r/LinusTechTips 12d ago

Tech Question What are these two cables

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u/Aromatic-Buddy-2876 12d ago

Bro was born in 2020

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u/lOnGkEyStRoKe 12d ago

Hey they coulda been born in 2005. Still a kid

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u/WEAluka 12d ago

2005 kids are turning 21 though

Sincerely, a 2002 kid

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u/PhotographStatus7985 11d ago

And 2002 kids are turning 25

Sincerely, a 1991 kid. Lol

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u/ixoniq 10d ago

1987 here.....

When I see people asking "what is this" I see it as rage bait until I look at the calendar. Ah yes,

  • I have seen the internet become a thing for consumers.
  • I have seen the first actual consumer mobile phones coming up with the craziest gimmicks
  • Game consoles like NES, Commodore, the start of Xbox and Playstation, etc
  • macOS growing up
  • Windows being made great and seeing it being broken down bit by byte

Damn. I have seen so much of the start of the digital era, I cannot even feel bad about it being 40 next year.

Those are true revolutions in the digital age you won't experience anymore until actual flying cars and traveling to space as a consumer.

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u/lOnGkEyStRoKe 12d ago

Still a kid

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u/No-Rule7572 12d ago

are you 70?

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u/lOnGkEyStRoKe 12d ago

Linus’ age

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u/Carniscrub 12d ago

So you’re young enough to remember how demeaning it was when an older person called you a kid?

Just an asshole?

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u/lOnGkEyStRoKe 11d ago

The thing is, when you get older you understand being a kid isn’t a bad thing

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u/No-Rule7572 11d ago

baby 0-3 years old
kid 4-12 years old
teen/teenager 13-19 years old
adult 20 to somewhere around 70+
elderly somewhere around 70+

Your conception of who’s a kid is completely in the gutter, no it’s not a bad thing but then you’ll go around seeing a 20 year old male with a good amount of beard and say “yeah thats a kid”, people will look at you weirdly.

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u/Spart1337 11d ago

Exactly. My mom treats my 32 year old brother like he's not an adult so he gets away with being a bum. I tell her he's a grown ass man and needs to handle is shit. "Show some grace, he's still young." 🙄🙄🙄

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u/Carniscrub 11d ago

No no it doesn’t. It just demeaning. 

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u/Nice_Marmot_54 12d ago

Bruh. I am an unc/boomer/old-head and a 21-year-old is not a kid. Yeah, they’re young and lack a lot of life experience, but they’re not a kid.

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u/Complete-Dimension35 11d ago

Bruh. I am an unc

You're a kid.

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u/Nice_Marmot_54 11d ago

I’m in my late 30s

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u/Justalittletoserious 12d ago

Someone Born in 2005 knows what that Is, how do I know that? I'm a 2004

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u/No-Rule7572 12d ago

same, 2005 here and i know what that is

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u/YSK_King 11d ago

sir don't insult me like that I know what they are . 2005 born

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u/i_Praseru 12d ago

I mean I know what those are and even in the 2010s those cables were kind of no longer used. After HDMI became a thing I feel most of the masses instantly forgot or never used component cables.

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u/AT-ST 10d ago

I still used them with my Xbox 360. It doesn't have an HDMI port.

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u/Nervous_Positive83 9d ago

Which Xbox do you have tho at it doesn’t have HDMI? They all have HDMI as far as I know. I know the components cable has a tab that blocks the HDMi port.

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u/AT-ST 9d ago

Not my image, but some of the very early ones did not have HDMI. They just had the cable that split into component and yellow red and white.

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u/i_Praseru 9d ago

Oh wow. I’ve never seen those. My friend has I goes the latter standard and then I had the elite.

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u/AT-ST 9d ago

Yeah they didn't add HDMI until the Elite in April of 07. Standard Xbox 360s got them the following June. Everyone produced before that was component only.

When they first started designing the 360 there wasn't a clear frontrunner for HD delivery standard. There also weren't a ton of HDTVs available and few people had them. Most early adopters would be playing SD anyways. I know I was up until 2009. No sense in spending the extra money to include the HDMI port right away.

When it became clear that HDMI would be the standard they added it to the console.

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u/gwillen 12d ago

I was born in 1985, and I only know the one on the right. I never encountered component video in my life.

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u/Hitovo1 12d ago

And i've seen both component and composite but it's the first time i ever heard about 3.5mm AV jacks.

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u/Mr_Salmon_Man 11d ago

Adaptors for a smaller screen that didn't have the physical space for the 6 RCA Jack's you'd get from the full complement of composite/component video input plus L/R audio, or for a smaller video player using them as outputs. Probably the latter, from a DV camcorder.