The rotary dial was a type of telephone technology used before push-button phones, featuring a spinning dial to make calls. It was gradually replaced by touch-tone phones starting in the 1960s.

CRT televisions use cathode-ray tube (CRT) technology, which was first demonstrated in 1897 and made commercial in 1922. CRTs create images by firing electrons from an electron gun onto a phosphor-coated screen. Since the late 2000s, CRTs have been replaced by flat-panel display technologies like LCD, plasma, and OLED.

Typewriters were a standard fixture in most offices up to the 1980s and were largely supplanted by personal computers running word processing software. They were used from the late 19th century to the mid-to-late 20th century for office work, schoolwork, novels, and letters. The first electrically operated typewriter was invented by Thomas A. Edison in 1872, and the electric typewriter as an office machine was pioneered by James Smathers in 1920.

Early arcade machines included pin-based games like skee ball and pinball, with the first pinball machines introduced in the 1930s. Arcade games evolved with technological advancements, such as the introduction of vector monitors for sharper graphics, contributing to iconic games like Asteroids and Tempest.