Search engines that work.
Oh god, yes.
I could type in a question ten years ago and could usually get an answer in the first page or so.I asked a question yesterday (about floor tiling) and got “Tiles? You want tiles? We’ve got tiles! Get your tiles here!”
“No, I want an answer about flooring.”
“FLOORING? You want flooring? We’ve got flooring! Get your flooring here!”“Ok, fucking hell. Ok how do I join 2 types of substrate together…”
“MUTHERFUCKING, substrate? You want substrate? We’ve got…”Then I gave up looking. Maybe it was always like this and I used to be more tenacious looking for answers.
Optical disks. It was almost a necessity on laptop to have an optical drive, now there’s maybe one or two models out there that comes with one.
10 years ago was 2015. I went to buy a laptop from Dell in 2014, and they didn’t have any models with a disc drive. I looked.
Maybe 1/100 people I see using headphones have wired headphones, certainly wasn’t the case 10 years ago. Bluetooth technology and quality has come a long way.
I could NOT be bothered with charging headphones daily.
They usually charge themselves in their case (small pods) or have big batteries (over ear). I use my pods probably 8 hours a day, and just need to charge the case once or twice a week.
Bluetooth isn’t the technology that’s come a long way, it’s still the same shit it was decades ago. It’s batteries.
That’s just not true, Bluetooth codecs have improved sound quality DRAMATICALLY.
And I say this as someone who’s not a big fan of wireless.
it’s still the same shit it was decades ago.
The engineers at Bluetooth SIG busting their ass to give us Bluetooth 6.1: “am I a joke to you?”
Kinda, yeah.
ITT: People not realizing 10 years ago was nearly the end of 2015 and listing technologies that were popular 20+ years ago.
2015 still feels like a date from the future to me
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while a straight dvi-d to dvi-d cable is quite uncommon to need today, i have used a bunch of hdmi to dvi-d adapter cables the last couple months to hook up new desktops to older displays that had vga and dvi-d inputs.
You’re giving me flashbacks to all the different DVI standards, and whatever you were plugging in never matched the type you had.
Dedicated GPS unit in your car
My parents gave me a GPS unit for my car about 20 years ago and I used it for the longest time. It was great help when driving in cities and big towns or locations I had never gone to before. We used it all the time and I think I updated the maps … I think it was a Garmin device … I think I updated the maps 2 or 3 times over the years. Then it went unsupported but I kept using it for the longest time.
Then I started buying better smartphones and my phone just eventually replaced the GPS unit.
I still have it and it still works and the battery on it is still good … I just don’t need it any more and the maps are about 10-15 years out of date.
I can say the same about my ipod. I used it everyday for the longest time until I realized I can put a 126gb micro sd card in my phone which is more than double what my ipod had. Now it’s sitting in a box somewhere in my closet. Probably still works too.
True yeah… Garmin devices were so revolutionary for driving when they came out. Then phones with Google maps came along and that was easier
I have an old garmin gps in my car. Use it all the time combined with a phone. The garmin doesn’t need cell signal so it works everywhere. Funny when going places where the street didn’t exist back then, but it’s kind of cool to see how the city grows. We mainly use it as a backup. It’s also louder than the phone talking and easier to understand.
You can download maps on your phone, so you can use it in areas without service.
Used that when I went to the state’s and didn’t pay for roaming/data. Just downloaded Oregon/Washington.
I have OsmAnd and organic maps and the maps downloaded offline, but the garmin GPS also shows the speed limits, my speed, bigger screen, louder speaker.
Plasma TVs, DVRs, DVD players
Plasma TV
Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time. A long time…
Pay phones, Public water fountains, Coffee grinders in grocery stores, all the hundreds of gadgets that our smart phones replaced, Tons of random accessories for everything were all over stores and eBay but sadly all gone now.
Oh yeah, coffee grinders in grocery stores. I rarely see those anymore, but they used to be everywhere.
CD’s & Mp3 players
I’ll take the opposite view… what technologies are ubiquitous today that will be irrelevant in a few years?
Smartwatches. Nobody needs this shit, they’re mostly just toys for fat people who want to “monitor their health”, and for gadget-goofs that need everything shiny, new and overpriced, regardless of the actual utility in their lives.
Love my smart watch
I go jogging and leave my big bulky phone behind. I can still track my jog, listen to music, and check my heart rate, but at 1/20th the weight.
