Obsolescence
State of being obsolete
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| March 2025 |
Phonograph cylinder
Needlejuice Records released four new wax cylinder singles: Tally Hall's 'Hidden in the Sand' and 'Mucka Blucka', Tom Lehrer's 'The Elements', and Napoleon XIV's 'They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!'.
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| 2024 |
Tawaif
Featured in television drama 'Namak Haram'
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| 2024 |
Tawaif
Tawaif narratives prominently depicted in the upcoming TV series Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar.
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| May 12 2024 |
Tawaif
Pakistan's Dawn newspaper publishes an article describing tawaifs as 'cultural idols and female intellectuals', challenging historical perceptions of their social status.
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| 2023 |
Tawaif
Appeared in television drama 'Nauroz'
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| 2023 |
Tawaif
Tawaif characters featured in the television series Jubilee.
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| May 2023 |
Phonograph cylinder
Needlejuice Records released wax cylinder singles for Lemon Demon songs 'Touch-Tone Telephone' and 'The Oldest Man On MySpace'.
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| 2022 |
Tawaif
Starred in television productions 'Badzaat' and 'Dil Awaiz'
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| 2021 |
Adobe Flash Player
Continued enterprise support for Flash Player through Harman for select platforms.
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| 2021 |
Tawaif
Featured in television dramas 'Khuda Aur Mohabbat' and 'Pehli Si Muhabbat'
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| January 12 2021 |
Adobe Flash Player
Flash Player versions newer than 32.0.0.371 refused to play Flash content and instead display a static warning message.
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| 2020 |
Adobe Flash Player
Final public update for Flash Player for standard Windows and Linux platforms.
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| 2020 |
Tawaif
Tawaif representation included in the TV series A Suitable Boy.
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| 2020 |
Tawaif
Appeared in television drama 'Raqs e Bismil'
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| 2019 |
Tawaif
Starred in television productions 'Alif' and 'Deewar-e-Shab'
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| 2019 | International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) published standard 62402:2019 Obsolescence Management, providing an official definition of obsolescence as the transition of a product from available to unavailable from the manufacturer according to its original specification. |
| November 8 2019 |
Computer
Congressional Gold Medal awarded in recognition of women who served as computers, mathematicians, and engineers at NACA and NASA between the 1930s and 1970s.
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| April 2019 |
Phonograph cylinder
The podcast Hello Internet released ten limited edition wax cylinder recordings.
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| April 9 2019 |
Adobe Shockwave
Adobe Shockwave and Shockwave Player are officially discontinued.
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| February 2019 |
Adobe Shockwave
Adobe announces the discontinuation of Adobe Shockwave and Shockwave Player.
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| 2018 |
Tawaif
Tawaif narrative explored in the television series Dastaan-E-Mohabbat Salim Anarkali.
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| 2018 |
Tawaif
Featured in television drama 'Kahan Ho Tum'
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| 2017 |
Tawaif
Appeared in television drama 'Alif Allah Aur Insaan'
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| June 2017 |
Phonograph cylinder
The Cthulhu Breakfast Club podcast released a special limited wax cylinder edition of a show.
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| 2016 |
Tawaif
Starred in television drama 'Mein Sitara'
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| 2016 |
Video formats
Introduction of Ultra HD Blu-ray physical media format and Digital H.265/MPEG-H Part 2 (HEVC) recording format, along with advanced audio technologies Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio
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| August 2016 |
Adobe Flash Player
Adobe announced it would resume offering Flash Player for Linux for other browsers, beginning with version 24.
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| 2015 |
Tawaif
Tawaif characters portrayed in two Indian television series: Lajwanti and Bhabiji Ghar Par Hain!
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| 2014 |
Tawaif
Tawaif representation featured in the Indian television series Umrao Jaan Ada.
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| 2013 |
Adobe Flash Player
Adobe reported that over 400 million of more than 1 billion connected desktops were updating to new Flash Player versions within six weeks of release.
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| 2013 |
Tawaif
Featured in television productions 'Chand Chehra' and television film 'Anjuman'
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| February 22 2012 |
Adobe Flash Player
Adobe announced it would no longer release new NPAPI Flash plugins for Linux, though Flash Player 11.2 would continue to receive security updates.
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| July 2011 |
Adobe Shockwave
A market survey reveals Shockwave Player has only 41% market penetration in mature markets, compared to Flash Player's 99%.
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| 2010 |
Phonograph cylinder
The British musical group The Men That Will Not Be Blamed for Nothing released the track 'Sewer' on a limited edition of 40 wax cylinders, with only 30 put on sale.
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| 2010 |
Tawaif
Appeared in PTV drama 'Saza Aur Jaza'
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