Contest: ENTER SciFi/F Av Contest: Hilariously Outdated Technology

[tharpdevenport]

Thanks for the votes. I think we were all happy to see Voyager crash into an ice planet and finally end things. Oh, that was un-done? Damnit.

Anyway...

This new contest is devoted to hilariously outdated technology, i.e. technology in film or television which was depicting the future but by today's standard's is just plain funny they even thought that would be the case.

Maybe it's giant computers that couldn't hold a candle to today's laptops, mini discs for storage, flip-picture clocks, or what "SeaQuest DSV" thought the internet would look like in 2021.

General Entry Rules:

• Avatar must be 200x200 pixels.
• Avatar must be one megabyte or less in size.
• Not hotlinking; you must host the picture somewhere, like postimages.org.
• Work Safe: Keep in mind the possibility of people at working seeing pictures here. And remember our evil overlord pay master, GoogleAd Sense.
• Two entries allowed per person.
• If you're not sure if it qualifies, just ask :-)

I will take entries until (pending possibly shortening it) Wednesday of next week.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Not only did "Back to the Future, Part II" predict that in 2015 we'd still use fax machines at home, it predicted we'd have several of them all printing their own copies of the same fax:

 

[tharpdevenport]

Sorry, I forgot to say two entries allowed per person. Fixing my post.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

In that case, I'll stay with the dead trees theme and present to you ...

... printed newspapers in the 2250s, "Babylon 5"'s "Universe Today".

 

[dahj]

I'll go with a computer theme...

Pro-hacking in Hackers

Atari, brand of the Future

 

[tharpdevenport]

I might retract my first entry since I have to resize it and optimize it nearly to death:

The internet (or "internex") in "SeaQuest DSV" (2019 0r 2018; season one would take place there I think, as later it was 2021):

The full -size un-altered gif:

Comes with a cheesy voice, too: "Welcome to Internex"

(Also hilariously bad: what they thought video games would look like in the "future"; episode: "Photon Bullet")

 

[tharpdevenport]

Two more days to enter. I'm going to stop taking entries sometime Wednesday, after the noon.

 

[tomswift2002]

I would say Back To The Future 2 and Laserdiscs.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

I might retract my first entry since I have to resize it and optimize it nearly to death:

The internet (or "internex") in "SeaQuest DSV" (2019 0r 2018; season one would take place there I think, as later it was 2021):

The full -size un-altered gif:

Comes with a cheesy voice, too: "Welcome to Internex"

(Also hilariously bad: what they thought video games would look like in the "future"; episode: "Photon Bullet")

Hey, what's going on with that full-size un-altered gif there?

 

[tharpdevenport]

Just included the full size, too, so people could get a better look if they wanted to.

I would say Back To The Future 2 and Laserdiscs.

Yeah, but you need a picture of it. See my first post for rules.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Just included the full size, too, so people could get a better look if they wanted.

Yeah, that's not what I see, on neither of my two devices. It was, but it's now a very different image. Here, let me give you a screenshot:

That is unaltered and genuinely what I see.

 

[tharpdevenport]

Whoa. It's a problem on your end. I uploaded the original gif I just finished making at the time. This public computer has no such images on it.

 

[dahj]

Whoa. It's a problem on your end.

That image is showing for everybody.
If you clear your browser cache and reload the page you'll see the same thing.

 

[Gepard]

Looks fine to me on my phone:

 

[dahj]

Looks fine to me on my phone:

If the old image is in your browser cache, you'll still see the old one.
The one Kai screenshot is what's currently there.

 

[tharpdevenport]

No, the image displaying is not for everybody. This computer is re-set each night to a pre-made image long before that gif was created. In other words: the cache is wiped.

Gepard is seeing the correct image. Right-clicking the image for the page link at PostImages and entering it into your browser window, takes you straight to the image.

 

[Gepard]

If the old image is in your browser cache, you'll still see the old one.
The one Kai screenshot is what's currently there.

I've never been in this thread before so I doubt it's in my cache. (I only came here because of the hullabaloo elsewhere about the image.)

 

[tharpdevenport]

Anyway, it's after the noon here by an hour-and-a-half, so I'm heading over to create the vote thread now...

 

[Spot261]

Yeah, I'm getting the ass shot

 

[tharpdevenport]

Can a MOD lock this now pointless thread?