Computers are things you can personally own, most of the people on the planet own at least one, probably including one that fits in a pants pocket.
Steve Wozniak once proudly told his mother that some day, he’ll have a computer of his very own. Richard Stallman, in his now famous usenet post announcing the beginning of GNU, says that “one manufacturer has already promised us a machine.” So, Richard Stallman was working “In the Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT”, and even in that position there was a question as to where he was going to get a computer for his project. In 1983.
3.5 floppy disks. They still exist and still get used. I used them regularly up through the 2010s.
This is the opposite. I was watching the transformers 40th anniversary in the theatre with my son and noticed in the 80’s we had such a hard on for hover boards. In 2005 on earth Daniel had one. In back to the future it was 2015 and they had hoverboards.
Man we fucked up. I want my hoverboard.
That advertisements would be used to disrupt and control your online activities.
Without any sarcasms… That is some kind of wild shit.
So uhhh, why was that ready to hand?
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Above knee, double amputees able to walk because of robot legs. This will always seem like science fiction to me.
4TB??. I remember being in highschool in 2003 and we were all standing around looking at a 1GB USB. It was insane that a USB could hold an insane 1GB
My first MP3 player was a USB stick that plugged into an adaptor that had a 3.5mm headphone jack… It let me carry 60-85 songs, There was no Bluetooth.
1GB hard drive
500 pounds and $40,000
Last night my sister and I had a 90 minute conversation on our phones with full-colour, hi-res video, me in the UK, her in NZ. It didn’t cost either of us anything. We’re in our 70s, such a thing was unimaginable back in the day.
Well, still no flying cars.
Even the 1tb ones cost too much now. What, are data centers using those too??
Transferred demand.
SDDs and HDDs are too expensive, so people are using SD cards instead.
and yet we are told that it’s too hard/expensive to add a 16 gb Video Cache to a consumer graphic card.
Ultrabright LEDs
They were d a r k back then.
SDR (Software Defined Radio)
Its insane how many things you can do/listen to with a simple cheap USB stick.
waow this is cool
Two income households that still can’t afford a single-family home.
Mind blowing but not nerdy.
