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Years ago I worked at an electronics store and have seen some very interesting products over the years with some being very useful.

Not sure how to do a poll on here but wanted to see how people matched on the ownership of some of these useful devices .

Have you ever owned a My (answers)

-PDA? Yes, I had a Palm IIIe

-DVD-Recorder? Yes. Successor to VCR sure didn't last long... ๐Ÿ˜–

-WebTV? No. Interactive TV in the days of dial-up. ๐Ÿ™‚

-3D Television? No

-Raspberry PI? No but I want to.

-Internet Radio Player? No This would be fun especially if it also had am/FM tuner

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I have (and in some cases still do) all but the WebTV and the Internet Radio Player.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I guess it depends on what counts as a PDA. Would you count a Blackberry? They sold them as PDAs when I got my first BB. But it wasn't really at all like a PalmPilot or one of those Motorola dudes.

DVD-R big time. I specifically got a recorder as my first player since I knew I would be ripping discs a lot.

WebTV came out when I was too young to afford a TV, and my parents wouldn't have gone for anything like that even if I begged.

Never had or wanted a 3D TV, as my first time hearing about them was literally seeing them in action and the effect was headache inducing. The Nintendo 3DS used the same tech, and I always kept the 3D slider at the minimum.

I do want a Raspberry Pi or some other micro computer; I just need a project and reason to get one. I have a 3D printer so I have too many awesome choices I could try.

I might have gotten an internet radio player... If I knew of their existence back when they would have been relevant. I was big time into Winamp's net radio scene in high school. Even ran my own. Reading your list was the first time I was made aware of them, though.

I am 38. I've never been on the bleeding edge, but I have tended to be an early adopter. If enough people try a thing and say it's cool, I come check it out. lol

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

At the height of PDA popularity the average person had a separate device for their phone calls. Generally speaking a PDA in 2000 I would consider a portable handheld device with a stylus but didn't have telephony capabilities.

Today a personal digital assistant the lines have been blurred.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Didn't have any of these, did have a dvd burner and TV tuner card so I guess I could have had a dirty dvd recorder back then but at the time I just saved the shows I wanted to HDD, watched them and then deleted it and the burner was for movies ripped with handbrake

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

About a decade too young for this, but - the only one of these I had was a dvd burner. I used it in high school to make video projects. Video projects were extremely popular assignments, and I had a lot of fun with them, too. I did a lot of stop-motion animation, claymation, etc. I had shitty software that I didn't even know how to use properly so I did things like play music from my ipod into the camera speaker instead of mix an audio track in "post." Haha. Was a lot of fun though.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I never owned a WebTV, but I do remember the first time I saw a Usenet post from a WebTV user. It was the start of the Eternal September.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yes but there was very little content and the concept never took off with the major content providers.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I had a Hairy Palm II

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I'm in my 20s and I've had most of those lol

[โ€“] [email protected] -4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

PDA: I had a Palm Pilot I rescued from a scrap bin at work and installed an open source OS on. I used it as an ereader until the eye strain from reading on that small screen started giving me headaches.

DVD recorder: No. I gave up on broadcast TV when I was 17 and the amount of advertising time hit 25 minutes per hour. I watched everything on rented DVDs until video streaming and adblockers became a thing.

WebTV: No. It was never available in my country.

3D TV: No. I was waiting for the format to get more support, then it went away entirely.

Raspberry Pi: Yes! I could never get wifi working on it, which limited its usefulness. Still fun to play with until I somehow broke the HDMI out.

Internet Radio: Kinda. That's what I used the Pi for after breaking video.

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