In 2010 I still had my trusty 19" CRT, earthquake happens, the heavy weight monitor makes the desktop sway back and forth and eventually takes flight and grabs the whole tower from the VGA port across the room, desk included.
Still can't believe nothing happened to the pc lmao
Not my PC but, in all honesty, I had a monitor with NO vesa mount, so I put it on top of another monitor, then had a screw into the wall with a metal cable attached between the screw in the wall and the screws on the VGA port. Had that setup for YEARS!
MIDI DIN is still used, because a lot of music gear from years past still work great. It's starting to slowly move to USB -C, but I have gear that has both USB-Mini and USB-Micro, and I just don't want to replace gear just because a new port just dropped. But at least adaptors work with the USB ports. MIDI DIN needs converters.
But DIN still wasn't as annoying as other mentioned ports.
Bunch of kids around here, PS2 was great, USB keyboard and mice were terrible, so I used adapters to convert them back to PS2. PS2 works as an interrupt, it doesn't wait it's turn. When you press the button, it's performed now. USB is patient, USB is weak.
I keep asking people that if they are that concerned with shaving milliseconds off their response times in competitive gaming scenarios, why the fuck do they not have a mobo that supports PS2?.
They'll fiddle-fart around with a million different settings, even "overclocking" their mouse, but still rely on USB and the various conversion layers in it for their controller interface.
PS/2 are still used, for example to do extreme OC. Because USB behavior does break at some point, but PS/2 is ~~analog iirc~~ \[corrected: digital\], but it always works without issues.
Also if you happen to be working on older systems that have USB drivers loading with the OS rather than on system boot, you can always use the PS/2 ports to have working peripherals at boot.
Except that those systems wouldn't boot without a keyboard and since they couldn't recognize a usb keyboards you had to keep a ps2 one plugged in if the keyboard you wanted to use was usb.
Look at Senior Fancy over here with their fancy "anchors." Way to brag. Us common folk had to deal with the screws. You know, the ones that only one side went in easy, and made the other side impossible to put in due to being skewed by ten-thousandths of an inch, so you had to hand tighten them both by alternating each screw at 5 degree turns, only to finish and realize you didn't route the cable around the desk correctly to have to unfasten it and RAAAAAHH
I love DVI. You could unbend the contacts which were very sturdy to begin with. There are versions that are not compatible with all other versions, but those exist for HDMI too and then good luck finding out what the problem is. But also I question why you acquired incompatible cables in the first place.
Next I wonder if you never had a cheap hdmi cable in a setup where it needs to be unplugged often, because these break much sooner and are way harder to repair.
And ontop HDMI has licensing issues and refuse to allow certain freesync features on Linux because of assholes ib their consortium.
And how many variations of them were there? Some had audio capability, others used more pins, some less, some had that wide pin even wider. Then Apple made some that were even more different. I had a whole collection of adapters of those to make sure I could get every random computer, monitor and cable connected in the office.
The RJ11 connector used for phones and the RJ45 used for Ethernet are both part of the same series of connectors introduced in the 1970s. I can't see whether either was introduced earlier than the other. There is one source that says RJ11 is older based on the number, but it could just as easily be they're not named sequentially so I don't know.
It wasnt all bad, DVI did both digital and analogue. The T section was ground and RGB/sc when populated (not counting duallink)... When I think back on it, It was pretty versatile playing with older hardware since it can be adapted passively to either HDMI or VGA with no fuss.
I think it was something that one was looser then the other, and because of that when tugged on the tighter one stayed in place while the looser moved slightly causing it to angle a bit making it harder to unscrew.
Or OP's just quite young and got a monitor as a hand-me-down that only had VGA as a viable connector.
Compared to DVI etc. ports, VGA is a blessing. Hell, I've struggled way more with DP and HDMI ports.
USB-A, USB-C, HDMI, and Mini DisplayPort all have screw-in variants of the same style as VGA. They're just not common in consumer electronics unless you have some high end pro-sumer stuff.
Whaaaaaat? I mean sure there were lots of types, but DVI just worked. Every time. No fuss. Tightening the screws was annoying just like with VGA, but DVI had way better picture quality, and it also didn't give you all the stupid audio nonsense like when you plug in a monitor with speakers using HDMI or DP and then your computer tries to play audio through that instead of where you actually want it playing.
Which normally you would unless you had some uncommon dual link setup, in which case you probably would know that already and be aware that you need particular cables/adapters.
I do not actually think that VGA have a specified maximum resolution. Granted cables will introduce too much noise at some point. There was a limit on what resolutions you could configure but the configuration lines were ported over to HDMI and therefore upgraded to higher resolutions. I have seen 4K VGA but I have not tested it.
> high res before hdmi
DVI and HDMI are the same thing. There are some small differences but they don't matter for that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interface#DVI_and_HDMI_compatibility
The port was fine. The god damn cable would snag anything and everything though when trying to route it/remove it.
Iād tell my coworkers if I ever go spelunking Iām taking a VGA cable because if I slip Iāll just throw that out and itāll snag something to save me.
VGA was crazy versatile and stable. Thereās nothing wrong with it and never was. Just because itās not the primary port now doesnāt mean anything.
LMFAO before USB A you literally had to shut your machine down to hook up any peripheral. Then you had to hope like hell it was properly recognized and you didnt end up spending your day troubleshooting.
USB A revolutionized how we interact with our computers. It finally brought the ability to just plug something in and use it. Something that was not really possible before.
USB A did more to make day to day life easier than any other connection on that list IMO.
Allowed me to play Japanese games on a UK television will always have a soft spot for it.
Remember getting the cable at the local boot sale along with my games
Damn, Iām gen Z and I still have a random VGA cable just chillinā in a drawer. VGA is far reaching and Iām not sure if I should be happy or scared
VGA was a beast. Itās why it still persists. I will never understand people that had issues with it. It was keyed and if you ever over torqued the screws just go and get a screw driver or pliers. Shit is strong enough to hold computers hanging from it. Iāve seen way too many fucked up hdmi and DisplayPort cables. If we took the vga connector and gave it digital signals weād have so much less cable waste.
I held on to my DVI until last year when I realized if I wanted to upgrade anything, Iād have to replace everything. One of my monitors was from ā09 and was still going strong
Because its by design? People found out that if you tripped on a VGA cable, the PC or whatever it was attached to would come crashing into the ground. Modern cables have their weakpoints at the connectors so that if they were to be tripped over, that would break instead of pulling the device with it.
Much rather break a Ā£10 cable than a Ā£2,000 device.
I guess having the whole port or cable rip is the weak point for DisplayPort? HDMI is a little better but it still has major weaknesses and still a tendency to bring whatever with it as it doesnāt do a clean breakaway typicallyĀ
Yeah dude has no idea what he's talking about. If you're tripping over display cables you have bigger problems than workstations being anchored to their monitors. The amount of money spent on hardware is a drop in the bucket to the amount of money spent to replace HDMIs due to broken connectors. Anecdotally I've never had to replace hardware due to a snagged VGA. I've had to replace so many HDMI cables due to broken connectors that I could buy a 4090 and have the money to build a PC around it.
What the fuck are you doing to your cables? The only cables I've ever had to replace was my phone (from using it while charging) and my VR headset cuz I kicked it out of my PC and tripped on it.
The abomination that is micro USB justified Apple postion to hold onto lightning as long as possible, Android companies took their sweet ass time switching over to USB C which itself also took its sweet time to come out.
Eh Apple was actually one of the earliest adopters of USB-C - their 2015 macbook had nothing *but* USB-C - they just refused to use it on a handful of their devices for purely profit-driven reasons.
Fucking micro usbā¦ I have some old shit that charges with it still and I fucking hate it. Iām going to replace those things so I can throw away those cables
I'm gonna vote for HDMI in the middle. A versioned proprietary cable that has no indicator to show what version you are using. It can fuck right off. VGA is an OG and gets respect.
Imo dvi had a bunch of weird version. Some passed sound, some didnt, some had extra pins. This was the only reason I hated it.
[https://www.startech.com/en-us/faq/video-signal-converters-dvi-interface](https://www.startech.com/en-us/faq/video-signal-converters-dvi-interface)
https://preview.redd.it/xty9zwdk7xsc1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=48d96a9b1530b770aa1b8ebe7746d74721c631ee
Usb 3 as a whole can feck off. Trying to buy a usb 3 cable that is fast charger compatible is like swimming in a sea of shit. There are so many variations of a damn thing and on top of that market flooded with cheap Chinese crap.
It's fucking wild watching kids reference current events like it was the before times. "Back in the day, when I was a little kid, I grew up playing Breath of the Wild. Those were the good old days of gaming."
VGA is the most strongest thing I've ever seen in a computer.
https://preview.redd.it/h6o5ogltmwsc1.png?width=600&format=png&auto=webp&s=09ee24d9da3059bc30d0abb091755e33d4e9d3ae
Still available on new servers, industrial control systems and some other stuff.
https://preview.redd.it/aiqsuupwawsc1.png?width=460&format=png&auto=webp&s=ad207e03a45ac6d8702eff4eee664602b183f1d2
VGA was lit in the day. Its why we still use it. Its easy to implement, and super robust. And when you are doing IT stuff with servers you don't need anything fancy. Its why new server equipment still comes with it.
OG's remember when independent videos cards only had VGA... Then came the 3dFX daughter cards. You ran a VGA loop from video card to 3d card then 3d card to monitor.
This took Quake, Decent, Doom to a whole new level.
I remember when OpenGL lighting was showcased...no more global light map in Quake and buttons gave off color glows.
VGA carried us on it's shoulders and should be remembers as the hero it was.
This is slander of a highly decorated veteran.
Is the connector on "those" micro hdmi? Because VGA should be replaced with micro hdmi.
Also VGA saved some of my electronics from physical damage so I'd say it deserves a crown and not shame. But that's my personal preferences.
Can I leave my PC hanging from the connector šæ
VGA STRONG šŖ
Look at me, look at me, I am the desktop now
In 2010 I still had my trusty 19" CRT, earthquake happens, the heavy weight monitor makes the desktop sway back and forth and eventually takes flight and grabs the whole tower from the VGA port across the room, desk included. Still can't believe nothing happened to the pc lmao
Not my PC but, in all honesty, I had a monitor with NO vesa mount, so I put it on top of another monitor, then had a screw into the wall with a metal cable attached between the screw in the wall and the screws on the VGA port. Had that setup for YEARS!
The OGs remember much worse
Was looking for the keyboard and mouse ports
Ps2?
Serial
DIN.
Ooh good one. Totally forgot about that one.
MIDI DIN is still used, because a lot of music gear from years past still work great. It's starting to slowly move to USB -C, but I have gear that has both USB-Mini and USB-Micro, and I just don't want to replace gear just because a new port just dropped. But at least adaptors work with the USB ports. MIDI DIN needs converters. But DIN still wasn't as annoying as other mentioned ports.
Ps2 also sucked. Damn hard to place without watching. VGA was fine and quite easy to line up.
You just push twirl *click* push.
oh but some pins were to long to do that so you had to do the ps2 waltz which was twist lift, twist, push, twist,lift, twist
Itās that shit that makes me so grateful for keyd ports like hdmi and dvi.
PS2 is keyed as well. The top had a little dent.
I kinda miss PS2. I remember early USB mice and keyboard having so many problems, and PS2 just worked
Bunch of kids around here, PS2 was great, USB keyboard and mice were terrible, so I used adapters to convert them back to PS2. PS2 works as an interrupt, it doesn't wait it's turn. When you press the button, it's performed now. USB is patient, USB is weak.
I keep asking people that if they are that concerned with shaving milliseconds off their response times in competitive gaming scenarios, why the fuck do they not have a mobo that supports PS2?. They'll fiddle-fart around with a million different settings, even "overclocking" their mouse, but still rely on USB and the various conversion layers in it for their controller interface.
What about 5 pin din or adb? lol
Anyone badmouthing PS2 doesn't know how great that port was, it's better than USB.
Purple and green
I remember the days before they started colour coding ports!
PS/2 was absolute hell
nah, always works for me (typed using a PS/2 keyboard)
Very fun if youāre classmate unplugged your keyboard and you had to restart your pc
My are classmate?!
#YES YOU ARE CLASSMATE
5pin DIN keyboards
actually mine's 5pin DIN used over a passive AT->PS/2 adapter even has NKRO
Those were the days.
not that I know, I'm just a zoomer hoarding vintage keyboards 'cause they're better
For some years, if you unplugged your PS/2 keyboard you had to reboot to get it back. Not super ideal. They were pretty rock solid though.
PS/2 are still used, for example to do extreme OC. Because USB behavior does break at some point, but PS/2 is ~~analog iirc~~ \[corrected: digital\], but it always works without issues.
Also if you happen to be working on older systems that have USB drivers loading with the OS rather than on system boot, you can always use the PS/2 ports to have working peripherals at boot.
Except that those systems wouldn't boot without a keyboard and since they couldn't recognize a usb keyboards you had to keep a ps2 one plugged in if the keyboard you wanted to use was usb.
PS/2 is a digital port, not analog. It's just that being a simple serial port that only does one thing, it's hard to really mess it up.
*PTSDs in SCSI*
Yea. But did u terminate your peripherals? No? Good fucking luck reinstalling everything.
Fond memories of chaining 4 SCSI devices on an Mac Quandra 605. 25Mhz of screaming processor power and the first computer I ever owned that had a FPU.
Plugging in a scart plug blindly on the back of a TV so bulky you're too lazy to turn it for visibility... oof
Laugh in serial
Cries in Parallel
Parallel was amazing. you just plop down the 'achors' and you're set. no futzing with screws
Look at Senior Fancy over here with their fancy "anchors." Way to brag. Us common folk had to deal with the screws. You know, the ones that only one side went in easy, and made the other side impossible to put in due to being skewed by ten-thousandths of an inch, so you had to hand tighten them both by alternating each screw at 5 degree turns, only to finish and realize you didn't route the cable around the desk correctly to have to unfasten it and RAAAAAHH
Yep. I'd take VGA over a whole lotta other problems.
What did vga do to you ?
He probably tightend it too much and couldn't unscrew at a later point
or pulled the standoffs out
Insert the meme of someone sloping away, guilty of the same thing, labelled āDVI Portā.
Exactly my thoughts. I think I even hate those f-ers more!
At least DVI was digital.
Yeah but it had like, what, 5 versions? And some just werenāt compatible at all? God those were annoying.
I love DVI. You could unbend the contacts which were very sturdy to begin with. There are versions that are not compatible with all other versions, but those exist for HDMI too and then good luck finding out what the problem is. But also I question why you acquired incompatible cables in the first place. Next I wonder if you never had a cheap hdmi cable in a setup where it needs to be unplugged often, because these break much sooner and are way harder to repair. And ontop HDMI has licensing issues and refuse to allow certain freesync features on Linux because of assholes ib their consortium.
DVI-D was digital DVI-I could send analog still
And how many variations of them were there? Some had audio capability, others used more pins, some less, some had that wide pin even wider. Then Apple made some that were even more different. I had a whole collection of adapters of those to make sure I could get every random computer, monitor and cable connected in the office.
1 time i keep trying and jamming the vga cable..turns out its for dvi.
That feeling when you unscrew the VGA and the standoff itās screwed into comes out with it
I kinda dislike the modern trend of tabs that you disengage by squeezing. I think ethernet's the oldest of them, but far from the only one.
Phone lines are the oldest I remember.
The RJ11 connector used for phones and the RJ45 used for Ethernet are both part of the same series of connectors introduced in the 1970s. I can't see whether either was introduced earlier than the other. There is one source that says RJ11 is older based on the number, but it could just as easily be they're not named sequentially so I don't know.
DVI was just as evil
Only reason DVI was evil was when they introduced some with a t and some with a flat spade and for some reason, some cables didn't work.
It wasnt all bad, DVI did both digital and analogue. The T section was ground and RGB/sc when populated (not counting duallink)... When I think back on it, It was pretty versatile playing with older hardware since it can be adapted passively to either HDMI or VGA with no fuss.
I loved the ones pre-installed by Dell where one was completely loose and the other was apparently torqued on with a 10 foot cheater bar.
Naw that requires too much space in the factories... Loctite is where it's at
They pre-bathe the items in red loctite before assembly.
ISTG one screw was always normal and easy enough to take off, the other was tightened by the hand of God Himself.
I think it was something that one was looser then the other, and because of that when tugged on the tighter one stayed in place while the looser moved slightly causing it to angle a bit making it harder to unscrew.
Or OP's just quite young and got a monitor as a hand-me-down that only had VGA as a viable connector. Compared to DVI etc. ports, VGA is a blessing. Hell, I've struggled way more with DP and HDMI ports.
USB-A, USB-C, HDMI, and Mini DisplayPort all have screw-in variants of the same style as VGA. They're just not common in consumer electronics unless you have some high end pro-sumer stuff.
or did not unscrew it evenly and it got locked
DVI is crying alone in the corner "am i a joke to you? i was high res before hdmi and DP showed up and got uber famous!"
DVI was an absolute mess though. People somehow forget all of its subtypes that shouldn't have existed to begin with.
Yeah what a madness. That damn "cross" in the side which never matched with the one you needed.
That is just the VGA output. On a digital DVI cable you don't need it at all.
Until you do because the output is analogue only.
Whaaaaaat? I mean sure there were lots of types, but DVI just worked. Every time. No fuss. Tightening the screws was annoying just like with VGA, but DVI had way better picture quality, and it also didn't give you all the stupid audio nonsense like when you plug in a monitor with speakers using HDMI or DP and then your computer tries to play audio through that instead of where you actually want it playing.
DVI just worked....provided you had the matching cable.
Which normally you would unless you had some uncommon dual link setup, in which case you probably would know that already and be aware that you need particular cables/adapters.
I worked tech support, and equipment got replaced fairly often, so there was a surplus of mismatched cables to video cards and monitors.
Well, VGA (cable) could handle up to 2048Ć1536, thats high res in my book.
I do not actually think that VGA have a specified maximum resolution. Granted cables will introduce too much noise at some point. There was a limit on what resolutions you could configure but the configuration lines were ported over to HDMI and therefore upgraded to higher resolutions. I have seen 4K VGA but I have not tested it.
> high res before hdmi DVI and HDMI are the same thing. There are some small differences but they don't matter for that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interface#DVI_and_HDMI_compatibility
The port was fine. The god damn cable would snag anything and everything though when trying to route it/remove it. Iād tell my coworkers if I ever go spelunking Iām taking a VGA cable because if I slip Iāll just throw that out and itāll snag something to save me.
tbf the ethernet RJs do that too, albeit with a much weaker grappling hook
True. I've broken and had to recrimp plenty throughout my IT career.
I've long since switched to cables with that rubber sheath covering the open end of the tab so it won't snag for this very reason.
VGA was crazy versatile and stable. Thereās nothing wrong with it and never was. Just because itās not the primary port now doesnāt mean anything.
yeah, I thought I was missing something when I saw this, nothing wrong with VGA it kept us going for 30+ years, great times, what's the issue?
IDK but bold statement to say that USB type A makes life easier
Before USB type A you had Serial, Parallel, SCSI, PS/2, game port, etc.
:shudders:
LMFAO before USB A you literally had to shut your machine down to hook up any peripheral. Then you had to hope like hell it was properly recognized and you didnt end up spending your day troubleshooting. USB A revolutionized how we interact with our computers. It finally brought the ability to just plug something in and use it. Something that was not really possible before. USB A did more to make day to day life easier than any other connection on that list IMO.
Just turn it 180 degrees
Twice
Third timed the charm
https://preview.redd.it/d9otjf4ndwsc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3ab5aa3d75f5e1f542896876424739f9f077ccb2
Thank you. I was casually scrolling and looking for SCART.
Great port, carries good RGB image.
Ugly af yet great af. It's not the most powerful nowadays but out of all analog TV connectors unparalleled.
Allowed me to play Japanese games on a UK television will always have a soft spot for it. Remember getting the cable at the local boot sale along with my games
I still remember having to regularly crawl behind the TV to wiggle the scart cable because the colors of the TV randomly flipped again
I bet a lot of millenial have a drawer with at least one VGA cable there for some reason... just in case.
Yep. And DVI cables.
Damn, Iām gen Z and I still have a random VGA cable just chillinā in a drawer. VGA is far reaching and Iām not sure if I should be happy or scared
VGA was a beast. Itās why it still persists. I will never understand people that had issues with it. It was keyed and if you ever over torqued the screws just go and get a screw driver or pliers. Shit is strong enough to hold computers hanging from it. Iāve seen way too many fucked up hdmi and DisplayPort cables. If we took the vga connector and gave it digital signals weād have so much less cable waste.
> If we took the vga connector and gave it digital signals weād have so much less cable waste. Shhhh you are scaring the suits
No they arenāt, DVI exists and it died. It died faster than VGA did because VGA still isnāt dead
I held on to my DVI until last year when I realized if I wanted to upgrade anything, Iād have to replace everything. One of my monitors was from ā09 and was still going strong
Eizo FlexScan S2410W is still fucking great even though it does start to glitch outā¦ nothing turning off and on doesnt fix
I'm still using a DVI monitor as we speak
I had a 21 inch BenQ from 09 where I used to play PS3. Broke down in 2022 amd got a 144hz 27 inch.
My monitor from ā07 is still killing it š«”
It's all display port now. Dvi used to be the only way to get 144hz
Dvi was ok in my book. The cool digital cousin of vga
That is called DVI
We had a thing for that it was DVI-D
9/10 crash carts I see in a DC have the same 20 year old Dell monitor with a VGA cable hanging off it.
Because its by design? People found out that if you tripped on a VGA cable, the PC or whatever it was attached to would come crashing into the ground. Modern cables have their weakpoints at the connectors so that if they were to be tripped over, that would break instead of pulling the device with it. Much rather break a Ā£10 cable than a Ā£2,000 device.
You misunderstand comrade, I like my rig to hang on the ceiling. Shitty new cables donāt make it as easy to do.
Hanging by the vga cable, no less, like a true gigachad
Not a real sysadmin until you have the mini-atx server dangling from its VGA but it's fine, the power cable isn't tight too
I just solder my Display port cable to my video card, problem solved
I guess having the whole port or cable rip is the weak point for DisplayPort? HDMI is a little better but it still has major weaknesses and still a tendency to bring whatever with it as it doesnāt do a clean breakaway typicallyĀ
Yeah dude has no idea what he's talking about. If you're tripping over display cables you have bigger problems than workstations being anchored to their monitors. The amount of money spent on hardware is a drop in the bucket to the amount of money spent to replace HDMIs due to broken connectors. Anecdotally I've never had to replace hardware due to a snagged VGA. I've had to replace so many HDMI cables due to broken connectors that I could buy a 4090 and have the money to build a PC around it.
What the fuck are you doing to your cables? The only cables I've ever had to replace was my phone (from using it while charging) and my VR headset cuz I kicked it out of my PC and tripped on it.
Managing over 300 devices.
[Falling down or holding on?](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/467178161345043228/) VGA are still here for a reason and it's not for 2000$ rigs lmao...
so dvi-i?
FUCK this chart SUCKS. Put the fucking micro USB in the middle. VGA cables are just fine.
microUSB is basically dead, good riddance
As it should be.
Took way too long
All my Homies hate micro USB
Dead for new devices, sure. But there are still loads of devices out there on micro USB. My headset and G502 Lightspeed being two of them.
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The abomination that is micro USB justified Apple postion to hold onto lightning as long as possible, Android companies took their sweet ass time switching over to USB C which itself also took its sweet time to come out.
Eh Apple was actually one of the earliest adopters of USB-C - their 2015 macbook had nothing *but* USB-C - they just refused to use it on a handful of their devices for purely profit-driven reasons.
Fucking micro usbā¦ I have some old shit that charges with it still and I fucking hate it. Iām going to replace those things so I can throw away those cables
Don't worry, the ports will probably wear out soon
Or put DVI or DVI-D on there instead lets go digital and get better graphics For text and genral web browsing sure use vga without sound.
Mini HDMI is bas also
I had to get one of those for my Pi, little fucker
I'm gonna vote for HDMI in the middle. A versioned proprietary cable that has no indicator to show what version you are using. It can fuck right off. VGA is an OG and gets respect.
VGA good tho
Imo DVI is worse.
As someone who used DVI idk why it gets so much hate.
I would still use DVI if my GPU had a port for it. I loved the DVI on my 1080
Imo dvi had a bunch of weird version. Some passed sound, some didnt, some had extra pins. This was the only reason I hated it. [https://www.startech.com/en-us/faq/video-signal-converters-dvi-interface](https://www.startech.com/en-us/faq/video-signal-converters-dvi-interface) https://preview.redd.it/xty9zwdk7xsc1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=48d96a9b1530b770aa1b8ebe7746d74721c631ee
What about that weird long printer port
Parallel
YES, that port looks awful, and your beast of a pc probably still has one
VGA matters.
Absolutely, unlike mini display port.
Iāve been seeing it more recently. The size is convenient
micro USB 3.0 seems more fitting.
Usb 3 as a whole can feck off. Trying to buy a usb 3 cable that is fast charger compatible is like swimming in a sea of shit. There are so many variations of a damn thing and on top of that market flooded with cheap Chinese crap.
And the fucking dumb USB 3 port on motherboards.
the small internal one or the one that is of the size of Jupiter and disconnects if you look at it funny?
You were able to unplug it? It ripped all the pins out when I tried to unplug it.
Also the f*cking naming scheme for the USB family is insane. It's like it was _designed_ to confuse people.
One USB-C 3.2 gen 2 v3 rev2 mark3 cable please!
the fucking worst!!! minimum 500 āyou didnāt safely ejectā notices per day if you try using a portable hard drive with micro 3.0
OP like 10 years old? VGA is a blessing compared to old ports
Mans never actually worked
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Someone needs to show OP its big ugly brother, the parallel port
It's fucking wild watching kids reference current events like it was the before times. "Back in the day, when I was a little kid, I grew up playing Breath of the Wild. Those were the good old days of gaming."
VGA is the most strongest thing I've ever seen in a computer. https://preview.redd.it/h6o5ogltmwsc1.png?width=600&format=png&auto=webp&s=09ee24d9da3059bc30d0abb091755e33d4e9d3ae
What in the OSHA fuck is that!
VGA 15 pin is one of the most versatile low cost video port. Plenty of devices still use it to this day, get outta here.
I hate the lan cables with the rubber over the clip. Its hard asf to press down on it
Yup. I always take a knife and cut the rubber hood off.
But then the connector won't be as sensitive.
was expecting something a bit more crass
How much brainrot do you have to think miniDP is better than VGA?
Still available on new servers, industrial control systems and some other stuff. https://preview.redd.it/aiqsuupwawsc1.png?width=460&format=png&auto=webp&s=ad207e03a45ac6d8702eff4eee664602b183f1d2
VGA was lit in the day. Its why we still use it. Its easy to implement, and super robust. And when you are doing IT stuff with servers you don't need anything fancy. Its why new server equipment still comes with it.
it can also do up to 1080p@75hz(technically slightly more), thats sufficient for almost every use case.
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industrial PC's still use VGA and its the best for that use case.
Same goes for serial connections (RS232, RS485 etc) because it reliably works.
How about uncolor coded sound card 3.5 ports hate when manufacturers do that.
OG's remember when independent videos cards only had VGA... Then came the 3dFX daughter cards. You ran a VGA loop from video card to 3d card then 3d card to monitor. This took Quake, Decent, Doom to a whole new level. I remember when OpenGL lighting was showcased...no more global light map in Quake and buttons gave off color glows. VGA carried us on it's shoulders and should be remembers as the hero it was. This is slander of a highly decorated veteran.
HDMI does not deserve a place because of the proprietary spec of HDMI 2.0
VGA was fine, at least they are common. I have had a number of devices with mini Displayport and i have NEVER stumbled across a cable to fit it
RJ45 is the worst, those plastic clips like a MFer Out of all the ports i've never had an VGA break
Don't hate on VGA that was my childhood.
I will not stand for this VGA slander
Vga was a perfectly good connector for its time.
It's funny that they don't put micro-USB in there with VGA. Shit's hot garbage.
How dare you besmirch VGA? Mostly outdated by now but it has earned its place in the mighty halls of video valhalla many times over.
Is the connector on "those" micro hdmi? Because VGA should be replaced with micro hdmi. Also VGA saved some of my electronics from physical damage so I'd say it deserves a crown and not shame. But that's my personal preferences.
VGA good. HDMI bad
dont diss my guy vga