Yeah gen-x here, at the beginning there were nothing.
Then I got this “home computer” with the blazing speed at 1MHz (yeah, 0.001GHz and quite unoptimized) bringing me wonders above comprehension.
And then it got faster, better, bigger, smaller, over and over and over … It felt crazy whaen anything doubled like speed, memory, discs, screen resolution, internet speed, …
I feel todays computers are more than enough (except for research basically) and that was a crazy arc, from nothing to basic completeness.
Well that’s how I feel it anyways 💖
HubertManne@kbin.social 11 months ago
I often look at it as when kids were unlikely to encounter any analogue things regularly. Did you have analogue clocks and phones for any period? The only problem with my definition is schools kept analogue clocks around for long after you would not see them anywhere else.
PonyOfWar@pawb.social 11 months ago
Wait, are analogue clocks supposed to be a thing of the past now? I have like 3 in my home and know many other people, including young people, who still have them.
HubertManne@kbin.social 11 months ago
I have only seen them with a bit of a retro thing with watches or digital emulations of them for easily over a decade and the only reason I saw any in early 2000 is because I worked at a school.
_MusicJunkie@beehaw.org 11 months ago
Really? Where are you located? I walk past three clocks on the way from my office to the metro station alone.
anothermember@beehaw.org 11 months ago
I’m surprised at that, from my experience I think it’s still more normal than not to have analogue clocks at home, and I would always prefer an analogue watch.