You can almost date a hotel room’s last remodel by the number and location of jacks. In the old days, you’d be lucky to find a usable power outlet — one that wasn’t taken up with lamps or TV. Plug-in phone jacks were nonexistent. We then went to bedside phone jacks and later to desktop phone jacks and on to Ethernet jacks for supposed broadband; eventually, we went over to WiFi, with no jacks. Next came flashy flat-screen, media-dripping TVs with no inputs — HDMI inputs came later.
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Posted by: Patrick Nelson December 19, 2013 05:00 AMYou can almost date a hotel room’s last remodel by the number and location of jacks. In the old days, you’d be lucky to find a usable power outlet — one that wasn’t taken up with lamps or TV. Plug-in phone jacks were nonexistent. We then went to bedside phone jacks and later to desktop phone jacks and on to Ethernet jacks for supposed broadband; eventually, we went over to WiFi, with no jacks. Next came flashy flat-screen, media-dripping TVs with no inputs — HDMI inputs came later.