23 Creative Ways To Use Obsolete Technologies

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In 2007, the last young adult who still used phone books to look up phone numbers turned 40. The rest of us have been using them as door stops, booster seats, foot ladders, murder weapons and trying to tear them in half like the dude in that video, while wondering what could possibly be written in there. We asked you to show us some other new uses we'll come up with as more and more of the stuff around our house becomes useless junk.

The winner is below, but first the runners up ...

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