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>We had cassettes and vinyl. Which are both still being manufactured :) I'm 35, I remember in 7th grade when the industrial tech teacher told us that "one day
by ryanmercer 6y ago
>We had cassettes and vinyl.
Which are both still being manufactured :)
I'm 35, I remember in 7th grade when the industrial tech teacher told us that "one day in the future, you'll have this little cube in your hand mimes an inch or so cube that holds hundreds of CDs worth of music and that is how you'll listen to them" Yeah, sure Mr. Pedigo... fortunately he lived long enough to see the iPod come into existence before leukemia took him way too early.
You can have an obscene amount of music on this tiny little sliver of a micro SD card but we still have artists putting their albums out on cassette and vinyl. It's so strange and wonderful at the same time.
- cogman10 6y agoOh man, I remember laughing about that exact idea. Though, at the time it was going to be "holographic storage" which never seemed to pan out. We never envisioned that NVMe would end up being the storage medium of choice for pretty much everyone. I still remember my first 128MB usb drive. At the time I was like "Wow, this holds about 100 floppies worth of data, insane!"
- ryanmercer 6y agoMy first thumb drive was 32mb, cost me 100ish USD IIRC. I was so proud of that thing, sadly I seem to have lost it in my most recent move but I keep hoping that little bit of nostalgia turns up in a box somewhere.
- cogman10 6y agoAbout the same cost of my first thumb drive. It was one of these (though I believe the model before). https://www.techpowerup.com/5494/usb-sticks-from-geil https://www.techpowerup.com/5494/usb-sticks-from-geil Blazing fast 20MB/s write and 300MB/s read (lol)