Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 months agoWhat technologies were ubiquitous ten years ago and are much less common now?message-squaremessage-square133fedilinkarrow-up1133arrow-down10
arrow-up1133arrow-down1message-squareWhat technologies were ubiquitous ten years ago and are much less common now?Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square133fedilink
minus-squarem-p{3}@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up81arrow-down1·2 months agoOptical disks. It was almost a necessity on laptop to have an optical drive, now there’s maybe one or two models out there that comes with one.
minus-squareWalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up31arrow-down1·2 months agoEven 10 years ago, disc drives seemed to be out of fashion. But if you laptop was 5 years old, it likely have one anyways.
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·2 months ago10 years ago was 2015. I went to buy a laptop from Dell in 2014, and they didn’t have any models with a disc drive. I looked.
Optical disks. It was almost a necessity on laptop to have an optical drive, now there’s maybe one or two models out there that comes with one.
Even 10 years ago, disc drives seemed to be out of fashion. But if you laptop was 5 years old, it likely have one anyways.
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10 years ago was 2015. I went to buy a laptop from Dell in 2014, and they didn’t have any models with a disc drive. I looked.