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You'll never take my audio (phone) jack from my cold dead hands: first used in 1877. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone_connector_(audio) https://en.wikipedia

You'll never take my audio (phone) jack from my cold dead hands: first used in 1877. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone_connector_(audio) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone_connector_(audio) Some technologies are already perfect.

surewhynat 7y ago
Wow I had no idea, I'm literally telling everyone I know next time I need to complain about my smart device not allowing me to listen to music while it charges. awesome!
quietbritishjim 7y ago
That's not a fair comparison: you're comparing the specific revision of USB with the earliest revision of the audio jack. The first version of the audio jack, in 1877, is the 1/4" mono jack. The version that you're thinking of is the 3.5mm (just under 1/8") stereo jack. According to that Wikipedia article, the 3.5mm mono jack is from the 1950s, and it doesn't say when the stereo version is from. (Amazingly, the original 1/4" is still used, usually for connecting up instruments rather than for headphones.)
- xzel 7y ago
  He's not confusing them. They're both phone jacks (see the wiki he posted), the 3.5mm and 1/8 alike. You're confusing the fact the 3.5mm is often in phones (its the multiple usages of the word phone that's confusing here).
  - quietbritishjim 7y ago
    I understand they're both phone jacks, and I think my comment makes that clear. But I mean, the context is that USB is having yet another version, so their comment ("some technologies are already perfect") seemed to be that the original 1887 jack is precisely the same revision of the phone jack he doesn't want removed from his mobile phone. I hadn't actually thought of the two meanings of "phone" in my comment, I understood that "phone jack" refers to telephone switch boards. I just assumed they were talking about removal from mobile phones because that's where those jacks are notoriously being removed.

surewhynat 7y ago

Wow I had no idea, I'm literally telling everyone I know next time I need to complain about my smart device not allowing me to listen to music while it charges. awesome!

quietbritishjim 7y ago

That's not a fair comparison: you're comparing the specific revision of USB with the earliest revision of the audio jack. The first version of the audio jack, in 1877, is the 1/4" mono jack. The version that you're thinking of is the 3.5mm (just under 1/8") stereo jack. According to that Wikipedia article, the 3.5mm mono jack is from the 1950s, and it doesn't say when the stereo version is from. (Amazingly, the original 1/4" is still used, usually for connecting up instruments rather than for headphones.)

xzel 7y ago
He's not confusing them. They're both phone jacks (see the wiki he posted), the 3.5mm and 1/8 alike. You're confusing the fact the 3.5mm is often in phones (its the multiple usages of the word phone that's confusing here).
- quietbritishjim 7y ago
  I understand they're both phone jacks, and I think my comment makes that clear. But I mean, the context is that USB is having yet another version, so their comment ("some technologies are already perfect") seemed to be that the original 1887 jack is precisely the same revision of the phone jack he doesn't want removed from his mobile phone. I hadn't actually thought of the two meanings of "phone" in my comment, I understood that "phone jack" refers to telephone switch boards. I just assumed they were talking about removal from mobile phones because that's where those jacks are notoriously being removed.