pretty cool site

Pretty daunting to think that so much has become obsolete in so little time.

interesting story: betamax was actually superior to VHS, but VHS won the battle because of superior marketing and price.

just like hd-dvd and blu ray, except this time the superior format won.

also I once had a TV so old it had dials on it. top that. it broke when i was young tho. like, young as in 5 years old. we got a better TV and cable after that. it was like pure awesome having 5 times the amount of channels as before.

So can it be a general thread for old stuff? Because I wanted to make one for quite some time.

So, how many of you remeber times when phones were still phones? I had one smiliar to the one in the picture, with that curvy wire and rotary dial board. Damn, they were fun to use. I especially loved playing with that cable.

>>1283
I once had a corded phone with a rubber thing on the handset that was designed to make it easier to hold the handset to your ear with your shoulder. It broke tho and we threw it out.

>>1250
how was betamax better then vhs?

>>1285
picture quality. they had some other issues though as well, such as length of the tape where VHS had a longer play time, but in terms of picture quality, betamax was superior.

>>1283
Hell yeah, the longer time it took to dial something was easily worth it just for hearing the chug-chug-chug-ping sound.

>>1283
Hells yeah, I had one just like that too.