Modern technology just boggles my mind

[Jody]

I still can't get my head round having over 1000 LPs stored on summat the size of a very thin fag packet

Cig packet? More like the size of your thumbnail. Or 2000ish LP's on a 128gb card

 

[jefmcg]

I'm mystified by the fact that my first Mac had an 40mb hard drive, but now my hourly backups of changed data are always greater than 200mb.

On the good side, I helped a friend set up a website and after making the changes, explained how DNS data can take 24 hours to propagate. Meanwhile the site was already live on both our phones and her home internet. That stuff isn't supposed to be instantaneous

 

[Scoosh]

Cig packet? More like the size of your thumbnail. Or 2000ish LP's on a 128gb card

He only smokes titchy cigs - part of his 'modern healthy lifestyle'.

 

[snorri]

I'm still amazed when I cycle up a hill I used to have to burst my gut or dismount and walk up in my teens.
Great things these gears on bikes.

 

[swee'pea99]

I remember showing my dad one of those teeny-tiny USB memory sticks - not much bigger than that - and telling him how everything I had ever produced in my entire career could be fitted on one of these with room to spare. Bit of a 'does not compute, Will Smith' moment...

 

[MichaelW2]

I had to explain to a student how "gap year" travellers used to keep in contact with their parents with a monthly blue aerogramme.

 

[marinyork]

GPS car key locator .... That's what Everyman needs!

Commercial uses of global navigation satellite systems such as GPS are going to be mindboggling the next few years as it gets more accurate with Galileo.

 

[Oldfentiger]

Remember when all the big factories had a "telex room"?
Yup, a whole room, usually kept locked, with just a telex machine sat in the middle.

 

[jefmcg]

Bit of a 'does not compute, Will Smith Robinson ' moment..

FTFW

Edit : in fact the whole thing is wrong

View: https://youtu.be/OWwOJlOI1nU

Plus

View: https://youtu.be/ieuBkWHfCuc

 

[accountantpete]

The Big Bang Theory

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTD_9WJKI70

 

[ColinJ]

@swee'pea99 the scary thing is we cant live without either

I know people who don't drive, have mobile phones, TVs, or microwave ovens. They walk/cycle/use a bus or train or cadge lifts, write letters and use landlines, listen to the radio and go to the cinema, and use old-fashioned cookers to make their meals!

 

[Fab Foodie]

Remember when all the big factories had a "telex room"?
Yup, a whole room, usually kept locked, with just a telex machine sat in the middle.

I rember the scaryness of the typing pool ....

 

[biggs682]

I know people who don't drive, have mobile phones, TVs, or microwave ovens. They walk/cycle/use a bus or train or cadge lifts, write letters and use landlines, listen to the radio and go to the cinema, and use old-fashioned cookers to make their meals!

sounds bliss to me

 

[Tin Pot]

I know people who don't drive, have mobile phones, TVs, or microwave ovens. They walk/cycle/use a bus or train or cadge lifts, write letters and use landlines, listen to the radio and go to the cinema, and use old-fashioned cookers to make their meals!

The Welsh.

 

[swee'pea99]

I know people who don't drive, have mobile phones, TVs, or microwave ovens. They walk/cycle/use a bus or train or cadge lifts, write letters and use landlines, listen to the
radio wireless and go to the cinema, and use old-fashioned cookers to make their meals!

FTFY

Oh, thanks for the Will Robinson. D'oh. It's been awhile...