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Tsutarja February 10th, 2018 7:38 AM

Technology of yesterday
 
Discussion time!

What are some forms of technology that were popular at one point that you don't hear anybody talking a whole lot about anymore these days?

Raffy98 February 10th, 2018 8:20 AM

Definitely CDs and Floppy disks. When I was a little kid I've used some floppy disks, but they were already in the phase of being replaced by CDs since they could store a lot more data and I've used CDs a lot, especially for games and music.
Right now, I just use them as a backup method if, say, for some reason I can't boot off of a flash drive.

colours February 11th, 2018 7:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Raffy98 (Post 9838993)
Definitely CDs and Floppy disks. When I was a little kid I've used some floppy disks, but they were already in the phase of being replaced by CDs since they could store a lot more data and I've used CDs a lot, especially for games and music.
Right now, I just use them as a backup method if, say, for some reason I can't boot off of a flash drive.

it's hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that even CDs aren't a thing anymore. I remember visiting stores that would sell a bunch of computer games on physical CDs (the sims were a big one) and nowadays... it seems like manufacturers are shipping their laptops without optical drives. that in itself is a strong statement to how fast CDs just kind of came and went.

.Eclipseon. February 11th, 2018 5:48 PM

Floppy discs ... Oh, those things were evil. I wasn't allowed to keep my stories on the main computer when I was a kid because of the limited amount of space on the Windows '98 harddrive, and those things ate so many of them it wasn't even funny. They were unreliable at best, idiotic at worst.

Leviathan February 12th, 2018 3:50 AM

Cassette players for me! I actually found two whilst rooting through my uncle's old stuff the other day when cleaning up. I wanted to try and see if they still worked if I put batteries into them, but I couldn't find any tapes to listen to sadly.

Exothermic February 12th, 2018 6:24 AM

CDs are the most obvious choice for me since floppy disks weren't too popular back when I first knew about them.

Tsutarja February 12th, 2018 8:25 AM

Are CDs really becoming obsolete? I mean, I know Best Buy recently announced their plans to get rid of their CD sales in-store, but for certain these things are nowhere near dead that people think they are.

colours February 12th, 2018 8:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Tsutarja (Post 9840036)
Are CDs really becoming obsolete? I mean, I know Best Buy recently announced their plans to get rid of their CD sales in-store, but for certain these things are nowhere near dead that people think they are.

have you really not noticed that most modern laptops dont have optical drives anymore?

Tsutarja February 12th, 2018 9:56 AM

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Originally Posted by colours (Post 9840037)
have you really not noticed that most modern laptops dont have optical drives anymore?

When your laptop from 2014 is working just as fine in 2018 and it has an optical drive, then no. :p


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