Top 5 outdated technologies still widely used today

Top 5 outdated technologies still widely used today


1. The Light Bulb

I comprehend that these are presently being eliminated, yet there are still bounty in presence and bounty being utilized regular in families around the globe. Glowing knobs work by running power through the tungsten fiber inside. It's thin and gives great imperviousness to power. This resistance transforms the electrical vitality into warmth and makes the fiber white hot, emitting light. The fiber shines from the warmth (incandesces). So what's the issue?

The issue is that these globules require a considerable measure of wattage to create somewhat light; their productivity is evaluated at about 10-15 lumens for each watt of information power. They additionally regularly last just 1,000-2,000 hours.

We're utilizing power to create warmth to deliver light, appears somewhat wasteful isn't that right?

For correlation, bright light bulbs can deliver somewhere close to 50-100 lumens for every watt of information power, making them four to six times more productive. CFLs commonly last somewhere close to 6,000-10,000 hours.


Driven knobs have been appeared to deliver somewhere in the range of 50-200 lumens for each watt of information power making them four to 12 times more effective. Driven globules commonly last somewhere close to 25,000-50,000 hours.


2 . Fax Machines

Fax machines. Can't get over how many companies we deal with that require things to be sent via fax.

There are so many things in the government that you have to use a fax for. It's crazy. I have this conversation a lot:

"Ok, then you have to fax this form to..."

"Fax? Can I e-mail it?"

"No, it has to be faxed"

"Just give me your email and I'll send it to y..."

"IT HAS TO BE FAXED!!!"

A couple months ago I had an urgent problem and it took months for it to get taken care of because they "didn't get the fax". That is the most frustrating thing about faxes, you never know if they got it or not. If Janet accidentally tosses your fax you're fucked and there is no way you'll know.

Fuck faxes.

edit: Stop spamming me with messages about confirmation pages you idiots. A confirmation page cannot confirm that the intended recepient received it if you're faxing to a machine that serves an entire office. I implied this with the "Janet threw away the fax" part in my post, didn't I?

Additionally, it may confirm that the machine received the message, but it cannot confirm that it was printed illegibly or the paper got jammed. No one can claim with a straight face that they "didn't get an email", you can't claim that someone must have misplaced it, and you can't complain that your inbox must've been low on toner.

Also, literally over 50 people have messaged me "Fuck Janet". Stahp.

3. Dail up Internet

With rapid Internet get to offered to clients everywhere throughout the nation it may come as an amazement to discover that there's as yet a critical number of individuals as yet utilizing dial-up. Yet, a review by the Pew Research Internet Project demonstrated that 2% of Americans utilize dial-up. That is around five million individuals as yet utilizing modems to go on the web, frequently in provincial zones.

4 . Phone books

Telephone directories are something that everybody has conveyed to their entryway, yet with telephone numbers ready to be recovered substantially snappier from a basic online pursuit they've turned out to be outdated. Seven out of each 10 Americans either never or exceptionally rarelyuse a telephone directory, making it something that by far most of individuals just needn't bother with. Be that as it may, in a large portion of the United States and numerous different nations despite everything they're conveyed to the entire populace.


5. CRT Televisions

The lion's share of people sitting in front of the TV today will most likely be doing as such on a LCD or plasma set as opposed to a more established CRT display. There are a lot of good motivations to update, including the way that CRT TVs are enormous and unimaginably overwhelming, taking up heaps of room and making them hard to move.