Extinct: Rolodex
A rolodex was a specific form of contact organization that involved saving business cards and organizing them into alphabetical order so that you could keep in touch with people you worked with, met on the road, or were otherwise forced to interact with. In the days before digital storage, these devices provided a relatively quick and easy way to look up a person’s contact information. Many employees, without listicles and online quizzes of which Disney princess they would be to kill time, would spend hours creating their own Dewey Decimal System for their rolodex that only they could decipher.
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