After all that effort, turning the house upside down in search of a VGA cable…
When I eventually found it, I discovered my monitor doesn’t even support that obsolete connector.
It’s sad really, discovering what a squanderful generation we have been, those bags of tangled cables standing witness against us.
Old SCART to USB converters. Old dual-device switches. USB connectors in every shape and size. Ethernet cables of various lengths.
Not to mention assorted feature phones, redundant mice, foot pedals, digital pens, thumbdrives, and audio jacks.
The march of progress — and waste — we have seen in our lives. Try as I may to preserve old computers for as long as possible, it seems hopeless.
If it isn’t software no longer supporting the hardware, it’s an input/output interface relegated to the annals of history.
Does anyone now remember the pain of installing a serial scanner? Does anyone recall the Ps2 mouse and keyboard?
Thirty years of tech history imprinted on our lives. Will we be asked about the mountains of waste we created in our lifespan?
It’s sobering, really, rediscovering all that once seemed so essential in a moment long gone.
Sobering to be reminded how we once spent our wealth on every latest thing, now only coming to light in the frantic search for a thingy-ma-bob.
What else will we discover at the back of a cupboard in another decade or two? Yet more obsolete tech, today our cutting edge.
Last modified: 21 September 2024
