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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Can someone explain what is this to people born in this century.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It's a VGA connector, used for screens. You can still find them if you look hard enough.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

look hard enough

Any box of cords in any basement, attic, or thrift store

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Cords. A box of chords would be a radio, or a box of sheet music.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've heard there was a secret cord that david pulled and it pleased the lhord

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Had some VGA cords stored away for almost 20 years now “just in case one day I need them”

Didn’t some camcorders have a VGA output? Think that’s why I kept them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Probably, but most i've seen are AV. I still use an old SUN monitor, so VGA is alive and well here

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

if you look hard enough

I think I have seen as many VGA cables as I did HDMI ones. I also have seen many people using adapters for the two standards. So I think they are still very common.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's basically an analog version of an HDMI cable. Except no audio, only video.

It's like the yellow RCA cable, but for computer monitors instead of TVs

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Except it transmitted several times the resolution of an RCA cable

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I just meant for explaining the function of what the thing does.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's a security cable so no one will steal your computer because a 65 lb monitor is friggin stuck to it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

How did you get on my lawn?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

It's how we connected monitors to our PCs. Before I had DVI I used that to connect my desktop to my monitor. My old laptop had that port but now they have HDMI, adding audio and some other features I never use.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Just to tag along, the VGA signal is analog where DVI, HDMI, and DisplayPort are digital

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

DVI had an analog variant as well. I'm obligated to say this because that cable compatibility confused the shit out of me at least once.

You had to check for pins above and below the wide "dash" shaped pin to know if it supported analog.