Did mid 2000s tech have the shortest lifespan ever

[calixprynce]

You got a good point there...

I had way too many gadgets and doodads that aren't even made anymore.

Microsoft Zune
An Mp3 player that had 256MB of storage ()
A series of cellphones and flip phones that are now obsolete

Alot of that y2k era technology was forward thinking but limited in scale, so it was doomed to become obsolete.

That Zune was pretty solid for the time... until my lil bro stole from Target and brought a Creative Zen mp4 home

 

[feelosofer]

Yea I think once the Smartphone came out, it basically made a bunch of things obsolete in one shot.

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

My Dad still uses an external GPS even though he has an iphone

I do too.

It has a bigger screen plus GPS signals never cut out while cell signals do.

 

[Atlrocafella]

I do too.

It has a bigger screen plus GPS signals never cut out while cell signals do.

You can’t get that real time traffic update and faster route alert though without Google Maps

 

[chuckifubuck]

Very good observation. I remember when portable DVD players came out, they were huge for a very short amount of time. When I worked at CVS as a teen, they were selling them around the holiday season. We kept one at the front register, and all of us cashiers would literally just watch movies all day







This thread also makes me think of:

These lil video cameras

Nextel "Chirp"/Walkie-Talkie Phones

These big ass scanners

Breh I completely forgot about cameras. I feel like in middle school everyone still used those walgreens disposable cameras, then all of a sudden having the newest digital camera was like a status symbol for girls in HS only for that shyt to die real quick with smartphones

And I remember when they came out with ipod shuffles and minis and everyone needed them joints

 

[desjardins]

Remember zip drives?
They were like fancy floppy disks
All my college courses made me buy one. Coming from the floppy disk era I thought that shyt was next level

 

[SquadLyfeMobb]

Mfs use to break into cars and steal GPS systems for an easy couple hundun

 

[audemarzz]

years ago when pc's were still new one of them cats said eventually we would be walking around with personal computers in our pockets they laughed at him thought he was crazy . . might have been steve jobs its been ages

 

[Knicksman20]

i had an external drive of this that i bought and used in college ..the computers on campus all had the drives

Zip drives

I forgot all about these. Sega had a prototype made by Iomega to attach to the Dreamcast for game saved storage & other media. You gotta hand it to them. They were always thinking ahead of the times lol

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

You can’t get that real time traffic update and faster route alert though with Google Maps

You right,I actually use the both at the same time.


I'll have Waze or Google navigating but I'll read the roads in the big gps screen.

Driving without the Garmin just feels weird to me

 

[Toe Jay Simpson]

The flip phones

If you had a song as your ring tone you were the man

 

[One]

Real shyt.

I remember I had the juicebox personal media player.

Costed like $60/$70 for the device I think, then media for the device was sold individually on their brand specific cartridges for $15-$20 for 2 episodes of whatever program, I had like 1 and watched the same damn 2 episodes of Billy and Mandy on repeat, even got so bored I'd sometimes watch the stock cartridge that came with the device and explained it's capabilities.

Couldn't even find media to purchase in the store after a few years. Terrible Pricing. don't know how that flew with my folks but I thank them for always trying to keep the boy happy. Knowing now we get monthly access to thousands of hulu, netflix and amazon program library for the same exact price if not cheaper.

 

[GoAggieGo.]

I had a Zune. Had that thing one year before getting the iPod classic. Didn’t have the iPod classic long, either. Wish I knew we’re both were. I had some good music on them

iPhone made all that obsolete

 

[Michael's Black Son]

CD players were around (in mass production) since the early 90s and are still a major standard (when it comes to DVD/BluRay) for backing up data

 

[intruder]

Breh, I got over 160 of these layin' around the crib. Took me thousands of hours to make those too because I recorded in real time.

I'd buy a CD, take it home and recorded while I was on the 1st listen

Oh nah... i knew better than to do that. I spent 2 months ripping all my CD's onto a hard-drive many many years ago (Like 2003). Once that was done I put the CD's in a box and havent seen them since. I only used my minidisc recorder to record my own personal mixtapes from the mp3 files i created. These days i still have all my mp3s up on google drive. Tens of thousands of them. I pay $9.99 a month for 2TB of Google Drive Space

I still have 2 minidisc player/recorderss and maybe 20 minidiscs left