Time's Milestones for the Oughts-- Part 2

Quotation marks = Time comments.


DIED:


MIR SPACE STATION-- March 23, 2001-- Credit to Soviet space program.

THE CONCORDE-- Oct. 23, 2003-- Supersonic passenger jet. Well, I couldn't afford to fly on it.

THE OLDSMOBILE-- April 29, 2004-- GM halting production after 2004 line. Not your father's car.

TELEGRAMS-- Jan. 27, 2006-- "Some technologies die slow deaths. Decades after everyone stopped sending telegrams, Western Union finally discontinued the service." I never got one.

ANHEUSER BUSCH-- July 13, 2008-- "Fortunately, Bud tastes exactly the same." Hey, I'm more of a Miller fan. Didn't somebody else buy Miller?

LEHMAN BROTHERS-- Sept. 15, 2008-- Overleveraging and making risky investments "helped plunge the global financial system into chaos." And the folks who ran it ARE NOT IN JAIL!!!

PONTIAC-- I added this one. Not sure of the date, but I was always a big Pontiac fan with a '67 Tempest, '67 Firebird, '85 Firebird and two Grand Ams. But they weren't really building Excitement much at the end.

KODACHROME-- June 22, 2009-- Digital killed the Kodachrome. Now, Old Paul Simon can't sing about it anymore.

Adios and Goodbye. --Cooter