Media

The Type of Media I Grew Up With

  • Granny's Typewriter: A Tactile Thing to Play With

    Granny's Typewriter: A Tactile Thing to Play With
    A mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing characters similar to those produced by printer's movable type;
    Back then, i used to type on all the keys, fascinated with how it operated and the sounds it made. Typewriters are really a toy to me.
  • CRT Television: Old but Gold

    CRT Television: Old but Gold
    A telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome; The bulky tv sets that most of us grew up watching tv shows on
  • A Little Fun with Cassette Tapes

    A Little Fun with Cassette Tapes
    Was first released by Philips, used for recording and storing data by some computer systems; Cooler than CDs which people tend to buy back then; I have experienced unraveling those tapes inside it, making it as a toy not a recorder lol
  • DVD Players: Old but not Outdated

    DVD Players: Old but not Outdated
    A device that plays DVD discs produced under both the DVD-Video and DVD-Audio technical standards;
    I used to watch F4, a Taiwanese Series in my childhood using this DVD Player
  • A Good Time Watching Cartoons with Betamax

    A Good Time Watching Cartoons with Betamax
    An analog-recording and cassette format of magnetic tape for video developed by Sony;
    It's a big-size tape that was popular during the year of 2000's with many varieties of movies including disney cartoons, action, anime, historical movies etc.
  • Nokia 3210: Small yet Classic

    Nokia 3210: Small yet Classic
    A GSM cellular phone, announced by Nokia on March 18, 1999; The only phone i know that never runs out of battery in 24 hours; for me it's the cutest and greatest phone that was ever made thanks Nokia
  • Fun Viewing with OHP Projectors

    Fun Viewing with OHP Projectors
    A variant of slide projector that is used to display images to an audience;
    It =is a projector that uses an acetate with hand-written words
  • Floppy Disks: Where Information Sharing and Storage Started

    Floppy Disks: Where Information Sharing and Storage Started
    Known as diskette; a type of disk storage composed of a disk of thin and flexible magnetic storage;
    It's a storage that i mostly use when i was in elementary; having only a minimum amount of data to be stored upon
  • Fun Playing Encarta in Desktop Computers

    Fun Playing Encarta in Desktop Computers
    A personal computer designed for regular use at a single location on or near a desk or table due to its size and power requirements;
    Before, not just the televisions are the bulky ones but also the personal computers. I used to play Children's Encarta, a popular educational game with this type of computer.
  • If You Don't Know, Google It

    If You Don't Know, Google It
    A multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products; This is the most efficient and convinient
    search engine i know since the beginning of its invention up to present
  • Yahoo: Search, Mail and Play All You Can

    Yahoo: Search, Mail and Play All You Can
    A web services provider, wholly owned by Verizon Communications through Oath Inc;
    It has been the most used search engine before the google became popular
  • Stream All You Can with Youtube

    Stream All You Can with Youtube
    A video-sharing website created by three former PayPal employees Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim in February 2005; I have been using Youtube for video streaming, do it yourself vids (diy), tutorials etc.
  • Learn and Explore with Internet Explorer

    Learn and Explore with Internet Explorer
    A graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft; The web browser that was commonly used during year 2008
  • Life Becomes Easier with Mozilla Firefox

    Life Becomes Easier with Mozilla Firefox
    A free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary the Mozilla Corporation; Became the competitor of Internet Explorer because of its more advanced and developed features
  • Goodbye, Friendster

    Goodbye, Friendster
    A social gaming site based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; was originally a social networking service website; I had been using friendster and it was an appealing app where you can customize your own profile whatever you wanted it to be. Sadly, this site became no longer available since 2015.
  • Flash It On: LCD Projector

    Flash It On: LCD Projector
    A type of video projector for displaying video, images or computer data on a screen or other flat surface; It is an innovation of the OHP or the Overhead projector that is used nowadays
  • Google Chrome: Quick Access, In Just One Click

    Google Chrome: Quick Access, In Just One Click
    A freeware web browser developed by Google;
    The most distinguished web browser until now
  • Wanna Be Updated? Use Facebook

    Wanna Be Updated? Use Facebook
    An American for-profit corporation and an online social media and social networking service launched by Mark Zuckerberg; It is the famous, most-used, and user-friendly social networking site that allows you to share information, communicate here & abroad and makes you be updated of the recent issues happening globally.
  • Laptops: Making Life More Convenient

    Laptops: Making Life More Convenient
    Often called a notebook or "notebook computer"; a small, portable personal computer with a "clamshell" form factor;
    Unlike the desktop computers, laptops are more handy, portable and easy to use type of device
  • Tweet It On: Twitter

    Tweet It On: Twitter
    An online news and social networking service where users post and interact with messages, "tweets", restricted to 140 characters; Almost everyone uses twitter in expressing their own thoughts and feelings toward a certain issue or personal life; it became more known and used now for social purposes
  • Living in The Era Full of Smartphones

    Living in The Era Full of Smartphones
    A mobile personal computer with a mobile operating system with features useful for mobile or handheld use;
    From small keypad phones to large touchpad mobile phones with modern and improved features; Almost every people has this kind of phone
  • USB Flash Drives: Always On The Go

    USB Flash Drives: Always On The Go
    A data storage device that includes flash memory with an integrated USB interface;
    It is a transformation from small-storage large diskettes, to small yet a big-storage device
  • LCD TV: From Bulky-oldies to Flat Screen TVs

    LCD TV: From Bulky-oldies to Flat Screen TVs
    Television sets that use liquid-crystal displays to produce images; The large, bulky ones have innovated into flat screen tvs, that are mostly internet ready, capable of HD streaming and gaming mode etc.
  • Google Drive: Less Viruses, Less Worries

    Google Drive: Less Viruses, Less Worries
    A file storage and synchronization service developed by Google; From tangible storage such as USB and diskettes just turned into a software particularly the Google drive that allows you to share and save files through the use of internet