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Some people have noted that certain icons on computers and phones don’t hold as much meaning anymore, or the original things aren’t around anymore. Such as the floppy disk icon for saving a file, when no one uses floppy disks anymore. In that spirit, here are some other things that becoming outdated.

• I heard someone use the phrase “don’t let your mouth write a check your body can’t cash”, meaning you’d better be able to backup what you say with what you’re able to do. But only old people use checks anymore. Three of my kids have checking accounts, but really they are debit card and Venmo accounts, as none of them ever got an actual checkbook with checks to write. I’m not sure modernizing the phrase would help though, it just doesn’t sound right – “don’t let your mouth send someone cash you don’t have, through an app”.
• I asked my kids the old joke just to see what they’d say: “How do you stop a rhinoceros from charging?”
  The old answer used to be “Take away his credit card”
  The new answer “Take away his USB cord”
  Honestly, I think the new answer is just as funny as the old one.
• This one is not a saying, but is in a similar situation. No one has to remember phone numbers anymore. Back in the day, you had to dial people’s numbers every time you called them, so after a few times of that you had it memorized. But now no one does that anymore. I couldn’t even tell you my kids’ phone numbers. They can tell you mine, because their elementary school made sure they knew their address and parent’s phone number. But I was heartened to realize that the skill of memorizing phone numbers has not gone away, it just changed from phone numbers to Wifi passwords. Between grandparents’ houses and aunts’ and uncles’ houses, they end up memorizing a variety of random numbers and letters. Even our own Wifi password they have memorized just because of the number of times they’ve had to tell other people it.