advanced Intelligent Tape (SAIT) (2003 – 2010)

Iomega REV (2004 – 2010)

Microsoft Xbox 360 Hard Drive (2005 – 2010)

Microsoft Xbox 360 Memory Unit (2005 – 2010)

HDV (2003 -2011)

Sony Hi-MD (2004 – 2011)

Universal Media Disk (2004 – 2011)

Opendisc (2005 – 2011)

Imation Odyssey (2007 – 2011)

McDonald’s Happy Meal music player (2011)

Single-8 (1965 – 2012)

PianoSoft 3.5-inch floppy disk (1985 – 2012)

DTRS (Digital Tape Recording System) (1993 – 2012)

Leapster (2003 – 2012)

MVI (2007 – 2012)

slotMusic (2008 – 2012)

MiniDisc (1992 – 2013)

Sony PlayStation 2 CD-ROM (2000 – 2013)

Sony PlayStation 2 DVD (2000 – 2013)

Sony PlayStation 2 Memory Card (2000 – 2013)

LightScribe (2004 – 2013)

Nintendo Wii Optical Disc (2006 – 2013)

1.8-inch hard disk drive (1991 – 2014)

Sony PlayStation Portable UMD (2004 – 2014)

Nintendo DS / DS Lite / DSi (2004 – 2014)

Advanced Disc for Archive (2009 – 2014)

Catalogue card (1780s – 2015)

Scalable Linear Recording (SLR) (8 mm) (1997 – 2015)

Secure Digital (SD) (1999 – 2015)

SanDisk Memory Vault (2011 – 2015)

Digital Betacam (1993 – 2016)

HDCAM (1997 – 2016)

MPEG IMX (2001 – 2016)

HDCAM SR (2003 – 2016)

Microsoft Xbox 360 DVD (2005 – 2016)

High Fidelity Pure Audio (2013 – 2016)

Sony PlayStation 3 Blu-ray (2006 – 2017)

Eye-Fi (2007 – 2017)

Nintendo Wii U Optical Disc (2012 – 2017)

SanDisk Connect Wireless Media Drive (2013 – 2017)

Digital Linear Tape (DLT) (1993 – 2018)

Super DLT (2001 – 2018)

Tooth Tunes (2007 – 2018)

Playbutton (2011 – 2018)

MQS (Mastering Quality Sound) (2013 – 2018)

Polaroid Spectra / Image / 1200 film (1986 – 2008, 2010 – 2019)

Sony PlayStation Vita game card (2011 – 2019)

Sony PlayStation Vita memory card (2011 – 2019)

View-Master Virtual Reality Experience Pack (2015 – 2019)

2020s

Nintendo 3DS (2011 – 2020)

MemoriesCable (2015 – 2020)

½-inch lathe-cut record (2021)

Still current or date of obsolescence unknown

Zoetrope (1833 – )

Music box disc (1886 – )

Microfilm (1890s – )

35mm film (1892 – )

Book music (1892 – )

Multiple groove phonograph record (1898 – )

120 film (1901 – )

Centre-start phonograph record (1905 – )

Macrame lace embroidery punched roll (1906 – )

Picture discs (1920s – )

Acetate / lacquer disc (late 1920s – )

16mm film (1923 – )

Professional open reel tape (NAB reel) (1930s – )

135 film (1934 – )

135 film slides (late 1930s – )

Audiodisc (1938 – )

View-Master (1939 – )

12-inch LP (1948 – )

Single-use film camera (1948 – )

White label vinyl record (1948 – )

Coloured vinyl record (1949 – )

7-inch single (1949 – )

7-inch EP (1952 – )

Stereophonic LP (Long Play) 12 inch record (1957 – )

Vinyl flexi-disc (1962 – )

Compact Cassette (1963 – )

Magnetic stripe card (1964 – )

Music cassette (Musicassette) (1965 -)

Super 8 (1965 – )

Mini-Cassette (1967 -)

Microcassette (1969 -)

IMAX 15/70 film (1970 – )

12-inch 45 rpm album (1970s – )

Steno-Cassette (1971 – )

Movie Viewer (1971 – 1985, 2014 -)

10-inch single (1970s – )

12-inch single (1973 – )

Luminous vinyl record (1978 – )

Laser-etched vinyl (1980 – )

Video album (1980 – )

Polaroid 600 film (1981 – 2008, 2010 – )

Compact Disc stamper (1982 – )

Compact Disc (1982 – )

3.5-inch hard disk drive (1983 – )

CD-ROM (1985 – )

CD single (1985 – )

CD+G (CD+Graphics) (1985 – )

Compact Disc autochanger magazine (1986 – )

2.5-inch hard disk drive (1988 – )

Cassette tape adapter (1988 – )

Habimat Xpac (1988 – )

Shaped 7-inch single (1980s -)

Mini CD-ROM (1990 – )

Minimax Compact Disc (1990s – )

Television viewing cards (1990s – )

Compact Disc-Recordable (CD-R) (1992 – )

DTS disc (1993 – )

CompactFlash (Type I) (1994 – )

Emit backup card (1994 -)

Enhanced CD (1994 – )

C-Map C-Card (1995 – )

High Definition Compatible Digital (HDCD) (1995 – )

XRCD (1995 – )

DVD-Video (1996 – )

Gold CD-R (1996 – )

Shaped Compact Disc (1996 – )

Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) mini-size (1996 – )

DVCAM (1996 – )

Compact Disc-ReWritable (CD-RW) (1997 – )

Mini CD-R  (late 1990s – )

Mini CD-RW  (late 1990s – )

DVD-ROM (1997 – )

DVD-R (1997 – )

Mini DVD-R (1997 – )

2.5-inch solid-state drive (SSD) (1998 – )

DVD-RAM (1998 – )

Business card CD-ROM (1998 – )

Fujifilm Instax Mini (1998 – )

Interactive DVD (1998 – )

DVD-10 / double-sided DVD (1998 – )

Picture CD (1998 – )

VinylVideo (1998 – 2003, 2018 – )

Super Audio CD (SACD) (1999 – )

DVD-RW (1999 – )

Mini DVD-RW (1999 – )

DVD-Audio (2000 -)

Linear Tape-Open (LTO) (2000 – )

USB flash drive (2000 – )

DVD+RW (2001 – )

Mini DVD+RW (2001 – )

Timecode vinyl (2001 – )

DVD+R (2002 – )

Audavi HardTape / MediaPac (2003 – )

Cricut cartridge (2003 – )

Professional Disc (2003 – )

Ultra Density Optical (UDO) (2003 – )

Encrypted USB flash drive (2004 – )

Fujifilm PhotoDisc CD-R (2004 – )

RDX QuikStor (2004 – )

8ban / Triple Inchophone records (2004 – 2006, 2019 – )

microSD (2005 – )

Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) (2006 – )

StorageTek T10000 / T10000 T2 (2006 – )

Quantum GoVault (2006 – )

Blu-ray Disc (2006 – )

Blu-ray Disc Recordable (BD-R) (2006 – )

Blu-ray Recordable Erasable (BD-RE) (2006 – )

USB flash drive (for music) (2006 – )

microSDHC (2007 – )

Super High Material CD (2007 – )

VinylDisc (2007 – )

DAT 160 / 320 (2007 – )

Blu-spec CD (2008 – )

SxS (2008 – )

Secure Digital eXtended Capacity (SDXC) (2009 – )

microSDXC (2009 – )

Blu-ray 3D (2010 – )

Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) micro-size (2010 – )

M DISC (2011 – )

Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) nano-size (2012 – )

Toshiba FlashAir (2012 – )

Microsoft Xbox One Blu-ray (2013 – )

Sony Optical Disc Archive (2013 – )

Sony PlayStation 4 Blu-ray (2013 – )

UHQCD (Ultimate High Quality Compact Disc) (2015 – )

4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc (2016 – )

1-inch lathe-cut record (2017 – )

MQA Compact Disc (2017 – )

Nintendo Switch Game Card (2017 – )

Teeny-Tiny Turntable (2017 – )

Hi-Res CD (2018 – )

Yoto card (2018 – )

Blaze Entertainment Evercade (2020 – )

Gakken Toy Record Maker (2020 – )

Microsoft Xbox Series X Ultra HD Blu-ray (2020 – )

Sony PlayStation 5 Ultra HD Blu-ray (2020 – )

½-inch lathe-cut record (2021)