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Thermal fax paper. Remember that?
Dot matrix printers.
Thermal fax paper. Still have a box of it and an old fax machine that uses it although I now just use my all-in-one printer for faxing. I ought to just get rid of the thing, but it's the only corded phone in the house these days.
Dot matrix printer. Got one boxed up in my garage. Ribbons too.
A hand held scanner. Simply awful.
5-1/4 inch floppy drives and floppies to go with it. Still have one computer that uses them.
RGB monitor. Got one of them too out in the garage all boxed up. Just like new too!
What is a scroll lock key... ?
...but yeah, the scroll lock key is pretty much worthless. Probably why Apple omitted it.
I still have MD capability on the old HiFi, but can't remember the last time I used a MD.
Thermal Fax Paper useless and outdated? Surely you mean Fax useless and outdated?
Surely you mean Fax useless and outdated?
Many industries have no gone paperless, especially ones that you would think would be. Online hotel reservations? Many hotels require faxed reservation information from the agency. Mortgages? I've been e-mailing my broker all my loan docs, but he has to print them out to submit to the lender.
What I find a bit bizarre is that when I fax our suppliers, I'm sending a pdf to a server that converts it to a fax signal - that is then probably reconverted from a fax to a PDF and then delivered to the supplier by email rather than on their fax machine. I could save myself $15 a month if we cut out that middle man :).
CDs - pffft... my car doesnt even have a CD player.
Remote Control - you still use that? my TV understands my voice commands. Ha.
8GB Ipod - so 5 years ago... Try my 3TB Ipod.. holds every song ever made.
a Wife - fugedaboutit. check out my android.. she can cook, clean... ooooh, check this out!
Subscription TV channels, like cable, HBO, etc. You buy only what you want to watch via the web.
Paper newspapers in your driveway each morning. You'll just turn on your ereader.
Hard drive capacity concerns. All of your data will be on the cloud, online.
Facebook & Twitter. Because they'll never figure out how to make money.
CDs - pffft... my car doesnt even have a CD player.
Neh. Should remain the cheapest way to sell media.
Remote Control - you still use that? my TV understands my voice commands. Ha.
Talking is fun at first, but people will likely stick with buttons which require less effort than constantly talking.
8GB Ipod - so 5 years ago... Try my 3TB Ipod.. holds every song ever made.
That will most likely happen. Maybe not 3 TB though, haha. But who knows?
Remote Control - you still use that? my TV understands my voice commands. Ha.
Talking is fun at first, but people will likely stick with buttons which require less effort than constantly talking.
Windows 9
Solid state disks, no more spinning stuff
Sixteen core CPUs will be mainstream
Voice recoginition will be more prevalent
GPS devices will be everywhere (cars and all phones)
Schoolbooks, newspapers = eReaders
>>Facebook & Twitter. Because they'll never figure out how to make money.
I give them three more years - tops.
"Voice recoginition will be more prevalent"
I've been hearing that since the 1980's...
CDs also I think. I ship a package weekly, which includes a CD for a Premier Premium Platinum Plan, and have had to re-spec the CD three times in last two years. Though there isn't a whole lot of difference that I can tell, we use premium audio CDs (short of archive quality). We also use a standard case over the slim case so that we can add spine labels. Those cases are getting almost impossible to find at B&M. Last round I had to settle for a low quality standard case. When they run out, I expect that we will have to find them online somewhere, and I hope we can find a premium qualityty case again. The re-spec on the last batch I am NOT happy with.
We charge $75 a week for this service and have already warned our users that in the next few years, CDs may go away; that they should backup the data on their computers and be prepared for the end of the CD player.
I haven't gotten what I have considered a quite straight answer from people that I think should know more about how much longer the format will last, and that is a bit of a flag also. Maybe they will last because there isn't anything between CD and DVD, but we are looking to add a video component to the package, and that would be the end of CDs for me. ?
Scroll lock key is used in Excel to change the function of the arrow keys from selecting to scrolling.
Ghetto blaster, e.g. "3D Super Woofer"!
so what will be outdated in 5 more years?
All the devices with wires...
As for the future, I want to get rid of all the spaghetti behind my desk and TV. We need wireless everything!
so what will be outdated in 5 more years?
...did not know what a vinyl record was...
Ha! On a forum elsewhere I've recently posted about a 78 that I bought!
Outdated in five years...
Qwerty keyboards as we know them now.
The belief that life exists only on this planet.
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Will survive the Apocalypse.
