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Time Warp Computer Pricing Revealed
Agg writes "OCAU has posted an article which shows just how much computer pricing has changed over the last 20 years or so. During a 24-hour period I asked OCAU readers to scan and send me an ad page from the oldest Australian computer magazine they could find. This snapshot of historical pricing is fascinating and, quite frankly, a little scary. How does $5999 for an 8.6MB hard drive strike you? For reference, 1 Australian Dollar is worth 70 to 80 US cents."
GNAA Mops up Aimgirl Survivors.
AP Wire News, August 3, 2004
Earlier this evening, the GNAA Internet Infantry Regiment finished a final clean-up of AIMGIRL territory.
The website had previously been the victim of a vicious Gay Nigger attack, featuring recent initiate Tar-Baby as an "unwed teen mother" black operative and Gay gunner Relex blasting the underage emo bitches with suppressive Goatse fire support, as well as with his own nigger seed. The strike was reputedly a thorough rout of the aimgirl enemy, as all forums are currently disabled, and new registrations have been suspended on the website.
Among the many casualties are several entire threads, scuttled by desperate Aimgirl admins as they attempted to ward off the inevitable defeat at the hands and dongs of the GNAA. A Reuters press report regarding the incident can be found here.
Today, the Gay Nigger Infantry executed a daring raid on the aimgirl chatroom, effectively destroying the last stronghold of the young white bitches. In a statement released by Commanding Officer x_over_ln_x, he remarked that "For too long, these little white whores have been tempting our yet-to-be saved heterosexual brothers. We could not allow the jailbait to continue their reign of pre-teen buggery, as their victims have little to no chance of Gay Salvation". At the end of the attack, the once 42-user-strong chatroom was held by one squad of Gay Niggers, who celebrated their victory by masturbating onto a plate of cookies and chanting "LOL DONGS".
Despite their impressive victory, the GNAA Internet Infantry Regiment (Part of the GNAA Ministry of Flood) will not be sitting on their laurels. At press time, Gay Nigger Scouts are said to be forward-deployed at known anti-nigger websites Gamingforums and Gardenweb. GIIR CO x_over_ln_x refused to confirm or deny such reports, preferring to shoot hot semen over our reporter.
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My father's first computer was a self-built jobby and (for the time) top of the line. He must have spent $10.000 on that thing. With the advent of personal computers, prices dropped rapidly... and for a long, long time, it seemed that an average computer would cost about $1500 or so. The last 5 years or so, this price has come down. Check out Dell... they're offering a system for as low as $500 (and even throw in a printer). A few $100 more and you'll have a decent home computer suitable even for games (no, not Doom3 at 20 million fps of course).
If all you do is surfing, word processing, spreadsheets, and the occasional game, then you can get something good for about $750. Computers certainly weren't that cheap 5-10 years ago.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
Not only that, but each new drive has been bigger than all the previous ones put together!
- Your post
Every hard drive I've bought has been bigger than every previous hard drive I've bought combined.
- Post you replied to
Hi! My name is Reading Comprehension. I see you haven't made my acquaintance. Nice to meet you.
http://xkcd.com/386/