[jthomas1600]

Originally Posted by mtlmouth

I have no idea how much money I'm saving by being able to talk to my boyfriend on Skype for a couple hours every night instead of running up a phone bill, but I imagine it's a significant number.

Nil. The odds you would have ever met said boyfriend 20 years ago. Thank God for the internet right?

[mtlmouth]

Originally Posted by jthomas1600

Nil. The odds you would have ever met said boyfriend 20 years ago. Thank God for the internet right?

But even five years ago, Skype was just barely getting off the ground. The internet innovates amazingly fast. It's crazy.

[thesteve]

Originally Posted by mtlmouth

But even five years ago, Skype was just barely getting off the ground. The internet innovates amazingly fast. It's crazy.

Along the lines of this, when I was living at home, my parents always asked to use my cell phone when they called home because it had free long distance calling.

[jthomas1600]

2 weeks. The average time it takes for a person to start cursing their new computer that is so much faster than their old one because it's....too slow.

[MtlMom]

5.7

The number of days it would take me to listen to every song currently on my iPod

[Ted Logan]

100 Mhz - the speed of my computer when I started college
2.0 Ghz - the speed of my laptop today

16 MB - the amount of RAM my computer had when I started college
2 GB - the amount of RAM my laptop has today

[jthomas1600]

Originally Posted by MtlMom

5.7

The number of days it would take me to listen to every song currently on my iPod

That would be a pretty big stack of records. Maybe 20 pounds of vinyl. Maybe 50.

[BillSPrestonEsq]

66 mhz The speed of my first computer

quad core 2gb proccesor, the speed of my current computer

4mb ram

8gb ram

405 mb hard drive. (Which was huge at the time)

2.6tb over 3 hds.

[MJ_Avalanche]

Originally Posted by Rainer.

Somewhat relevant.

The number of times I've had nearly that exact conversation - Too many to count.

Amount of hard drive space on my first modern PC - 10 GB
Amount of hard drive space on my first modern PC after an upgrade - 20 GB

Amount of hard drive space on my most recent PC - 500 GB
Amount of hard drive space on my most recent PC after an upgrade - 1.5 TB

Also, not directly related to technology, however I find it humorous...
Number of Starcraft games in 1998 - 1
Number of Starcraft games in 2011 - 2

[slap_j]

Circumnavigation of the globe-

Ferdinand Magellan: 3 years and 1 month (sail-powered ship)

Steve Fossett: 67 hours (airplane)

[mulletman]

Maximum aircraft weights:


1903: 745 pounds (Wright Flyer)

1988: 1,410,00 pounds (Antanov AN-225)

[redbaron]

My current cell phone has a processor over 15x faster, and has 16x the ram, not to mention 23x the storage capacity of my first computer. Not to mention having GPS, wireless & 3g data, a camera that does 720p video, etc.

when I was growing up, 14 second cars from a dealership were fast. Now new cars are running low 11's.

My motorcycle makes double the horsepower and weighs something along the lines of 100lb less of what race bikes were when I was born.

My first computer (in 1991) had a 1024x768, 21" CRT (dad was a software developer and had way cool toys for the era). My current "cheapo" work setup is dual 24" widescreen monitors with a combined resolution of 3840x1080

[AlphaSigma]

time to cook a Pop Tart; 2 seconds in the microwave. Win.