How Far Has Technology Come?

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    Since you've been born, how far has technology come? I was born in 1996, so internet was pretty brand new then, and I'm sure no one really had cellphones! Only a small few thousand people, maybe, LOL. Now, almost everyone has computers, cellphones, and DVDs are practically dying. I remember when DVDs were nearly a brand new concept...

    Technology has advanced immensely since I was born, it's crazy to think about.
     
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    it's kinda weird how we went full circle with foldable phones. at first it was the flip phone, then the smartphone is now the phone of the future, and nowadays phones with foldable displays are now going to be the future of things, assuming OEMs can manufacture them right

    also, I remember clearly back before spotify and all the other music streamers were a thing that you either had to pirate your songs to then play on windows media player to burn on a CD, or pay for the CD outright. these days, most laptops don't even come with optical drives. windows media player is a relic from the past that microsoft just kinda keeps around for the sake of keeping around, I suppose. I guess there are people that still use it, idk.

    i also think that the very existence of cloud storage is kind of insane to think about. I know if I wanted to store something, it was almost always on a physical flash drive or on the hard drive of the computer itself. cloud storage now makes it so that physical storage is almost unnecessary because you can just store most things in the cloud. granted, i dont know if this is the most secure method ever (I still believe physical storage beats cloud storage when it comes to security at least, but I dunno how true that is empirically), but it's still nice to have, at least.
     
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    Born in 1992. When I was a kid we still had to put a VHS tape into a VCR player if we wanted to watch a movie. Now I can just go on to Netflix and find a movie or stream it for free online. When the internet was brand new you couldn't use the phone and internet at the same time. If you picked the phone up you'd hear nothing but buzzing and beeping sounds. I remember when you had to buy mp3 files or pirate them online, open itunes or windows media player, burn them on to a cd, or import them on an iPod. I remember having to carry a cd player wherever i went and trying to find a way to shove it in my pocket. Now I just open up Apple music or Spotify and can play any song I want. When I was little most people still relied on landline phone cause cell phones were still expensive and clunky. Now i still have a landline but I rarely use it to make calls and just pull out my iPhone. I also remember when flip phones were to only thing we had and you had to press 7 four times just to type an S. Cloud technology amazes me cause I used to have to pull out a flashdrive or an SD card, insert it into my computer, and drag all my files to it or save it to the flash drive. Now I just login into to google drive or iCloud account and its all available. While I still use drives for something cause paying like $10 a month for 1TB of space is a little out of my budget, but it's still pretty useful having those files whereever i need them and not clogging up my hard drive. So I'd say that while we're not at the same level as some sci-fi movies from the 50s and 60s promised, I think technology has made some decent process since I was a little kid.
     
    Had a very old laptop and there is no such thing as mouse when I was a kid. Really OLD PC running windows 98, then soon XP.
    Perhaps some of you remember this sound when connecting to the internet, until someone cut the line for calling.. Also Floppy disk was thing before CDRW or any CD
     
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    Had a very old laptop and there is no such thing as mouse when I was a kid. Really OLD PC running windows 98, then soon XP.
    Perhaps some of you remember this sound when connecting to the internet, until someone cut the line for calling.. Also Floppy disk was thing before CDRW or any CD
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    JESUS, yeah. I remember dial up. That was an awful sound, I'm crying. Floppy disks were so weird, but I only vaguely remember those, to be fair. Those truly are a relic of the past.

    Did you know there still are people who use dial-up internet, though? Only 3% of internet users, however!
     
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    JESUS, yeah. I remember dial up. That was an awful sound, I'm crying. Floppy disks were so weird, but I only vaguely remember those, to be fair. Those truly are a relic of the past.

    Did you know there still are people who use dial-up internet, though? Only 3% of internet users, however!
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    Yes, very little that people still use dial up to connect to the internet at turtle speed and back then anyone possibly remember installing a software by swapping in a floppy disk instead install in one package because the size and limitation of a floppy disk
     
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    A lot of good has been accomplished, but it's constantly managed by the wrong hands who have insidious agendas.

    Technocracy is a great documentary in the works by Mr. Enter, highlighting the corruption by each corporation and the financial systems.
     
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