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What technologies were ubiquitous ten years ago and are much less common now?
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Ubiquitous might be a stretch for 2015, but DVI cables come to mind.
while a straight dvi-d to dvi-d cable is quite uncommon to need today, i have used a bunch of hdmi to dvi-d adapter cables the last couple months to hook up new desktops to older displays that had vga and dvi-d inputs.
You’re giving me flashbacks to all the different DVI standards, and whatever you were plugging in never matched the type you had.
I have a number of older monitors hooked up to two GPUs and use just about every modern interface and adapter to make it all work. VGA, HDMI, DVI, DisplayPort. Technically it may not be the best and some monitors may refresh slower or something, but it works for me.
I'm stilling rocking my GTX 1080 I bought in 2017, and when I had to switch the DVI cable for my smaller monitor, I had some fun looking for the thing. Partly because of how uncommon they've become... partly because there's a lot of them DVI types and I think I bought the wrong one the first time.