Did mid 2000s tech have the shortest lifespan ever

[chuckifubuck]

All that shyt that came out in the early to mid 2000s was only relevant for a really short amount of time. Cd players, all the different kinds of iPods, portable dvd players, TiVo; all of them went from brand new tech that everyone had to have to obsolete in record time.

I feel like the decades before that technology didnt move as fast so stuff lasted longer un general use, like VHS tapes. Ever since smartphones nothings really changed that crazily so this era I feel has lasted a while

 

[intruder]

Yup


I thought Minidisc was gonna be the new revolution. I made so many mixtapes on them shyts, got a couple of players, even bought the car-player and all...

Then mp3 editors showed up and it was a wrap

 

[Doobie Doo]

It was the dot com burst

 

[No Homo]

Crazy you made this thread...Last night i had a dream i was playing music on my old ipod.

Had me thinking how times have changed

 

[Unknown Poster]

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.

 

[TinFoilSnapBack]

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

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Yup


I thought Minidisc was gonna be the new revolution. I made so many mixtapes on them shyts, got a couple of players, even bought the car-player and all...


Then mp3 editors showed up and it was a wrap

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

 

[Cave Savage]

I was thinking the same shyt the other day!

Tivo, GPS, portable DVD players, iPods, keyboard phones, etc.

A lot of this shyt was wiped out by smartphones (which haven't changed THAT much since 2012 or so).

And downloading music has been taken over by streaming. I wonder what things will be like 10 years from now.

 

[levitate]

I still miss this:

Mio C220

That little breh was a fukking ROAD WARRIOR.

Still have it tucked away in storage.

 

[ThugLife]

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

 

[kevin arnold]

CD players were out in the 90’s

 

[Bumblebreh]

Yup


I thought Minidisc was gonna be the new revolution. I made so many mixtapes on them shyts, got a couple of players, even bought the car-player and all...


Then mp3 editors showed up and it was a wrap

 

[patscorpio]

i have one of these...i got plenty of use out of it

 

[patscorpio]

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

 

[calixprynce]

Crazy you made this thread...Last night i had a dream i was playing music on my old ipod.

Had me thinking how times have changed

Hell yeah nikkas used to get straight robbed for IPod Touch’s