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other than the internet? hmm... cellphones. I grew up in a world where telephones were bulky devices stuck to the wall, or on a short cord, and to call anyone outside of your local area you'd be charged a per-minute fee.
now - cellphones are basically supercomputers in our pockets where you could theoretically call anyone on the planet, if only you knew their number - and everyone has one.
next up is IoT, where everything is connected to everything else, in near real time.
IoT?
The S in IoT stands for security.
And the T for Trash.
Internet of things. It is basically adding network functions to devices that originally did not use it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_things?useskin=vector
The graphics jump from PS1 to PS2 shattered my 10 year old brain.
First time I used a (relatively) modern touchscreen, which for me was the original Nintendo DS, really felt like something from the future at the time.
Sidekick phone. Complete gimmick, but it was the coolest thing ever.
i used to have a phone with an extending antenna, and you could get tv signals. i was watching tv in the classroom hahaha the phone was disgusting though, couldnt do anything with it.
I had an LG like that, little brick of a candy bar, had a few preloaded apps but not quite a smart phone. The TV was a special digital broadcast, IIRC, and you had to be signed up for the phone to descramble it, but it was not 2G data from the cell towers so it was crystal clear and no load time. Just not enough caramels to be worth the price.
Compact disc was crazy for me
650 MEGABYTE on some shiny plastic disk, when your harddrive was a whopping 40MB?
Yeah that was pretty damn magical.
Then a while later we could make our own, if the buffer underruns didn't turn your $10 empty into a coaster.
Diskettes The computer I had loaded programs off tapes, and that was a pretty "involved" process taking anywhere from 5-20 minutes. Then we got an Atari 800XL with a disk drive, and not only did loading only take a little while, but you could also save to the disk without special workarounds.
Flat panel displays The first computer LCD screens were small, not very impressive display quality wise, but they were SO THIN! They were making an image without the large back of a "traditional monitor". I'd vowed to own one one day. (turns out that CRT screens still beat them in some areas to this day...)
Home broadband before about 2000, i had to sneak around a long telephone extension cord to be able to get online for at most a couple of hours. Then one day we got a message that they were rolling out this "broadband cable" thing, and my whole world just shifted. My machine was ALWAYS ONLINE. The internet was ALWAYS THERE. I could download things that used to take me minutes in just seconds. It blows my mind even today still.
MP3/XVID/DIVX Suddenly my harddrive could fit whole songs and later whole movies...that coupled with the whole broadband thing opened up a whole new world of possibilities.
SSD It'd used to be normal for a computer to take a couple of minutes to start up. Even when it was, doing more than a couple of intensive drive bandwith things could really bog it down to the point of being unusable. Then SSD's came along. They started as pretty small things (still have my 30gb OCZ drive somewhere), but they were so incredibly fast. Systems now started in seconds. Games in a fraction of the time. And everything just felt snappy all the time.
It feels incredible to live through these times, where we take for granted that everything will always get better/smaller/faster during our lifetimes (hell, every year even) where that has never been the case at any point in history.
And technology wise it'll never get any worse than it is right now. That's pretty goddamn neat.
I will always remember that dial-up sound, how long it took to connect (if it did at all), and waiting for like 5 minutes watching a picture loading inch by inch on the screen. I was like 7-8 around that time I think? So my sister and I just loved searching for unicorn pictures lol
When I first booted up an Xbox it felt like something futuristic. I would also include having a mini disc player was pretty awesome because of how portable it was compared to a cd player.
I was so amazed by GTA3 compared to GTA2, the cars had individually destructible pieces!
DivX ;-) codec, making it possible for me to watch Matrix on my computer.
At least 3 times a week for that whole summer.
So, a bunch of years back, I stumbled upon a little-known application called Synergy that was fledgling at the time. The idea of a virtual KVM using a client/server architecture completely changed how I was able to interact between my various PCs/Mac/Work PC and it was great.
I grew up with and into the internet, most things came naturally and where not that mind blowing. I've been looking forward to ML/AI and its currently blowing my mind that it actually works so well as a programming "assist".
Word-processing. I fancied myself a bit of a writer when I was young. First my Dad gave me an electronic typewriter and that was a game-changer for organising ideas, sentences, paragraphs ... incredible, but my PC with Word, and Publisher, Wow! No more rewrites in countless exercise books, or liquid paper, or erasers. Amazing!