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Professions that no longer exist:

- Typist: who writes on the typewriter, after the emergence of the computer, they have been virtually replaced.

- Coachmen: it was the person responsible for leading the horses in a wagon or wagons. They were a kind of driver to the nobility.

- Telegraph: the telegraph was the professional responsible for transmitting and receiving messages using its own code, known as Morse code, named after its inventor, Samuel Morse.

- Pinsetter: its function was to collect and organize the pins knocked down after throwing a bowling ball in, and leave them right to the next player. However, in 1952, an automatic system began to be used for this purpose, and organizers of pins were no longer engaged.

- Pianist Film: At the time when the cinema was still silent, pianists were hired to do the soundtrack of the film and make the public more interested in the views of the films. The profession was popular until 1929.

- Lamplighter: the lamplighter played an important role in the first half of the 20th century: it guaranteed the street lighting. The task was not only light the lamps in the streets, but also delete them at birth in the morning.

- Human Clock: This was a common profession in England and Ireland during the Industrial Revolution, before the creation of reliable clocks. The person's work was to wake people in time so they could get to work on time. Instead of using sounds, they wore a long, lightweight timber (like bamboo) to poke people from outside their homes.

- Fotógrafo Lambe Lambe: Also known as a garden photographer, often by using a garden to the back of the photos. With your camera mounted on a tripod, the photographer was found registering families, dating couples and some solitary. Today, it is considered that this is an endangered profession, since its activity was overcome by technology.

Professions that will no longer exist:

- Corrector, car salesman, mailman, insurance agent - The Internet will eradicate middlemen by the millions.

- Printers - When magazines and newspapers become digital, there is no room for anyone working with paper printing.

- Revealing phtographs

- Manager CD stores

- Telemarketing and door to door salesmen: replaced by the Internet and television ads, this type of activity will retreat 15% by 2018, according to the data.

- Sewing: Sewing machines lost 77 000 professionals in five years in the U.S..

- Screening Postal Service: New automated processes to separate the cards and greater use of e-mail will end up making this profession unnecessary, according to the U.S. agency.

- Bus conductor: the development of more flexible and practical systems, the role of bus conductor tends to disappear. The cards have replaced cash or ticket.

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