I've been doing an attic cleanout for the last couple of months, as my daughter planned to come get all of her stuff. I threw out two 30 gallon trash bags of cables. None of the discarded cables were for a connection technology I'm still using. Coax (cable TV), RCA audio plugs, SVHS video, early USB, RS-232, Centronics parallel. Probably came to over $5,000 when originally purchased, and now not even useful for garroting politicians.
Software Zen: delete this;