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I remember being younger and thinking 40 years ago seemed like a long time in the past and how old the technology was. For me, that was the 90s, so I was thinking how long ago the 50s were.
The rate of change during our lives has really distorted time in a way that most don’t even realize.
It use to be that your life was much more like your parents life, and their parents, etc.
In modern times the rate of change has radically changed things from generation to generation.
I mean let's be real, a pandemic and 2 wars in the span of 4 years will sure make anything earlier than 2020 feel like centuries ago even without that
Yeah, it's pretty wild. Since I work in tech, I'm into reading old hacker stories and reading about tech from the 80s and early 90s is laughable compared to what we have today. Our first computer in 95 was a Pentium 4 at 200 MHz, 4 GB RAM, and 5 GB storage. We used good old AOL. Now, my Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra blows that out of the water. Hell, even the cheap shit $15 burner phone I have is more powerful than that