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Article #625666Re: The extinct tech you forgot existed
From: Quadibloc
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 04:40
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 04:40
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On Monday, August 20, 2018 at 5:56:14 AM UTC-6, Anssi Saari wrote: > I had no idea Teletext has died in the UK. Still available in Finland at > least and still handy for news headlines and weather. Although some > channels have given up on it and what remains is pretty bare bones. It's true that if you don't have a data plan on your smartphone, it may occasionally save firing up your computer for the Internet. But these days, a lot of people spend so much time on the Web that they hardly watch TV any more. In general, when a new technology comes along that does almost the same thing, only better, the old technology does die ignominiously even when there are ways in which it could be of service. People only have so much money to spend, so they often won't buy the old if they have the new, and companies can only support things that are used by enough people. John Savard
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