the one thing, you saw come out that was your life changer.. that is no more.

Apr 19, 24 9:09

Post #1 of 21 (596 views)

The other thread got me wondering.

Was there ever something that you saw come out, that you thought well this is gonna be huge.. and then it died...

I would say, Buying movies for home (VHS / Laser disc / DVD etc.. ) Actually hear this may be making a comeback as folks are getting sick of trying to find the classic movie they want to watch again, on streaming, but for now I think its pretty much dead.

Just Triing
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Re: the one thing, you saw come out that was your life changer.. that is no more. [DavHamm] [ In reply to ]

Apr 19, 24 9:13

Post #2 of 21 (587 views)

Building my CD collection. I don't even have a CD player in the house anymore.

Re: the one thing, you saw come out that was your life changer.. that is no more. [frisbeedisc] [ In reply to ]

Apr 19, 24 9:24

Post #3 of 21 (572 views)

frisbeedisc wrote:

Building my CD collection. I don't even have a CD player in the house anymore.

I have hundreds of CDs in boxes sitting somewhere in storage in my house. Why I still have them is a mystery. I don't even have anything capable of playing them in my house.

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Re: the one thing, you saw come out that was your life changer.. that is no more. [DavHamm] [ In reply to ]

Apr 19, 24 9:32

Post #4 of 21 (558 views)

iTunes/iPod.

We could buy individual tracks for .99 each?! And fit thousands of them on a 20 GB iPod to take with us everywhere? Whoa.....

Now we use always connected smartphones and streaming music.

Fun fact: Winamp invented an online music store and wanted to integrate it with, at the time, their popular music player. AOL bought Winamp and instead of pursuing that idea, they used Winamp to promote AOL CDs with their dial-up service. lolol This was over a year before iTunes was introduced.

Re: the one thing, you saw come out that was your life changer.. that is no more. [DavHamm] [ In reply to ]

Apr 19, 24 9:39

Post #5 of 21 (546 views)

Keeping with the music theme but going back a bit more in the timeline.....The Walkman. Having the ability to listen to music, without bothering anyone else, and the ability to listen anywhere was YUGE as teenager.

I don't know if "died" is the right way to qualify what happened though. Same as the VHS/Laser Disc/DVD, it evolved.

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Re: the one thing, you saw come out that was your life changer.. that is no more. [The GMAN] [ In reply to ]

Apr 19, 24 9:56

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The GMAN wrote:

frisbeedisc wrote:

Building my CD collection. I don't even have a CD player in the house anymore.

I have hundreds of CDs in boxes sitting somewhere in storage in my house. Why I still have them is a mystery. I don't even have anything capable of playing them in my house.

I don’t stream or satellite in car. I flip radio stations and then have a bunch of my CD’s in a carrier in car and still rotate.

Nobody else does this?

Re: the one thing, you saw come out that was your life changer.. that is no more. [WannaB] [ In reply to ]

Apr 19, 24 9:59

Post #7 of 21 (513 views)

WannaB wrote:

The GMAN wrote:

frisbeedisc wrote:

Building my CD collection. I don't even have a CD player in the house anymore.

I have hundreds of CDs in boxes sitting somewhere in storage in my house. Why I still have them is a mystery. I don't even have anything capable of playing them in my house.

I don’t stream or satellite in car. I flip radio stations and then have a bunch of my CD’s in a carrier in car and still rotate.

Nobody else does this?

....no? I use an adapter to plug my phone into the car stereo system.

Re: the one thing, you saw come out that was your life changer.. that is no more. [Dilbert] [ In reply to ]

Apr 19, 24 10:17

Post #8 of 21 (499 views)

Adapter? Not just Bluetooth?

I remember when I first saw the Tape-->CD player adapter. That was a game-changer

Re: the one thing, you saw come out that was your life changer.. that is no more. [DavHamm] [ In reply to ]

Apr 19, 24 10:29

Post #9 of 21 (488 views)

Zip drive was short lived, but was a game changer versus 3.5" floppy.

(Initially though work processor, but missed the "is no more" part)

Last edited by: J_R: Apr 19, 24 10:32

Re: the one thing, you saw come out that was your life changer.. that is no more. [frisbeedisc] [ In reply to ]

Apr 19, 24 10:33

Post #10 of 21 (476 views)

frisbeedisc wrote:

Building my CD collection. I don't even have a CD player in the house anymore.

Other than youtube I've never downloaded music, I still buy CD's and vinyl.

Re: the one thing, you saw come out that was your life changer.. that is no more. [DavHamm] [ In reply to ]

Apr 19, 24 10:34

Post #11 of 21 (474 views)

TiVo

It was really great. Big hard drive attached to tv, record/ skip commercials etc. tvs got more hi res and the recording became obvious: Streaming came out and it fizzled.

Re: the one thing, you saw come out that was your life changer.. that is no more. [J_R] [ In reply to ]

Apr 19, 24 10:38

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J_R wrote:

Zip drive was short lived, but was a game changer versus 3.5" floppy.

(Initially though work processor, but missed the "is no more" part)

And it successor, the Jazz drive

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Re: the one thing, you saw come out that was your life changer.. that is no more. [mck414] [ In reply to ]

Apr 19, 24 11:07

Post #13 of 21 (452 views)

mck414 wrote:

Keeping with the music theme but going back a bit more in the timeline.....The Walkman. Having the ability to listen to music, without bothering anyone else, and the ability to listen anywhere was YUGE as teenager.

I don't know if "died" is the right way to qualify what happened though. Same as the VHS/Laser Disc/DVD, it evolved.

Portable music player has just evolved... owning a movie, VHS/Laser/DVD has not evolved, its just died.

Just Triing
Triathlete since 9:56:39 AM EST Aug 20, 2006.
Be kind English is my 2nd language. My primary language is Dave it's a unique evolution of English.

Re: the one thing, you saw come out that was your life changer.. that is no more. [WannaB] [ In reply to ]

Apr 19, 24 11:08

Post #14 of 21 (451 views)

WannaB wrote:

The GMAN wrote:

frisbeedisc wrote:

Building my CD collection. I don't even have a CD player in the house anymore.

I have hundreds of CDs in boxes sitting somewhere in storage in my house. Why I still have them is a mystery. I don't even have anything capable of playing them in my house.

I don’t stream or satellite in car. I flip radio stations and then have a bunch of my CD’s in a carrier in car and still rotate.

Nobody else does this?

If my car had cd player, I would still listen to them.

Just Triing
Triathlete since 9:56:39 AM EST Aug 20, 2006.
Be kind English is my 2nd language. My primary language is Dave it's a unique evolution of English.

Re: the one thing, you saw come out that was your life changer.. that is no more. [DavHamm] [ In reply to ]

Apr 19, 24 11:11

Post #15 of 21 (441 views)

Monster cubre libra

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Re: the one thing, you saw come out that was your life changer.. that is no more. [frisbeedisc] [ In reply to ]

Apr 19, 24 11:11

Post #16 of 21 (440 views)

frisbeedisc wrote:

Building my CD collection. I don't even have a CD player in the house anymore.

Agree, I have boxes of CD's and now you don't even get many vehicles with CD players as they all have satellite radio in them.

Re: the one thing, you saw come out that was your life changer.. that is no more. [DavHamm] [ In reply to ]

Apr 19, 24 11:20

Post #17 of 21 (429 views)

1200, 2400, 4800, 9600, 14400, 28800, 56K modems.

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Re: the one thing, you saw come out that was your life changer.. that is no more. [DavHamm] [ In reply to ]

Apr 19, 24 11:53

Post #18 of 21 (407 views)

Crystal Pepsi. I loved that stuff.

Re: the one thing, you saw come out that was your life changer.. that is no more. [DavHamm] [ In reply to ]

Apr 19, 24 12:00

Post #19 of 21 (395 views)

The VCR Tape rewinder. An awesome device for its time.

Re: the one thing, you saw come out that was your life changer.. that is no more. [SWEDE63] [ In reply to ]

Apr 19, 24 18:34

Post #20 of 21 (302 views)

SWEDE63 wrote:

frisbeedisc wrote:

Building my CD collection. I don't even have a CD player in the house anymore.

Agree, I have boxes of CD's and now you don't even get many vehicles with CD players as they all have satellite radio in them.

Both of our cars are old enough to have CD players in them

D'Wife has kept Foo Fighters Medicine At Midnight in hers for two years; I don't use mine- I plug my phone into the AUX Jack and run Spotify

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Re: the one thing, you saw come out that was your life changer.. that is no more. [WannaB] [ In reply to ]

Apr 20, 24 16:30

Post #21 of 21 (214 views)

WannaB wrote:

I don’t stream or satellite in car. I flip radio stations and then have a bunch of my CD’s in a carrier in car and still rotate.

Nobody else does this?

You are not alone. I do the same.

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