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