• Anna
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    9 months ago

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

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      9 months ago

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

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        9 months ago

        look hard enough

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

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        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.

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      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

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      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.

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

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          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.