Old Tech thread

[M. Robert Gibson]

Found an article on this very theme

Obsolete technologies that will baffle modern children - in pictures

www.telegraph.co.uk

I'm not sure all of them would baffle though

 

[Vince W]

Found an article on this very theme

Obsolete technologies that will baffle modern children - in pictures

www.telegraph.co.uk

I'm not sure all of them would baffle though

I think this technology will baffle today's children more:

 

[Dave]

I think this technology will baffle today's children more

And the thing was, when you actually didn't know someone's number it was usually in a directory that you weren't given.

I'm not sure that "baffled" is the right word either. When my kids first saw an old telephone with a dial, they weren't sure about how to use the dial, but a keyboard is still a keyboard, and a camera is still a camera.

 

[Parson]

I can say my grandkids --- not one of the 8 --- has ever used nor, I think, seen a rotary phone, yet the youngest just over two picks up the ancient pull toy telephone and proceeds to play with it like a phone. ---- You never know...

 

[MaxiPower]

Life before the internet was awesome... but that feeling once you first got the internet was even better. Id love to experience it again. Where the possibilities are endless. Now its taken for granted.

 

[reiver33]

Life before the internet meant libraries, or at least reading.

 

[Anthoney]

I ran out and bought one of these when they were first released.

 

[psikeyhackr]

Life before the internet meant libraries, or at least reading.

Now we can wade through more bullsh** faster. What do you mean the percentage of bullsh** has risen?

 

[Vince W]

Now we can wade through more bullsh** faster. What do you mean the percentage of bullsh** has risen?

Exponentially!

 

[The Ace]

I ran out and bought one of these when they were first released.

I saw what kodak were trying to do at the time, and waited for the bump.

While the disc was a flop (the negative was just too small) the improvements to film that made it possible were astounding when carried over to 35mm.

What got me was Advanced Photo System (APS) which must've taken millions to develop, only for digital to remove its market overnight.

 

[Parson]

I saw what kodak were trying to do at the time, and waited for the bump.

While the disc was a flop (the negative was just too small) the improvements to film that made it possible were astounding when carried over to 35mm.

What got me was Advanced Photo System (APS) which must've taken millions to develop, only for digital to remove its market overnight.

You do realize that Kodak had the technology for digital photography first, but did not pursue it? I don't know why, but I suspect that they didn't see it as anything that would help their business, and in that they were right.

Photos: The history of the digital camera

 

[Vertigo]

You do realize that Kodak had the technology for digital photography first, but did not pursue it? I don't know why, but I suspect that they didn't see it as anything that would help their business, and in that they were right.

Photos: The history of the digital camera

I think they didn't realise its full potential and, to be fair, very few did at that time. Fuji did but that's about it. Professional photographers were convinced it would never deliver the quality that film did. SF authors, right up until digital imagery became commonplace, still had chemical photography in the far future. A classic for that was Asimov in The Caves of Steel; his robots had positronic brains, but the one of the points that the whole crime case of that book hinged on was the fogging of camera film by radiation. There are many things that have been missed over the years by future predictors, but I've always been fascinated by how blind we all were to the future of digital imagery, especially as I work in that field and we are still printing using a chemical printer! Though we do print from digital images! Our printer exposes photographic paper with a laser and it is then processed chemically.

Disclosure: we'll probably be going to pro ink jet within the next 12 months.

 

[Ursa major]

we do print from digital images! Our printer exposes photographic paper with a laser

You old traditionalist you....

 

[psikeyhackr]

Exponentially!

I can't do the math. Too much bullsh** in my eyes.

 

[Danny McG]

'Internet' from the early 1960's

 

[Ursa major]

So Jen Barber from The IT Crowd was correct: the Internet was contained in a small box....

 

[Dave]

It looks like something a Terminator brought back from the future. Why else would they require a "Magnetic Earphone"? The amazing thing about these 1960 transistor radios is how quickly we forgot how small they were and then how revolutionary we believed the SONY Walkman was in the 1980s. I also don't live far from that address. It's been rebuilt now and is a carpet shop and convenience store.

 

[Danny McG]

There's a hi-fi version as well

 

[Anthoney]

Internet for the hearing impaired and it takes up less space than the braille version.

 

[Danny McG]

Internet for the hearing impaired and it takes up less space than the braille version.

Why would a hearing impaired person use Braille?