The Onion Blockbuster spoof shows just how fast technology changes
Sunday, July 06, 2008
Here's a good video from The Onion that shows just how fast technology can change over a decade:
Historic 'Blockbuster' Store Offers Glimpse Of How Movies Were Rented In The Past
Just think, ten years ago this is where we were:
- The first component of the International Space Station was launched:
Now it looks like this:
- A Pentium 266MHz was top of the line.
For sale
Pentium 166
32 meg memory
100 meg hard drive (C)
420 meg hard drive (D)
Tape backup with tapes.
Ethernet card (RJ45 & BNC)
19" Color monitor
Mirage Z128 VGA card Fast, real fast.
Put it together and hardly ever used it.
$ 700.00 or $ 650 without drive D
- World population was a bit under 6 billion. It's increased by 700 million since then.
- Saying the world Google back then only brought to mind a number composed of 1 plus 100 zeroes. There was no Google.com ten years ago.
- There was no Euro except on paper.
- Cassini had just begun its trip to Saturn.
- Nintendo 64 was top of the line.
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