Funai Electric Company is the last company to manufacture VHS machines. According to  Japanese newspaper Nikkei, it will stop production of VHS machines at the end of June.

I can remember using these machines at five years old, running to the player, putting in Sleeping Beauty, and waiting for it to rewind just so I could watch it for the hundredth time. The times of having to wait a couple seconds for the tapes to play instead of just hitting a button. For me, this is the end of a more complex era more complex. Now, you can find all movies on television, DVDs or Netflix.

In ten years, when we see old television sets in museums, we will see VHS machines added to the collection. Today, we think polaroid cameras, which came out eighty years ago, as “vintage.” So will owning a VHS machine mean the same thing in the future? The little things that used to make us wait will turn into memories of the past.