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Old/obsolete technology you're glad to see the back of

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  • #32
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,880 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    My hands for washing dishes.


  • #33
    quokula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭quokula


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Thankfully we don't have to watch b/w Tv sets the size of a minibus anymore. RTEs programme schedule has improved marginally since.

    I do miss just having all the channels directly on the TV without messing around with extra decoder boxes though.


  • #34
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,863 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Westernyelp wrote: »
    Soda streams. You had to be a chemist to get to taste anyway decent. And those loud fart noises it made when fully carbonated would frighten the bejaysus out of a young child. Those little gas tanks looked like something dug up after WWII. Thought I was going to blow myself up every time. I'd be sweating after it. You'd be full of bubbles after it for the day too.

    Think they are still around for the niche market

    It's not a niche market,
    Its seen as an environmentally friendly alternative to buying bottles of carbonated water.
    All the hipsters in Stoneybatter have them.


  • #35
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,266 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Westernyelp wrote: »
    Soda streams. You had to be a chemist to get to taste anyway decent. And those loud fart noises it made when fully carbonated would frighten the bejaysus out of a young child. Those little gas tanks looked like something dug up after WWII. Thought I was going to blow myself up every time. I'd be sweating after it. You'd be full of bubbles after it for the day too.

    Think they are still around for the niche market

    They found a way to bottle fizzy drinks decades before and then they invented something to put the fizz in yourself.
    Only the nouveau riche had soda streams back in the day.


  • #36
    selwyn froggitt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 487 ✭✭selwyn froggitt


    Stevieluvsye wrote: »
    Fax machines, shirley these things aren't round anymore?

    They are,and don't call me Shirley.


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  • #37
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,266 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    BrownFinger wrote: »
    It's not a niche market,
    Its seen as an environmentally friendly alternative to buying bottles of carbonated water.
    All the hipsters in Stoneybatter have them.

    Don't you still have to buy bottles of unfizzed soda?
    They still have to produce heaps of mini pressurised cylinders.

    It's just shifting the waste elsewhere so hipsters think they're doing good imo.


  • #38
    magic_murph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,545 ✭✭✭magic_murph


    The Sally Rod


  • #39
    Stevieluvsye
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭Stevieluvsye


    OSI wrote: »
    Plenty of places will only accept Fax for official documents, scanning and emailing not being allowed for archaic reasons.

    Well that's pretty ridiculous, considering IT Clouds that are many times more secure for the above purposes and also the advancement of digital signage


  • #40
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Westernyelp wrote: »
    Soda streams.

    Think they are still around for the niche market

    They were selling them in Lidl the other day. Not sure where you could get the flavours anymore though - i used to love withches brew and cream soda when i was younger. Then fizzed up white wine when i was a bit older and trying to impress some teenage quare one with my sophistication using only the 4 quid i found down the back of the sofa:D


  • #41
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,722 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    I still have minidiscs, manual chokes and soda streams! I also have IOT based IPTV, and a Smart Home.

    You can still have both! :D


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  • #42
    Wabbit Ears
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,065 ✭✭✭Wabbit Ears


    selwyn froggitt wrote: »
    They are,and don't call me Shirley.

    dammit, I wanted to write that!


  • #43
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    blackbox wrote: »
    Vinyl records. They were such rubbish with all of the noise from the dust etc. And they got scratched so easily.
    I had a Lou Reed album that was wrecked on its third play.

    Disagree, and vinyl is certainly not obsolete. If you look after records properly, then they last for decades. I have a Neil Young first pressing from 1969 in excellent condition. Sound quality is much superior than modern mp3 also, "surround" as opposed to tinny compression.


  • #44
    Tammy!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,149 ✭✭✭Tammy!


    gozunda wrote: »
    I kinda miss the older TVs tbh. I mean the ones back in the day that were 2 feet wide and 2.5 feet deep because of the cathode ray tube used. That had only two dials and no remote and weighed a ton and a half...

    When they were mainly available in B&W and the Irish TV stations only came on just before six o'clock and ended the day with religous programme. And many people kept the TV set covered with a fancy tea towel or similar to protect it...

    And you use to get into trouble for messing with the static..


  • #45
    tedpan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭tedpan


    boombang wrote:
    Noisy dot matrix printers with poor perforated paper.


    Lots of places like car dealerships still use these


  • #46
    CrankyHaus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,280 ✭✭✭CrankyHaus


    Landline extension numbers anyone?
    Still not entirely gone unfortunately, many parts of the public sector retain them. Can never get the direct extension to work and end up having to be routed through the front desk.

    It's kind of gas seeing how much effort Sony put into Minidisc and how comprehensively it was outclassed by a despised format with much less industry backing (MP3). How Music Got Free is an excellent book that deals in part with this. Still loved listening to OK Computer on MiniDisc back in the day.


  • #47
    Stevieluvsye
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭Stevieluvsye


    OSI wrote: »
    There's legal bull**** around the requirement for a physical signature on documents. For some reason a Fax covers this, but an e-signature in an email doesn't.

    Not where i work. E-Sig on all contracts


  • #48
    Tammy!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,149 ✭✭✭Tammy!


    Cyclepath wrote: »
    My very first game of ping pong on the ZX had to be typed in by hand from a magazine. Only took 3 goes to get it right. :mad:.

    We had that on the C64. Great game :)


  • #49
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Still use Minidisc from time to time to record the odd DJ set here and there, it's just so handy, been meaning to get a proper digital recorder but haven't had a chance...


  • #50
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,736 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    Digital teletext. So much worse than the analogue system it replaced.


  • #51
    Tammy!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,149 ✭✭✭Tammy!


    Those digital moving photo frames. What a load of crap.


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  • #52
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,139 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    champchamp wrote: »
    WAP. Touted as the internet on your phone it was rubbish. Teletext was better.

    I'm a Web Developer, and back in 2001 the CTO of the small company I worked for in Dublin had this cockamamie notion of sending a few of us to Galway to open a new office dedicated solely to WAP development. We all graciously declined, as we knew full well the WAP fad would have passed by the time we got the taxi to Heuston Station.


  • #53
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,160 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    daheff wrote: »
    minidiscs

    overpriced vs tapes. cds saved us from them

    They were a fantastic format.
    Rerecordable, great sound,decent edit functions, track naming, very stable, compact, and they would have gotten cheaper if they had lasted.

    The CD came out in 1982, the minidisk in 92. How did cd save us from minidisk????:confused::confused:


  • #54
    brian tank
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3 ✭brian tank


    Women! soon to be replaced with sex robots
    We already have vacuum cleaners that will clean the floor automatically, dish washers and washing machines, scientist working on a artificial womb, the day of the end of woman draws near.


  • #55
    Stevieluvsye
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭Stevieluvsye


    brian tank wrote: »
    Women! soon to be replaced with sex robots
    We already have vacuum cleaners that will clean the floor automatically, dish washers and washing machines, scientist working on a artificial womb, the day of the end of woman draws near.

    Run as fast as you can


  • #56
    griffin100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,129 ✭✭✭griffin100


    Printing off AA Route Planner maps and then trying to use them! Sat Nav and smart phones have done away with that, although I still keep a map in the car when travelling to Cornwall as sometimes you can’t get a phone signal and herselfs car has no sat nav.


  • #57
    Phileas Frog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Phileas Frog


    Skin books


  • #58
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 78,543 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    Film, loading it was such a pain in the ass, and it was expensive, like 4/5 quid back in the early 90s for 36 exposures!!

    Maybe 2/3 quid for 24.
    Plus another fiver to get it developed, and back a week or so later


  • #59
    Tammy!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,149 ✭✭✭Tammy!


    Telephone boxes. They were a necessity at the time but they were always vandalised.


  • #60
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,722 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    OSI wrote: »
    There's legal bull**** around the requirement for a physical signature on documents. For some reason a Fax covers this, but an e-signature in an email doesn't.

    I didnt think signatures were actually legally required for documents? Receipt of a contract by bought parties constitutes the agreement I assumed?


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  • #61
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Phileas Frog wrote: »
    Skin books

    You mean ‘one-armed periodicals’ or ‘gentleman's art pamphlets?’

    An analogue collection of bongo mags will never go out of fashion. And when the Chinese and Russians take down the internet then the man with a box of ‘grot mags’ in the attic will be King.


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