Take a moment to think about this:
Do you realize how fast technology has advanced over the past few years? We rarely even think about this and we tend to take this for granted.
I can remember my parents told me that they went to a technology expo and there was music players that uses small card to play music, like a CD but very small. This was very fascinating, and today I have more than 5 flash drives, and 3 memory cards. I can remember the day when we got a 80Gb hard-drive, that was amazing and me and my friends argued that it will be very hard to fill it up, today I have a 1000Gb portable hard-drive. Do you realize that we have officially started over in Terabytes? First there was 1 tera-byte, then 2, and 10, 40, 80, 160 etc. is coming.
Oh and converting to a DVD-rom so that the NAG DVDs would work in my computer, today I laugh at that
And going way back, I remember playing road rash and I was amazed at how good the graphics was.
And then there is the Internet. We all complain that South Africa has pour Internet services (which it true, relative to the rest of the world), but I can remember the first time I used Google (on dial-up) and searched random things, and it was mind blowing. Back then it took like 10 minutes to download a song, now it's more like 20 seconds. I could never even have imagined that to be possible. And back then I didn't even know you could download movies and games (not that you should now!
).
I am really disappointed in my organizing skills though, back in Grade 2 we had to make a small pamphlet where we had to paste the pictures of that times best technology, I wish I could find that thing!
So now I can tell you how amazing it would be to have a 1 Peta-byte harddrive, and how cool it would be to have a 1 Tera-byte memory stick, and that sounds a little ridiculous. But Over a few years I will come back and read this article and laugh at it.
Something really interesting to do, get a piece of paper and write down what your computer specs are at the moment. Hide that paper somewhere, forget about it, and in 5 years read it again, I can make you a bet you will laugh.
Do you realize how fast technology has advanced over the past few years? We rarely even think about this and we tend to take this for granted.
I can remember my parents told me that they went to a technology expo and there was music players that uses small card to play music, like a CD but very small. This was very fascinating, and today I have more than 5 flash drives, and 3 memory cards. I can remember the day when we got a 80Gb hard-drive, that was amazing and me and my friends argued that it will be very hard to fill it up, today I have a 1000Gb portable hard-drive. Do you realize that we have officially started over in Terabytes? First there was 1 tera-byte, then 2, and 10, 40, 80, 160 etc. is coming.
Oh and converting to a DVD-rom so that the NAG DVDs would work in my computer, today I laugh at that
And going way back, I remember playing road rash and I was amazed at how good the graphics was. And then there is the Internet. We all complain that South Africa has pour Internet services (which it true, relative to the rest of the world), but I can remember the first time I used Google (on dial-up) and searched random things, and it was mind blowing. Back then it took like 10 minutes to download a song, now it's more like 20 seconds. I could never even have imagined that to be possible. And back then I didn't even know you could download movies and games (not that you should now!
). I am really disappointed in my organizing skills though, back in Grade 2 we had to make a small pamphlet where we had to paste the pictures of that times best technology, I wish I could find that thing!
So now I can tell you how amazing it would be to have a 1 Peta-byte harddrive, and how cool it would be to have a 1 Tera-byte memory stick, and that sounds a little ridiculous. But Over a few years I will come back and read this article and laugh at it.
Something really interesting to do, get a piece of paper and write down what your computer specs are at the moment. Hide that paper somewhere, forget about it, and in 5 years read it again, I can make you a bet you will laugh.
