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What OLD technology needs to make a comeback?

3904 sats \ 67 comments \ @birdeye21 23 Oct 2023 tech

What do you wish the world never moved on from?

https://i.imgur.com/H8vGhY2.jpg

My god, bring it back. Please tell me someone's bitcoinizing the N64..

707 sats \ 11 replies \ @zuspotirko 23 Oct 2023

IMO stuff that's offline. Not everything needs to connect to an app or a remote server. I mean both physical gadgets but also a lot of apps that could just work offline.

330 sats \ 6 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 23 Oct 2023

this 100%...we've digitized too too much...QR menus at restaurants are the fkng worst

88 sats \ 2 replies \ @Natalia 23 Oct 2023

yes, or I prefer no menu at all, open kitchen - seeing as ordering

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @birdeye21 OP 23 Oct 2023

restaurants are in-person experiences...don't make me stare at a screen again while im there! Do that enough already...

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @Natalia 23 Oct 2023

Exactly, I like going to restaurants where elderly locals go, everything is still the old-times way - menus most likely hanging on the walls or no menu at all, handwritten orders, small conversations in between, and the chefs being proud of their food! hahaha

22 sats \ 2 replies \ @brandonsbytes 23 Oct 2023

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254 sats \ 1 reply \ @jgbtc 23 Oct 2023

Electronic menus mean they can increase prices daily without needing to reprint.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 24 Oct 2023

That's the answer. Sticky prices aren't a big problem in a stable monetary regime. However, in a highly inflationary period, it's important to be able to adjust prices frequently without constantly printing new menus.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullama 24 Oct 2023

Open source is great for that, I've swapped all my apps for OS ones that work offline only, on GrapheneOS. It's great.

28 sats \ 2 replies \ @brandonsbytes 23 Oct 2023

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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @zuspotirko 23 Oct 2023

Remember how people bought a new CD every month or every few months? How bout a new roll of film for every set of 32 photos? Life was objectively worse back then - but it wasn't necessarily less happy

5 sats \ 0 replies \ @brandonsbytes 23 Oct 2023

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457 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker 23 Oct 2023

Pen and paper in the classroom. Education after COVID has become so digitized, but it is really bad for low willpower kids who end up just goofing off on their devices

92 sats \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 23 Oct 2023

Honestly, even high willpower kids have a hard time with it. I know so many kids for whom the covid lockdown insanity was a complete disaster, in so many ways - emotional, social, physical.

46 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 23 Oct 2023

big facts

unfortunately the next generation's probably gonna be in some metaverse school nonsense

cautiously optimistic this trend will somehow flip into a positive thing

41 sats \ 0 replies \ @faithandcredit 23 Oct 2023

Some people doodled their way through school, before tablets. At the end of the day public school is the same, but the tech might be a bit more advanced. But end of the day its a public school and destroys souls

154 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scholarhacker 23 Oct 2023

The Bat Utility Belt. Complete with Bat Shark Repellent Spray.

162 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 23 Oct 2023

https://bitcoinfax.net/

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @sime 23 Oct 2023

This

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @brandonsbytes 23 Oct 2023

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135 sats \ 2 replies \ @Natalia 23 Oct 2023

record music player.

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 23 Oct 2023

still got one :)

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @brianh 23 Oct 2023

records and turntables have been coming back for a while now lol

74 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK 23 Oct 2023

Oldtimers like the Triumph 4

195 sats \ 2 replies \ @designsats 23 Oct 2023

Guillotine for politicians

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @OneOneSeven 23 Oct 2023

Don't forget the bankers

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @td 25 Oct 2023

Careful what you wish for... Towards the end of the Reign of Terror some of the original revolutionaries became victim of their own machine.

225 sats \ 0 replies \ @benthecarman 23 Oct 2023

Freedom

70 sats \ 3 replies \ @Bitcoiner1 23 Oct 2023

The Concorde airplane.

If you don't know about it, you can read here

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @TNStacker 24 Oct 2023

Google Hermeus Corp. outside Atlanta, GA

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 24 Oct 2023

There is a strong argument to say that was the high point of human engineering using paper and slide rules.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 24 Oct 2023

she's beautiful

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/British_Airways_Concorde_G-BOAC_03.jpg

151 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullama 24 Oct 2023

Gaming Consoles that don't have updateable OS or games. (Think PS2 and earlier generations).
Media that you can physically own (software, movies, music, etc) instead of paying a subscription to it. OK, if you need mp3s, then Winamp, because it really whips the llama's ass!
Devices that simply work by connecting them to the electricity grid. No Internet required to use it.
Real Photographs. Now with the Pixel 8 and others we are starting to see AI edited photos in the mainstream. This means that you will be usually seeing photos of events that never happened in real life. For example, group photo where one blinked, the phone grabs another photo to swap the face, or simply generates some open eyes there. That event never happened yet you are looking at a photo of it. Huge issues in the future for this. We only had a few decades of photo evidence being truth.

51 sats \ 0 replies \ @aljaz 24 Oct 2023

websites that dont require downloading 200mb of shit to show you two paragraphs of text

193 sats \ 2 replies \ @chairman_pretense 23 Oct 2023

What the hell does bitcoinizing the N64 mean

32 sats \ 1 reply \ @birdeye21 OP 23 Oct 2023

Loll work LN into old N64 games. Let me stack sats with it. One can dream ser https://www.sm128c.com/media/n64/sm64/collect-star.jpg

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @NoStranger 24 Oct 2023

Sats per hit in smash bros on N64? Hell you I'll join the fight!

63 sats \ 0 replies \ @lightwalker 23 Oct 2023

Walkman by Sony. Old school type music on the go.

56 sats \ 0 replies \ @faithandcredit 23 Oct 2023

Well, the electric chair. There is no point in having capital punishment if you are just going to use an injection that makes it like going to sleep. It defeats the whole purpose.

49 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 23 Oct 2023

Only if it comes with the game Blast Corp…

Personally I’d like 8-track tapes to make a come back.

42 sats \ 1 reply \ @TNStacker 24 Oct 2023

I am buying LPs. Does that count since it is kind of back?

Oh and cursive in the schools. How the hell we educating people that can't read the U. S. Constitution in original script?!!!

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 24 Oct 2023

Def still counts I'd say.

And well, that's because they dont want people to be able to read it..

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @drfred 24 Oct 2023

free electromagnetic energy

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @Believe 23 Oct 2023

Sony ericsson Nokia

134 sats \ 5 replies \ @jeff 23 Oct 2023

Microsoft Excel 2010

Everything after that, is just brutal unnecessary re-writes and designed-for-SaaS-features.

30 sats \ 3 replies \ @ruS7Y 23 Oct 2023

Fuck Microsoft

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @Michelson_Morley 24 Oct 2023

Typescript is nice. Github is nice. Kubernetes is nice.

Microsoft is one of the biggest supporters of open source software in the world. But it has only been this way since around 2017, when Bill Gates and Ballmer screwed off.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @jeff 23 Oct 2023

Yah, pretty much. But, day-jobs are going to day-job. And employers tend to like maintaining supportable software.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 24 Oct 2023

I enjoy excel too🫡

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Michelson_Morley 24 Oct 2023

Agreed! Excel, truly functional dataflow programming, is a paradigm that is lost to many today.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bitcoinity 24 Oct 2023 freebie

Tesla free energy

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheBTCManual 24 Oct 2023

Coal-fired powerplants lol

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @LowK3y19 21 Sep

Dreamcast was ahead of its time with online gaming

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @joshuawhe 24 Oct 2023

Bitcoinise the N64, hmmm, how could I do that?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @tom335 24 Oct 2023

I really enjoyed CD's. Unfortunately most that I owned got damaged. So, I like the size and overall sound quality, but the disc material sucks.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @dieselbaby 24 Oct 2023

Physical media in general. VINYL for albums REAL PROJECTION FILM CINEMA THEATRES WITHOUT 1000 SEATS, GOOD SOUND, FILM PROJECTORS, REAL FILM-STOCK SHOT FILM WITH KODACHROME COLORING & TECHNICOLOR plzzzzz

There are actually people who have built on-chain video game functionality with an emulator of sorts using reverse transcriptions of some kind, with ordinals. I was talking to the guy in a Twitter spaces, I'll post his info in here when I get back.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @om 24 Oct 2023

Installing new software by methods other than curl $URL | sudo sh

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @mudbloodvonfrei 24 Oct 2023

I recently installed Batocera Linux on an old mini PC. It's basically a retro gaming distro that comes pre-installed with dozens of emulators. I didn't want my kids to grow up without experiencing Goldeneye on N64.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @chungkingexpress 24 Oct 2023

Cars that do not feel like you are flying an aircraft with all the screens and buttons. Just keep it simple.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @oli 24 Oct 2023

Bearer shares.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @xz 24 Oct 2023

Fax. I believe Japan knows.

366 sats \ 0 replies \ @brandonsbytes 23 Oct 2023

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109 sats \ 4 replies \ @Zepasta 23 Oct 2023

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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @ncryppt 23 Oct 2023

zoo tycoon from a frosted flakes box was ELIETE

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 23 Oct 2023

roller coaster was better

4 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 23 Oct 2023

oh yes i remember the hype

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @td 25 Oct 2023

The Frosties one was the best. I had go google it but it was called Mission Nutrition. Legendary.