What Almost Selling My Broken Device Made Me Realize

The internet may have been a giant technological leap for the world, but it certainly has made our world a whole lot smaller.

Reno, NV (prHWY.com) June 12, 2012 - The world has opened up quite a lot since the last time I took a long look at this aspect of it, and the realization came about all because my LCD monitor broke down.

You must be asking yourself three things right now:

1) Which aspect of the world is that, exactly?
2) How does the LCD monitor bring that about?
3) Is this writer high on something?

While fear of my parole officer behooves me with prudence to address your third question, I can answer the first two, and I can do so by starting with the second.

Like I said, about a week ago, my LCD monitor finally gave in after two long years of overuse. Most people's first impulse would be to throw it away, followed closely by the impulse to sell broken electronics for cash. Rather than resort to those, I instead thought of fixing the monitor myself as a sort of DIY project.

I first Googled for reasons why an LCD monitor might be malfunctioning, and I found out that a good number of the diagnoses involved faulty capacitors. After a brief research on what capacitors were and how they worked (just to have a basic understanding of what I was getting myself into), I then looked for tutorials on how exactly to go about the whole ordeal, of which I found a lot.

Long story short, I was able to get my monitor back in working order, and it cost me all of two dollars to do so. When you consider how I could have spent hundreds on a new monitor, or even 50 bucks to have someone else fix it for me, that two dollars is huge savings indeed.

But fixing stuff instead of selling old electronics isn't really what I'm here to talk about.

Because of the relative ease with which I was able to get the relevant information, I thought of how different the whole world was just 15 years ago. The internet wasn't as widespread then as it is now, so information was really hard to come by. Back then, you could regale your friends with made up histories about the Transformers because they didn't know any better; you could bring your big brother's "special" magazine collection to school and you'd be the envy of all male 6th graders; you could even pose as the reclusive Stanley Kubrick and people wouldn't be the wiser.

Nowadays, you really have to be careful about the supposed "facts" you tell because people are always ready to call you out on even the slightest deviation from the truth you might make; kids even younger than you were when you discovered "teh pron" go "Meh" at the mention of "goatse;" and stories like the "Kubrick Impersonator" have become a quaint oddity of the past.

My point is this: The internet may have been a giant technological leap for the world, but it certainly has made our world a whole lot smaller.

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Tag Words: sell broken electronics, selling old electronics

Categories: Computers

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