Many of the early technology products and services have became obsolete and been replaced by other products. In addition to the replaced devices there is still plenty of products that have survived the though test of time.
I've selected VHS as an example of a device that has become almost obsolete and been replaced with modern option. Door is as a perfect example of a device/product that has survived through the decades with only small adjustments to it.
VHS -> DVD -> Netflix and other streaming services
Video Home System (VHS) is an electronic system used for recording and playing video and audio on videocassettes. You are able to view and record VHS by using videocassette recorders (VCR). The first commercially viable videotape recorder (VCR) was released in 1956 by Ampex company. The VCR was big, expensive and difficult to use.
Video Home System (VHS) tapes became popular in 1980 and almost every household had a VCR to use.
”The heyday came in the 1980s and and ’90s, when VCRs exploded in popularity. The number of households with VCRs climbed from 14 percent in 1985 to 66 percent in 1990, according to Nielsen data. VCR penetration peaked at about 90 percent of households in 2005.” - Overly, The Washington News 2016
VHS tapes started phasing slowly out in 1996 when DVDs were invented and started to take the role of the mainstream choice.
Digital Video Disk (DVD) was introduced to the general public in 1996.
DVD offered optional ads for the interested ones, better quality content, additional content and considerably more storage space than VHS. DVDs are widely used for storing and viewing movies and other data. Biggest manufacturers are Sony and and Philips.
The movie Twister became the first feature film put on DVD on March 25, 1996.
After DVD’s came today’s streaming services where you are able to watch content when and where ever you want. Most of the streaming services are paid subscriptions. Popular streaming services are for example Netflix, Disney Plus and HBO. Before you used to go to a video rental store to choose an evening entertainment, now you can do it instantly from your own couch with a streaming service.
”Netflix introduced streaming services in 2007. In 2013, “House of Cards,” the first Netflix-produced show premiered. Today some of the world's most beloved shows — including "Orange Is the New Black," "Bloodline," "Stranger Things, and "Master of None" — are Netflix productions.” - Lamare, 2018
Online streaming services gives the user the freedom of choice to select the movie or series he wants. Back then it wasn’t a big problem if the quality dropped for a while with VHS, everyone was used to it. Nowadays if the video quality is lower than HD and stops even for a second everything is ruined. People is used for too good.
A Door
”No one knows who invented the door, only that it was first incepted somewhere in central Egypt.” - Medium, 2019
”It is on these tombs that the earliest known doors were installed as far back as 2000 B.C. These ancient tomb doors were made of a single, unframed door slab and engraved with images of what the society then imagined the afterlife to look like.” - Westerman, WCMANET
Doors (photo-1506636366880-b083d2cb2f34)
People have always appreciate privacy and safety, luckily doors have always been there for us. They give us security and safety by locking our homes with locking mechanisms, ensuring that only people who has the right key is able to access. Doors saves our private conversations and well everyone know what happens behind locked doors. Nowadays every building has at least one door for entrance, every room has a door/-s and even a place where we keep our foods has a specific door. There are various types of doors and ways they open.
”Doors have been symbolic and evolved stylistically in various cultures for centuries.” - Medium 2019
I believe doors will always be among us in one shape or another. In the future they will be more automated and use more biometric technology and also artificial intelligence to recognize the incoming person.
Sources:
https://medium.com/@sburiek/the-history-of-doors-a-travel-through-time-a058b5fbca66 (published ,accessed 03.02.2021)
https://www.wcmanet.org/history-of-doors/ (published ,accessed 03.02.2021)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2016/07/22/rip-to-the-vcr/ (published 22.06.2016, accessed 03.02.2021)
https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/d/dvd.htm (published 02.06.2020, accessed 08.02.2021)
https://www.theskimm.com/news/video-streaming-services-history-3fDiXiz45r1eyqQhBNUQo2 (published 22.12.2019, accessed 08.02.2021)
https://www.businessofbusiness.com/articles/a-brief-history-of-video-streaming-by-the-numbers/ (published 31.07.2018, accessed 08.02.2021)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brittanyhodak/2016/07/23/rip-vhs-worlds-last-vcr-to-be-made-this-month/?sh=72c2e5d923da (published 23.07.2016, accessed 08.02.2021)
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