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Miscellaneous => General Chat => Topic started by: BP on October 23, 2012, 12:28:47 AM
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Sometimes it surprises me how many of these I can think of. It's alarming to have "When I was your age, we had [thing] and it sucked" stories and to have told them. I can't be that old...
-Tags on T-shirts. These aren't actually completely gone, I guess, but I haven't owned a T-shirt with a tag for a long time and I am eternally grateful to whoever decided to start printing the shirt info on the inside of the shirt.
-VHS. Rewinding, the amount of space a tape took, the fragility of the things, my god. If all VHS tapes and VCRs vanished suddenly, they would not be missed.
-Disposable cameras. I seem to remember dozens of these things lying around my house when I was little, used up, and never being taken to the 1-hour photo.
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- All manner of floppy magnetic storage devices, and to an extent, removable optical storage devices. Goodness knows how many 3.5 inch floppies I had as a kid (I recall finding one under a desk a few years ago labeled "World Domination Plans"), but today? We just email stuff to ourselves, or toss it in "the cloud."
- Speaking of email and clouds and whatnot, DIAL-UP. Takes up the phone line, makes a racket, and slow as molasses. Not that America's "broadband" is that much better. Six times as fast as not fast can hardly be thought of as fast.
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What can I say, everyone hated dial-up. The fact that you couldn't browse the internet and use a landline phone at the same time was so irritating and inconvenient.
...oh wait, those are kind of going the way of the dodo too, eh?
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If all VHS tapes and VCRs vanished suddenly, they would not be missed.
I was over a friend's house not too long ago, and we decided to explore his basement. In the basement, we found a whole ton of old anime VHS tapes that looked spectacularly awful. We decided that we're going to take a day during Christmas break and watch all of them. So, we're a small set of people who actually would miss VHS tapes if they vanished.
As for a thing that I don't miss, I'm gonna actually go with something similar to that: cassette tapes. Difficult to pick the song you want to hear, act funny if the weather's too hot, and they degrade in quality astonishingly quickly.
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Does HD-DVD count? I laugh in the face of every chump who bought either a Blu-Ray or an HD-DVD player before that little war was over. Then again, if nobody bought either, they'd never have found out which was most popular....
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I remember that, we stayed out of it because it was so expensive, and knew at least one was going to die out completely.
And still, the only real Blu-Ray player we own is a PS3, because a guy gave it to us as collateral for borrowing/buying something from my dad; guess who's still got it? Pretty happy that we basically got that thing for free.
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Selling the PS3 at a loss really helped advance the cause of Blu-ray, it seems. On Facebook, I once bemoaned the fact I would never own the HD version of Shadow of the Colossus as I did not own a PS3, and to my astonishment, a relative of mine came out and pointed out that she purchased a PS3 because it was cheaper than similar Blu-ray, and indeed, HD-DVD players. An isolated incident to be sure, but it's easy to imagine it occurring.
- Chalkboards. Messy, noisy, usually only one color.
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Threads like these.
I kid, I kid.
Do non-laptop computers count? The only people I know who still use them are old and/or poor.
EDIT: Since when have spoilers been disabled?
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I guess I'm old and/or poor, then, because I use a desktop.
I also currently have about a hundred and fifty Firefox tabs open, am watching some friends play Dota 2 through the standard game client, am running KVIrc with connections to five networks, and have MAME and Procaster running in the background so I can stream Fantasy Zone after the Dota 2 match is over.
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If I may point out: disposable cameras still exist. We usually buy some around special event times (birthdays, holidays, memorable such things..) It's a hassle to have seven different people take pictures with their own cameras, and then attempt to get them all to give up all the pictures they took.. but anyway..
- Giant sized cell phones: imagine walking down the street, talking into something the size of a brick (and possibly weighs just as much). I am glad for the down-sizing of cell phones (I hate the fact that people on their phones ignore the rest of the world, but that's for a different topic..)
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I wish I could remember the title of the Ted Talk where the presenter showed that everything we think of as obsolete is still made and used somewhere.
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And every sports team who lost a championship actually (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/sports/football/04gear.html?_r=0) won (http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/115538) in third world countries.
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Threads like these.
I kid, I kid.
Do non-laptop computers count? The only people I know who still use them are old and/or poor.
EDIT: Since when have spoilers been disabled?
I think it's your browser.
they work for me
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Spoilers didn't work for me in Chrome, but it was due to an extension. I don't recall which one though.
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I just noticed the following attached image in my Microsoft Outlook 2010.
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Dial up? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I remember having to get off the internet so my mom could order pizza. Then we got DSL. It was magical.
What if someone had dial-up but used MagicJack for phone service?
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I'm so glad we don't have cassettes (video or audio) anymore. My uncle had a really mean habit when I was a kid where he would take some of my favorite movies and music tapes, get them wet, leave them in his car for a week or so, and then bring them back. He always had me convinced he had only lost them, but when I played the tapes I was chagrinned to find that the visuals were all scary, colorful, and beny. More nightmare fuel. I would inevitably end up in the feeble position until my parents got home. This just goes to show that even though a technology can be made with good intentions, it really only ends up causing more pain than gain.
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I'm actually hoping hipsters bring VHS back soon.
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the feeble position
Again with the malapropisms...
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The dollar store I work at still sells blank VHS tapes, and a tape of some kids' show from 1996.
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The thing that reminds me of obsolete things the most is their smell. Oh, metal oxide tapes how I adore thy smell.