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Riding the technology wave, which of THESE devices have you owned? (Intended target around age 40 and up) (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by acrobaticpenguin23@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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... 😖

-WebTV? No. Interactive TV in the days of dial-up. 🙂

-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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[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.