Your Favorite Invention Since the Internet?
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Topic: Your Favorite Invention Since the Internet?
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Subject: Your Favorite Invention Since the Internet?
Date Posted: May 03 2023 at 11:51
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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. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 03 2023 at 11:57
| Successful cloning technology because there was never enough of me to go around. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: May 03 2023 at 11:57
| The DVD player, which was first marketed by Sony in the USA in April 1997, four years after the birth of the Internet. |
Posted By: JD
Date Posted: May 03 2023 at 12:16
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Torrenting ------------- Thank you for supporting independently produced music |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: May 03 2023 at 12:18
| 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. |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: May 03 2023 at 12:19
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Organic pop tarts -------------  https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: May 03 2023 at 12:43
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The ipod and the ability to have my entire music collection in my pocket ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: May 03 2023 at 12:51
I'll second that but entire collection? How much storage do you have? ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: May 03 2023 at 13:30
I have a custom built Classic with 365GB. My old 160GB version was ok but died and I decided to upscale. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Archisorcerus
Date Posted: May 03 2023 at 13:56
| E-readers (with e-ink technology). |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: May 03 2023 at 14:11
| Computers. Now we have something to put the internet on. |
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: May 03 2023 at 14:36
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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. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
Posted By: bardberic
Date Posted: May 03 2023 at 15:17
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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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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 03 2023 at 15:23
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. |
Posted By: bardberic
Date Posted: May 03 2023 at 15:58
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So 1983? damn the CD came out in 1982. The World Wide Web, then, of course!
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Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: May 03 2023 at 16:32
| The air fryer. I use it all the time. |
Posted By: VultureCulture07
Date Posted: May 03 2023 at 16:43
This my friends, is a correct answer. ------------- https://llamakoifish.wixsite.com/goosestavsrecordrevi" rel="nofollow - My Link I make content here... Sometimes |
Posted By: bardberic
Date Posted: May 03 2023 at 20:14
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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Posted By: VultureCulture07
Date Posted: May 03 2023 at 20:20
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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. ------------- https://llamakoifish.wixsite.com/goosestavsrecordrevi" rel="nofollow - My Link I make content here... Sometimes |
Posted By: JD
Date Posted: May 03 2023 at 21:01
------------- Thank you for supporting independently produced music |
Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: May 03 2023 at 21:09
I am serious in that I use it almost every day. It's great to have when heating frozen foods - taquitos, samosas, fries, tater tots, single serving pizzas, Texas toast, hashbrowns, egg rolls, and so on. Yes, it's basically a convection oven. Air is used to circulate heat and oil, which you spray onto your food. This basically produces a Maillard reaction simulating you get when you deep fry. Not exactly the same but that is where the name comes from. The advantage of an air fryer over an oven is size and time it takes to heat up. It also emits less heat and uses less power. It's easy to use. It's a decent alternative to deep frying, which can get messy and is less healthy. Now there are toaster oven sized convection ovens that are marketed as air fryers and I have been considering getting one of those. It's definitely a favorite. I also use my electric pressure cooker and immersion circulator for sous vide frequently. The smartphone is certainly up there. But it's only useful to me because of the Internet. I do most all social media, Web browsing, and music streaming through my phone. |
Posted By: Stressed Cheese
Date Posted: May 04 2023 at 03:34
You take that back right now. Air fryers are amazing. Besides, they don't really replace toasters, they replace frying pans and ovens. I live in a small apartment, so a frying pan would stink up the place, and I don't have space for an oven. So with an air fryer I can still eat small types of bread and croissants and such that normally would go in an oven, and I can still make fries and frikandellen and kroketten (very important if you're dutch like me). Even if I did have a regular frying pan and an oven, an air fryer is less messy/greasy (and slightly healthier I suppose) than a regular frying pan, and much faster than an oven.
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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: May 04 2023 at 03:59
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The vacuum cleaner. Now I can stop picking up lint and hairs with my hands or my mouth. I also second the wheel. I don't use it as much as I used to, unless I'm making socks or grilled cheese sandwiches. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: May 04 2023 at 05:36
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I thought those came before the internet... ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: May 04 2023 at 05:37
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: May 04 2023 at 21:38
| Smart speakers are pretty cool as streaming music is a biggie. I also love my i-pod although streaming has replaced it for the most part. I could also add blue tooth but then it's all part of the same thing. |
Posted By: wiz_d_kidd
Date Posted: May 05 2023 at 07:14
I'll have to second Ian's thoughts, even though my unit only has 200GB. ------------- “I don’t like country music, but I don’t mean to denigrate those who do. And for those who like country music, denigrate means to ‘put down.'” – Bob Newhart |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: May 05 2023 at 07:38
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Hi, Probably computers ... nice to be able to write and not have to reinvent the whole thing but throwing away pages and pages of work. I have not, used it as much for music or art itself to be able to tell you more ... but I do have my midi board and keyboard hooked up to a computer. I wanted to say "sliced bread", but unfortunately it was around way before the internet!
------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: May 05 2023 at 07:42
| I'd also add the Sony Playstation, which first went on sale in Europe and America in 1995, two years after the Internet was first made available to the general public. |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: May 05 2023 at 10:23
Linux. It's free. |
Posted By: bardberic
Date Posted: May 05 2023 at 17:16
As a side note... Bitterballen en bamischijf zijn lekker. Buuuut,
Nee! Ik zal niet.
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: May 05 2023 at 20:25
Well...not really an invention but microbreweries became popular starting in earnest in the late 80's /early 90's and I enjoy many kinds of 'craft beer.' ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: May 06 2023 at 00:15
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Now I want one of those air fryers. -For me I don't know. Maybe the "Air source heat pump". I live in a cold place at wintertime, but with warm summers - when it can be used as an air condtioner. It's good for the indoor climate as it absorbs air for the outside and releases it inside. And it saves us a lot of money as well.
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Posted By: Stressed Cheese
Date Posted: May 06 2023 at 05:09
You'll come around to it one day, makker.
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: May 07 2023 at 04:31
I agree as far as that I admire how so much technology is put in a volume that fits easily in a pocket, but nevertheless the smartphone is not on my list because of the harm this device has caused: people have become increasingly dependent on it and it has proved to be a powerful tool to push gibberish as the predominant writing language. Q.E.D.: I have more admiration for the museal gear that enabled Neil Armstrong to make his small step almost 54 years ago, lone before the Internet emerged.
Definitely ok. I'll enjoy its benefits next week, when I expect to visit my parents in law. The bitterballen, kipnuggets and small size kaassoufflé's are definitely fine.
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Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: May 07 2023 at 04:37
And it is not only free, it gives you back control over your computer (and no, I'm not a computer geek, that's why I use Linux Mint). I could join the eulogies for the Airfryer to... Otherwise, fresh air is not bad either... ------------- The razamataz is a pain in the bum |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: May 07 2023 at 04:42
Does it really? I use Ubuntu for my work and I have experienced more than a few unwanted focus shifts from one program to another lately. The most annoying bug ever imo. For the remainder it's fine. -------------
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Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: May 07 2023 at 04:58
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^ Well, compared to Windows (that is doing things you never asked for, and nagging you regularly when you don't want to be nagged...) it definitely does. Never experienced the problem you bring forward here, although Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu (but I'm not using the fancy cinnamon flavour, but the sober (boring?) Mate). ------------- The razamataz is a pain in the bum |