I moved into this old house in Austin last month and the bedroom corner kept dropping signal. I bought a new router, moved it around, even tried tin foil behind it like some YouTube guy said. After 4 days of messing around, I checked the router admin page and saw a firmware update from 2021. Updated it and the dead zone vanished instantly. Has anyone else wasted a ton of time on a fix that ended up being something stupid simple like that?
I was cleaning out my dad's basement last weekend and found a stack of old computer magazines. One from 1991 had an op-ed that said the internet would never replace libraries or newspapers. The guy basically argued people like holding physical stuff too much to go digital. Guess he was wrong about that. Anybody else ever find old tech predictions that make you laugh?
I was digging through some old tech magazines at my uncle's place outside Denver last weekend. He saved a stack of Popular Mechanics from the late 80s. One ad from 1987 showed a family sitting in their living room with a humanoid robot bringing them drinks. The text said something like "The domestic robot will be as common as the microwave by the year 2000." My uncle laughed and pointed at his Alexa sitting on the shelf. We got to talking about how we still can't even get a robot to reliably fold laundry or pick up socks off the floor. The closest thing most people have is a Roomba that gets stuck under the couch. I'm curious what other hilariously wrong predictions people have found from that era?
Paid $65 for that thing and it never once alerted me before a storm, plus the app crashed every time I tried to sync it, has anyone else gotten burned by a dumb weather gadget?
Was cleaning out my dad's garage last weekend and found a stack of old magazines. One had a piece saying personal aircraft would replace cars within 20 years. We can barely keep drones from crashing into trees. My buddy laughed and said we can't even get self-driving taxis to work right in Phoenix yet. Has anyone else stumbled on predictions that aged this badly?