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Why was early 2000’s technology so cringe?
Was it because it was the “awkward teenager” phase for technology where improvements were beginning to accelerate but were quite there yet for what we would consider “modern”? -
Imagine feeling emotions towards consumer electronics
the garden gnome really has got in your head -
These use a stereo audio track as a video container. One channel is mono audio and the other is video
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sounds like camcoder
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damn that’s mad
even the colour ones?
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>Why was early 2000’s technology so cringe?
Mid to late 90s was the beginning of more consumer tech being manufactured in mainland China and Korea as opposed to Japan and Taiwan. It was a lot cheesier and we could detect the low quality right away when compared to Japan and Taiwan. Korea has actually improved a lot and wasn’t so bad back then. I had a Goldstar color TV and a Samsung VCR as a kid. Both were considered cheap brands in the 1990s. Goldstar aka Lucky Goldstar aka LG.-
goldstar is 3do console
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yeah. The 3DO is a relic of LG’s past. They made a lot of them and they were the cheapest model. The console was a flop. But you know they learned something from making it.
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GoldStar was the ghetto 3DO console, the more expensive ones were made by Panasonic
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>Goldstar aka Lucky Goldstar aka LG.
Huh…never knew that. I never once in my entire life considered that LG stands for something -
>Goldstar aka Lucky Goldstar aka LG
Mind = blownAnd yeah, Samsung was a mid-tier or even cheap brand in the 90s (it was considered okay but had zero prestige), Apple was considered weird, and Sony was the gold standard for audio, video and gaming. How times changed…
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>I had a Goldstar color TV and a Samsung VCR as a kid.
Same. Here is my new collection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z4iw8Ppo1o-
>Same. Here is my new collection
>Video is 10 years old
That hair is epic. -
woke af and markorepairs-pilled
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LG doesnt stand for Life’s Good?
wtf
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zoom zoom
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It was until 1995 you dumb zoom-zoom
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It wasn’t, it just existed before the internet was wide spread and cheap CPU boards were a thing. Everything was near-analogue.
Fuck you you dumb millenial. Japan and Taiwan made shitty garbage electronics too all throughout the 70s and 80s.
I remember people saying korean brands would never be as good as Japanese, as if Japanese brands hadn’t been cheap garbage clones of american companies the decade prior.
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I am a millennial but far from dumb. I am absolutely aware of the low quality Japanese and Taiwanese electronics of the boomer era. However, OP was specifically talking about early 2000s tech. That is why my timeframe was adjusted to include that historical era of tech.
The Americans, Taiwanese, and Japanese were all very close in electronics and chip production by the early to Mid-80s. Americans still had the lead but the Japanese and Taiwanese had several of their own very good fabs and were respected for quality. -
>the boomer forgot when the Japanese saved an entire global industry from greedy Americans (ie Atari and friends) in 1985
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>instead of only home computers, gaming today is often done on locked down consoles that can only play games that are authorized by the manufacturer.
Thanks Nintendo.
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>gaming would be limited to FOSS offerings if the piracy of the 1980s had continued unchecked without some way for devs to port their hard work to a profit earning platform in order to earn a living
Thanks Nintendo
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>instead of only home computers, gaming today is often done on locked down consoles that can only play games that are authorized by the manufacturer.
This got started by the original Atari VCS.
And manufacturer lockdowns are trivially easy to circumvent. Especially nowadays, when everything is done via software. -
The change from home computer to locked down consoles was caused by the video game crash, if the changes wouldn’t have been made there would have been no video game consoles at all after 1985
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There may have been few video games made anymore period. It was too wasy to copy a floppy and developers earned a pittance of compensation from PCs compared to what Nintendo brought to the table with their quality controls. I am only referring to Software devs since arcade producers like Nintendo, Sega, Midway, etc always had their locked down arcade hardware to fall back on.
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>There may have been few video games made anymore period. It was too wasy to copy a floppy and developers earned a pittance of compensation from PCs compared to what Nintendo brought to the table with their quality controls
>What was home computer gaming in Europe
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Oh yes the latest iteration of FIFA or Asterix would’ve totally saved the gaming industry!
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Consoles were barely a thing in Europe up until early 90’s.
It’s funny you mention FIFA, because yearly iterations of that garbage are what EA started doing AFTER getting on consoles. Before that they were actually a respectable publisher.
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They did it to make money scrote. You can’t pay your bills with Tux Racer and Xonotic.
Do you have a job? If you do have a job, do you go work everyday for the love of the products you create? I go to my job to make money. -
>If you do have a job, do you go work everyday for the love of the products you create? I go to my job to make money.
Sucks to be you lol
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>Japan and Taiwan made shitty garbage electronics too all throughout the 70s and 80s.
Only the earliest Japanese electronics were garbage. By the 70s, they were doing much better products than comparable US brands.Case in point.
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I associate fake wood tvs with cigarette smoke smell and filthy matted tan carpet
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Yes in a doublewide trailer with thin wood paneling.
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Taiwanese crap was shit too back then
Japanese stuff was over-engineered and often fragile but high quality-
Nearly all of the motherboard and graphics card manufacturers today started in the 1980s building PCs like the C64 and Atari ST.
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You’re saying that as if it is a good thing
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Not saying good or bad but the USA tech sector cultivated Taiwans rise.
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Here is a picture of the Goldstar Color TV I had. My parents probably bought the cheapest color TV and VCR they could find. I had a lot of VHS cassettes of anime and scifi shows and this basically kept me in my room and out of their way. Plus they hated everything that I liked. The picture quality of the TV eventually got very bad and they got rid of it when I was in my late 20s and bo longer lived with them.
The Samsung VCR never stopped working and was a great 4 head VCR with stereo. I used it as an AV to RF converter for many years because the Goldstar TV was RF only. No composite video inputs. -
>cringe
I think you misspelled "soulful and woke af"-
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God I wish we could go back…..
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i found a picture of the VCR on ebay. Samsung VR8070. I remember getting Playstation with I was 14 and plugging it into the front AV on this VCR. Used the same TV and VCR setup when I got a PS2 in early 2000s
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We had all the content but none of the base tech.
> Flash memory came in < 1 GB packages
> Lithium batteries were extremely expensive, so limited to high-end cellphones. NiMH rechargable AAAs and AAs were top tier battery stuff.
> Each device used their own charging standard (voltage, current, and barrel jack). USB was in its infancy. Devices usually used proprietary data cables as well.
> No smartphonesSo what we need?
> Merge 2000s tech with today’s tech
PMPs merge 2000s mp3/cd players and no tracking with current era lithium, flash storage, and high quality components. -
>no fun allowed
go fuck a cactus
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>OMG why dis ancient techmology so unwoke af im finna kms just looking at it fml OMG fr
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If I ever fail as a father and raise a scrotebrained little scrote like this i will kms
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>20 year old tech wasn’t as powerful as today
>"cringe"
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Mostly because components still weren’t small enough for any one device to do everything well (ie modern phones), but they were now small enough for devices that could do 2-3 things, or making certain devices portable. As a result the 90s were largely a decade of experimentation by either
>making random shit portable
>randomly smashing 3 existing technologies together-
they could make things small. It was the power consumption, memory, and energy storage that was held back. in 2001 1gb of memory was still a lot. The most common sizes for Compact Flash memory cards for portable devices was 32mb, 64mb, and 128mb if you were freaking rich.
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you have zero idea what cringe actually means, have a nice day.
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>Why was early 2000’s technology so cringe?
Bad industrial design. Those scrotes run with the same UI graphic artists that insist on changing shit every 6 months.
Say what you will about Apple, but they at least finally got industrial design as right you can get.
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all they did was go to an industrial design museum and copy old german shit
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I hate how everything was just the cheapest plastic painted to look like metal.
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You’re cringe.
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I want to go back
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Why? So you can go back to saying "the ZIP ate my homework" to excuse your laziness? Because if so, then woke af.
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I want to go back to a time when I only saw minorities on TV and they were the Huxtable’s and Banks’
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Lmao brrr click brrr click brrr click… Well guess I’m not accessing my zip disk today.
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