About a decade too young for this, but - the only one of these I had was a dvd burner. I used it in high school to make video projects. Video projects were extremely popular assignments, and I had a lot of fun with them, too. I did a lot of stop-motion animation, claymation, etc. I had shitty software that I didn't even know how to use properly so I did things like play music from my ipod into the camera speaker instead of mix an audio track in "post." Haha. Was a lot of fun though.
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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I had 3 of those things.
A Compaq iPaq pda that ran Windows ce
An Internet radio alarm clock
I've got a raspberry pi that I use for pihole
I have (and in some cases still do) all but the WebTV and the Internet Radio Player.
Yes but there was very little content and the concept never took off with the major content providers.
Didn't have any of these, did have a dvd burner and TV tuner card so I guess I could have had a dirty dvd recorder back then but at the time I just saved the shows I wanted to HDD, watched them and then deleted it and the burner was for movies ripped with handbrake
I never owned a WebTV, but I do remember the first time I saw a Usenet post from a WebTV user. It was the start of the Eternal September.
I had a Hairy Palm II
I'm in my 20s and I've had most of those lol
PDA: I had a Palm Pilot I rescued from a scrap bin at work and installed an open source OS on. I used it as an ereader until the eye strain from reading on that small screen started giving me headaches.
DVD recorder: No. I gave up on broadcast TV when I was 17 and the amount of advertising time hit 25 minutes per hour. I watched everything on rented DVDs until video streaming and adblockers became a thing.
WebTV: No. It was never available in my country.
3D TV: No. I was waiting for the format to get more support, then it went away entirely.
Raspberry Pi: Yes! I could never get wifi working on it, which limited its usefulness. Still fun to play with until I somehow broke the HDMI out.
Internet Radio: Kinda. That's what I used the Pi for after breaking video.