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Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today.
    #22323044 - 10/02/15 10:54 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

One of my first thoughts was the overhead projector:

In the late 1990s and early 2000s there was one in every classroom. The teacher would place a plastic sheet on the flat part and it would be projected onto a screen on the wall. The sheets could be blank, or have typing already on them. The teacher would use a marker to write on the sheets so all the students could see. The projector would be on a cart, and had to be positioned just so, or the image would go partially off the screen and onto the wall.

Nowadays they have largely been supplanted by the document camera:


What technologies have gone irrelevant in your lifetime? What have they been supplanted by, if anything?


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Capers]
    #22323093 - 10/02/15 11:06 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

8 track tapes


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Capers]
    #22323098 - 10/02/15 11:08 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Clocks
Basic Calculators
Walkman
Discman
VCR
Answering Machines
(stand alone) Caller ID
Payphones
Digital cameras (minus the really high grade ones)
Hard/floppy discs
CRT Monitors/TVs


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I don’t want to get back up but I have to so it might as well be today.
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I’m in no shape to be alone contrary to the shit that you might hear.


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Sun King]
    #22323103 - 10/02/15 11:09 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Vhs tapes


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Sun King]
    #22323108 - 10/02/15 11:10 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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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.


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Capers]
    #22323133 - 10/02/15 11:15 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

High end, high resolution digital cameras still have a place, but just the average one is pretty much obsolete. The cameras on our cell phones generally have better resolution and the added beneift of not being a piece of technology with just a single use. Actually the majority of that list is all made redundant by our cell phones, including the data storage.

One I left off: Watches. We really don't need them anymore. I have a Seiko kinetic I always wear, but it's honestly just because it holds nostalgic value to me. It's no faster to check my watch and it is to check my phone. Might even be faster because I don't have to figure out where the minute hand is actually pointing on a phone.


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With my face against the floor I can’t see who knocked me out of the way.
I don’t want to get back up but I have to so it might as well be today.
Nothing appeals to me no one feels like me, I’m too busy being calm to disappear.
I’m in no shape to be alone contrary to the shit that you might hear.


You can't wake up, this is not a dream. You're part of a machine, you are not a human being
With your face all made up, living on a screen. Low on self esteem, so you run on gasoline


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Capers]
    #22323138 - 10/02/15 11:16 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

I would have said VHS. Since its been covered I'll go with VHS reminders.


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Shroomslip]
    #22323144 - 10/02/15 11:17 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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Shroomslip said:
High end, high resolution digital cameras still have a place, but just the average one is pretty much obsolete. The cameras on our cell phones generally have better resolution and the added beneift of not being a piece of technology with just a single use. Actually the majority of that list is all made redundant by our cell phones, including the data storage.

One I left off: Watches. We really don't need them anymore. I have a Seiko kinetic I always wear, but it's honestly just because it holds nostalgic value to me. It's no faster to check my watch and it is to check my phone. Might even be faster because I don't have to figure out where the minute hand is actually pointing on a phone.



I started wearing a watch again for caving. Cell phones don't work down there.


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Shroomslip]
    #22323155 - 10/02/15 11:21 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Pagers are another. I know people still use them, but they're basically pointless. They were basically the equivalent of texting someone to say "call me". I dunno about anyone else but I check my phone like a dozen times a day because I even thought I heard it go off. Not only can you do a whole conversation through text, but you can tell the person to call you (as pagers did in the past).
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High end, high resolution digital cameras still have a place, but just the average one is pretty much obsolete. The cameras on our cell phones generally have better resolution and the added beneift of not being a piece of technology with just a single use. Actually the majority of that list is all made redundant by our cell phones, including the data storage.

One I left off: Watches. We really don't need them anymore. I have a Seiko kinetic I always wear, but it's honestly just because it holds nostalgic value to me. It's no faster to check my watch and it is to check my phone. Might even be faster because I don't have to figure out where the minute hand is actually pointing on a phone.



I started wearing a watch again for caving. Cell phones don't work down there.



You might need to explain this better, because I really don't see how a cell phone "couldn't work down there". They make water proof cases so it can't be that, and you don't need cell signal to check the time. I can't imagine any point you're so desperate you need to know the time that exact moment and can only wiggle enough to get your wrist to your face..

I've never done it though, so you could be right. I'd like to know why a cell phone cannot replace a watch while caving.


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With my face against the floor I can’t see who knocked me out of the way.
I don’t want to get back up but I have to so it might as well be today.
Nothing appeals to me no one feels like me, I’m too busy being calm to disappear.
I’m in no shape to be alone contrary to the shit that you might hear.


You can't wake up, this is not a dream. You're part of a machine, you are not a human being
With your face all made up, living on a screen. Low on self esteem, so you run on gasoline


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Shroomslip]
    #22323163 - 10/02/15 11:23 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Dial telephones. Also land line phones, although I still have one.


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Shroomslip]
    #22323169 - 10/02/15 11:25 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

I dropped my phone so the time is wrong. If I want to know the date or time, I have to open up the browser and go to time.gov to figure it out. That can be time consuming.


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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]
    #22323188 - 10/02/15 11:31 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

That's an isolated as fuck incident :lol: I kinda have a hard time even believing that. It's hard to imagine how a phone could fry just enough to only throw off the time keeping ability. I really can't imagine a cell phone a dedicated clock circuit.


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I don’t want to get back up but I have to so it might as well be today.
Nothing appeals to me no one feels like me, I’m too busy being calm to disappear.
I’m in no shape to be alone contrary to the shit that you might hear.


You can't wake up, this is not a dream. You're part of a machine, you are not a human being
With your face all made up, living on a screen. Low on self esteem, so you run on gasoline


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Shroomslip]
    #22323198 - 10/02/15 11:32 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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Pagers are another. I know people still use them, but they're basically pointless. They were basically the equivalent of texting someone to say "call me". I dunno about anyone else but I check my phone like a dozen times a day because I even thought I heard it go off. Not only can you do a whole conversation through text, but you can tell the person to call you (as pagers did in the past).
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High end, high resolution digital cameras still have a place, but just the average one is pretty much obsolete. The cameras on our cell phones generally have better resolution and the added beneift of not being a piece of technology with just a single use. Actually the majority of that list is all made redundant by our cell phones, including the data storage.

One I left off: Watches. We really don't need them anymore. I have a Seiko kinetic I always wear, but it's honestly just because it holds nostalgic value to me. It's no faster to check my watch and it is to check my phone. Might even be faster because I don't have to figure out where the minute hand is actually pointing on a phone.



I started wearing a watch again for caving. Cell phones don't work down there.



You might need to explain this better, because I really don't see how a cell phone "couldn't work down there". They make water proof cases so it can't be that, and you don't need cell signal to check the time. I can't imagine any point you're so desperate you need to know the time that exact moment and can only wiggle enough to get your wrist to your face..

I've never done it though, so you could be right. I'd like to know why a cell phone cannot replace a watch while caving.



I'm not sure of the technical reason but all cellar phones get stuck at the time you go in. Internet equipped or not. I haven't thought about it in a while. Anyone know why?


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Matt87] * 1
    #22323208 - 10/02/15 11:34 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Mabey phones receive data and update the time from atomic clock often throughout the day or something?


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Matt87]
    #22323240 - 10/02/15 11:41 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

the one that sticks out the most to me is answering machines.


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Matt87]
    #22323243 - 10/02/15 11:42 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

:shrug: I've been in complete dead zones (not weak/sporadic signal, even the phones that are not longer active still work as clocks) and my phones clock works fine.


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With my face against the floor I can’t see who knocked me out of the way.
I don’t want to get back up but I have to so it might as well be today.
Nothing appeals to me no one feels like me, I’m too busy being calm to disappear.
I’m in no shape to be alone contrary to the shit that you might hear.


You can't wake up, this is not a dream. You're part of a machine, you are not a human being
With your face all made up, living on a screen. Low on self esteem, so you run on gasoline


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Capers]
    #22323339 - 10/02/15 12:04 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Pay phones.


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Le_Canard]
    #22323351 - 10/02/15 12:06 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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Also land line phones, although I still have one.




Do you still 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: Shroomslip]
    #22323446 - 10/02/15 12:23 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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Shroomslip said:
:shrug: I've been in complete dead zones (not weak/sporadic signal, even the phones that are not longer active still work as clocks) and my phones clock works fine.



Alright then. Come to TN to swim and bask in an underground waterfall with mansions overhead. I'll let you test the phoneclock thing for yourself...  !


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Shroomslip]
    #22323450 - 10/02/15 12:24 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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Shroomslip said:
That's an isolated as fuck incident :lol: I kinda have a hard time even believing that. It's hard to imagine how a phone could fry just enough to only throw off the time keeping ability. I really can't imagine a cell phone a dedicated clock circuit.



Trust me it happened, and only a few months after I got the phone. If I reset the time it eventually reverts back to some bullshit. So I have to use internet data to find out the time. I don't wear a watch.

I don't really know what caused it. I just assume it was while getting out of my car one day I forgot the phone was in my lap and it fell into a half-melted ice puddle. That's pretty much the only thing wrong with the phone, other than occasional freezing and received calls hardly ever coming through, and I've dropped it at least half a dozen times since without consequence.


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Matt87]
    #22323474 - 10/02/15 12:29 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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Shroomslip said:
:shrug: I've been in complete dead zones (not weak/sporadic signal, even the phones that are not longer active still work as clocks) and my phones clock works fine.



Alright then. Come to TN to swim and bask in an underground waterfall with mansions overhead. I'll let you test the phoneclock thing for yourself...  !



If I could go to some waterfalls, the last thing on my mind would be my phone clock :lol: I've never even seen a waterfall. Actually I haven't really seen much beautiful scenery at all. The best I've seen is the night sky in the middle of the desert in New Mexico and a mountain in Arkansas. I live in Texas, the scenery where I live is basically just chemical plants as far as the eye can see.

I learned about mirages the hard way in New Mexico. Me and my brothers spotted a "beach" way off in the distance and decided to go check it out. We walked for about a half an hour never getting any closer to it before my dad showed up screamed at us. At the time I didn't really get it, but looking back on it I do.. :lol:


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With my face against the floor I can’t see who knocked me out of the way.
I don’t want to get back up but I have to so it might as well be today.
Nothing appeals to me no one feels like me, I’m too busy being calm to disappear.
I’m in no shape to be alone contrary to the shit that you might hear.


You can't wake up, this is not a dream. You're part of a machine, you are not a human being
With your face all made up, living on a screen. Low on self esteem, so you run on gasoline


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Shroomslip]
    #22323769 - 10/02/15 01:26 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

I'd like to stay in a desert for a week or so. I'd like EVERYONE to visit TN though.


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Matt87]
    #22323801 - 10/02/15 01:34 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

film camera especially things like insta poloroids video/music rental stores rotary phones(lol)


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: CHeifM4sterDiezL]
    #22323806 - 10/02/15 01:36 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Tomagochi.


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: CHeifM4sterDiezL]
    #22323809 - 10/02/15 01:36 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

flip phones


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: CHeifM4sterDiezL]
    #22323828 - 10/02/15 01:40 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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flip phones



Those werent that long ago. Plus people still use them.


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Quit The Cult]
    #22323834 - 10/02/15 01:41 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

i havent had one in a decade :shrug:

what bout dial up?


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: CHeifM4sterDiezL]
    #22323896 - 10/02/15 02:01 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

beepers and PDAs. though i guess a smartphone could be considered those


VHS and 3.5" floppy discs. still have a ton of them

CRT screens.


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Adolin]
    #22323929 - 10/02/15 02:10 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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Gresh said:
beepers and PDAs. though i guess a smartphone could be considered those


VHS and 3.5" floppy discs. still have a ton of them

CRT screens.




You still have VHS or you still have floppies? I assume if you're holding onto floppies you have media on them. Do you have a way to see see whatever's on them? The last time I used one was around 2006 or 2007.


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Capers]
    #22323940 - 10/02/15 02:12 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

I still use CDs and handheld maps/atlases a lot. I know what you mean though. Speaking of music media, I think with my age group, vinyl records are more popular than CDs.


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Capers]
    #22324057 - 10/02/15 02:35 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Paper books are sort of becoming obsolete. A lot more people seem to be reading on digital devices now.

Cable TV is pretty much obsolete. I can't believe people are still paying for that, I can watch anything I want on the internet.

Web TV
Rabbit Ears
Walkie Talkies
Portable TV's
Lawn Darts
Board Games?
AM/FM Radio
Old 3D Technology with the blue/red glasses
AOL


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Capers]
    #22324075 - 10/02/15 02:38 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

some of my professors still use over-head projectors, it's sad.


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Capers]
    #22324114 - 10/02/15 02:46 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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Gresh said:
beepers and PDAs. though i guess a smartphone could be considered those


VHS and 3.5" floppy discs. still have a ton of them

CRT screens.




You still have VHS or you still have floppies? I assume if you're holding onto floppies you have media on them. Do you have a way to see see whatever's on them? The last time I used one was around 2006 or 2007.




i still have a whole shelf of VHS movies. some of em home movies we made in the 90s. and a 5 pound box of floppies with games like minesweeper, and .txt video game strategy guides on them

no way to use the floppies ATM. but you can buy a USB floppy drive for like 20$

still have a VHS player, and it can transfer them onto dvd


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Adolin]
    #22324118 - 10/02/15 02:48 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Books LOL


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Lophosaurus]
    #22324125 - 10/02/15 02:48 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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Paper books are sort of becoming obsolete. A lot more people seem to be reading on digital devices now.




To a degree, yes, but I still see a lot of people using them, including young people. I know I do a lot.


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Walkie Talkies




I wonder if children still use them as toys though.


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Board Games?




I think they're on their way out. My wife and I still play them a lot, but I think we're in the minority. Same goes for cards and jigsaw puzzles. I doubt young kids are building model airplanes and such either.


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AM/FM Radio




Yeah, it's not as big of a medium, particularly with young people, but it's still pretty big. I listen to FM everyday, and just two or three years ago I still listened to AM everyday.


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Bill_Oreilly]
    #22324211 - 10/02/15 03:05 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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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.


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    #22324278 - 10/02/15 03:16 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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i havent had one in a decade :shrug:

what bout dial up?




I've been meaning to make this my ringtone for a while.

Do ferbies count? If not than crtv's.

Someone already took crtv's sooooo, im gonna say rolling papers. Seems like im about the only person who uses them anymore. I know theres a handful of people here who do, but it seems like so many kids these days hate on them because they waste weed.:sad:


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    #22324287 - 10/02/15 03:18 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

All of them...


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    #22324291 - 10/02/15 03:19 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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Do ferbies count?




Haha, yeah. My wife mentioned Giga Pets too. Not sure what crtv's are.


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    #22324301 - 10/02/15 03:21 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Cathode ray tube tv's. Pretty sure any of the fat tv's before widescreen got big were all crtv's.


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    #22324497 - 10/02/15 04:11 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

I got all these bone density scanners.....


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    #22324516 - 10/02/15 04:22 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Paper Maps (though undoubtedly still a good thing..)


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    #22324586 - 10/02/15 04:40 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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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.





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    #22324653 - 10/02/15 04:56 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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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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    #22324965 - 10/02/15 06:01 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Palm pilots, Polaroids


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    #22325769 - 10/02/15 08:28 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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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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    #22325798 - 10/02/15 08:32 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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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    #22325820 - 10/02/15 08:37 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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


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    #22325828 - 10/02/15 08:40 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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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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    #22325836 - 10/02/15 08:42 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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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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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> 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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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)

And you have to have physical maps in the back country


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    #22325862 - 10/02/15 08:47 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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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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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)

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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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)

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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    #22325882 - 10/02/15 08:50 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

And probably rural ass places in, say, Maine or Alaska.


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    #22325888 - 10/02/15 08:51 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.




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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    #22325889 - 10/02/15 08:51 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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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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    #22325894 - 10/02/15 08:52 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?




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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    #22325898 - 10/02/15 08:53 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Seems like a GPS would be more useful than a map if there are no names on the roads.  :shrug:  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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    #22325909 - 10/02/15 08:55 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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you may not be able to get that on paper either.




For the uses I need it for you can. USGS and NatGeo publish excellent topographical maps with all sorts of details about local landmarks and services. I see your point about GPS telling you where you are, regardless of whether you're on a trail or road though. But if you stick to your map, you ain't gonna get lost in the first place 99+% of the time.


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    #22325917 - 10/02/15 08:56 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

They don't make electronic versions of those maps?  If not, they will eventually.


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    #22325925 - 10/02/15 08:58 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

I don't know if they do or not, but I don't think I'd be interested in them, unless they were completely waterproof, and either held a charge for long as hell, or could be efficiently charged with a cheap, lightweight solar charger.


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    #22325936 - 10/02/15 09:00 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

http://www.biolitestove.com/

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    #22325947 - 10/02/15 09:02 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.  :shrug:  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?



I'm saying you'd have to use the map on the GPS to put your destination into it.

Atlas' have proved more reliable for me time and time again. Like I said, GPS tried taking me onto a racetrack one time. Another time it took me into an abandoned construction yard that wasn't actually a road. Then of course the time in Mexico where the roads weren't even listed on the GPS at all. As in, they didn't show on the map part of the GPS.

I had to zoom in on satellite mode to navigate the GPS that time. I said fuck this and got an atlas for Mexico and it was a lot easier than trying to figure out how to work the GPS.

GPS need to improve their functionality for me to keep using them. Plus they are big targets for theft/robbery, and if they get stolen you're out of luck without an atlas.


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    #22325952 - 10/02/15 09:04 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

and who would steal that?

DMT is right. electronic only any information sucks.

it needs print. cartography for the win, too...we need more old-timey maps.


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Wow, cool!


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    #22325964 - 10/02/15 09:06 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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Atlas' have proved more reliable for me time and time again. Like I said, GPS tried taking me onto a racetrack one time. Another time it took me into an abandoned construction yard that wasn't actually a road. Then of course the time in Mexico where the roads weren't even listed on the GPS at all. As in, they didn't show on the map part of the GPS.




Let me nitpick a little.  That is the fault of your navigation algorithm.  Different companies have different ones and some may be crappy.  GPS itself does not tell you where to go... it tells you where you are.  You can buy some units that will guide you to an address like a garmin for a car, but that functionality is beyond and different than a mere GPS.


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    #22325970 - 10/02/15 09:08 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Call me old-timey but I just like things that are so simple any idiot can use them, such as maps. I still use a hand-cranked blade sharpener too.


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    #22325974 - 10/02/15 09:11 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

The GPS itself can have a pretty huge margin of error at times though too, depending on atmospheric conditions etc.


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Call me old-timey but I just like things that are so simple any idiot can use them, such as maps.




That is funny... because I love maps and always have.  Reading one is a no brainier for me.  I recall once tossing a paper map to my passenger while driving and I said tell me where I am.  Passenger couldn't do it.  I don't think an idiot can read a map... :shrug:  It doesn't take a rocket scientists but it takes something that not everybody has.


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    #22326002 - 10/02/15 09:16 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Yeah, some people can't read 'em. It's weird.


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    #22326030 - 10/02/15 09:24 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Anyone remember the smell of those classroom handouts fresh from the Mimeograph?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimeograph
I don't think carbon paper is used much anymore, either.

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    #22326071 - 10/02/15 09:45 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

oh remember these nifty little gadgets for ur gameboy consoles





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    #22326076 - 10/02/15 09:48 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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> Also iPods; with the way cellphones are now iPods are essentially pointless.



just saw this, and this is totally not true. cellphones use up wayyyy more battery than the old skool ipods do. i think even the newer ipods use up way more battery than like the gen 5 ones.

my cellphone lasts for a day on STANDBY. you know how long it lasts when playing music? 8 hours...

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    #22326090 - 10/02/15 09:55 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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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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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: sh4d0ws]
    #22326117 - 10/02/15 10:05 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

The day when your watching TV your kid and he says " what's a video store "?


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    #22326120 - 10/02/15 10:06 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Does anyone remember when Blockbuster Video was fraudulently charging people rewind fees for DVDs? :lol:


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    #22326416 - 10/02/15 11:43 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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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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    #22326432 - 10/02/15 11:47 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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Does anyone remember when Blockbuster Video was fraudulently charging people rewind fees for DVDs? :lol:




Hahha, really?

No way,

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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.



Do any boxing while you were there?




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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: micro]
    #22335153 - 10/04/15 10:52 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: MagicMush123]
    #22335224 - 10/04/15 11:19 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

tightie whities

does anyone wear white BVD's with the pee pee drip mark in the front from improper phallus shake?

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    #22335530 - 10/05/15 02:49 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Bread.


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    #22335531 - 10/05/15 02:50 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

those old shitty non-internet brick phones where you had to push the 7 key 4 times to get an 'S'


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    #22335532 - 10/05/15 02:50 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

VHS, a-trak


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    #22335538 - 10/05/15 02:55 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

tomogachi


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yeah bad! everyone had those!


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    #22335607 - 10/05/15 03:58 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

VHS video recorder, vinyl records, bakelite rotary telephones


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: Asante]
    #22335675 - 10/05/15 05:03 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Cameras that used film reel.
The black film reel came in a small silo shaped container and had little black tinted photos on the reel that the camera had taken.
The film reel had to be taken into a store to have photographs made from it and then picked up a few days later as the process of making photographs out of the film reel would take a few days.

Also, movies on VCR and the VCR player on a small cube shaped television with a double sided antenna that had to be fiddled with when the TV had bad reception and had the static screen with that cccchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh sound.

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    #22335690 - 10/05/15 05:19 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Oh, and windows xp


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    #22335759 - 10/05/15 06:33 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

I don't think this is used these days, the test card used to come on when broardcasting for the day was over, and, was tuned into by TV technitions when they came to fix your telly (we use to hire, rather than buy TV's back then.

Also, after the national anthem (lol) was broardcast at the end of the days programming, the beeb would transmit a high pitched tone that would increase in volume to wake up those of us that would have fallen asleep in front of the TV.


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: deucedbi9]
    #22335927 - 10/05/15 07:52 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Those video rewinders that looked like cars


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    #22336193 - 10/05/15 09:16 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Dial-up modems that connected to the internet through your phone line.


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    #22336201 - 10/05/15 09:18 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Those car phones,  where it was like a landline in your car


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    #22336218 - 10/05/15 09:23 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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    #22336262 - 10/05/15 09:58 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

1985 - a mobile phone on the bicycle (title: "Phone of the future")




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    #22336390 - 10/05/15 10:45 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

^^ Lol, that clip takes me back!

Here's a pic of my oldest mobile phone. It's still on my desk today. I can power it up too, and the dtmf dialtones work, but of course I don't get any signal...

It's the nokia RD58. People had these monsters in their cars too, oh it looked so cool back then! :awesomenod:



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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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    #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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    #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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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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    #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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    #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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    #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.

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    #22336802 - 10/05/15 12:42 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Rom packs


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    #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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    #22337461 - 10/05/15 03:51 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)



reel-to-reel tape recorders.

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    #22337490 - 10/05/15 03:58 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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    #22337565 - 10/05/15 04:30 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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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.



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    #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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    #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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    #22337791 - 10/05/15 05:40 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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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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    #22337844 - 10/05/15 05:55 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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I could never understand why they put that on the steering column...



Who remembers wing(vent) windows?


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    #22337993 - 10/05/15 06:29 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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Yeah, and some came with turning indicators that popped up out of the side.

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    #22338021 - 10/05/15 06:35 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Right click > copy image URL > paste in picture icon above the posting box.


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: CookieCrumbs]
    #22338062 - 10/05/15 06:44 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

they dont make em like that ne more i always like those vent windows you see on classic cars cuz u could get some air with out messin up ur hair while cruisin obv they had their flaws :lol:


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: CookieCrumbs] * 1
    #22338128 - 10/05/15 07:00 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Gas tank fill spout behind license plate.


And behind rear brake light.:wtf: I pumped gas back in the 70's
and that behind the light location stumped me first time I tried to find it.
The owner finally showed me after I almost tore his license plate off.


Fill spout on my '66 Bug was in the trunk, which was in the front where the hood(bonnet) on most cars is.


One more for the kids,
push button transmission shifter.


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: vinsue]
    #22338147 - 10/05/15 07:04 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

I still use the VCR regularly , no point in throwing out all those movies and sometimes I buy more on ebay ..

CB radio, I still use that, but its not as fun now.

Landline is gone..


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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: CookieCrumbs]
    #22338268 - 10/05/15 07:34 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

CookieCrumbs said:

Right click > copy image URL > paste in picture icon above the posting box.
That's really cool btw.




Thanks for the tip cookie.

Here's another. Took about ten attempts.



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Re: Name a technology from your early childhood that is no longer relevant or barely relevant today. [Re: orison]
    #22338281 - 10/05/15 07:39 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

orison319 said:
I still use the VCR regularly , no point in throwing out all those movies and sometimes I buy more on ebay ..

CB radio, I still use that, but its not as fun now.

Landline is gone..



:highfive: both are cool. CB radio can be really useful. especially in an emergency situation, if you got people around with CB's, then you can communicate and make use of supplies and routing better...if there was ever like an attack or something. useful in war time, that's for sure.


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