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In Memoriam: VGA (hackaday.com)
szczys writes: VGA is going away. It has been for a long time but the final nails in the coffin are being driven home this year. It was the first standard for video, and is by far the longest-lived port on the PC. The extra pins made computers monitor-aware; allowing data about the screen type and resolution to be queried whenever a display was connected. But the connector is big and looks antiquated. There's no place for it in today's thin, design minded devices. It is also a mechanism for analog signaling in our world that has embraced high-speed digital for ever increasing pixels and integration of more data passing through one connection. Most motherboards no longer have the connector, and Intel's new Skylake processors have removed native VGA functionality. Even online retailers have stopped including it as a filter option when choosing hardware.
Yea, VGA needs to FOAD because it looks antiquated.
Come to think of it, you're looking rather antiquated. What to do about you?
Slashdot, it looks totally antiquated too. I can;t wait for the new owner to implement a beta interface design that better monetizes community synergies. Make sure you model it after flat UI design so no one can see or find anything. It'll look so sexy!