When I started vaping the first time in 2008 or so, the Joye 510 was the best thing available.
It was a cigalike with cartridges and didn't (doesn't - they still sell them) wick very well. Because of that, people would sometimes just take the cartridge out and drip it directly on the atomizer (that's where the bridgeless 510 dripping atomizers come from). Other people experimented with different filler material in the cartridge - the most popular things were the blue foam from fish aquarium filters and pyramid shaped teabags. People would buy boxes of Lipton tea, cut the bags open, dump the tea, and stuff the bag into their cartridge. The batteries didn't last long at all, but it was cool - you'd buy two or three and carry them around in a charging case. It looked kind of like a pack of cigarettes, you charged it overnight, and when your battery died, you put it back in the case and a couple hours later, it would be charged up again.
As mentioned earlier in this thread, there were people modding flashlights and such, but I never got into it - not an electrical engineer and too concerned about safety.
The next big thing in professionally made e-cigs a few years later was the Ego, and shortly thereafter, tank systems (the Ego-T).
Compared to what we had before, these things were awesome! They had these big batteries that lasted a couple of hours, and no more of that crappy filler stuff. The cartridge looked pretty much the same, but it was completely empty. You'd fill it with juice (held a little under 1ml), put the cap on, punch a hole in it, and put it on your device. The tanks lasted a lot longer than an old 510 cartridge. They were messy as hell, though. They'd leak all over your battery and/or your pocket and there was no way to fill the things up without getting juice all over your hands. The atomizers were pretty much the same thing as the earlier 510s, and you'd use them for a couple of days, then replace them with new ones. Attys were about $4 a piece.
Then came the Ego C. This was just like the Egos above, but instead of buying a whole atomizer tube for 4 bucks, you could take just the atty out of the tube and replace it with a new one (much like clearomizers now) and you could get a 5 pack of them for $10 or so, cutting the cost of attys in half.
Then we started to see the things that are popular today - clearomizers, variable voltage like spinners and twists, and "Advanced Personal Vaporizers," which were basically what we know now as variable voltage mods.
And that pretty much brings us to the present. Does that help?
It was a cigalike with cartridges and didn't (doesn't - they still sell them) wick very well. Because of that, people would sometimes just take the cartridge out and drip it directly on the atomizer (that's where the bridgeless 510 dripping atomizers come from). Other people experimented with different filler material in the cartridge - the most popular things were the blue foam from fish aquarium filters and pyramid shaped teabags. People would buy boxes of Lipton tea, cut the bags open, dump the tea, and stuff the bag into their cartridge. The batteries didn't last long at all, but it was cool - you'd buy two or three and carry them around in a charging case. It looked kind of like a pack of cigarettes, you charged it overnight, and when your battery died, you put it back in the case and a couple hours later, it would be charged up again.
As mentioned earlier in this thread, there were people modding flashlights and such, but I never got into it - not an electrical engineer and too concerned about safety.
The next big thing in professionally made e-cigs a few years later was the Ego, and shortly thereafter, tank systems (the Ego-T).
Compared to what we had before, these things were awesome! They had these big batteries that lasted a couple of hours, and no more of that crappy filler stuff. The cartridge looked pretty much the same, but it was completely empty. You'd fill it with juice (held a little under 1ml), put the cap on, punch a hole in it, and put it on your device. The tanks lasted a lot longer than an old 510 cartridge. They were messy as hell, though. They'd leak all over your battery and/or your pocket and there was no way to fill the things up without getting juice all over your hands. The atomizers were pretty much the same thing as the earlier 510s, and you'd use them for a couple of days, then replace them with new ones. Attys were about $4 a piece.
Then came the Ego C. This was just like the Egos above, but instead of buying a whole atomizer tube for 4 bucks, you could take just the atty out of the tube and replace it with a new one (much like clearomizers now) and you could get a 5 pack of them for $10 or so, cutting the cost of attys in half.
Then we started to see the things that are popular today - clearomizers, variable voltage like spinners and twists, and "Advanced Personal Vaporizers," which were basically what we know now as variable voltage mods.
And that pretty much brings us to the present. Does that help?
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