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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Hanz]
    #22336590 - 10/05/15 11:48 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Pulse dialing instead of dtmf. Actually, even dtmf these days on mobile networks. Slide projectors (pity really, as digital projection doesn't even come close in terms of resolution, even when small 35mm film is used). Analog photo cameras (still use them almost daily though, but we're a dying breed). Paper tv guides. Erotica magazines. Stencil machines. Analog photocopiers. The IPX/SPX network protocol. Novell Netware servers. QBASIC. Coaxial network cables (goddamn terminators). Cassette decks.


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: koraks]
    #22336610 - 10/05/15 11:53 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Dialup internet connections. ISDN. DSTN LCD screens. Solid state logic circuits. Rolodex. Lotus 123.


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: koraks]
    #22336639 - 10/05/15 11:59 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Bulletin Board Systems. 5.25" floppy disks. MFM hard drives. Leaded fuel for cars.


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: koraks]
    #22336646 - 10/05/15 12:00 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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koraks said:
Pulse dialing instead of dtmf.




Did you ever see that trick where you could manually do pulse dialing by rapidly clicking the lever or button that hangs up? Kinda tricky to do the higher digits or 0 though.


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: psi]
    #22336659 - 10/05/15 12:03 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Absolutely; both pulse dialing and dtmf were cool to mess around with. Didn't do much myself though; I never really had the need to. I do remember setting modems to pulse dialing sometimes just for shits and giggles. Setting up an internet connection took ages that way :lol: Back then, the network here still supported pulse dialing.


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: koraks]
    #22336688 - 10/05/15 12:10 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

I always thought it would be cool to build a phone that made the DMTF tones with whistles or something. Never got around to trying though.


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: psi]
    #22336708 - 10/05/15 12:14 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

I backed up one of my first computers onto a tape drive. I think I was saving Q&A word documents like poetry or something.


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Peachette]
    #22336733 - 10/05/15 12:20 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Here's a bizarre piece of tape technology: a cassette to 8-track adapter. It's basically an entire cassette tape player in the form factor of an 8-track tape, that is powered by the rotation of the 8-track deck. Not my pic but I bought the same one at a thrift store a few years ago. Never had occasion to use it though.



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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: psi]
    #22336762 - 10/05/15 12:28 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Damn it I messed with settings when I came back and never see anyone's pictures anymore.

:wtf:


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Peachette]
    #22336802 - 10/05/15 12:42 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Rom packs


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Hanz]
    #22337428 - 10/05/15 03:43 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

I was buying vinyl albums when I was a kid, 8 tracks were now and wow because you could put one in your car and listen to Bad Company while on the prowl. lol Push button phones were just coming around as were video games like "pong" or "tank battle". Speaking of cars...the bright light switch was a button on the floor next to the gas pedal....I could never understand why they put that on the steering column. You smoked weed by either rolling a joint, a bong, or a corn cob pipe. The big vinyl double album covers were used for cleaning the seeds and stems out of the weed which was almost always Mexican. Paraquat was a big scare. There were only a half dozen or so channels on the TV and it was free....cable was just starting.:sunny::peace:


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Thayendanegea]
    #22337461 - 10/05/15 03:51 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)



reel-to-reel tape recorders.

Its for music.


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Asante]
    #22337490 - 10/05/15 03:58 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

The ball mouse


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Asante]
    #22337515 - 10/05/15 04:10 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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reel-to-reel tape recorders.

Its for music.



A decent amount of studios still record to tape for the specific sound :awesome:


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: twighead]
    #22337525 - 10/05/15 04:14 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)





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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Capers]
    #22337565 - 10/05/15 04:30 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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Capers said:
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Sun King said:
8 track tapes




Indeed. Seems like they were a flash in the pan.

Shroomslip: That is a good list. I no longer use any of the things you mentioned except my digital camera.



They still 8 track tapes at truck stops.


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Brian Jones]
    #22337650 - 10/05/15 04:55 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Big one is VHS, with it blockbuster/Hollywood video. I loved those places


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Seriously_trippin]
    #22337693 - 10/05/15 05:10 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Remember the days when you had to call your friend's house and, depending who answered, ask to speak with him?


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: 1234go]
    #22337791 - 10/05/15 05:40 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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Capers said:
Remember the days when you had to call your friend's house and, depending who answered, ask to speak with him?




And only after that, at some point, did it become necessary for your first question to be: where are you now?

That was new. It used to be obvious where the callee was. You just called him.


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And yeee,  :lolz0rz:  finally something for which I am too young: the really big floppy disk. I don't even know the actual size.


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Thayendanegea]
    #22337844 - 10/05/15 05:55 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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Thayendanegea said:Speaking of cars...the bright light switch was a button on the floor next to the gas pedal...
I could never understand why they put that on the steering column...



Who remembers wing(vent) windows?


Quickest way to break in to a car with a butter knive.

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