Yours portly hasn’t had much time to watch movies lately. Work has been busy since getting back from Spring Break, but I’ve also been trying to clean and declutter my hovel.
My family has something of the hoarder’s gene, it seems. We love our bric-a-brac and treacle and knickknacks and what-nots. My sister-in-law describers my mother’s decor as “antique maximalist.” Mine would probably be “Millennial Rat’s Nest”—my home is full of books, old bits of electronics, and LEGOs.
I have always had the mindset that “this might be useful someday”—not to the pathological extent where I have forty-year old newspapers piled up over every square inch of my house, but certainly to the extent that I hang onto things a tad longer than is probably necessary and prudent.
Well, yours portly has turned over a new leaf, and is aggressively purging his home of clutter. Have no fear—my love of miscellaneous bric-a-brac remains strong. But I’m definitely getting rid of the stuff that is either a.) clearly useless and/or broken or b.) clearly never going to be used again.
So it is that I have been digging through my Drawer of Forgotten Technology, a drawer in my old writing desk that is stuffed with, well, forgotten and ancient technology. It’s been a fun experience.
Today, I’m going to share two bits of older technology that are still ubiquitous in homes, just in flashier forms: an old cable modem and a Netgear router.
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