I never used a travel agent.
I used a dot matrix printer up until the mid 1990s - when laser printers started taking over. I remember the boxes of green and white shaded paper with the perforated edges.
I had a huge collection of floppy disks. Back in the early days of having a personal computer, I would reserve Sunday nights to laboriously backing up my 80MB hard drive. Took about 50-60 of those floppy disks. Never once did I have to restore and I'm not sure I'd know what to do if I had to. But backing up was important so I did it.
I had a huge collection of vinyl records at one time. I liked the artwork and the liner notes but typically my most used records would get all scratched up and would skip frequently.
I liked the cassette format and used to tape off the radio. I have boxes of cassette tapes in my basement that I will convert to digital MP3 - someday. But I have some historical stuff in there. Such as the week after John Lennon was assassinated. I spent most of that week taping the Beatles tributes that were on the radio during that time. Sure that's worth something to somebody.
I always hated fax machines. I only scan to email now.
Haven't written a check in years.
I am as ancient as days...an old fart. I have used a travel agent a couple of times for some rather extraordinary travel...Egypt, Copper Canyon in Mexico, Spain...but I have travelled the world without using travel agents. I lived in Northern Ireland three years. I have been to the Far East. I have nearly circumnavigated the globe.
My wife worked for a travel agent for a time and we got Fams...Egypt and Copper Canyon were Fams...
Last time I used a travel agent was in 1985 and it totally messed up my honeymoon. The agency used a company called Pleasant Hawaiian Holidays, now known as Perillo Tours. We ended up in the Bahamas instead of Hawaii as originally planned, and had to pay penalty to boot. My wife and I have been to Hawaii three times since I retired in 2011.
Still have a Sony camera that uses a memory stick and ... a 3.5 floppy disk. Works great. My printer can fax.