A technology that you miss?

alias454

I can't say I actually miss any of it but back in the day... my shotgun modem was the best thing ever. Dual 56k pipes bonded together for the ultra fast internet experience oh ya

One thing I can say about technoligy is that while it has abstracted away much of the hard stuff, it is a much broader field of endeavor then it ever used to be. Kids now days (yup I said it) don't even know what an IRQ is and probably never had to set jumpers on SCSI drives. I'm sure the main frame dudes thought the same thing about PC techs, someone on here already said as much.

I guess there is one thing I do miss the first gen playstation and DOOM. I played that so much, I had blisters on my thumbs.

Mishra

I miss working with autoexec.bat and config.sys to try and get my sound card to work and feeling so accomplished when I did get it to work. It made playing the video games I wanted to so much better because I had to work for it.

ThomasITguy

I miss writing notes to girls I liked... then the butterflies you get when they would write you a note back....

EagerDinosaur

I miss Ada and really high quality compilers like DEC's VAX Ada. Back in the eighties it was a well-designed language that had features (exception handling, generics, a rich type system) that didn't appear in other mainstream languages for another 10 years. It's a shame it never achieved commercial critical mass.

Russell77

Getting postcards.

Lotus 1-2-3. It was simple and easy to use compared to the bloated excel.

Node Man

EagerDinosaur wrote: »

I miss Ada and really high quality compilers like DEC's VAX Ada

This is something I think about. Today it may be hard to conceive, but I think DEC was an extremely successful company, but they did not do a good job preparing for the future. I think PC's were a hurdle they couldn't overcome.

si20

For me it was p2p games. Specifically: command and conquer. There used to be around 10,000+ people in a lobby wanting a game. The more you played it, the more you'd see the regulars coming back. We'd have 2 vs 2, 4 vs 4 and some games lasted 3-4 hours each. After spending 3-4 hours per game with people, you start forming teams. We had "clans" and became quite a feared bunch of players. Sounds sad maybe.....but I assure you, it was outstanding.

JoJoCal19

si20, I believe StarCraft 2 and Warcraft III are still pretty popular today.

kohr-ah

si20 wrote: »

For me it was p2p games. Specifically: command and conquer. There used to be around 10,000+ people in a lobby wanting a game. The more you played it, the more you'd see the regulars coming back. We'd have 2 vs 2, 4 vs 4 and some games lasted 3-4 hours each. After spending 3-4 hours per game with people, you start forming teams. We had "clans" and became quite a feared bunch of players. Sounds sad maybe.....but I assure you, it was outstanding.

I remember I spent $10 to get Kali.net so that we could find games faster for games like that.

Priston

reload@ wrote: »

An RS-232 COM port on my laptop.

+1
I hate it when my key-span crashes my laptop.

dave330i

Manual transmission.

tedjames

dave330i wrote: »

Manual transmission.

I've been driving a vehicle with a manual transmission since 1981 will continue to drive one until they pry the shifter from my cold, dead hand. Of course, I don't really want to die in my car...

ThomasITguy

dave330i wrote: »

Manual transmission.

That is still around.... some of the newer cars still have a manual option, but it is slowly fading away. I miss my 2 door Honda civic EX coupe.... But I do want a Subaru Wrx 5 speed though...

tedjames

ThomasITguy wrote: »

That is still around.... some of the newer cars still have a manual option, but it is slowly fading away. I miss my 2 door Honda civic EX coupe.... But I do want a Subaru Wrx 5 speed though...

It's just not really driving if the car does all of the work. In 5-10 years, we'll be talking about the good old days when WE drove the cars. I for one do NOT welcome our new autonomous automobile overlords.

Jamm1n

Original Nintendo, Colonization...

That writing a note comment is to funny and true.

ThomasITguy

tedjames wrote: »

It's just not really driving if the car does all of the work. In 5-10 years, we'll be talking about the good old days when WE drove the cars. I for one do NOT welcome our new autonomous automobile overlords.

right I think cars the drive themselves are a recipe for disaster.

alan2308

si20 wrote: »

For me it was p2p games. Specifically: command and conquer.

I used to play that game for 15 hours straight on the Playstation.

dave330i

ThomasITguy wrote: »

That is still around.... some of the newer cars still have a manual option, but it is slowly fading away. I miss my 2 door Honda civic EX coupe.... But I do want a Subaru Wrx 5 speed though...

When >90% of cars have slush box, the manual transmission is on the endangered list.

ThomasITguy wrote: »

right I think cars the drive themselves are a recipe for disaster.

Humans are the most unreliable component of driving. When you eliminate their involvement, the roadways become a lot safer and more efficient.

ITSpectre

I miss Sega and sonic the hedgehog, manual transmission cars, and those tomagachi things... I never could keep those things alive lol

tedjames

dave330i wrote: »

Humans are the most unreliable component of driving.

The same thing applies to security. Humans are the weakest link.

CyberSecurity

ThomasITguy wrote: »

I miss the AOL dial tone noises you heard when you got online....

The original dubstep

Node Man

CyberSecurity wrote: »

The original dubstep

I rarely dispute comments, but for original dubstep I must suggest the sound of dot matrix printers.

TechGromit

I miss "Infoseek", It was a search engine that allowed you to do a search and do another search on the results to narrow down what you were searching for. So you could search for "Fire", get results, then search for "Engine" on the results you obtained from the first search, and so on. While you can do the same thing with Google with search operators, Infoseek seemed easier to use.