Remember Voodoo graphics cards? Remember the first optical mouse? CD-writers? Large screen CRT monitors? Windows 95 coming on 10 stiffy disks? The first batch of mp3s your friend 'lent' you? Winamp? WinRar? Apogee and Epic? Disconnecting from the internet because you're tying up the phone line?
You are all old, old people and should be suitably ashamed.
Excuse me, Windows 95? Winamp? Optical mice? Graphics cards?
Please, I remember building a home computer that ran MS-DOS, supported no more than four colours on screen at any one time and was operated entirely by keyboard. "Large screen CRT monitors"? I spent seven years on a 13" screen and that was considered huge. Downloading MP3s? I've got a tape deck and had to record songs off the radio, that was how you pirated in my day.
Funnily enough, my crap computer that is too slow to run Codename:Iceman properly, my 24" wooden-encased TV that predates remote controls, my record payer and my original brick-format Game Boy all still work as they did when they were brand new. I can take any of them out of the attic and plug them in and play with them just as happily as when I was 7. None of my pre-1995 stuff has ever given me shit. But I've managed to burn through three Playstation 2s, two Xbox 360s, my current PS3 is making horrible grinding noises, my launch-day 3DS died in under a month and I've yet to have a laptop survive more than a year and a half. Modern tech just can't keep up.
Tech nowadays has a great many more and much smaller component pieces, more points of failure. I'm on my fourth PS2 because I keep losing them. When they fail to be ten-a-penny, I'll be effed. Hopefully literally in my technophilic future.
I think we are looking at things through rose-tinted spectacles. If you buy expensive tech and maintain it, things should be fine. My iPod still works, my laptop is pretty cool, scanner and printer are fine etc. But you get what you pay for.
I agree with you there, even the shittiest, most breakdown prone tech will last you a while if you take care of it well. I feel left out that I got my first Internet enabled PC at age 13. I feel gimped by comparison.
Wait! Adushan! don't post for a second! You have 616 posts! Eerie!
I remember when I had only 10 posts....that was so long ago...sniffle!
Anyway I once did a report on the internet. It was 3 pages long, double spacing, font size 32, and consisted of the only fact I knew about the internet: that it was a bunch of computers connected to each other. I did not pass that report.
Anyway I only got the internet when the family used it for business purposes. In about 1997. Not even joking.
We didn't have internet until 2001. Really.
I feel bloody ancient and I'm "only" 18!
My six year old desktop computer recently popped (there was a pop, yikes) so I dug out my computer from nintyeight which just happens to be rockin' a Voodoo 3 graphics card with Epic's Unreal and Unreal tournament installed (not sure if that's the epic you were referring to).
Anyway I have no reason to be ashamed of my age, I have the mental of a twelve year old.
12y3arOld4Evar.
I was an infant through most of the 90s, LOLZ.
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