Did you ever wonder what your monitor and your computer are talking about behind your back ... between a VGA monitor and a video card, [Ken Shirriff] began by lopping a VGA cable in two.

VGA died quietly, with its cables stuffed in a box in a closet, and the ports on the back of a monitor growing a layer of dust. It lasted far beyond what anyone would have believed nearly 30 years ...

If you're of a certain age, you too will remember that the gold standard for connecting your gaming monitor was a DVI-D cable if you were lucky, or a VGA cable ... we did it back in 2007.