Technology that has died since the year 2000

[victorbrunswick]

Re: Technology that has died since the year 2000

Proper one-armed bandits...

Gone forever is the satisfying shower of coins if you won on the slot machine. Now your winnings are printed out on a slip to be redeemed at the cashier's booth. When I went to Las Vegas I was surprised to find that almost the entire casino was nothing more than a video arcade for adults. There were only a small handful of old fashioned blackjack tables with dealers, everything else were video machines, including craps and roulette.

[Jay Mc]

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Gone forever is the satisfying shower of coins if you won on the slot machine. Now your winnings are printed out on a slip to be redeemed at the cashier's booth. When I went to Las Vegas I was surprised to find that almost the entire casino was nothing more than a video arcade for adults. There were only a small handful of old fashioned blackjack tables with dealers, everything else were video machines, including craps and roulette.

I was there 2 years ago and it was so disappointing that they had taken away the coin operated slots - especially the silver dollar machines, I felt like a millionaire with a hand full of them ( I still have one from my first visit there in 2003)

some of the casinos had the sound of the coins falling into the tray being played digitally when you won

Not the same though

[ken70]

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Gone forever is the satisfying shower of coins if you won on the slot machine. Now your winnings are printed out on a slip to be redeemed at the cashier's booth. When I went to Las Vegas I was surprised to find that almost the entire casino was nothing more than a video arcade for adults. There were only a small handful of old fashioned blackjack tables with dealers, everything else were video machines, including craps and roulette.

Uk machines stilll pay in coins usually. Long may it continue... Even if fruit machines are a total con.

[Mulletino]

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Pokies here still pay in coins in most places, over a certain amount you have to wait for the attendant to bring you the cash. Other places have it print you a slip which you then either use as a credit in another machine or cash in at an ATM type thing.

[CrystalBall]

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I think the ghetto blaster died in the late 1980s, to be honest. The Walkman effectively took over from the mid-1980s and quality CD/cassette/radio portable combo units were only popular for a short time. Mini- and micro-systems became all the range from about 1990 and, with a few exceptions, the combo units were quickly relegated to the cheap and cheerless end of the market. I wish I had bought more of them when they were available but there's always ebay to fall back on.

[staffslad]

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Looking at the list I was surprised to see that I still have quite a few items on it.

Not sure, but have PDAs running OS like Windows C etc now all but disappeared? Again, I still have one bought from Aldi circa 2004 and sold with sat nav software and a separate GPS antenna.

[aaronwarrior]

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desktop computers aren't dead per say technically, but with smartphones, tablets and laptops becoming more and more popular I would definitely say that they are dying. As Apple say about the iPad pro "what's a computer".

[Arran]

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Mice with a ball in them.

[big kid]

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mini disc players / recorders.

vcd - video cd players.

[staffslad]

Re: Technology that has died since the year 2000

I still have a VCR connected to a CRT TV with a set-top box sitting on top so to pick up Freeview channels. I also still use it to tape programmes that are on at ungodly hours to view later.

We still have a combined phone/fax machine, probably dating from the late 90s/early 2000s, and it is still our main landline. We used it to send faxes to my uncle. He was deaf and couldn't use a phone. He has passed away now so the fax part goes unused.

My decade-old desktop PC still has a ball mouse.

[staffslad]

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Prior to the digital switchover, we had a TV and VCR in nearly every room, as we could use portable aerials to pick up analogue transmissions. Now that analogue is dead, we have only 3--1 main TV connected to Sky and 2 connected to Freeview. It's a shame analogue had to go imo. I threw out 3 portable CRT TVs as digital portable aerials wouldn't pick up anything around here. Those TVs were all at least 15 years old and worked fine. I doubt if the flashy LCD/LED TVs of today will last 15 years on a regular basis.

[big kid]

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I doubt if the flashy LCD/LED TVs of today will last 15 years on a regular basis.

i had a panasonic plasma. great tv, but it give up after 9 years. my aunt bought a 26 inch panasonic lcd at the same time, and thats still going.

[Arran]

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Chemists shops with camera film processing facilities. Nowadays users of film cameras have to use dedicated camera shops for film processing.

[Richard1978]

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Chemists shops with camera film processing facilities. Nowadays users of film cameras have to use dedicated camera shops for film processing.

Even printing from digital sources at a shop is hard, my local Asda recently withdrew their coin-op printers & I had to go to Boots to get some prints done.

[80sChav]

Re: Technology that has died since the year 2000

Chemists shops with camera film processing facilities. Nowadays users of film cameras have to use dedicated camera shops for film processing.

Par boots - this is true yeah and may-be Superdrug

Video Playing Machines are another and a mega one I was only talking about yesterday is the old Computer's (around 1992/3 - 1995/97) i recall where you had too loads a Disc into the the Drive itself or on the Machine (may-be!!), but you had to save to certain Drives - one A) I think was to the machine and C/D ) to the Disc as back up/or more 1st choice!!

It is incredible to think A) pardon the pun here, that we had to this and it is only 20 years since or so and that Computers looked like they do Today and B) all this existed - abliet sllightly (in the internet days) though as though the 'net had being going many years 1992 onwards-mid 90s was when it came into existance as we know it now!!

Another 2 - lesser so though I can think of - are Paigers and the sadly missed Fax Machine as well!

80sChav