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Ah, the good old days.... (i.imgur.com)

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[–]poo_in_mah_ass 51 points52 points ago

I've always wanted to go back in time with today's technology and just blow peoples' minds

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[–]BluApples 37 points38 points ago

Or show them an 8 gig thumb drive the size of a keyring, that you picked up on impulse waiting in line at the grocery store.

[–]mikekozar 43 points44 points ago

They would have to take your word for it, though.

You're better off buying a cheap potable video player and loading it with something godawful, like Manos: The Hands of Fate or the Star Wars Christmas Special. As soon as the little thing starts playing video, they'll lose their mind - and when they realize which video, they'll cry. Can you imagine spending years trying to reverse-engineer the tech while watching that?

[–]BluApples 20 points21 points ago

You are one cold-hearted time traveler.

[–]Dapwell 4 points5 points ago

"Hey guys, wanna see my cool new Walkman? BAM Smartphone. Future bitches!" and at that point, I travel forward in time.

[–]ninjakicktotheface 4 points5 points ago

a potable video player you say?

[–]mikekozar 0 points1 point ago

It's a fair cop, have an upvote.

[–]psytrancedsquid 4 points5 points ago

Or better yet just have a video of Skrillex playing dubstep. That will make them think you are from another planet.

[–]friedrice5005 5 points6 points ago

Forget that...slap this thing in front of them.

[–]ColonOBrien[S] 2 points3 points ago

"You can put 800 cassette tapes on this little guy."

[–]Game25900 1 point2 points ago

I remember hauling some boxes of vinyls around and thinking "I could fit all of these on something the size of my fingernail now" damn near knackered my arms up carrying them.

[–]dont_press_ctrl-W 0 points1 point ago

You would need a usb-to-parralel adapter or something to prove them.

[–]Spr09 0 points1 point ago

Take an android or even an iphone back then. Hell, even anything with just a touch screen.

[–]retardtricycle 8 points9 points ago

Hold on, you spent $1700 on a 3 terabyte hard drive?

[–]CSRazor 4 points5 points ago

Thinking the same thing, those are less than 200 bucks on newegg.

[–]furbiesandbeans 1 point2 points ago

I would show them a phone that can beat their super computer.

[–]TrentRizzo 0 points1 point ago

It cost you $1700 for 3 tera? Does your bum hurt after being raped?

[–]treydestepheno 4 points5 points ago

that's my #1 daydream of all time.

[–]magneticmagnum 2 points3 points ago

Me too. Except I'd want to go back to the renaissance era with a machine gun and demand to be king.

[–]bitcheslovedroids[!] 0 points1 point ago

just think about the repercussions of doing that and how much history would change

[–]magneticmagnum 0 points1 point ago

Someone would probably also come from the future to stop me if it were ever possible.

[–]must_think_quick 1 point2 points ago

Thus the creation of time police...

[–]mikekozar 0 points1 point ago

Me too, except I was going to go back to pre-revolution France and sell Penicillin to all the pervy nobles.

[–]nomorepassword 1 point2 points ago

If you do, give them a modern zip program, just to see them puzzled at what you can do with a compression program that can't even fit in a disk.

Source : 7zip dowload is now 1 Mo. More than all the programs I had on my first Mac...

[–]Hyperian 1 point2 points ago

you'll probably be taken away instantly by the government and have your time traveling technology extracted from your penis.

[–]insultingidiot 31 points32 points ago

I worked for a computer retailer back around 1980 and the first hard drive for an Apple was 10 megabytes and we sold it for $10,000.

[–]Lethalmud 8 points9 points ago

You must be ancient.

[–]auraofambiance 11 points12 points ago

15 million character increase! Sign me up!

[–]dirtymartini74 11 points12 points ago

I can't imagine what technology will be available 30 years from today...

[–]FalconOne 8 points9 points ago

Yea, just think about it even more, because in 30 years, we will be looking back on what we use now, just like we are looking at this picture.

[–]segFault11235 6 points7 points ago

Provided Moore's Law still holds true...

[–]LordZer 9 points10 points ago

I say we bring it before congress to have it amended to be faster!!!!!

[–]segFault11235 1 point2 points ago

People say I'm not smart. Those people get my fist, but you, I like.

[–]DeedTheInky 3 points4 points ago

People will be posting pictures of whatever the latest iPhone is and going, "Jesus Christ, I injected myself with a million nanobots this morning that are all as powerful as that thing...."

[–]auraofambiance 10 points11 points ago

Or good old days when Radio Shack sold something besides cell phones?

[–]Battletooth 1 point2 points ago

You mean back when smart phones could not do everything that the stuff at Radio Shack could do.

"You need a calculator? Oh, a Walkman to play music on the go? Maybe a stereo for inside your house? Perhaps your car? Speaking of which, we have a GPS system!"

I can do all that from the phone in my pocket. As for any needed hardware, I can buy those from RadioShack, that sells phone and phone accessories.

[–]auraofambiance 1 point2 points ago

When i growing up we would buy circuits and transistors there. Cant find that stuff anymore there...

[–]Klowd19 0 points1 point ago

Pretty sure Radio Shack just sells remote control cars. At least that's all they had of interest last time I went in one.

[–]auraofambiance 0 points1 point ago

Well yeah to paas the time between customers.

[–]Spaz_Mah_Tazz 7 points8 points ago

Sweet! Now I can save all my funny emails of cats and dogs my friends have sent me... And that's about it.

[–]Habe 5 points6 points ago

I remember they day when Fry's advertised 1 MB = $1.

I ran out and bought a 250 MB drive, and had the most bitchen BBS in town.

[–]Revslowmo 0 points1 point ago

I miss BBS. 9600 baud Kermit compression. Took me 15mins to dL a gif of Cindy Crawford. It wasn't even an animation!

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points ago

My father bought the first Compaq portable in 1983. It was the size of a suitcase and came with a 320k floppy disk drive and 128k RAM - expandable to 640K! It was all for the low, low price of over $5000 (in 1983 dollars).

[–]Jezynowka 1 point2 points ago

Expandable....250K RAM chip for $400.

[–]CountMalachi 1 point2 points ago

I bought a 2x cd burner for over $600.

[–]schoocher 4 points5 points ago

The "hard drive" for my first computer was a floppy disk.

[–]norieeega[!] 8 points9 points ago

The "floppy disk" for my first computer was a tape station.

[–]DeedTheInky 2 points3 points ago

The "tape station" for my first computer was a bunch of punch cards.

[–]grimli333 2 points3 points ago

The "punch cards" for my first computer were black wooden beads.

[–]ColonOBrien[S] 2 points3 points ago

The "black wooden beads" for my first computer were my fingers.

[–]DeedTheInky 0 points1 point ago

The "black wooden beads" for my first computer were rocks with ones and zeros painted on them.

PS. I just noticed your username. :D

[–]zeug666 6 points7 points ago

By comparison, today Woot is selling a 64 GB drive for $35 or a 4TB drive from Newegg for $300.

[–]kal0029 4 points5 points ago

15 megabytes? What on earth would I need that much space for? Fucking ridiculous

[–]Ilforte -1 points0 points ago

Even though both of you are right, and I'm thankful for information, the point is: your PC measures space in these mebibytes. So a 320gb HDD shows only about 300GB.

[–]rbrown04 3 points4 points ago

Gotta love that you have to buy the installation kit as well, for a mere $500.

[–]XDeus 2 points3 points ago

Just to put this in more perspective, $2,500 back then would be worth about $8,000 today.

[–]Ilforte 2 points3 points ago

Funny note: back then it already was 15 million bytes, not 15 real megabytes. Marketing never changes.

[–]cokeisahelluvadrug 0 points1 point ago

A megabyte is a million bytes. You are referring to a mebibyte. Mega has always meant a million, or 106 .

[–]XPreNN -1 points0 points ago

Technically, 15 million bytes = 15 megabytes, because mega- = 1 million. What you call "real megabytes" are actually called mebibytes.

But I agree, the reason they don't use mebibytes anywhere is probably marketing.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points ago

Screw you, mebibytes are real megabytes! We just lack SI prefixes for base-2 numbers and had to adopt what was available. The IEC binary prefixes don't make any sense. WTF is a mebi- and why should it equal 2²⁰?

[–]pixelrage 1 point2 points ago

That stores a lot of JPG porn.

[–]zone5 0 points1 point ago

Yep. And you'll also need to spend another $200 for a 2400 baud modem to download it all. Hmm, now where did I put that list of BBS phone numbers?

[–]noidddd 1 point2 points ago

I still have a 286 with 12mhz processor speed in storage. It originally came with 4megs of RAM but we upgraded to 8 for a measly $2000.

[–]Furious34 1 point2 points ago

There is even a key to start it. Probably runs on lead gasoline.

[–]PENDRAGON23 1 point2 points ago

Most of us use way more than 15Megs in a short session browsing Reddit.

[–]Taterhater540 1 point2 points ago

30 years later: "Lawl. iPhones."

[–]aspbergerinparadise 1 point2 points ago

The good old days. When PC components were prohibitively expensive.

[–]aspideronfire 0 points1 point ago

I have one of those.

[–]MarvinTheAndroid42 0 points1 point ago

and now I can buy a tiny ass usb drive that can store 30GB for $20... gotta love it.

[–]360walkaway 0 points1 point ago

Meanwhile, it costs $75 to get a 500GB hard drive today. Why was memory so expensive back then? Not many manufacturers in the market yet?

[–]xjustsmilebabex 0 points1 point ago

And it was fairly new.

[–]fick_Dich 0 points1 point ago

How are you ever going to fill that thing up? It's enormous!.

[–]Topplestack 0 points1 point ago

Sad thing is I think I still have one of these floating around somewhere.

[–]lonemonk 0 points1 point ago

In 1985 I traded my snowmobile straight across for the Commodore 1541 Disk Drive.(170K) That felt like a good trade at the time. They were about $350.00 or so

My first real job in the 1987 had hard drive prices around $650.00 for 20MB

[–]windymemo 0 points1 point ago

Who said that things were made better in the past?

[–]munge_me_not 0 points1 point ago

At least something has gotten cheaper.

[–]MakesShitUp4Fun 0 points1 point ago

And I'm on my way to pick up a 320 Gb, 2.5" laptop HD for $49.99. By my shitty math, I'm thinking I saved about $53,000,000.00 by waiting a few years.

[–]larson92 0 points1 point ago

Is that a key starter?

[–]yurilebbie 0 points1 point ago

The most interesting new technology is the 64GB MicroSD that is made by sandisk and is class 10. It is silly how fast everything is improving.

[–]lxxwj 0 points1 point ago

Wait, is this for real?

[–]Judge_Hate 0 points1 point ago

ಠ_ಠ @ the price.

[–]NobelsBear213 0 points1 point ago

fuck that shit

[–]killajay 0 points1 point ago

Damn card cage.

[–]rib-bit 0 points1 point ago

I remember having to move the jumper to use this as a second drive...

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