This was another thing I hated about gen 5...you either owned a Sony memory card for your shiny new Playstation or, you owned an off-brand and had to play through the first 1 - 5 hours of Final Fantasy 8 seven dozen times...Roboshi said:Memory cards or at least the kinds that would only hold 10 8K saves before you had to spend £10 on a new one.
Perhaps... But I can't stand it. You need to know a bunch of often cryptic commands by heart (or have extensive documentation to hand)piscian said:CLI is still used everywhere except for home users. I spend most of my work day in CLI as a network engineer. GUI's are unpredictable and when you're working on a box that hosts something 700,000 commercial and home users you can't trust GUI's to do exactly what you want them to and end up crashing the amazon storefront or something.CrystalShadow said:You'd be surprised at the age range around here. Being born in the 80's hardly makes you among the oldest people on the site...piscian said:I'm honestly surprised anyone on this forum is old enough to remember any of those things. Being born in the 80s I was generally at the forefront of new technology,
Personally, I don't miss tape drives. They were awful. I don't mean audio tapes, though you used those, I mean the tape drives for home computers.
They were slow, finicky, and you could wait half an hour just to find your program hadn't even loaded!
VHS machines were a nightmare to program, though they were OK towards thecend of their life (I still own one made in about 1998, and it's much easier to use than older ones were)
I do miss the ability to rewind tapes a tiny bit though. Going back like 5-10 seconds has become strangly difficult with DVD, but especially video files and online streaming video...
You gain a lot, yet a handful of things get harder.
I absolutely don't miss old printers. Same tech as new ones, much less reliable.
Command line interfaces, such as dos. Don't miss those, though they are not exactly gone completely, I don't miss needing to use them for very basic tasks constantly. (though I guess that does explain why I dislike using linux)
I don't miss records. I know some people get all nostalgic about the 'sound' of them, but they are bulky, fragile, and a complete pain to play. (especially if you feel like playing a specific song)
Library card catalogs. I haven't used them that much, they were a tiny bit before my time, but they were so irritating when I did...
CRT displays... I'm not sure of. They are bulky, and absurdly heavy, but they still seem to have some image quality features that are better than flatscreens, so...
Anyway, I could keep digging for more stuff, but I'm bored now. XD
CRT'S Yeah... I used a pair of 19 inch ones. They were so absurdly heavy... XDYeah when it comes to ancient technology CRT's are it. I and some friends owned some of the last High tech CRTs. Big 24"'s used at printing and news offices that eventually made their way to ebay for pennies. The problem was the final CRT supported resolution was something like 1600x1200. CRTs are dust in the wind now. Too expensive and bulky to continue even for cult collectors and artists. Just shipping a 24" CRT costs like $80 minimum.
I just fucking hate printers in general. Once ink Printers came about every goddamn printer on the market never lasts a year and toner carts are ridiculously expensive.
Seconded. I don't at all miss those bulky, heavy, eye-strain-inducing things. Though it was funny that you could brag to the tech-unsavvy that you had a particle accelerator on your desk!piscian said:Yeah when it comes to ancient technology CRT's are it.
Fun fact: The term "bug" in relation to programming actually came about due to a moth getting into a punch-card reader and causing problems when it inevitably got squished.StreamerDarkly said:I'm not old enough to have used them, but I always loved the stories from profs and old programmers about their punch cards stacks getting blown all over the street by a gust of wind.
I remember those as well. About around 2000 to 2003 or 2004 there was that weird period where cellphones just got smaller and smaller, like the companies were trying to make them reach atomic level or something.Queen Michael said:What I miss even less are those phones that were so Liliputian that many grown men couldn't press individual buttons. I'm glad we got rid of those.
I was thinking the same about floppy disks myself. The old-old ones that flopped all over seemed to become unusable at the drop of a hat, but even the smaller stiffer ones were a pain. I can vividly remember having to split up simple text documents or whatever I was using for spreadsheets back then because there was this horrible period where storage technology was way the shit behind the growth of filesizes. But if you worked for a company, you still had to get those files around somehow, so we would have boxes of meticulously organized, numbered floppies, waiting to be misplaced or dropped.Johnny Novgorod said:Dial-up internet and floppy disks. Man, those floppy disks. Not terribly reliable. I couldn't even trust them with a simple .doc. I might as well have been writing on sand.
Eh, not with you on this one. Electric razors are great in that they give you a basic shave quickly and without hassle, but manual razors with actual razor blades give you a much closer shave, and straight razors even more so.FalloutJack said:I dunno... I'm an old-schooler. There may not be much for me to miss. I won't miss dial-up connections either, though. Non-electric razors with shaving cream or gel can go to hell, though. If it isn't furiously zipping off beard when I decide to cut it off, I don't wanna hear about it.
I'm not interested in being a baby's butt. I'm interested in being shaven when I want my beard off, bearded when I want to be bearded, and I don't like shaving cream or gel, period. That's just how it is.Dirty Hipsters said:Eh, not with you on this one. Electric razors are great in that they give you a basic shave quickly and without hassle, but manual razors with actual razor blades give you a much closer shave, and straight razors even more so.FalloutJack said:I dunno... I'm an old-schooler. There may not be much for me to miss. I won't miss dial-up connections either, though. Non-electric razors with shaving cream or gel can go to hell, though. If it isn't furiously zipping off beard when I decide to cut it off, I don't wanna hear about it.
I love my electric razor because of how convenient it is, but whenever I have a special occasion I always go old school with blades and shaving cream because it just gives you a better shave.
I'm too much of a wuss to do that, I feel my hands are not steady enough. However I am more than happy to get my local barber, who's been in the game for like 30 years, to do it for me. Man has hands a surgeon would envy.Dirty Hipsters said:Eh, not with you on this one. Electric razors are great in that they give you a basic shave quickly and without hassle, but manual razors with actual razor blades give you a much closer shave, and straight razors even more so.FalloutJack said:I dunno... I'm an old-schooler. There may not be much for me to miss. I won't miss dial-up connections either, though. Non-electric razors with shaving cream or gel can go to hell, though. If it isn't furiously zipping off beard when I decide to cut it off, I don't wanna hear about it.
I love my electric razor because of how convenient it is, but whenever I have a special occasion I always go old school with blades and shaving cream because it just gives you a better shave.
PS/2 is considered a legacy port at this point, it is likely to disappear in the not too distant future.piscian said:Parasondox said:Wired Keyboard and mouse before they had the USB end to them, I am looking at you!!
You can't actually miss or not miss Ps/2 it's still standard on most motherboards and there's a large following still using and manufacturing it. Strictly for mouse and keyboard I agree PS/2 is still better for response time and yeah it's nearly impossible to not plug it in right first time unlike USB. Para I'm calling you out dog, did you actually use PS/2 what is wrong with it exactly?Recusant said:This, however, just baffles me. The only difference I've noticed between USB and PS/2 cables is that you can tell at a glance (or by feeling) which side is up, and thus which way it's supposed to go in. Oh, and most operating systems are a lot more reluctant to read USB devices before the machine's finished booting up. What are you talking about?