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New inventions in our lifetime........
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: Arad-3 on October 09, 2006, 04:07:19 pm ---This is still one contraption that I still can't figure out. How they send these images through telephone wires to another fax machine is beyond me. ???
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I can't figure out how computers work. :-\
I still think a little man with a Harvard degree is sitting in there doing all the work.
I never do see him though. I think he runs and hides every time I open up the computer.
Isn't that what the little man in the refrigerator does? You know, the one who always turns the light on and off? ;)
Fax machines are confusing and weird. I don't understand them either Geri. ???
Edit: Speaking of confusing things, I could never figure out how the telephone worked. Somebody speaks into it, everything is changed into electrical impulses or something, it's sent through a tiny wire, the whole thing is put back together again in the other telephone and the voice sounds exactly like it is suppose to. How? And they invented the telephone in 1870. Boy, I really do get confused easily!
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: David925 on October 09, 2006, 08:01:54 pm ---<raising hand>
I do. That was one of the most God awful inventions in all of history. >:(
If you wanted to listen to a song again, you had to wait until all the other songs on the track played (normally three or four). If you hadn't lost interest by then, you would have to fight with the machine to keep it from changing to the next track.
Yep. I remember the 8-tracks all right.
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Tell you what, my family is notorious for being one step behind the technology curve. While I was still in college, in the late '70s, my mother bought me a new stereo (got a discount at the department store where she worked). It was one of those so-called "compact" systems that weren't really compact. I had a choice of a model with a built-in casette player-recorder and one with a built-in 8-track player-recorder. Guess which one I picked. ;D
I used to record from my record albums right over the track change on the 8-tracks. Mainly I listened to classical music, so I didn't find the technology a problem.
nakymaton:
--- Quote from: David925 on October 09, 2006, 08:17:34 pm ---Edit: Speaking of confusing things, I could never figure out how the telephone worked. Somebody speaks into it, everything is changed into electrical impulses or something, it's sent through a tiny wire, the whole thing is put back together again in the other telephone and the voice sounds exactly like it is suppose to. How? And they invented the telephone in 1870. Boy, I really do get confused easily!
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That would be a great question to send to Dr. Science. ;D And he would say something like:
"Did you ever wonder what happened to Mr. Watson? I think he was transformed into electrical impulses, and forced to run back and forth across electrical wires. Today, the entire process has been speeded up by changing him, instead, into a beam of light and sending him down fiber optic cables."
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: nakymaton on October 09, 2006, 10:45:19 pm ---That would be a great question to send to Dr. Science. ;D And he would say something like:
"Did you ever wonder what happened to Mr. Watson? I think he was transformed into electrical impulses, and forced to run back and forth across electrical wires. Today, the entire process has been speeded up by changing him, instead, into a beam of light and sending him down fiber optic cables."
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Huh? ??? :o
Beams of light and fiber optic cables?
That sounds like something they have in kinky gay bars.
I thought we were talking about telephones. ;)
nakymaton:
--- Quote from: David925 on October 09, 2006, 10:52:05 pm ---Huh? ??? :o
Beams of light and fiber optic cables?
That sounds like something they have in kinky gay bars.
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Either that or on Star Trek. ;D
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