I have (and in some cases still do) all but the WebTV and the Internet Radio Player.
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Didn't have any of these, did have a dvd burner and TV tuner card so I guess I could have had a dirty dvd recorder back then but at the time I just saved the shows I wanted to HDD, watched them and then deleted it and the burner was for movies ripped with handbrake
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PDA - HP ipaq, it ran windows CE and it was dope. I was in middle school and used it to look at boobies at night. I don't know how I convinced my parents to get it for me because it wasn't cheap.
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nope, just VCR and eventually DVR
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I don't know what webtv is
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no 3d tv, that was a fad
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rpi - yes, several, gen 1 and up
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internet radio? I used Pandora but I didn't have a dedicated device for it.
About a decade too young for this, but - the only one of these I had was a dvd burner. I used it in high school to make video projects. Video projects were extremely popular assignments, and I had a lot of fun with them, too. I did a lot of stop-motion animation, claymation, etc. I had shitty software that I didn't even know how to use properly so I did things like play music from my ipod into the camera speaker instead of mix an audio track in "post." Haha. Was a lot of fun though.
I never owned a WebTV, but I do remember the first time I saw a Usenet post from a WebTV user. It was the start of the Eternal September.
Yes but there was very little content and the concept never took off with the major content providers.
I guess it depends on what counts as a PDA. Would you count a Blackberry? They sold them as PDAs when I got my first BB. But it wasn't really at all like a PalmPilot or one of those Motorola dudes.
DVD-R big time. I specifically got a recorder as my first player since I knew I would be ripping discs a lot.
WebTV came out when I was too young to afford a TV, and my parents wouldn't have gone for anything like that even if I begged.
Never had or wanted a 3D TV, as my first time hearing about them was literally seeing them in action and the effect was headache inducing. The Nintendo 3DS used the same tech, and I always kept the 3D slider at the minimum.
I do want a Raspberry Pi or some other micro computer; I just need a project and reason to get one. I have a 3D printer so I have too many awesome choices I could try.
I might have gotten an internet radio player... If I knew of their existence back when they would have been relevant. I was big time into Winamp's net radio scene in high school. Even ran my own. Reading your list was the first time I was made aware of them, though.
I am 38. I've never been on the bleeding edge, but I have tended to be an early adopter. If enough people try a thing and say it's cool, I come check it out. lol
At the height of PDA popularity the average person had a separate device for their phone calls. Generally speaking a PDA in 2000 I would consider a portable handheld device with a stylus but didn't have telephony capabilities.
Today a personal digital assistant the lines have been blurred.
I had a Hairy Palm II
I'm in my 20s and I've had most of those lol
PDA: I had a Palm Pilot I rescued from a scrap bin at work and installed an open source OS on. I used it as an ereader until the eye strain from reading on that small screen started giving me headaches.
DVD recorder: No. I gave up on broadcast TV when I was 17 and the amount of advertising time hit 25 minutes per hour. I watched everything on rented DVDs until video streaming and adblockers became a thing.
WebTV: No. It was never available in my country.
3D TV: No. I was waiting for the format to get more support, then it went away entirely.
Raspberry Pi: Yes! I could never get wifi working on it, which limited its usefulness. Still fun to play with until I somehow broke the HDMI out.
Internet Radio: Kinda. That's what I used the Pi for after breaking video.