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Matt87

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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: LuSiD enthusiast]
#22324497 - 10/02/15 04:11 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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I got all these bone density scanners.....
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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Matt87]
#22324516 - 10/02/15 04:22 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Paper Maps (though undoubtedly still a good thing..)
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Bill_Oreilly
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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: sh4d0ws]
#22324586 - 10/02/15 04:40 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Bill_Oreilly said: Books LOL
How can you say books are not relevant anymore? Unless you are using a kindle or whatever or e books then I guess...but I'd still consider that a book.
I'd say VHS/walkman/discman/floppy disk/ are pretty much the biggest ones for me.
I still do use my digital camera sometimes, but most of the time I just use my cell camera.
Calm down man I was just making a joke how hardly anyone reads nowadays.
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psi
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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: LuSiD enthusiast]
#22324653 - 10/02/15 04:56 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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LuSiD enthusiast said: Cathode ray tube tv's. Pretty sure any of the fat tv's before widescreen got big were all crtv's.
The biggest consumer TVs from a couple decades ago tended to be rear-projection TVs. Huge CRTs tend to be ridiculously heavy because of all the glass needed to keep them from imploding.
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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Capers]
#22324965 - 10/02/15 06:01 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Palm pilots, Polaroids
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Capers
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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: sun_spots]
#22325769 - 10/02/15 08:28 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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sun_spots said: Palm pilots
That's a good one. Those were just a flash in the pan though. We all got to to borrow one throughout 7th grade year. I made an elaborate animated porno with mine, and cracked up all my friends. They were pretty useless though. We never really ended up using them for class.
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sun_spots said: Polaroids
I could see hipsters bringing these back, á la the vinyl record, casette tape, and suspenders.
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psi
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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Capers]
#22325798 - 10/02/15 08:32 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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I had a Palm Pilot or two once they were already obsolete and dirt cheap. The folding keyboards they made for them worked surprisingly well.
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Capers
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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: psi]
#22325820 - 10/02/15 08:37 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Psi, your reg date makes me think you're a little older than the median age here. You must've seen more things go obsolete than some of us youngins. What's something from your childhood that's no longer used?
One thing no one's mentioned is the rolladex

And the little black book
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akira_akuma
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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Lophosaurus]
#22325828 - 10/02/15 08:40 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Lophosaurus said: Paper books are sort of becoming obsolete. A lot more people seem to be reading on digital devices now.
that would be a sad day when people stopped printing information.
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Capers
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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: akira_akuma]
#22325836 - 10/02/15 08:42 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Paper back books, ftw. You can fit them in your back pocket, and easily take them with you wherever you go. Then simply pass them on to a friend, because they're cheap anyway, and meant to be passed around like a doobie.
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D.M.T
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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Capers]
#22325837 - 10/02/15 08:42 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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336 said: > Watching shows on television. I seriously haven't done this in years. The minute I figured out how to torrent and avoid ever having to watch commercials again was one of the best days of my life. LOL
> Also iPods; with the way cellphones are now iPods are essentially pointless.
> Physical maps are useless now as long as you are in cell range; or you have a map downloaded on your phone
> CDs; rarely if ever use them
> handheld gaming devices like gameboys and PSPs
That's all for now.
I went back to using physical maps after my GPS tried taking me onto a racetrack.
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Capers
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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: D.M.T]
#22325841 - 10/02/15 08:43 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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And you have to have physical maps in the back country
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DieCommie

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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Capers]
#22325862 - 10/02/15 08:47 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Capers said: And you have to have physical maps in the back country
Why? GPS works everywhere on the planet and has a map loaded onto it already. Is it because you need electricity to power it?
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Capers
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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: DieCommie]
#22325873 - 10/02/15 08:48 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Do they have trails marked? Regardless, you'd have to find a way to charge it if you were out multiple days, and keep it dry even in a rain storm.
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D.M.T
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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Capers]
#22325878 - 10/02/15 08:49 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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GPS and even Google Maps didn't have any roads listed for an entire city in Mexico when I was driving through there a few years ago. I am sure that's the case for many places outside of the US and Europe.
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Capers
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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: D.M.T]
#22325882 - 10/02/15 08:50 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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And probably rural ass places in, say, Maine or Alaska.
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DieCommie

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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Capers]
#22325888 - 10/02/15 08:51 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Capers said: Do they have trails marked? Regardless, you'd have to find a way to charge it if you were out multiple days, and keep it dry even in a rain storm.
Depends on the map loaded into it. GPS strictly only tells you where you are, not where other points of interest may be. I see your point though, you need a map that lists the points that interest you. You may not be able to get that electronically, you may not be able to get that on paper either.
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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: DieCommie]
#22325889 - 10/02/15 08:51 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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DieCommie said:
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Capers said: And you have to have physical maps in the back country
Why? GPS works everywhere on the planet and has a map loaded onto it already. Is it because you need electricity to power it?
When I lived in Thailand, more than half the dirt roads outside the city didn't even have names. You would need to use the map if they're actually listed on the GPS.
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psi
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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Capers]
#22325894 - 10/02/15 08:52 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Capers said: Psi, your reg date makes me think you're a little older than the median age here. You must've seen more things go obsolete than some of us youngins. What's something from your childhood that's no longer used?
I was born in the early 80s so most things I thought of were already mentioned. Don't think Laserdisc was, those were always uncommon but I encountered a few people with Laserdisc players as a kid. I have one that I bought at a thrift store but only one movie, some nature show about reptiles and amphibians. CED was another disc-based video format from around that time that I never encountered until adulthood.
Cassette tapes have probably been mentioned but I knew this guy with a 4-track cassette recorder that used all 4 tracks from both sides. Some Commodore computers had cassette drives and programs/games distributed on cassette. Fisher-Price even made a kids' video camera that recorder to audio cassette (did not know about this as a kid though). Microcassete was a technology I thought was really cool as a kid and I ended up buying a microcassette recorder.
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DieCommie

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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: D.M.T]
#22325898 - 10/02/15 08:53 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Seems like a GPS would be more useful than a map if there are no names on the roads. GPS will tell you where you are whether you are on a road or not. Without names on the road, what is a map going to do?
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