I have a Raspberry Pi but none of the others.
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Over-50 tech-ish. In the brief time I was an IT manager I ordered Blackberries for some of the staff but didn't use one myself. DVD recorder: not for TV but on the computer. No webtv, no 3d tv (I'm not much of a TV watcher anymore), no internet radio. With some programming help I recently set up a Pico W with a water sensor to monitor a water heater for flooding and ping my phone if it happens. That was pretty nifty.
I had 3 of those things.
A Compaq iPaq pda that ran Windows ce
An Internet radio alarm clock
I've got a raspberry pi that I use for pihole
I have (and in some cases still do) all but the WebTV and the Internet Radio Player.
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.
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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.
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
I had a Hairy Palm II
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.