demonhorde665 :
I though the article was about fundemental components of pc's not want's.
Um, no, notice the title? See how it talks about the
experience? Yes, components have something to do with that, but at least half is the software and protocols the hardware runs. And I'm not sure what "want's" is/are.
demonhorde665 :
MP3's is NOT fundemental to modern pc experience.
Oh, so you mention "experience" here, so I guess you did read the article title? Still this has to be the most asinine statement I've read today ( but it's still early. ) Go back and read that page. Notice the title is "Entertainment and Digital Media"? How can you say MP3 ( and by association other compression protocols, ) isn't essential to the modern computing experience? Do you listen to music on your computer? You watch YouTube, DVDs, or Blu-rays on it? Stream some TV shows or movies or Netflix? Without digital media and compression, how does any of that happen?
flash drives and mainly downloads, CDs and DVDs for most enthusiasts are already in the past
For some enthusiasts, maybe. Myself and many others I know still use physical media for backups and other purposes ( and we don't plan on giving them up anytime soon. ) I think a page on removable media would be in order here. But I do understand that right now, removable media isn't crucial to modern computing anymore.
Do you remember when printers plugged in to the parallel port, mice hooked up to the serial port, joysticks employed a game port, and keyboards attached to a DIN connector? To top all of that off, nothing was plug-and-play.
Oh, you mean back when I was editing my config.sys and autoexec.bat files, setting my video card to be VESA compatible, messing with sound card IRQs, praying it had SoundBlaster or Roland emulation, and using a VGA pass-through cable for my Voodoo2 and TNT2 cards? Ah yes, good days . . . good days.