Old Technology Gone Away

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  1. Frank Sanoica

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    What has become of CDs, VCRs, Cassettes, CRTs? The mainstay of early Sci-fy was a CRT screen showing a repetitive blip:

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    Actually, the one above looks like a flat-screen, the replacement of the old, long CRT. CRTs required high-voltage to operate, one of the early stumbling blocks in Radar technology.

    This "Supreme Being" existed within a glass sphere, controlling it's giant robots, in fact controlling everything, by thought processes alone (Invaders from Mars, 1953). Is this our destiny? Frank

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    I do prefer the modern large flat-screen television receivers, but I miss dial-up Internet access.

    Wow...can you imagine the size of a 70" TV if it still used a CRT? (Cathode Ray Tube)

    It couldn't be closer that 6 feet from the wall!

    Hal
     
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    As long as 'we' keep saying "I wish 'they' would make it better...

    What was new is now old and in some museum. Uh, I have my own museum, when I think about it.
     
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    Say it ain't so Hal........
    Dial up attempt 1 out of 5
    Dial up attempt 2 out of 5
    Dial up attempt 3 out of 5
    Dial up attemp 4 out of 5
    .......then at some point you finally hear the sound of some odd rubber bands popping and hope you don't get kicked off.

    I hated it. I think wireless internet is one of the best inventions of all time.
     
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    @Bess Barber
    Moved to MO in 1999; no internet at all available until ~ 2003, only dial up. Had a 26K modem, actually downloaded never faster than about 8K, so a 1Meg image too 100+ seconds. Email was nearly impossible. The difference now with DSL is most refreshing. OTOH, we did not really "get-into" internet back then.......
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    @Frank Sanoica I can remember when there was always ONE idiot that had to send a huge picture in email. You might as well get up and make a sandwich while waiting for it to download.
     
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    That's the trouble...we have no patience anymore!

    I still don't have Wireless Internet...my connection is through a Wired Modem and Fiber Optics, and that's plenty fast enough for me!

    Budapest wasn't built in a day!

    Hal
     
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    Modern stuff? I'd much rather use internet with a modem than dial-up. Much, much faster. We have plenty of both music CD's and movie DVD's. The old 8-track and cassette tapes use to get stuck in the player, just like the VCR tapes did. We have 90% of our photos on USB Flash Drives that we can show either on our desktop or on our 46" HD tv thru our Blue-Ray DVD Player.

    Wish I would have had today's technology when I was in the Navy! Wouldn't have had to type out Purchase Orders/Requisitions and do Inventory on 3 x 5 Index Cards. Started using my first computer at a library in 1987 and on the job in 1989. Have loved computers since!
     
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