Do you remember?

[LightningVP]

Hey people, was having a discussion in CB and would just like to get an idea of what other people think/thought/going to think...

Well, basically, remember the days of a 1mb hard drive, or have 25 discs for one opperating system that was only a black screen with some white words...or then the movement up to a desktop opperating system...And now we are seeing even more changed is nechnology.

I may only be 19, and had technology around me since, forever, but even I would never have thought we would see "robots with fake skin" or an 'ORIGAMI' DVD player.

But simply, my questions are these...

Did you ever think technology would get like this?
Where do you think this will end? Terminator?
Do you think all this technology is a good thing or a bad thing?

[VLDavo]

would have taken a computer the size of 3 blocks to do what my phone can do now lol

yes its getting very terminatorish

but also u can never have to much technology .. i mean one day we will be able to be imortal with the advance we see

[LightningVP]

would have taken a computer the size of 3 blocks to do what my phone can do now lol

yes its getting very terminatorish

but also u can never have to much technology .. i mean one day we will be able to be imortal with the advance we see

lol....or the "boom boxes" that people used to carry on their shoulder"

I could actually see people become "robots"...we have already started with pacemakers, hearing aids, arms/legs...I mean, how hard would it be to put a speaker near someones ear that is bluetooth enabled so they don't even have to have a headset when talking on the phone??

[MikesCalais]

I mean, how hard would it be to put a speaker near someones ear that is bluetooth enabled so they don't even have to have a headset when talking on the phone??

I remember a couple years back on some news program I heard them talking about a small chip that they can implant that does that... But that was at least a couple years ago, and havent heard anything about it since

Theres no telling where itll stop, but It'll probably see the end of the world lol, didnt that nearly happen last year with those scientist trying to split.. something or other...?

[LightningVP]

I remember a couple years back on some news program I heard them talking about a small chip that they can implant that does that... But that was at least a couple years ago, and havent heard anything about it since

Theres no telling where itll stop, but It'll probably see the end of the world lol, didnt that nearly happen last year with those scientist trying to split.. something or other...?

Thats what people always say because "waste of money" can't be used...like the smashing of the atoms...LOL, as if that would make a black............................................. ......








Sorry about that....Fell off my chair

[needwork2-4fillhabbit]

Load"*",8,1 (i think it was) need a new hard drive in my head...

[LightningVP]

Load"*",8,1 (i think it was) need a new hard drive in my head...

lol...first memory transplant anyone?

[Astranomical]

I remember when we got our first home computer back in 1993, it had 4 megabytes of RAM and an 80 megabyte hard disk drive. At that time, that was plenty. In 1996 we got an extra 16 megabytes installed, bringing the RAM up to 20, and I remember seeing the computer reporting 20MB of installed RAM and saying, "Crap, thats a lot of RAM!"

A year later (1997) i got my first laptop, which came with a 2 gigabyte hard drive, and I remember I was so sure I'd never, ever fill it up. Fast forward 11 years later, my main PC has a grand total of 380GB of available space, and I'm close to filling it completely, and in a few weeks will be buying a 1 terabyte hard drive. Meanwhile, 2GB is....nothing these days. Funny how times change.

[LightningVP]

I remember when we got our first home computer back in 1993, it had 4 megabytes of RAM and an 80 megabyte hard disk drive. At that time, that was plenty. In 1996 we got an extra 16 megabytes installed, bringing the RAM up to 20, and I remember seeing the computer reporting 20MB of installed RAM and saying, "Crap, thats a lot of RAM!"

A year later (1997) i got my first laptop, which came with a 2 gigabyte hard drive, and I remember I was so sure I'd never, ever fill it up. Fast forward 11 years later, my main PC has a grand total of 380GB of available space, and I'm close to filling it completely, and in a few weeks will be buying a 1 terabyte hard drive. Meanwhile, 2GB is....nothing these days. Funny how times change.

20MB...LOL...You must be like....so rich

My dad has told me that as soon as 100MB ram was available he paid 1000$ to get it imported from over seas just to be "better" than everyone else 1000 bucks :|
Where do you think we will be in years to come?

[danja]

Lol, I remember our first computer didn't HAVE a hard drive, about 8kb of RAM and used cassette tapes, not floppy discs!

[LightningVP]

Lol, I remember our first computer didn't HAVE a hard drive, about 8kb of RAM and used cassette tapes, not floppy discs!

ummm....ok that's going back a fair about of years

[trentvy]

funny how phones used to bulge out your pockets and yet now there that small they get lost in your pocket.

[danja]

ummm....ok that's going back a fair about of years

Hehe, wasn't as long ago as you'd think! This was the mid eighties!

It was a BBC Microcomputer:
BBC Micro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Oh and I was wrong, it actually had a whopping 16kb of RAM!

[LightningVP]

funny how phones used to bulge out your pockets and yet now there that small they get lost in your pocket.

Reminds me of Zoolander... Can imagine all of us carrying around a phone the size of a matchbox

Hehe, wasn't as long ago as you'd think! This was the mid eighties!

It was a BBC Microcomputer:
BBC Micro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Oh and I was wrong, it actually had a whopping 16kb of RAM!

I was born late 80's, so to me "mid 80's" is a long time ago XD lol

Oooo 16kb of Ram O.o

[LightningVP]

What about movies people? I was talking to my housemate the other day and how certain milestone movies have been made.
Wizard of OZ - First "full" length colour movie...Anyone here around when that first came out
What about the first animated cartoon, Micky Mouse, in Steam Boat Micky

Maybe I'm going too far back,

What about when movies like Terminator came out, the "full sick" action scenes in that movie, and how he is "robotic"...

[danja]

As far as I'm concerned, Ironmaster was the best movie. Ever.
Guerra del ferro - Ironmaster, La (1983)

[LightningVP]

As far as I'm concerned, Ironmaster was the best movie. Ever.
Guerra del ferro - Ironmaster, La (1983)

care to elaborate for us youngsters that haven't seen it and have no idea what your talking about?

Does it have lollipop kids?? If not then I don't agree with you lol

[danja]

care to elaborate for us youngsters that haven't seen it and have no idea what your talking about?

Does it have lollipop kids?? If not then I don't agree with you lol

Lol, sorry no lollipop kids. The IMDB will tell the story better than I can, but it was just a perfect snapshop of that era of film, had a wickedly crap plot, fabulously awful special effects and dangerously poor dialog. One of those films which is so bad, it's good. Oh, and the cover bears absolutely no similarity to anything which happens in the movie! Perfect!

PS, I was born in the 80's too! I just started using computers when I was 3 :P

[Lumps of cheese]

What about movies people? I was talking to my housemate the other day and how certain milestone movies have been made.
Wizard of OZ - First "full" length colour movie...Anyone here around when that first came out
What about the first animated cartoon, Micky Mouse, in Steam Boat Micky

Maybe I'm going too far back,

What about when movies like Terminator came out, the "full sick" action scenes in that movie, and how he is "robotic"...

You want retro movies?
How about "Class of 1984" with the tagline "We are the future"
Lol, it failed.

[Lumps of cheese]

Lol, I remember our first computer didn't HAVE a hard drive, about 8kb of RAM and used cassette tapes, not floppy discs!

lol, yeah we had an amstrad 464 that used cassettes. It took so long for a game to load and 50% of the time they didn't work anyway.

[LightningVP]

Lol, sorry no lollipop kids. The IMDB will tell the story better than I can, but it was just a perfect snapshop of that era of film, had a wickedly crap plot, fabulously awful special effects and dangerously poor dialog. One of those films which is so bad, it's good. Oh, and the cover bears absolutely no similarity to anything which happens in the movie! Perfect!

PS, I was born in the 80's too! I just started using computers when I was 3 :P

HAHAHAHA.....Seen PLENTY of those movies....

*slaps some guy from 20ft away*
*guy falls over*

You want retro movies?
How about "Class of 1984" with the tagline "We are the future"
Lol, it failed.

I think I seen that one...LOL future

[danja]

^^ Hehe, yeah and then sometimes you'd have to fast forward to a point on the tape (remember those little tape "odometers"?) to keep going.

[jafo]

my first computer was an amstrad with cassette for programs no desktop all dos promt kind of stuff

and i was over the moon when i got my first walkman yes cassette again

and if you look in your pre 1997 holden commodores centre console you can see where you were able to put the cassette tapes

and not that long ago all navigation was done by the passenger with maps not an electronic box that sits on your dash gathering signals from space.

[danja]

HAHAHAHA.....Seen PLENTY of those movies....

*slaps some guy from 20ft away*
*guy falls over*

Haha, yeah totally. 80's and early 90's will always be the golden era of cinema for me. Most modern films I can't be bothered with, because most of them are too glossy and over the top with special effects to be interesting to me.

If the plot isn't something really special I just can't be bothered. Old movies had a certain charm that was cool enough to ignore the plot flaws.

Oh, and a bit more mainstream, other awesome movies are the entire Evil Dead series and of course Max Max (before Mel Gibson lost the plot!).

Angry Anderson FTW!

[LightningVP]

^^ Hehe, yeah and then sometimes you'd have to fast forward to a point on the tape (remember those little tape "odometers"?) to keep going.

As in, while you are fast forwarding it tells you how far in the movie? if yes then yes i do...

Rewinding was such a bitch....Thats why the CD/DVD phenomenon kicked off so well... lol remember when people used to say "ok now you need to rewind the dvd" when they first came out just to trick you