I remember life before the internet. I know how to use a card catalog. They taught us the Dewey Decimal system in grade school. Via my German class, I had a pen pal in Germany. Fuck, I know what a pen pal is!
When I started college people didn’t ask “What’s your cell number?” they asked “Do you have a cell phone?”
The computer I brought to college (in 2000) had a 600 Mhz processor.
(The fucking iPhone has a 620 Mhz processor.)
NOBODY had a Mac my freshman year. Why the fuck would you have an Apple computer?
Gas was sub $1.50 when I bought my first vehicle. The price didn’t change.
China? Who cares about that poor communist country.
India? That near the middle east somewhere right?
I have a picture of me and my buddies on the roof of the World Trade Center.
Fucking hell the world has changed a lot in the last 10-20 years. What else do you have?
CDs coming out and having a sony cd walkman was hella cool
Personally, the largest impact on myself was the internet. Opening the world up, realizing that myself, my town, this city is such a small and tiny part of a truly huge world. The internet brought anything I wanted to see or read about to my fingertips. Hell fucking yeah!
I also have a picture of me in front of the trade centers as a kid.
CDs’!!! I forgot about how excited I was when I bought my Sony Discman! My first CD was Hootie & The Blowfish, because that was all they had that I had heard of. Now I have over 10,000 songs. And it just doesn’t have the same magic.
Fuck! I was the first person kicked off of Napster in my dorm!!! I had Metallica shared!!!
The internet has trully shrunk the world. I remember rocking my Yellow sport walkman thinking I was the shit. Only to have my neighbors kid whip out a Cd player that was hefty enaugh to use as a boat anchor. Oh and wtf was that little thing Kosta has his earphones pluged into. WTF is an MP3 player?!?! Napster?!? Son of a bitch when did music become free and plentyfull?!? Man it sure is great I upgraded that 14.4kb modem to a 56k. Now I only have to leave my computer on for one night to download 10 songs, as opposed to 2 days. Whoa and i hear soon they’l have something called DSL, or cable or something. Dude we will soon be able to talk on the phone while downloading MP3’s.
i used to get gas for my 84 tornado at about 75 cents a gall. If someone told me that It would reach damn near 4 bucks I would have light that thing on fire years ago, and bought a honda. lol.
Sucks though. i remember when i could go through 2 or 3 tanks of gas in a night with my Camaro and not give a damn cause I still had some bucks left over to fill up with again.
Times sure have changed. Comodor 64 anyone? Now who remembers the Turbo grafix 16?
lol that pre-dates me, but I know it. Fuck i just replaced a control system at Praxair that was programmed with a Tandy. You know, that thing that some programming geek wrote the code for. What was his name? Oh yeah, Bill Gates…
Aaahaha Tandy. When I worked at Radioshack many moons ago I found some broshures in the back room. they were of some old ass computers the size of my desk. Cutting age at the time. but in all honesty i think my Razr has more computing power than they did. LOl at a warehouse we even founf one that took a disk that probably would have been the size of a record.
