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The People's Daily Online recently ran a piece about 49 words (representing institutions, practices, objects and inventions) that are now obsolete, consigned to the dustbin of Chinese linguistic history. There were supposed to be 50, but the word 'corruption' had to be removed at the last minute.
The list is divided into three posts. The first one includes "Royal Hong Kong Police Force," "poet," and "neighbor." The second one includes miandi, VCD, and Fenhuang Cola. The last one includes dageda and Jiefang shoes.
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I think they ripped this off of 新周刊's ten-year anniversary special edition. I'll count the words when I get home, but the ones you listed above sound awful familiar (I'm using this mag as my current history/language textbook).
Danwei wrote about it when it came out:
http://www.danwei.org/magazines/newsmagazines_this_week.php
In the second link, there's a rogue double-quote at the end which is wreaking havock on my clicking enjoyment. Remove it and peace will return.