There’s a lot of older technology that I am happy to see gone.
- Despite what some may think about it, I never liked VCRs and home video cassette tapes.
Even if you don’t consider the VCR maintenance and cleaning, the tapes themselves get increasingly worn as they’re used. Sometimes they get stuck inside the VCR itself after magnetic tape starts spooling outside of the cassette enclosure. When DVDs hit the market in the 1990s, I was ecstatic with the changes. As long as you don’t scratch the disks, you are always getting a perfect picture of the film you’re watching. With high definition disks, you could see the film with exceptionally high video quality. Although there are still holdouts who enjoy using VCR tapes, it’s nice to see that society at large embraced the technological advances when they eventually hit the market. You’d think these paradigm shifts would occur in all markets, but they don’t. I’ve been using an old window air conditioner for the past four years. When I moved into this apartment to get closer to my job, I wasn’t too worried about using an old window air conditioner. But in the years since, I have grown to hate this machine. I have gone to the store to find better air conditioning technology, but all I find are more window air conditioners and portable air conditioners which have lower energy efficiency by comparison. I wish that ductless mini splits were mainstream enough to find them at department stores. Sadly, you still have to go to a hardware store to purchase one and they’re not even remotely cheap. I want one eventually, but I just can’t afford one right now.