What did you use then? I remember cheap monitors in the early 00s ONLY having VGA. By the time I’d moved on, HDMI was so ubiquitous, I skipped DVI instead.
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daggermoon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Am I in the minority of people who never used VGA?
- boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago- StrongHorseWeakNeigh@piefed.social 3 weeks ago- Very legitimate possiblity OP was born in the early 00’s 
- LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago- If you were rich enough, could have only used displays with RGB-BNC. - Or maybe they’re kinda crazy and used Component video with a TV screen. (Or composite…) - Or maybe they’re just not that old. - clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago- I’ve never even heard of video over BNC, and my searches turn up SCART adapters, so I’m guessing it was a British thing? - I think we were talking about computer monitors, not televisions. - LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago- BNC connections were used on professional level video equipment, if you were rich enough, you could get an extremely high quality computer monitor and video card that used those. - Older computers, especially early home computers sometimes just had composite connectors to a TV. Older computer monitors often had a composite input, but SCART was also an option. - Higher end computer monitors sometimes had similar inputs to early HDTVs, there’s a lot of crossover. 
 
 
- CabbageRelish@midwest.social 3 weeks ago- Cheap monitors at Walmart still typically have VGA available. Guess someone who’s buying a monitor at Walmart is a bit of a special case though. 
 
- uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 3 weeks ago- I used VGA up until maybe 2012, 2013. Even longer at my job. - teslasaur@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago- Thats cute. There are so, so many machines that have vga still in my field. - Basically every hmi panel in existence use vga still. And password-less vnc. 
 
- ghterve@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago- I remember when CGA and EGA were normal and then this fancy new VGA came out but only on fancy high end computers and monitors. 
- Samskara@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago- VGA was still very common around 20 years ago. 
- NotSteve_@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago- It used to be that a monitor was fancy if it had DVI and really fancy if it had HDMI 
kameecoding@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Emphasis on Minor I guess
causepix@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
The only time I’ve encountered VGA was my first year as an intern when my office had given me a flat screen monitor that frequently gave me migraines. Thing had to be older than me. That was 7 years ago.
If I encountered it before that, I wasn’t aware of it because I was a child and wasn’t responsible for plugging in the monitors I was using.