As a young adult, I've grown up with DVD recorders. Internet Radio Players and a Pi or two came along during my early teens. I had never heard of the others until today haha.
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I have (and in some cases still do) all but the WebTV and the Internet Radio Player.
I guess it depends on what counts as a PDA. Would you count a Blackberry? They sold them as PDAs when I got my first BB. But it wasn't really at all like a PalmPilot or one of those Motorola dudes.
DVD-R big time. I specifically got a recorder as my first player since I knew I would be ripping discs a lot.
WebTV came out when I was too young to afford a TV, and my parents wouldn't have gone for anything like that even if I begged.
Never had or wanted a 3D TV, as my first time hearing about them was literally seeing them in action and the effect was headache inducing. The Nintendo 3DS used the same tech, and I always kept the 3D slider at the minimum.
I do want a Raspberry Pi or some other micro computer; I just need a project and reason to get one. I have a 3D printer so I have too many awesome choices I could try.
I might have gotten an internet radio player... If I knew of their existence back when they would have been relevant. I was big time into Winamp's net radio scene in high school. Even ran my own. Reading your list was the first time I was made aware of them, though.
I am 38. I've never been on the bleeding edge, but I have tended to be an early adopter. If enough people try a thing and say it's cool, I come check it out. lol
Over-50 tech-ish. In the brief time I was an IT manager I ordered Blackberries for some of the staff but didn't use one myself. DVD recorder: not for TV but on the computer. No webtv, no 3d tv (I'm not much of a TV watcher anymore), no internet radio. With some programming help I recently set up a Pico W with a water sensor to monitor a water heater for flooding and ping my phone if it happens. That was pretty nifty.
I never owned a WebTV, but I do remember the first time I saw a Usenet post from a WebTV user. It was the start of the Eternal September.
I'm in my 20s and I've had most of those lol
I had a Hairy Palm II
PDA: I had a Palm Pilot I rescued from a scrap bin at work and installed an open source OS on. I used it as an ereader until the eye strain from reading on that small screen started giving me headaches.
DVD recorder: No. I gave up on broadcast TV when I was 17 and the amount of advertising time hit 25 minutes per hour. I watched everything on rented DVDs until video streaming and adblockers became a thing.
WebTV: No. It was never available in my country.
3D TV: No. I was waiting for the format to get more support, then it went away entirely.
Raspberry Pi: Yes! I could never get wifi working on it, which limited its usefulness. Still fun to play with until I somehow broke the HDMI out.
Internet Radio: Kinda. That's what I used the Pi for after breaking video.