First post, by Kahenraz
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I found this video on YouTube and really enjoyed it. I love how this guy really lays out the reality of things price-wise:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T97XDEURH4
It's hilarious to watch just because of how true all of it really was.
It's interesting how looking back I used such aging machines for years and years and always "made do" with what I had but never really felt like I needed to upgrade-- actually, as a kid I never even knew you could plug a card into a computer. Is it just me or did anyone else never feel frustrated with the slowness of their machine growing up? Computers were new and my reality was what I had. Sure, stores had some impressive demos but they were usually so far removed what what I had at home that I didn't really know what all of it meant.
I was grateful for things like: color monitors, sound (at all), and cd-roms (eventually). I couldn't even tell you what the specs were of my original computers because I simply didn't know. For example, I didn't know that my computer could only display 256 colors until I tried to install Age of Empires (after deleting everything I could on my hard drive to make it fit) and having it tell me that it needed something called "16-bit color".
It's incredible how the times have changed. Everyone now has a computer in their pocket that could put a person on the moon and we use it to watch cats on the internet.
How times have changed.