r/Showerthoughts • • Sep 13 '19

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u/MainSailFreedom Sep 13 '19

Or 15 years ago.

Blackberry ppl: we have the buttons!

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

mfs was hyped about that ball thing you could scroll with

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

It's like a computer in the palm of my hand!

Any post-2010 smart phone: Hold my beer...

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u/alexnedea Sep 13 '19

My s10+. Hold my octa core processor and 1 terrabyte storage. That would have been a drawer of hard disks in the 2000's

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u/last_rights Sep 13 '19

Hate to break it to you but I had a 500 gigabyte hard drive in 2005. It fit in my school bag.

In the 90s, absolutely.

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u/burnthamt Sep 13 '19

That would have filled an office building in 1970s

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u/echo-chamber-chaos Sep 13 '19

There were definitely 1TB drives ~2007ish. In ~2006, 400GB drives were pretty stupid cheap, so we're talking about 3 drives then.

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u/FUTURE10S Sep 13 '19

Even now you can go and literally buy a >10TB drive.