# We are living in exponential times. **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [March 11, 2008, 5:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840 "2008-03-11T17:08:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 5:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/1 "2008-03-11T17:08:25Z")
I remember dialing in to Prodigy. The first website I ever launched was [NBA.com](http://NBA.com) 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?_ ---
**Author:** ![Vendetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/4491bb/32.png) [@Vendetta](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Vendetta)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 5:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/2 "2008-03-11T17:26:50Z")
dude i feel ya… these are some changed times man. ---
**Author:** ![matter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/97f17d/32.png) [@matter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/matter)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 5:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/3 "2008-03-11T17:28:35Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Locutus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/locutus/32/7574_2.png) [@Locutus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Locutus)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 5:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/4 "2008-03-11T17:33:31Z")
moore’s law, son. ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 5:36pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/5 "2008-03-11T17:36:25Z")
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!!! ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 5:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/6 "2008-03-11T17:37:58Z")
> [@Locutus](#): > > moore’s law, son. I didn’t know what that was. > **[Moore's law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law)** > > Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years. Moore's law is an observation and projection of a historical trend. Rather than a law of physics, it is an empirical relationship linked to gains from experience in production. > The observation is named after Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel (and former CEO of the latter), who in 1965 posited a doubling every year in the number of component... Sho 'nuff. Huge respect to you for being a leader in that field. ---
**Author:** ![matter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/97f17d/32.png) [@matter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/matter)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 5:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/7 "2008-03-11T17:38:51Z")
OMG Napster!! forgot about that shit My parents house was the 1st house in our neightborhood to have cable. Our download speeds were rediculous. Like 8megs/sec down Even before that, downloading ripped movies on dial-up. Shit took 2 weeks to download. ---
**Author:** ![mechanicalmadness](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mechanicalmadness/32/5022_2.png) [@mechanicalmadness](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/mechanicalmadness)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/8 "2008-03-11T17:40:22Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/9 "2008-03-11T17:40:51Z")
lol a porn video clip? I don’t have all fucking night! ---
**Author:** ![matter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/97f17d/32.png) [@matter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/matter)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 5:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/10 "2008-03-11T17:41:16Z")
DIG DUG !!! ---
**Author:** ![Carbonfiberhooded](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/carbonfiberhooded/32/7608_2.png) [@Carbonfiberhooded](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Carbonfiberhooded)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 5:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/11 "2008-03-11T17:41:53Z")
I remember when Rubicant was cool. ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 5:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/12 "2008-03-11T17:42:52Z")
> [@mechanicalmadness](#): > > Comodor 64 anyone? Now who remembers the Turbo grafix 16? > > lol 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… ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 5:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/13 "2008-03-11T17:43:27Z")
> [@Carbonfiberhooded](#): > > I remember when Rubicant was cool. lol I’m meeting him for beer in 15 minutes. I’ll pass the word on. ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 5:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/14 "2008-03-11T17:43:39Z")
> [@matter](#): > > DIG DUG !!! OMG! ---
**Author:** ![TrueBlue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/trueblue/32/7245_2.png) [@TrueBlue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TrueBlue)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 5:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/15 "2008-03-11T17:44:09Z")
Loading video casino games onto a TRS80 with a tape deck. I like this Moore guy. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Carbonfiberhooded](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/carbonfiberhooded/32/7608_2.png) [@Carbonfiberhooded](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Carbonfiberhooded)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 5:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/16 "2008-03-11T17:44:36Z")
> [@Fry](#): > > lol I’m meeting him for beer in 15 minutes. I’ll pass the word on. Lol ---
**Author:** ![mechanicalmadness](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mechanicalmadness/32/5022_2.png) [@mechanicalmadness](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/mechanicalmadness)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 5:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/17 "2008-03-11T17:45:06Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![mechanicalmadness](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mechanicalmadness/32/5022_2.png) [@mechanicalmadness](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/mechanicalmadness)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 5:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/18 "2008-03-11T17:45:52Z")
> [@TrueBlue](#): > > Loading video casino games onto a TRS80 with a tape deck. I like this Moore guy. 😉 Lmao why does that ring a bell? am I the oldest mofo on this post haha ---
**Author:** ![Locutus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/locutus/32/7574_2.png) [@Locutus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Locutus)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 5:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/19 "2008-03-11T17:47:10Z")
DES sony mini discs ---
**Author:** ![mechanicalmadness](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mechanicalmadness/32/5022_2.png) [@mechanicalmadness](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/mechanicalmadness)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 5:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840/20 "2008-03-11T17:49:08Z")
Haha. Oh shit i think I still have mine somewhere lo… [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-are-living-in-exponential-times/44840.md?page=2)