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Gadgets, Then & Now
An anonymous reader writes in to tell us about "A funny article about gadgets from the 70's & 80's compared to gadgets of today. Amazing that you can fit 25,000 5 1/4 diskettes on one 8GB compact flash, and phones weighed 11.5 pounds! "
Gee willikers! Remember when cars looked like this?? Wacky! Or remember when the earth looked like this?!!? Times sure are a changin'!
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I can fit anything on my flash cards. They're so small I just pile it all on top of them.
Once I put a cup of coffee on my flash card, technology is awesome.
Woah woah woah! Are you trying to tell me that progress has been made in the past 30 years with regards to technology?!? I'm glad this is finally getting some press...
This guy's the limit!
Holy cow!! Going by this trend, things are going to be very very small in the future. Maybe we might need eyes with microscopic powers to use some of the gadgets of the future.
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(It used to mean "that thing that you plug into the wall that lets you talk to other people far away", for you kids. Yes, outlets in the wall, at your home.)
I wonder how you'd explain todays über-gadgets to someone from the eighties. "This? Oh, it's my .. um, tricorder. Yeah, that's it."
Well, they didn't have as many things back then. They were happy with their six pieces of technology.
We were happy, and we had to walk three miles, uphill, through snow to get them too!
Ya damn kids.
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I also remember him being amazed at the performance of the first 486 laptop we got in. For a long time it was the most powerful computer in the company. It really is a pity that chain smoking and the probably toxic fumes of the environment we worked in got to him. The industry's really come a long way since those days and I think he would have enjoyed watching the progress. Not to mention smaller cellphones for the men's room...
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Exactly. Try misplacing 25000 floppy disks.
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"Computers may be twice as fast now as they were in 1973, but your average voter is still just as drunk and stupid as ever."
Joking aside, why is this news? Here, to save time I've got your next article right here:
Six things to do instead of reading this non-story
...eh, this ain't getting any funnier. Best stop with three.
barack to the future?
No wonder techies are getting fatter these days. In the past at least carrying 25000 disks and a mobile phone would be equivalent to a decent gym session. Now all you do is carry a key ring and phone smaller than your big mac you had at lunch!
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I'm was just glad when we finally invented feet in the early ninties. Damn that made walking easier.
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Exactly. Try misplacing 25000 floppy disks.
I'm sure it's possible, Enron lost a hundred or so boxes of documents.
Spit? SPIT?!? sheer luxury lad, we used to lay awake at nights dreaming of having spit!
geeks would lust after a cluster of them they could read beowulf to