I would like to add that there was almost always more space on the hard disk drive than one could possibly fill up. I had 80MB on a 386 laptop, and 500MB on an old 486 that I could never fill up. Now, I've got a terabyte of data on external USB hard disk drives and an internal hard disk drive of 80GB that is pretty much full with only 2 GB of free space in which it has a swap file and some temporary data.
Later, as we moved to the Pentium age, modems became popular and felt excruciatingly slow that folks would send floppy disks around by snail mail instead of bothering with transfer over modems.
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Posted 08 April 2011 - 08:08 AM
I definitely don't miss the days when a 256 MB stick of RAM cost almost $50. Now you can purchase a 2 GB stick of RAM for nearly the same amount, maybe around $60 these days.
I also don't miss the days of dial-up, where you were in the middle of a download and someone would pick up the phone, and you'd lose it all and have to start over. Those days sucked.
You can definitely look at the past and see how far we've come. It's really amazing and sad: Sad because you wonder how you ever made it through those times when you thought you were using the most advanced technology in the world, yet it always got better.
I guess it's good, but when you buy a computer or laptop, it's already outdated.
I do miss the old days, like Echo_of_thunder said, when I could go into a chatroom and speak to real people, make real friends who actually wanted to talk about where they lived and their lives. And a girl who said she was a girl was actually a girl
I remember when, although the hard drive was small, max size was like 10 GB or so, and you didn't even think about filling it up. Today, I've got a 1 TB hard drive and a 160 GB HD which are both damn nearly full. But I guess that comes with the download speed technology that we have today. When you can download a movie in 10 minutes, or music in 2 minutes, than I guess you are more prone to doing something like that.
Today, we are so impatient about things that we had to wait for back then. I remember when even trying to look at an image of a naked girl.. I had to actually wait for the whole picture to download and the pixels to actually become seen.. ugh, wow. Life has changed. Haha.
Good times but just shows you our age, that we know this, and our children will wonder what we are talking about.
I also don't miss the days of dial-up, where you were in the middle of a download and someone would pick up the phone, and you'd lose it all and have to start over. Those days sucked.
You can definitely look at the past and see how far we've come. It's really amazing and sad: Sad because you wonder how you ever made it through those times when you thought you were using the most advanced technology in the world, yet it always got better.
I guess it's good, but when you buy a computer or laptop, it's already outdated.
I do miss the old days, like Echo_of_thunder said, when I could go into a chatroom and speak to real people, make real friends who actually wanted to talk about where they lived and their lives. And a girl who said she was a girl was actually a girl
I remember when, although the hard drive was small, max size was like 10 GB or so, and you didn't even think about filling it up. Today, I've got a 1 TB hard drive and a 160 GB HD which are both damn nearly full. But I guess that comes with the download speed technology that we have today. When you can download a movie in 10 minutes, or music in 2 minutes, than I guess you are more prone to doing something like that.
Today, we are so impatient about things that we had to wait for back then. I remember when even trying to look at an image of a naked girl.. I had to actually wait for the whole picture to download and the pixels to actually become seen.. ugh, wow. Life has changed. Haha.
Good times but just shows you our age, that we know this, and our children will wonder what we are talking about.
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