'Obsolete' technology that you remember using.

[StBishop]

floppy disks, VHS and 2D TV

2D TV? I still have 2DTV, and its only in HDTV...its such old tech now lol

It was a joke =P
Blu ray is so obsolete that red rey is obsolete before it has even been developed. The future lies in green ray.

3D is also obsolete. 4D is the way of the future.

Actually, you'd be looking at ultra violet ray.

Just putting it out there.



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Print media? Magazines and newspapers specifically.

 

[geon106]

Actually, websites back then loaded about as fast, as nowadays websites (without certain "filters") load.... similiar to OSes not becoming faster ever. Any new ressources that open up are only there for humans to be more wasteful (yeah, i know, there are some nice things done, but the overall trend is to waste most of the available ressources).

I know that, doesn't mean I miss the damn things for a second.
Glitchy, noisy, phone-hogging pieces of wasted plastic that they were. Not to mention expensive. Did I mention noisy?
Y'know, NOT hearing that ear-splitting shriek any time I feel like checking my email or spend a few on MSN is awesome.
I just really hate dialups.

WHAT!

I loved the noise of dial up

Didn't like the speed and that it hogged the phone line, but i enjoyed the noise. It was fascinating hearing the computer dial out, then "talk" down the phone line to the exchange and then to the server at the ISP and so forth

It's just as I love the noise of an Amiga reading the disk, it so soothing and makes me reminise(sp), weird i know as it sounds like its dying or being stabbed by the floppy inside out but still

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Well, VHS tapes, a CD player, a video iPod, a PS1, a PS2, a Gameboy, a Gameboy Color, a Gameboy Advance, Windows 95, controllers with wires, a TV that was thicker in the back then the screen size......Yeah, that's all I got.

 

[Lyx]

About dialup noise - most modems had a way to enable or disable the speaker, so

It's just as I love the noise of an Amiga reading the disk, it so soothing and makes me reminise(sp), weird i know as it sounds like its dying or being stabbed by the floppy inside out but still

And followed by an.... umm... lets call it "intro" For some bought games, i actually prefered to play the "unofficial" version anyways, just because i felt something was missing without an intro.

 

[Stormz]

I used a Walkman and VHS. Still have VHS, we don't buy movies for it, but it's there if we want to watch an older movie.

 

[Something Amyss]

Random mid-late 80's tech, even though I grew up in the 90's. Our family was always a bit technology-retarded and we lagged behind quite a bit.

I remember in primary school when we had an IT lesson where we got to put in, save to, then take out...
Floppy discs!

I can still barely comprehend that my sister's SD card, one little plastic card about 1 cm in width and length, can contain 4.000 floppy discs!!!

It boggles my mind.

While it doesn't really surprise me so much, it does give me a bit of pause to think at one point, I needed multiple 5" and later 3.5" floppies for school.

Now, everything I've ever written, every song I've demoed to MP3, every video I've done, all fit on one SD card. I could probably fit every digital photo I've ever taken on there with considerable margin of error.

Thank God I back the thing up.

Vinyl records were big for me in my youth. Technically, they were already becoming obsolete, and I was overjoyed to get a cassette player. I always split the difference between early adopter and curmudgeon. I used to have a CD changer, then MP3 players came out and I was like "OMG! I can fit TWENTY RECORDS on one of these!" Now I have six months of music on my iPod.

 

[Quartz_Dragon]

I loved the noise of dial up

Didn't like the speed and that it hogged the phone line, but i enjoyed the noise. It was fascinating hearing the computer dial out, then "talk" down the phone line to the exchange and then to the server at the ISP and so forth

When I worked at an ISP doing dial-up tech support, me and a couple of the other guys used to get together in the room that housed all the modem racks and try to determine the connection speed based on the handshaking noises. It was easy for the V.32 and V.42 connections, but was really hard for the X2, K56flex, V.90 and V.92 connections. I still wax nostalgic whenever I hear a modem dial-up connection.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Walking.
http://www.geekalerts.com/u/segway-beta.jpg

 

[rosemystica]

VCRs and VHSes... and we even had a really old Betamax (but that died pretty quickly).

Typewriter (Grandma had one and she let me play with it all the time in order to practice spelling).

Floppy disks (though those were already on the way out when I was using them for school).

Dial-up internet!

 

[Sunrider]

Everything the OP mentioned, the Commodore 64, monochrome computer displays, 5 and a half inch floppy diskettes, good old fashioned radial telephones, hard drives that measured total capacity in megabytes, you name it. It has come to my attention that I'm kind of old for this crowd, heh.

This. Everything here and some more.

 

[spacepope22]

I remember my first computer having windows 3.0 on it. That was back in 1991. I feel so old.

 

[Jaxs]

My Ipod classic, now.

 

[Lma0nade]

Dial up.

MOM! WHY THE FUCK DID YOU ANSWER THE PHONE?!?!?!

 

[The Human Torch]

Walkman. As in, the old version that used cassettes (these days they use the same name for MP3 players), Windows 3.1, those home phones with the dial that you needed to turn in a circular motion, record-players, a TV with 8 channels and no remote and a 'remote' controlled toy car that was attached by a cord.

 

[EatPieYes]

God, I remember Chip's challenge. I played that game for hours and never got bored with it.

That game is a fantastic little gem. Makes me a bit depressed that I can't get it to work on my computer.

 

[Snotnarok]

A computer with a 6 color display and a 5.25 floppy drive. Hey it played Silpheed okay?
Damn kids and your ikaruga, bullet hell my ass Silpheed is the super dogfighter!

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

I remember when VHS was still used by everyone, and the same thing with cassette tapes. Hell I remember my parents still using their record player every now and then.

And I'm not even that old.