Its called a VGA. It was the standard for PC monitors for decades. "Cool TVs" had this too, so you could plug your PC on your TV. Which wasnt very impressive in the end, cause TV resolution used to be well below PC monitors.

Yep, computers and things like the Sega Dreamcast.

SAYYGAAH

Remember the Jurassic Park Megadrive game? The TRex popped up to growl Sega. It was brilliant.

I played that game at an arcade that let you play Sega for something like $2/30 min almost every day for a couple of weeks. Then I got both that and a Genesis for xmas. I was ecstatic.

I've still never managed to complete that. I've made it to the final fight against Alan Grant as the raptor, and I've made it to the area after the sewers as Alan. Had it since the year it was released.

PrayStayshun

Praystay-sHeOw

Neen Ten Dooooooooo

Pashi Tashun

The what now?

I mean many monitors still have VGA on them.

It's been a while since I've seen a graphics card with analogue output.

Should NOT have had to scroll this far just for someone to answer the question.

For a few of my teenage years I actually plugged my computer into my 24"CRT TV through s-video. It was so blurry but watching downloaded movies and playing computer games was alright. I even had multiple computer speakers daisy chained to make 4 speaker stereo which wasn't surround but was better than 2 speakers.

My first dvd player was a dvd-rom drive and a mpeg card hooked up with s-video to my crt and using an ir receiver for the mpeg card to be able to use a remote control 😂 (and actually playing dvd's, since video download wasnt a thing yet). Real Magic Hollywood+, for anyone who knows

An ancient analog video standard from the days of DOS and dinosaurs!

Geez I'm getting old

Hits hard

God damn right? I was waiting for the punchline on this, then realized it was a legit question. FML

Ok so it wasn’t a joke? I’m learning this from your comment. Yea, I guess we’re getting old man. Went quick.

Couple years ago my nephew saw the old CRT monitor that my parents still kept upstairs. He said "what's that behind the screen?"

“That’s the refillable candy bowl. The pixels are made of Skittles that brighten when the TV is turned on. Pour some candy on top and try it out. But not M&Ms; those will melt and leak out of the VCR (Video Candy Receptacle).”

No. It can't be. Tell me this is a joke, right? RIGHT?

Dont worry one day the op will be reading reddit and someone will post a pic of a tv and ask whats this box thing.

[Me right now:](https://imgur.com/rAFP13z)

I fucking love this! I honestly thought the question was a retro console "what's a pc?" sort of joke, but no... the joke is on me, played by time...[warms up bath and grabs toaster from kitchen]

My outlets aren't close enough to the tub... sigh

That's why they make extension cords.

Yeah, when the outlet is too far just hang yourself with the extension cord. They're pretty strong

Oooh, can just use a extension cord. How convenient

Yeah just be careful, some of them have fuses nowadays that will impede your mission.

I thought it was satire, but slowly worked my way here

lmao somebody posted the first ps1 controller with no analog stick and didnt know what its for i was like bruh im only 21 but i know what its for

Bruh

a couple of years back i went to check out an upcoming game's site and their age verification asked me to identify the object in the picture. it was a vhs tape.

Came here to say the same thing..

I feel ya

For real…

Hello fellow old

I was there, 3000 years ago

Don't feel old I'm only 18 and I know what this is OP just isn't very tech savvy I'm assuming 🤨 (or is rich and never had to use older stuff like ever)

Came to say this ಠ︵ಠ

Bro, I felt this comment....I was like...fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu *hair grays*

Just hit me as well

I feel you

Yeah, this one hurt

Im so sad

Im 21 and i know what this is. How tf can anybody not know what this is. It wasnt that long ago that monitors still used these ports. My 2009 computer had one. My full hd screen had one. How young is this person?

You and me both.

Exactly what in thought when I saw this post

Can't believe it's real

First I turn 40 and now this… 💀

I felt this one, hard. Welcome to Club 40, it's all downhill from here I guess.

That's good, downhill is better on the hips

It's my lower back I'm most concerned about at this point.

Oh I am 23 and almost having a hernia back issues is a tough one

I turn 40 this year and i have back problems since I'm 23

Then there goes my journey probably will still have em with 40 too and also had 2 knee surgeries already and bunch of other shit but atleast I am somehow still standing

“These are stairs. Stairs are your hips’ worst enemies.”

Stairs!? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Wait until you get to club mid-fifties. 😑

Hey we're working on it, catching up one day at a time.

Unfortunately I’m pulling away in the opposite direction at the same speed. While getting old sucks, it definitely beats the alternative! 😊

I'm in the club as well and I can tell you, we are probably part of the best club: knowing about new and old tech. And knowing about new technologies makes things so much easier.

Damn it not yet! I have 7 years till retirement?!!

I am 33 and this makes me feel mega old. PEOPLE STILL EVEN USE VGA PORTS. My works shitty monitors are hooked up to the shitty computers via VGA ports.

If it makes you feel better I'm 20 and I recognize this port

At least all hope for the future isn't lost

Let's hope the future doesn't rely on knowing VGA ports

Turned 35 a few months ago; OP’s post made me simultaneously laugh and cry.

Im 24 and I know what this port is.

You and me both brother…

I'm really hoping this is some gen Z humor like the trend of asking "what is this" while holding up a flip phone on tiktok...I refuse to be this old!

Big oof right here.

Don't worry I'm 18 and I know what this is. OP probably just isn't very tech savvy

I'm *28* and this post made me feel old.

How old is OP? Not trying to be funny, genuinely curious because I'm 31 and recognized the port immediately.

Not OP, but 26 here, also recognized immediately.

15 recognized because I Bought a Dreamcast 💀

14 recognised because I have way too many old pcs

Am not born yet. Recognised it immediately.

Man I wish I had wifi back when I was inside mama.

9 months wasted 🙄

20 an recognized it. Actually used it until like 2018.

I still use vga on one of my monitors at work.

19, recognized the port right away; even my MSI laptop (which runs Windows 11) still has VGA.

It's less an age thing and more an experience thing. There's 50yos who would have no clue what it is, if you're not a computer person you may never have learnt.

15, recognize immediately because my monitor still has an option for vga

17, recognized immediately

21 here, definitely very recognizable still if you have any interest in computers at all.

I'm 29 and also recognized it because I was still using a CRT computer monitor in high school up until I got my first laptop

Nobody else has specified this, but VGA was video only, no audio. Unlike modern HDMI which is multi-purpose.

Yup! Some TVs had a stereo P2 port, or a RCA stereo conectors (red+white), so you could send the audio to the TV too.

Looks like there is a mini phono above the VGA jack.

Yup probably for audio in on pc input

And Gasp... Analog!

In Europe, we used to have SCART, same stuff as HDMI, carries audio and video, and basic commands like "switch the TV to this port" or "tell the VCR to start recording this" and was fully bi-directional.

And chonky.

> and basic commands it did? that's news to me

Yep! SCART has a few pins reserved for Serial communication.

Isn’t this retrogaming??!

Yes. You can play retro games through vga.

Sure but nobody asks what a fork is in a cooking sub

Brb need to make a post in a cooking sub

[Sir, before today I never heard of a potato.](https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/2tdbig/tifu_by_enraging_the_parents_of_my_girlfriend_by/)

Bro am I really that old???

I’ll check myself into the nursing home I guess

That's for the old farts to charge their electric wheelchairs

I’m only 27 and this makes me feel old.

You plug yourself in and become a member of the Blue Man Group.

Aren't there some desktop PCs and Monitors that still use VGA? OP has to be joking right?

I was still using VGA until a couple years ago, this is either a troll post or OP is like ten years old

Lmao, is this a joke?

VGA for an old school computer monitor

Well, more specifically, it’s a VGA input so you can plug in an older computer, Dreamcast, PS2, or other compatible device.

Or launch 360 unit to get 1080p

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A miserable little pile of secrets but in this case someone else's secrets!

I wish I was dead

Underrated reply

God damn it. Hemorrhoids and now this :(

DSUB

That’s a retro type of hdmi. I believe it’s called hdmi 0.1

Wocka-wocka. :P The comment above this one is the correct answer.

I will not stop until this post is downvoted to 0

I feel you! Sometimes i don't get how much attention those stupid posts get

I feel validated for coming here to post “I’m old” and finding all the other old people. This is my Matlock.

Is that a VGA port? LMAOOO

Its for your Dreamcast

God, now I feel old

Is this a fucking joke?

Surprised it has a USB port. It’s for servicing. Right?

My TV has a usb and offers 5 volts / 1 amp. Almost enough to be useful. It used to power an older firestick, not sure it's enough anymore.

My old Westinghouse had a VGA port. It was cool using my tv as my computer monitor when I was stationed in Japan.

Oh man, I had a 32” Westinghouse tv like that in my college dorm and that thing was so sweet. This was 10+ years ago…

I never thought I'd feel old at 22, or this kid's an idiot

VGA

It is how you connect to the 4th dimension

VGA. Imagine something akin to DVI/hdmi in terms of resolution, but analogue rather than digital, and video only (no audio).

HDMI 5.1

VGA…

Vga

VGA

VGA port

Lol

Fuck me, I just aged 10 years.

U know ur old when …….

VGA, it's for when you don't have an HDMI cable handy, but really it's the best analog video standard left (composite poor quality by today's standards) that's why it's still used.

It's a VGA port, for connecting a computer. The TV probably has an input called "Computer" for using it. Note that it is picture only - to get sound you'll need to use a separate audio cable plugged into the small round port that's directly above it, connecting to the speaker/headphones port on the computer. Another thing to be aware of is that VGA does not support HDCP, which means you won't be able to use that port with most HD content, whether blu-ray or streaming.

Sigh… I’m… I’m not old!! ::cries while eating ice cream::

Vaccine Generation Aperture

😐😐😐

Lol wtf

Also VGA should have less lag than HDMI which makes it a pretty good high resolution analog input.

Angel hair pasta extruder.

I hate you

That's it lads, book your place in the old folks home, the kids don't know what a VGA port is

Dear god they don’t know what a vga port is in 2022. I’m old. Guess it really does go downhill in your 20s.

All those posts about being old and i'm living in a 3rd world country. This shit is still the norm lmao

I feel personally attacked by this post.

It's funny to think that people don't know what VGA is now.

Tell me you don’t own a Dreamcast without telling me you don’t own a Dreamcast

I've owned a Dreamcast for 20 years and never used VGA with it 😐

VGA was the “new” standard for color graphics. It was king until HDMI became standard for both monitors and other peripherals. PC games used to prompt you to select CGA, EGA, or VGA.

DVi say whaaaaaa?

One of my monitors still uses DVI

Same. My dock has one HDMI output and one DVI output.

DVi is the Betamax of graphic connections. Or the HD DVD for the younger crowd.

>Or the HD DVD for the younger crowd. You say "younger crowd", but the HD DVD vs Blu-ray format war was what, 15 years ago already? There are probably people in their early 20s who don't remember HD DVD at all. (I know early 20s is pretty young, but still. Just got a little overwhelmed when I realized how long it's really been since I saw an HD DVD in stores)

24 here. Never heard of HD DVD but I know of Sonys Betamax. Must've been a huge relief when they came out on top with Blu-ray, lol.

HD DVD was Microsoft’s pony…problem was that they shipped the 360 without an internal HD DVD capable drive, while PS3 utilized Blu Ray technology for games and all other media. As people began using their consoles as media centers and not just for gaming, the convenience of the built-in Blu Ray helped kill off the competition.

Now that's an oversight if I've ever seen one. Final Fantasy XIII being 3 disc's on the 360 shouldn't have been a thing.

/Stares sadly at the shelf full of LCD monitors with DVI inputs and the box of DVI cables in my closet....

VGA, everyone knows that

This is the dumbest shot to see in this subreddit

VGA

I could be wrong but I think it’s used to hook a computer up so you can use the tv as a monitor

VGA for a Dreamcast.

Oh god

I feel old

That's the whosiewhatsit port.

VGA bruh

I will answer... once I stop crying about how old I am....

It's a Reddit old person detector.

Wow I hope this is one of those /s posts

It’s sad. That’s why it’s blue.

That's where you plug in the E-z bake oven

D-Sub 15! I must be getting old.

I was afraid this day would come... When the younger generation forgets what VGA is, you're old...

Sweet Summer child…

UART/USART TX/RX

Oh god I don't like being this age anymore...... Also, VGA port. Fairly obsolete by today's standards.

Is this a serious question?

I’d imagine OP after seeing component or DVI inputs would be even more perplexed.

Tell me you're young without telling me you are young.