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A long long time ago, back when dinosaurs used to roam the earth, there used to be these things called âOverhead Projectorsâ. Youâd printâââor write!âââyour presentation onto âTransparenciesâ (sheets of transparent plastic), and that would get thrown up on the screen, or much more commonly, the wall that you were projecting stuff against. You could also draw on the plastic in real-time, updating your preso to make a point. Mind you, there were no animated transitions, though thatâs probably a Good Thing đ. The best part to all of this was that there were basically three things that could go wrong
- The bulb blew out: Easy to deal with
- No screen: You moved the furniture out of the way, and used the wall.
- You forgot your slides: If I had a goat for every time somebody did a last minute âscribble the preso on the transparenciesâ, Iâd be the worldâs largest producer of goat cheeseâŠ
And then, along came laptops.
(Ok, I know what youâre thinking, Iâm about to say something like âAnd milk was 5Âą/gallonâ or âGet off my lawnâ, but thatâs not where Iâm going)
As I was saying, along came laptops. And with the laptops, came PowerPoint.Unfortunately, cosmic balance required that along with all the awesomeness of PowerPointâââBlessings Be Upon Itâââthere also be the chaos of ensuring that you had the right adaptor đĄ.
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So yeah, first you walked around with a VGA adaptor, because that was easy.
And then things got digital, so you got a DVI adaptor, but you also kept the VGA one around for backward compatibility.And, because youâd leave them behind every now and then, you started buying the adapters in bulk (look behind the sofa, youâll find a couple along with spare change)
And then came HDMI, and Mini Display-Port, which meant you were never really sure what you were going to find, and you never had the right adaptor because you can only buy so many things in bulk, so you just gave up and hoped for the best.
Which was OK, because there was usually a little âdisplay adaptor kitâ next to the projector that would have the adaptor you needed. Except it didnât, because now you were the one walking off with the adaptor, so the office (or conference, or whatever) was now buying adaptors in bulk. Which was not a bad thing, because, hey, transfer the costs, right?
Except then some of the âsmarterâ people started hard-wiring the adaptors to the projector (Or duct-taping it. Or screwing it in. Whatever). Which resulted in at least one personâs laptop being yanked to the ground when someone tripped over the cable (A friend. Yeah. Thatâs right. AÂ friend).
And as if that wasnât bad enough, we now have USB-C ports on the new MacBooks, which means everybody now needs USB-C to DVI/HDMI/Mini DisplayPort adaptors to go along with everything else, and at this point itâs just way too complicated and we may as well just give up and start using transparencies again.
So yeah, maybe yâall do need to get off my lawnâŠ
(This article also appears on my blog)
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