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    Posted: May 03 2023 at 11:51
DVR (Digital Video Recorder)... on Comcast anyway. I imagine TiVo is very similar.

I haven't seen a commercial in years. And it's nice if I'm watch the basketball game. If it's a blowout, I can fast-forward until its a close game. It also seems many great things are on when I sleep. The main benefit is simply placing automatic recordings on my favorite directors, actors, people, and they do the rest. 
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Successful cloning technology because there was never enough of me to go around.
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The DVD player, which was first marketed by Sony in the USA in April 1997, four years after the birth of the Internet.
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Streaming. Saved me a lot of money compared to my cable bill. Also nice to listen to full albums/songs of music unknown to me.
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Organic pop tarts

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The ipod and the ability to have my entire music collection in my pocket
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

The ipod and the ability to have my entire music collection in my pocket


I'll second that but entire collection? How much storage do you have?

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Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

The ipod and the ability to have my entire music collection in my pocket


I'll second that but entire collection? How much storage do you have?

I have a custom built Classic with 365GB. My old 160GB version was ok but died and I decided to upscale.
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E-readers (with e-ink technology).
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Computers.  Now we have something to put the internet on. 
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Great choices... YouTube definitely saved me millions of dollars!

And e-books are great for me.. I love using search keywords, especially if it's a biography I'm not too interested. It's also nice to be able to watch it on a big screen, where I can increase the text size. I also don't get the neck/shoulder pains from reading a physical book.
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Well "the internet" has technically been around since the 1960s, but it didn't really become a household... thing... until around 1992-ish when the World Wide Web (on which the site is hosted) was released to ordinary consumers, and didn't pick up pace until Netscape - at least this is my knowledge of the matter. This all predates my... uh birth.

So what year are we going with for "the internet."


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Originally posted by bardberic bardberic wrote:

Well "the internet" has technically been around since the 1960s, but it didn't really become a household... thing... until around 1992-ish when the world wide web was released to ordinary consumers, and didn't pick up pace until Netscape - at least this is my knowledge of the matter. This all predates my... uh birth.

So what year are we going with for "the internet."


The first result I get when googling is:

"January 1, 1983 is considered the official birthday of the Internet. Prior to this, the various computer networks did not have a standard way to communicate with each other. A new communications protocol was established called Transfer Control Protocol/Internetwork Protocol (TCP/IP)."

Which was a decade or so after I was cloned, but the technology had not yet been perfected and so my cloning was only a partial success.
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So 1983? damn the CD came out in 1982.

The World Wide Web, then, of course!
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The air fryer. I use it all the time.
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Originally posted by mathman0806 mathman0806 wrote:

The air fryer. I use it all the time.


This my friends, is a correct answer.
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Originally posted by VultureCulture07 VultureCulture07 wrote:

Originally posted by mathman0806 mathman0806 wrote:

The air fryer. I use it all the time.


This my friends, is a correct answer.

I can't tell if this is a meme or people are serious. I don't f**king get the big deal. I'll stick to normal toasters, thank you. Although, I think I'm more annoyed at the name than anything else - air fryers don't actually fry food - it's a glorified toaster with a fan in it. Why is it called an air fryer, like why?


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I'm going to be honest, my favorite invention would have to be Spotify, I don't know if that counts but I have discovered so much music there and I definitely use it a ton, last year I was in the top 1%, of spotify users in terms of hours listened.
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Originally posted by bardberic bardberic wrote:

Originally posted by VultureCulture07 VultureCulture07 wrote:

Originally posted by mathman0806 mathman0806 wrote:

The air fryer. I use it all the time.


This my friends, is a correct answer.

I can't tell if this is a meme or people are serious. I don't f**king get the big deal. I'll stick to normal toasters, thank you. Although, I think I'm more annoyed at the name than anything else - air fryers don't actually fry food - it's a glorified toaster with a fan in it. Why is it called an air fryer, like why?
It's just another word for convection oven. The frying aspect is just a marketing ploy...as in frying without grease.
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