so lets talk about the changes in technology

defstarsteve - 1-14-2008 at 09:09 PM

based on the other threads....
what changes in technology in our generation have made the biggest impacts upon you, that you never would have imagined a few years before they hit....
cell phones, i-pods, tv's, cars....

I'll start....

computers...
I got my first trs-80 used in like 85-86 and was programming in basic on the ole apple 2e in school, I was like 12
I knew they were important but we were stil being taught about tape reels and all the old school shit...I won the award for best programmer of my high school of 6000 kids in '89 (10th grade) and due to some things that were out of my hands, (parents moving and such) didn't touch a computer again until around '99 almost 10 years later....

right at the rise of the net...

in 10 years it want from something I used to make simple ass programs making the screen flash to something where I could own a business and never see a single customer face to face...

I had no idea I 'd be using them as much I do in '89 when it was just something to fuck with..

but when I got my first new computer in 99 it wasa crappy gateway with like 512 ram, and maybe a 10 gig harddrive...

and the changes in the last 9 years...
I wont even talk about the 2 systems I have sitting below me or the 2 laptops we have... as I wouldn't have guessed it would have changed this much this quick...

MikeCore - 1-14-2008 at 11:56 PM

Yeah , I gotta go with computers and music tech. I mean I started with an Apple IIe in 1988 and now have two powerful PC's sitting below me that get me everything and anything my heart desires. I am able to do music, SD, and HD processing all sitting right here on my fat ass. Tech rules.

Voodoobillyman - 1-15-2008 at 01:31 AM

I'm still amazed by CDs

clevohardcore - 1-15-2008 at 02:29 AM

I am amazed at how much I like the IPOD. If someone said to me before they came out that you are going to spend $300 for a device that plays the recorded file of music you already own, I would say they were nuts.

Voodoobillyman - 1-15-2008 at 02:53 AM

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Originally posted by clevohardcore
I am amazed at how much I like the IPOD. If someone said to me before they came out that you are going to spend $300 for a device that plays the recorded file of music you already own, I would say they were nuts.

Me too! I put off buying this thing for a looooooong time. I always told myself the next time I deploy I will pick one up, after all, there isn't much storage space for personal shit on a ship, and my CD collection is just too fucking big these days to drag anywhere. Hell I'm going to get a docking station set up for my truck when I get home so I don't have to drag the CDs in and out of my vehicle anymore. It's all about convenience

I love my Ipod, like a fag loves hot dogs.

XnMeX - 1-15-2008 at 07:40 AM

Wi Fi amazes me the most. As well as micro SD cards.

Wi Fi amazes me by what is being passed right thru thin air.

Micro sd's amaze me that 2gbs of info can fit on somthing I could swallow without water. lol

CR83 - 1-15-2008 at 09:57 AM

MP3 players, cell phones and Wifi.

I have friends and family members that are jsut getting into this stuff and when I help them set it up or explain it, it blows their mind and they love the hell out of it.

I started with a Commadore 64. Worked my ass off to buy a disk drive so I could play games like Paperboy.

JawnDiablo - 1-15-2008 at 11:44 AM

In my lifetime:
PCs
DVDs
Mp3s / ipods
digital camersa
cell phones
My brother, back in the 80s had all this computer stuff. Back when it was big, bulky, slow, and not so great. We used to make fun of him for always being in his room messing with it. He's now an Engineer at Dell. MAkes big money. Yook me until 1999 to get on board with computers. I had no money to buy one so he built me one out of spare crap he had lying around. Now I can't live without one. All the stuff I mentioned are just cool things that are worlds better than the crap they replaced. Ipods repalced the walkmans and so on. I can not imagine what cool crap is going to come out in my sons life time

JawnDiablo - 1-15-2008 at 11:46 AM

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Originally posted by ChrisReed83
MP3 players, cell phones and Wifi.

I have friends and family members that are jsut getting into this stuff and when I help them set it up or explain it, it blows their mind and they love the hell out of it.

I started with a Commadore 64. Worked my ass off to buy a disk drive so I could play games like Paperboy.

I think my brother had something like that...paperboy was cool too.

BDx13 - 1-15-2008 at 04:27 PM

ones and zeros fuck me up.

Discipline - 1-15-2008 at 05:15 PM

Technology scares me.

CR83 - 1-15-2008 at 05:37 PM

Technology has really made our society run faster but yet we have gotten lazier. It will certainly be mankind's downfall.

Furly - 1-15-2008 at 05:52 PM

I'm a technology whore.

upyerbum - 1-16-2008 at 10:26 AM

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Originally posted by ChrisReed83
Technology has really made our society run faster but yet we have gotten lazier. It will certainly be mankind's downfall.

I agree. Easy isn't always best.