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Poll: Which technology from the past do you miss the most? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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I don't miss any of them but I do sometimes think back with a certain degree of gratitude in my heart for them. They were very «good friends» and for a long time. In fact, the only thing I miss is not in the list: WordPerfect!
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would also have easily been my preference over Word all those years ago. Was so versatile. Allowed for so much more.
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Iulia Parvu 
Romania
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| Handwritten letters | Aug 25 |
In the late '90s and early 2000s, when I was in my teens, I had hundreds of pen pals and received thousands of letters. Eventually, I had to dispose of those letters due to a lack of space. The internet era arrived so abruptly that I never had the chance to properly say goodbye to those times, which I still miss. I believe communication was more meaningful back then, even though it took longer to send a message. I still enjoy handwriting and continue to pursue scrapbooking as a hobby.
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Kay Denney
France
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Based on what reasoning are dictionaries or hand-written letters classified as technology?
I do miss using my dictionaries. The heavyweight of knowledge. The glorious rabbit holes I would go down because of the word just before or after the one I was actually looking up, or which caught my eye as I was flipping through the pages. The feel of the paper, very smooth and fine compared to paperback novels.
Then again, there are plenty of rabbit holes to go down when researching ... See more Based on what reasoning are dictionaries or hand-written letters classified as technology?
I do miss using my dictionaries. The heavyweight of knowledge. The glorious rabbit holes I would go down because of the word just before or after the one I was actually looking up, or which caught my eye as I was flipping through the pages. The feel of the paper, very smooth and fine compared to paperback novels.
Then again, there are plenty of rabbit holes to go down when researching stuff on the internet. There's just less poetry to it. ▲ Collapse
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Kay Denney
France
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida wrote:
I don't miss any of them but I do sometimes think back with a certain degree of gratitude in my heart for them. They were very «good friends» and for a long time. In fact, the only thing I miss is not in the list: WordPerfect!
Yes WordPerfect was just like Word except it was Perfect (for the time of course). Too bad Microsoft squished them out of the market.
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| Landline phones on the other end of the line | Aug 25 |
Landline phones on the other end of the line that make the communication more real
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Lingua 5B
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Kay Denney wrote:
Based on what reasoning are dictionaries or hand-written letters classified as technology?
Paper manufacturing is/involves technology, same with pens.
Hand writing is a good example, as brain and thinking work differently during hand writing. I miss those too. Overtexting and online hyper posting ruin the charm of communication.
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[Edited at 2024-08-25 08:10 GMT]
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Samuel Murray
Netherlands
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Usenet news, 100 results on Google searches, proper integration between spreadsheet, presentation and word processor programs, proper menus instead of ribbons, active user communities on Yahoogroups ... does this all count? None of the options in the poll are worth mentioning.
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Samuel Murray
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Kay Denney wrote:
WordPerfect was just like Word except it was Perfect (for the time of course). Too bad Microsoft squished them out of the market.
WordPerfect died because they removed "reveal codes" from their new version. This meant that using Wordperfect was just as much hit and miss as using Microsoft Word.
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expressisverbis
Portugal
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| Landline phones and...? | Aug 25 |
Are landline phones or printed dictionaries a technology of the past?
I didn't realise I was that old...
I miss the time when technology demanded much more from users and work was carried out more professionally, I think.
Nowadays, people often make mistakes... for example, accidentally copying a phone number from one client to another on an online form, getting a partner's year of birth wrong on a company document, etc....
Anyway, one of the things I miss (it's not part... See more Are landline phones or printed dictionaries a technology of the past?
I didn't realise I was that old...
I miss the time when technology demanded much more from users and work was carried out more professionally, I think.
Nowadays, people often make mistakes... for example, accidentally copying a phone number from one client to another on an online form, getting a partner's year of birth wrong on a company document, etc....
Anyway, one of the things I miss (it's not part of our profession, but sometimes music accompanies our work) is vinyl records.
[Edited at 2024-08-25 15:14 GMT] ▲ Collapse
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IrinaN
United States
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| Other - handwriting as a part of human culture | Aug 25 |
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida wrote:
I don't miss any of them but I do sometimes think back with a certain degree of gratitude in my heart for them. They were very «good friends» and for a long time. In fact, the only thing I miss is not in the list: WordPerfect!
My dad's Remington typewriter, which I used to make my first pocket money in high school and on by typing dissertations and other papers for post-graduates, along with some other occasional jobs and my own papers, is in the safe keeping with my dear friends in Saint Peterburg, and I "visit" it every time I go there. It holds the touch of my and his fingers.
Handwritten notes by my late father, along with the letters from my late mother, late favorite uncle and even my very much alive ex, actually a very nice guy are priceless, even more priceless than photos in my opinion. You open it and your loved ones are alive again talking to you, no email will ever do that. And it was truly private, no one could crawl all over your life at will. It's hard and sad to realize that younger generations may miss on its charm and value entirely and never know anything better or smarter than laugh at some ancient sentimental fools wasting their time on scribblings... Handwriting made us humans just as much as stick and fire, if not more.
[Edited at 2024-08-25 19:07 GMT]
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Lingua 5B
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Analog photography/cameras and film development : )
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Mirelluk
United Kingdom
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And I knew so many phone numbers by heart but no more these days.
Gennady Lapardin wrote:
Landline phones on the other end of the line that make the communication more real
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Dan Lucas
United Kingdom
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Member (2014)
Japanese to English
...from back in the days when Sony was the coolest (no, really) electronics company out there.
There was something special about slotting a new cassette into your machine.
Dan
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