Hey, this is Hannah Rosen from Invisibilia. We are going to bring you our regular season as OAS.

We're working hard on it. But in the meantime, we are trying something new.

We're going to drop these occasional bonuses in the feed.

Either stories we're working on or stories that we've come across that we love.

And our first one is this story that we heard at a live storytelling event.

It's a pop-up magazine event. And it's by writer Cord Jefferson. Here's Cord.

If the headlines have been passed a few years, it would be believed. Millennials.

Those of us born roughly between 1982 and 2004 will go down as the most murderous generation in American history.

Google the words Millennials and KILLED. And you'll find dozens of articles listing our victims.

Including J. Crew. The Focus Crew. Travel Marketing. Memorial Day. Hangout sitcoms.

Leisure. The Music Industry. The Golf Industry. The Napkin Industry.

Department stores. The 9-5 Workday. Suits. Winecorks. And the concept of the corner office.

I don't have much of an opinion on travel marketing. Which means that if I helped kill it,

it was more a case of negligent homicide than outright murder.

But there is a dying institution I was once more than glad to help us her out.

Voice mail.

You know voice mail. It's a technology so out of date that its icon is still an answering machine cassette tape.

Padden to 1983. The service was once a must-have for businesses, allowing employees on the go to access their messages from anywhere in the world.

It wasn't long before voice mail was in people's homes too.

I can remember the day my dad set up a personal inbox for everyone in my family. At last, ending the humiliation of them asking,

so, who was that? Any time they intercepted a message from a girl.

But enthusiasm for voice mail has waned over the years. Some major corporations, like Coca-Cola, don't even bother to use it anymore.

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