#13 of 13 Most Popular Galleries of 2013: Tech Graveyards: Where Old Technology Goes to Die

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Pay phone graveyard Ever wondered where all the old pay phones went? Well, some, at least 100, ended up under the elevated training on West Side Highway at 135th Street and 12th Avenue in Manhattan. Freelance photographer Dave Bledsoe noted his find on his Flickr page of "at least 100 old, battered pay phones locked behind a chain link fence near the Park's Department building." He told Yahoo News in an email that he thought the phones looked "sad and forlorn," writing, "Our modern tech is very convenient but it tends to be impersonal.” He added, “The day of street side telephones and person to person contact makes us long for something a little more intimate than a text message.”

Dave Bledsoe/FreeVerse Photography

By Claudine Zap

For technology geeks, it's out with the old and in with the new. But every new gadget acquired means that old tech gets trashed. What happens to all those junked cellphones, computer monitors and ancient laptops? Here, some tales of technology that's gone to the graveyard.

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