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08:09:05 on Tue, 26 Jul 2011, bob remarked:
Just think how old-fashioned, bizarre and quaint a smartphone or an iPad
will look in 20 years, never mind 150...

Indeed, just watch a movie from the late '90s and wonder how we ever
managed with such bricks of phones. Go back to the mid '90s and even
top end phone still had things like extendable aerials. That's not
even 20 years ago.

On the other hand, most "tower" PCs, laptops, keyboards and mice, are
just the same as they were in the mid 90's. Not everything changes.

Even more recently, CRTs were still commonplace,
but these days they are already starting to look dated.

My last CRT monitors went a couple of years ago, but my first LCD was as
relatively recent as 2001 (and I'm still using it, albeit on a server
where the small screen size isn't an issue).

Anyone here still watching a CRT television?
--
Roland Perry