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| Topic | To whoever has one of those old Game Boy Bricks |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/23/18 9:43:31 PM #12: | WhiskeyDisk posted... Had you shown 18 year old me a modern cellphone I'd have asked you where your flying car or hoverboard were parked before calling the Pope myself to bring back witch burning and I'm an atheist. Had you shown 18-year old me a modern cellphone, I'd have been pretty chill about it, because when I was 18 I'd already seen more than a decade worth of computers getting more and more sophisticated over time, and this already existed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Simon When I was a kid the height of computing sophistication was an Apple IIc or a Commodore 64. By the time I was in high school I was playing Day of the Tentacle and 7th Guest. It's not hard to extrapolate that the next 10-20 years were going to bring even more advances, and that things in general would slowly get smaller (especially when you consider the original computers were warehouse-sized, and by the mid-90s we already had relatively smallish laptops) and more powerful (considering my calculator in high school had more computing power than most actual computers for sale in the year I was born). Hell, can't even say I didn't see the Internet coming, because the first time I went online was when I was 17 (though I didn't really start using the World Wide Web side of the Internet until I was 19 and in college). That's right, I got my start on Telnet and BBSes, motherfucker. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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