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Like booting a computer, installing an os, copying stuff through floppy disks...rendering scenes in ray tracing...compiling apps...things that used to take forever.

Like booting a computer, installing an os, copying stuff through floppy disks...rendering scenes in ray tracing...compiling apps...things that used to take forever.

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[–] [deleted] • 7 pts

Turn on the tv

Go get some food/drink while the CRT warms up so you can see

Kids these days don't fully understand that computers are built. They have no conepts of "it takes time". They hit a button and expect flashy lights in response.

"Food comes from the grocery store"

"Computers help our life"

No concept of reality. No conept that food ends up in a grocery store, or that computers were built to help our lives.

[+] [deleted] • 5 pts
[–] • 4 pts

If your CRT was taking that long to warm up, you had some hours on that beast.

[–] [deleted] • 3 pts

Wasn't rich. Had old CRT.

Had to give it a good minute or so before full picture. Enough time to grab a drink or snack.

[–] • 4 pts

Yeah, I remember those. So old the thing took three minutes for full brightness and the blue gun was so dead that everyone had green hair.

[–] • 5 pts

I recently had a younger coworker ask me if I thought Moore's Law was obsolete at this point and whether advancements are happening at a much more rapid pace. I told him to get off my lawn and to stop training AIs in what they'll need to take over and wipe out humanity.

[–] [deleted] • 5 pts

The funniest part is, that kid has no idea what moore's law is or where it comes from. I guarantee he heard that talking point from some "big tech" spokesman.

It's like all these "ai engineers" who believe "neural networks" are based on the neuro-science of the human brain. LAUGHABLE.

[–] • 4 pts

Actually, not true. He's the manager of an IT support team and knows full when the history behind the law. Younger, in his case, means mid-30s to late-30s. To me that's young. His point was that technology is expanding at a higher rate than double every two years.

[–] [deleted] • 4 pts

His point was that technology is expanding at a higher rate than double every two years.

I disagree. What metric is he using? Is he going based off the original "doubling of transistors on a chip" idea? Because if so, I would argue that is not happening, nor has it happened in quite some time. If not that metrics, than which? May I point out that the modern internet infrastructure literally hasn't changed in over 30 yeras? Adding encryption doesn't count. I'm talking about the actual Internet Protocols, the backbone. Given the internet is "THE" technological achievment of the 21st centrury, you'd think it would experience this "doubling" every two years, instead of stagnating for decades.

[–] • 3 pts

We could do a lot of good with technology, but unfortunately, it's going to be used by evil to accomplish evil because we're ruled over by those who are evil. Imagine all the stuff that could be done with self-driving vehicles. Instead of getting ready to go to work, you could get ready as a computer drives you to work. There might even be shower vehicles if you want to shower on the way to work. Of course this is for the longer commutes.

[–] • 5 pts

I distinctly remember as a child thinking “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH” while I waited for the computer to do things.

[–] • 2 pts

I remember the first song I downloaded, Metallica's Orion instrumental. 8 minutes long, took over 8 hrs to download

[–] • 3 pts

Everyone: The computer should react to commands and load as fast as we can think.

[–] • 3 pts

kids today are spoiled... back in my day, i would wait days for a movie to download because all we had was 56k.

[–] • 3 pts

I've bought two PCs in the last couple of years.. the new computers seem like they boot to the OS login faster than my older PC (built in 2012) can get through the POST.

I still experience frustration with software not responding quickly enough, but I believe a lot of lag in modern software is due to unnecessary graphic animation which is somehow meant to make the user experience feel more "smooth and polished". The reality is that the fancy button animation takes longer to run than the actual program function takes to process and delays the user. I feel this is especially true with software for mobile devices.

[–] [deleted] • 3 pts

Kids today are terrible with technology that doesn't treat them like a spoon-fed moron. Using technology and understanding it are dramatically different things. I never thought in a single lifetime we'd get to the world of Idiocracy or Wall-E, but it's fast approaching.

[–] • 3 pts

I loaded data off a tape drive. Kids these days are spoiled.

I guess I'm spoiled too though. My PC is fast AF.

[–] • 2 pts

No, they have never had to realize it was faster to pull out a hard drive, bike to a friend's house, open their PC and connect the drives and copy/paste than it was to zip a program, write it to 20 floppies, then copy them all over and unzip it.

[–] • 1 pt

They don't get kicked offline when someone uses the phone anymore

[–] • 1 pt

I think modern kids will never fully comprehend pain until they've tried to surf the Internet on a 14.4 or 56k modem. Hardware speed can be relative (Windows 11 seems to relish in slowing your shit down), but you can't fake a slow Internet connection. Even first gen DSL was sub 1mb.

And we were happy to have it, damn it.

[–] [deleted] • 4 pts

An argument could be made that the slower speed of those days had intangible benefits like not dramatically destroying people's attention spans. To work with computers, took long-term commitment and research.

[–] • 3 pts

I whole heartedly agree. You don't appreciate a file you download unless you had to wait an hour+ in a torrent program for it to finish, only to find it corrupt, a virus, or a mislabeled file.

[–] [deleted] • 4 pts

Exactly. And you learned really quickly because of those painful lessons how to spot fakes from a 100 miles away.

[–] • 1 pt

Or “complete this poll to get the archive’s password”.

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