Open your arms to a cabbage patch kid.

You really feel the music with a Sony Walkman.

In the new issue of TV Guide.

That nostalgic feeling is so powerful.

A sound or a smell can throw you right back to erasing the chalkboard in your third grade class.

Don't those clips just take you back in time.

Some might say maybe it was a simpler time.

Coming from someone who has spent their entire career talking about new and growing, exciting technology,

you might be surprised that I actually enjoy those nostalgic moments.

I love looking back at gadgets and

products that really helped us get to where we are today. We have to say goodbye to the old

and welcome the new. I'd say most of us are happy, that we didn't have to ride that horse and

buggy to work today. Thank you, Mr. Ford, for that. And yes, the unstoppable march of progress has definitely left some casualties along the way.

So many parts of our daily lives that were once so common have almost completely disappeared.

Don't believe me? Okay, let's start with this. When was the last time you set a message on your home answering machine?

Hello. No one is available to take your call. Please leave a message after the tone.

Or you search for change in your pocket so that, yes, you could use a payphone.

Speaking of, when's the last time you actually memorized somebody else's phone number?

Or do you remember using a phone book?

Take the first step.

Let your fingers do the walking through the bell system yellow pages.

For so many years, these things were as common to do as, say, getting a morning cup of coffee,

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