I reckon majority of /g/ are in their early to late 20s. Do you think you were born in the right time to enjoy technology or would it be better to be born 20 years later?
I can honestly say I don't miss growing up in the days of DOS or 56k dial-up. Being born 20 years later would be nice but at the current rate our resources are being depleted and increasing rate of population, things might not be too comfy.
>increasing rate of population
>resources being depleted
These are very localized events.
First world countries aren't in danger of overpopulation or resource depletion. In fact, many are facing crises due to low child birth rates (Japan now, and later the US and Russia), which get supplemented by increased immigration.
We're basically at the golden age of the free internet and cheap, inexpensive computing, accessible to anyone.
Expect that all to change in 20 years when computers are dumbed down to ultra-thin tablets that only use cloud storage and compilers, along with all forms of encryption are reclassified as cyberweapons, banning the practice of recreational programming and local storage.
It's only going to get worse from here on out.
Savor your modern life while you can.
>>46112739
28 year old here. I'm sure I'd enjoy tech regardless of when I was born.
People enjoyed technology for ages. The only reason the stuff like mainframes that use tape or punch cards don't get the love they deserve is the lack of mainstream exposure due to the price and every day capabilities. But many of the few people who used those machines enjoyed them for what they did.
In the future there will be even more capable, cheaper and easier to use machines, that will make today's computers look like the DOS with 56k modems you're talking about. Should I wait for those things to enjoy tech? Nope
i'm pretty with where i joined in, i'm 24
i feel like if i were much younger, i wouldn't have gotten much of a chance to mess with systems that required some knowledge to use
children growing up with ipads now might not even consider computer more than just an appliance, and i'd hate to have been that
if anything i might have liked it if i was a bit older
>>46112814
Ya increase of population is not really an issue, but rather the aging population which there are less and less younger people to support them. Its a cycle. I'm hoping people will start to use less resources. From where I'm working as part time, paper wasting is a huge problem I think.
>>46112850
i'm pretty happy* with...
>>46112814
Resource depletion is very real and will affect everybody regardless of country. The Saudis already admitted that they only have 40% of their previously reported oil reserves.
We need to find another feasible energy source or we'll be flung back to the stone age.
>>46112888
Don't worry, electricity will save the day. :^)
>>46112819
Bro what about my virtual sex simulator or better yet, my robot sex doll? Please say these will happen in my lifetime (and be affordable)?
>>46112819
I don't know whether to be happy or sad.
>>46112822
I pity the folks who had to jerk off to ASCII porn in their teenage years when sex drive was at its peak due to puberty.
>>46112901
Where do you think electricity comes from, young man?
I'm 19 and I'm happy with where I'm at, although I kinda wish I was born a bit sooner so I could enjoy Ultima online an such. At the same time I at least got to enjoy AOL chat rooms and Newgrounds and memes before they were "mainstream", plus I'm getting into my EE career right as VR tech breaks into the mainstream so I'm hoping to be able to help pioneer that while it's still infant.
Technology in its current stage is much too new to be able to really predict what it's going to be like in the next 20 years culture wise I feel.
Personally I think living through the 90s and early 2000s was a much greater journey, it felt like we were going to turn into the jetsons, but then economic fuckery happened.
It sucks having been born too early to enjoy all this tech during my school days but to see how quickly even the past 10 years have seen such exponential increases in technology advancements
Man
To a certain extent I wish I was a young kid being exposed to technology when personal computing became big in the early-mid 80s so that maybe I could've started on a more competent level, but being where I am now I appreciate that I'm in an age where starting late isn't a death sentence, not to mention all the capabilities nowadays are nothing short of awe-inspiring.
>>46112819
>Expect that all to change in 20 years when computers are dumbed down to ultra-thin tablets that only use cloud storage and compilers, along with all forms of encryption are reclassified as cyberweapons, banning the practice of recreational programming and local storage.
Jesus Christ, why would you give anyone ideas like that?
>>46112739
The main thing I dislike about the current status of technology is the availability.
Normies can't handle it and it just consumes them. Girls can't put their smartphones down for 2 seconds these days. We were trained for this our entire youths, but they've been handed the keys to it all and it's sent them quite mad.
I'm from 1989.
What sucked is that I loved computers from an early age (had tons of fun playing Syndicate and later Starcraft on a friend's 233MHz Pentium 2) but I had to wait until 2003 until my family could afford me a computer.
I lived in a minor city and on a far off neighborhood, and in 2003 all we had was dial-up. You would never get 56k though, you'd be lucky to get 20kbps or so. Downloading one song though KaZaA or eMule took forever. I'd spend an entire week trying to put together a CD so I could listen in it on muh Discman on the way to school.
I had an Athlon XP in 2002 and had to hold onto it all the way until 2009.
My sister was born in 1999 and now she has an Android phone, a desktop, and laptop.
In a way it fucking sucked back then. Now I can torrent a 320kbps CD in minutes. Movies are HD and so on. But in a way having to live on those spartan times and holding onto the same dying hardware for 8 years gives you some appreciation not everyone has.
Just my 2c.
20 years later.
VR would be nicely polished and the greatest tech revelations every year won't be smartphones.
>>46113011
It's not moving fast enough. I want my virtual sex sim and/or robot sex doll before I develop erectile dysfunction.
I'm 22, I think I was born in a good time, then again hearing people talk about their awesome childhood in the 80s kinda makes me wish I was around in the time. Tech was also more fun, computing was much more barebones and you could learn much more. From now on tech will be heavily clad in oversimplification, prettiness and just general attempts to shield the user from the inner workings of any device. Nice for just getting shit done I suppose but nobody will know anything. The internet and some regulations/restrictions were also much more lax many years ago.
Funny that in 20 years with all the great tech we have, much, much less people will know how on earth it works.
27 here
I think this is the age to be in now, all the kids now are being spoiled for tech just like we were because we had a computer in the house. The next couple of generations are going to suffer from all the mainstreamers trying to make things easier to cater to a wider customer demographic. Computers are getting smarter, people are getting dumber.
>>46113170
>Computers are getting smarter, people are getting dumber.
I think uneducated and illiterate people have always been around.
The fact that computers (in all their forms) now reach a broader audience does not make them dumb, it only showcases what was already there.
>>46113164
Totally agree
>>46113119
Everybody born during that era or earlier feels the same way.
Born in 1991 and our first PC was some Pentium running at 133MHz(was second hand) I've experienced enough of the evolution of computers to have a decent picture of what happened that I'm fine with living in the current time.
>>46113185
Good point i didnt think of it like that.
>>46112852
>rather the aging population which there are less and less younger people to support them
People will need to work until they are 70 in the near future and I do not think that is a bad thing considering the overall health of said people.
People just need to realize the worth of experience.
>>46113224
>People will need to work until they are 70 in the near future
That will be you and me anon.
>>46113019
It's already happening.
>>46112739
>I don't miss growing up in the days of DOS or 56k dial-up
i kind of do. Things were different. And i'm not talking like and old man "eeeh my time you damn kids"
Things were really different. Slower internet meant different approaches to the web. Less advanced systems meant you had to have different knowledge. You had to know what to do, like the internet was really the far west and computers were delicate machines that required knowledge to use.
Now things are really different
>>46112852
Shut the fuck up, paper is renewable with ease and is done so. If you green fags are going to keep up the resource depletion scare at least pick valid points.
It's a good time. The dissolution of the old world order, once a whispered dream of 90s BBSes and sales pitch of dot com companies, is now a matter of public headlines. Computers have never been more powerful or more available, and we're witnessing a great schism in technology - locked down laptops and fondleslabs for the hoi polloi, and ever more powerful systems and open hardware for those of us that can make use of them, most of which run some flavor of open source unix-like.
And me? I'm sitting here in sweat pants shitposting at 3am while getting paid good money to be a sysadmin.
>>46113019
Have you taken a look at current laptops? Almost all laptops with 35W CPUs are being killed off in favor of slower parts. Most Sandy Bridge laptops are faster than Broadlel laptops
>>46113185
An intelligent post, on /g/.
Are you nuts?
i'm as ancient as fossilized horse shit and this is the time to be alive.
before now: eh not bad.
now: lots of good stuff.
the future: interesting new things BUT technology will be in the realm of the common man. and nothing ruins things faster than mass acceptance. nothing.
>>46113277
>i'm as ancient as fossilized horse shit
Serious question, why the fuck are you on /g/?
>>46113253
Why do you insist on typing like this.
>>46112739
It was just right for tech, but as young girls get more and more whorish I'd prefer to be 18 again. When I was young girls dressed like hobos.
I was born in 1980 and experienced a time where using tech was pain. I appreciate what we have now much more than people that already had all that. I was in the german army and no one there even had a dumbphone, you were literally cut off all civilization when you went there.
>>46113277
good stuff such as?
>>46113185
this guy gets it, computers are making more people more aware of the majority of the population since image sharing took off
>>46113286
i'm drunk
>>46112931
nuclear energy plants
>>46113238
>That will be you and me anon.
That's what I was thinking.
And even after that it is possible that one will have to do greenkeeper, janitor kind of stuff to keep himself financially independent.
Now is brilliant, right now i have access to 22 million songs via streaming, talking to wife via facebook, and browsing /g/ About to order pizza to be delivered so its ready when i get home. And speedtest.net just clocked at 50mbps all from my phone commuting home
>>46113309
Carry on then. Better than drunk-dialing an ex.
>>46113302
fucking take a look around. fuck sake.
see your computer? marvel in that shit!
have any of you had to get your porn from a playboy bought at 1am from gas station? no, it's all free and delivered to your screen at the click of a button.
shit. stand the fuck up and celebrate!
>>46113286
Not him, but I'm 34 and I just like to insult people. The inner child never dies I guess.
>>46113337
oh.
Maybe I would be born in the early 70s instead of late 70s.
>>46113337
>stand the fuck up and celebrate!
\o/
>>46113381
but why
>>46112739
>born too late to develop unix
>born too early to develop advanced AI
>born just in time to post dank memes on /g/
If I were born say 20 years earlier I would likely become a solitary forest/mountain dweller
now I am a wizard in a small town.
20 years later I might become a solitary LEO dweller
>>46113401
>>born too early to develop advanced AI
Given that you've got another 40-50 years left, how the fuck do you know?
>>46113337
>i can play playstation games wherever i go FOR FREE
>fuck neighbours, i can make conversation with almost everybody i've ever known in less than a minute
>streaming LIVE soccer games from all over the world in the shitter/train
>literally a worldwide knowledge database in my pocket
Fuck it feels good to be alive
>>46113395
So I could be in high school in the 80s instead of elementary school.
>>46113337
>have any of you had to get your porn from a playboy bought at 1am from gas station?
I had to actually steal it when I was a kid because my whopping one dollar a week allowance in the 1990s wasn't enough to buy anything.
I was born in 1982.
I remember being on a BBS in the early 90s and waiting for like 1.5 hours to download a 5 megabye shareware game. I think iy was Jazz Jackrabbit.
Its all relative. In 20 years, you will find another OP with the same question.
>>46112888
There is lots of oil in russia. But I think we need new power source. Too many wars for oil.
>>46113429
nothing's changed, it still takes me 1.5 hours to download a game
internet's 1000x faster, games 1000x bigger
>>46113423
uh.. whats the appeal
>>46113429
>man it sure was shit back when neural computers weren't a thing. Am I rig-- [SAY "MCDONALD'S" TO REMEMBER REST OF POST]
>>46113423
>that pic
man, the 80s were lame as fuck
even the models dressed like muslim women
>>46112925
You forgot black and white porn. Way before any ascii porn.
>>46113462
>naked except for a t-shirt and computer merchandise
>hurr durr that's totally a burqa
>>46112739
>Missing out on Mario/Duckhunt NES bundle.
Hell no, I was bourned just right.
>>46113423
Microprose was the best fucking company I swear
I will tell stories about them to my grandchildren
>>46113423
>tfw these qt grils are probably going through menopause right now
>>46113445
less political correctness and better TV
>>46113492
I feel the same way about pictures of food. Its all just poop now.
>>46113474
Uh they are clearly wearing yoga pants.
>tfw I had dial up internet up until 2004 and now I have 100 Mb/s cable.
what a change 11 years makes
>>46113488
Electronic Arts back when they were making mule and mail order monsters
>>46112739
Pretty sure you could ask this question to anyone born after the 1920's or so when the advent of the computer started increasing technological progress.
>>46112888
>>46112901
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirsch_report#Conclusions
>>46113316
You should read this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/business/energy-environment/10nukes.html
Now imagine use of uranium being scaled up.
And as a side note, this is one of many reasons why poking the Russians in the eye is a very bad idea.
>>46113381
>born just in time to know about her breast reduction
>>46113627
>>46112739
Anon, your problem isn't being born too early, It's being unable to live forever.
Try to stick around for another 20-30 years. You may see a time when we start to see regular lives of 150-200 years.
When that happens, and you are still alive and can afford the procedure, you'll be able to see the amazing feats.
>you were born just in time to influence mankind's greatest invention: the internet
>>46113886
Feels good.
Edgy as fuck, but if every single western country stopped flushing money down the sink hole that is Africa, and let them sort their shit out themselves, the world population would drop some 500.000.000 over a month. Of course most of the humanitarian aid, is really just a "thank you for letting us use your resources!" donations.
>>46113864
If we can do something about the mental problems that follow in old age, sure. Until then, it would be extremely rare to see people over 105.
>>46113886
>you were born just in time to get influenced by mankind's greatest invention: the internet
>>46113932
Nice idea, but in practice all the liberal hippies of the world would cry tears for the poor aboo-boo's in africa dropping dead, and African countries would probably freak the fuck out and come up with some sort of Samson option to get their aid back.
>>46113170
Same age, I agree. I believe we were born in the correct age bracket where we saw the rise of technology and actually used it while still going out and doing shit. Kids these days are superglued to their tech, back in the early 00s when I was in HS we had internet and phones but it was a big necessity or use. Still used to go outside almost everyday and play with friends, other times we gamed also but htese days it seems like kids would just stay inside.
Having a bike and riding it in the summer is nothing for them, hell I dont even think theyd enjoy a pool or super soakers in the summer now.
>>46112739
Im 27 and imo i was born the perfect time. Never in history has technology taken such a huge leap as between 1990 and 2010. looking at the past 5 years i doubt it ever will again, we have reached the stagnation point of "soft technology" and the industry has started reinventing wheels and fine tuning existing technologies.
Next major advancement wont be until we create true AI that can be tasked with problems human minds cant tackle (there is a reason why google has hoarded all the experts and pours millions into the AI developement.)
>>46113932
Have you read Dead Aid? It kinda goes into detail about what you're on about. I haven't read it myself so I've got no clue if it's a good read or not.
>>46112739
35 year old here, my first computer was a Commodore 64 when I was 8 years old, I've lived to see the internet grow from local BBS to the early days of the web to having 100mbps always-on internet where I can access any piece of information in human history from a tiny device in pocket.
My dad's youth was in the "space age" when man set foot on the moon, having lived though the "information age" I think I've experienced something even bigger.
>>46112739
I see the 90s as a golden era in terms of creativity overall.
Everything went downhill post 2005. Games, movies, hardware resisting to break two days after guarantee is over, music.
Only things i dont miss are dos and 56k modems.
Had my first 286 at the age of 3 and it was until i turned 11-12 that i got a k6-2 in 2000. Kept it until 2005, then i got a sempron 2400 all the way to 2008 and got a new one just a few weeks ago.
So, i was always late in the tech world but i would not change anything, time used to fly playing PoP or Street Rod, now time flies reading how privacy is done, how every corporation fights to have more data about their users and how having things encripted flags you as the root of all that is bad and evil.
Le wrong generation the thread
Sage
I feel like I've been born a little late because I missed all the barebones technology stuff.
You get all these abstractions these days.
>>46112819
>tablets that only use cloud storage and compilers
why would you need memory when the haev DUUHHHHHHHHHH CCCCCCCCCCCCLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUD?
>encryption classified as cyberweapons
Man, it'd feel great being in the resistance.
We'd probably even hack the cloud occasionally...
>>46112931
solar panels
>>46113338
Men don't grow up, we just hide our childish behavior.
There is a reason we like to built shit or blow it up.
Women look down on this behavior.
>>46112998
>felt like we were going to turn into the jetsons
ah man....fucking this
>>46113119
>has an Android phone, a desktop, and laptop
Damn, i was born in '97 (yes i'm 18, my birthday was this monday). I own an old computer from 2005 and a fucking galaxy y. I can't even play games on both devices. On android I can just play some shitty pixelated games, while other people are playing hyper-realistic games and stuff. I don't even have much apps on the phone. When people see it, they go "Where're your apps dude".
Fuck.
>>46113980
>Having a bike and riding it in the summer is nothing
I always ride my bike during the summer with my friends. Fuck it's awesome. I fucking love exploring around.
>>46114576
>Damn, i was born in '97
godammit
>>46113326
>talking to wife via facebook
wait, what? You can talk via facebook? I didn't know about this...
I'm 27 I look 20 and I keep fucking 15-20 girls
So while I can still do that I'm not giving a fuck about my age
>>46114606
>I keep fucking 15-20 girls
Might want to get yourself tested after having sex with so many people, anon.
The 20th century was the most influential of all. It's fucking amazing.
>invention of cars
>penicilin
>we launched a man in space
>we landed fucking men on the fucking moon
>phones
>TVs (from B&W fat TVs in the 40s to phones thinner than your smartphone - 5 milimeters) see http://www.cnet.com/videos/sonys-showstopper-the-5mm-thin-4k-led-tv/
And of course
>the fucking internet, enabling people from across the world to communicate
We're living in one of the greatest ages now.. The Information Age.
It was nice jumping from a 3/.5 Mbps internet connection to a 25/3 one.
>All those megabips and gigaboops
>>46114592
>1997 was 18 years ago
>>46114687
>We're living in one of the greatest ages now.. The Information Age.
Wake me when we get to the Dragon Age.
>>46114687
>>we landed fucking men on the fucking moon
This never happened btw
>>46114688
>It was nice jumping from a 3/.5 Mbps internet connection to a 25/3 one.
I jumped from 56k to 4/1 to 20/4 to 100/100, about to upgrade to 200/200.
I think we had 28k as well but I was too young to understand that shit
It just made sounds from hell when it was connecting and I wasn't allowed to use it because lol phone costs.
The jump from 4/1 to 20/4 was so goddamn good holy shit I loved it. I think they upgraded that line from 20/4 ADSL to 40/4 VDSL somewhere at the end of my contract.
![TheTruth-GTASA[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/RgHv942.jpg "TheTruth-GTASA[1].jpg")
>>46114713
truth pls
>>46114688
>GTA SA is 10 years old
time is passing so quickly, what's going on?
>>46114713
>something simple as landing on the moon never happened
dude really?
>>46114576
>old computer from 2005
That's just stupid dude. What reason could there possibly be for having such an old computer? My computer is from around 2011-2012 and I bought it recently for about 150 bucks. You can get computers from 2007 or even newer than that for free you know.
>>46113319
Only if you're a poor faggot and don't plan for retirement. Also, less people to work jobs -> greater demand than supply -> wages increase
If governments and companies fail to provide livable/competitive wages to their workers, they will stagnate and eventually collapse one way or another. You need a healthy, happy populace with enough money to spend on luxuries and shit to have a healthy economy
>>46114800
>You need a healthy, happy populace with enough money to spend on luxuries and shit to have a healthy economy
That's, like, the future and shit. Gotta get muh yearly bonuses this year. We can worry about the future in, like, the future.
This is how businesses think.
>>46112739
It depends. Imagine to be born in the dawn of personal computer, you make the big money, drive porsche 911 turbo that have fuel consumption of small country and want to kill you, bang models, snort coke, bang more models don't give a fuck about political correctness and public image because Internet doesn't exist and media don't care because 99% of all billionaires do that. In today times you will be regarded as "that guy invented the computers". In today times you have to watch every word you say, have to double and triple check every place you go, because negative press can destroy you. In 30 years someone like Zuckerberg will be able to destroy you if he want because you do one or two stupid shit when you were 9 grade, same goes for the normal people, there will be record for all your life like it or not. I think if you do well and are big name in technology the past is better and if you are normie the present is better. In the future I see only shit.
>>46114687
>http://www.cnet.com/videos/sonys-showstopper-the-5mm-thin-4k-led-tv/
Here's hoping they don't fuck up the software side of it. 'Smart'-TVs have left me pretty disappointed.
>>46114832
No, that's how investors/stockholders think.
They're literally cancer on our economic system.
>>46113286
/g/'s demographic is 18-35, so depends what you class as old
>>46113462
but dat Commodore logo
>>46114903
fuck, are you gay? Dem legs man...
>>46113425
I was drunk one night and did just that, went to the all night gas station, asked for a porno and a box of tissues. It was a dare from my buddies, but I kept the porno.
>>46113019
>2042
>Life is getting hard
>Back in 23 they stopped supporting physical media
>24 there was the The attack from china
>Someone opened a door
>Clinton gave the NSA all the power they wanted
>In 25 the hiding law was passed
>It was illegal to hid your self online and off
>The pushback fell after several media outlets pushed propaganda
>28 The regulation of special information ammement
>All copies of anything deemed special were destroyed
>Most of physical storage was destroyed
>33 Programmers felt a hard sting as it became Illegal to use any program not passed by the "Internet safety council for anti terrorism"
>38 All non approved computing devices suffered a hack that bricked them
>39 Your phone and laptop becomes your government identity
>42 spring Germany has erupted into cival war following the worlds direction for computing.
>Most of Europe start crumbling as civil war spreads
>By summer Islam is no longer the most practiced religion
>Canada's ability to protect its citizens fail
>All people are shipped north to stay off grid as the US comes over the parallel
>Fall, Great China has entered africa
>Winter, North and south america fly one flag now.
>>46112888
Its okay, there is already a coal reserve in WV that can last the whole us 200 years
But you know, coal is nasty to the environment amiright. Hehehe
>>46113246
I'm working in a store that sell high tech stuff but almost everything is analog.
>>46114313
You're spot on.
Back in the 90s you had people of all kinds and flavors and every kind of weird hobby out there. People even dressed in a funny way and loved to create shit. It was a very optimistic decade over all because at the time people were naive. Nowadays people are like a carbon copy of each other because they don't need to think, the media does it for them by dumping a massive amount of easily digestable information right through their throats.
I guess when you don't have easy access to every kind of info at the tip of your fingers like we have now, you have to create your own, exchange experiences and ideas with your friend and make new things. But now, even carefree stuff such as parties have been affected. Back then you'd go to one and you'd see a lot of crazy and funny shit. Nowadays you go and people are just sitting around each other in little closed islands glued to their phone consuming, consuming and consuming, but never creating anything. And the creative naivety has been changed to unproductive, judgemental malice.
Imagination has been killed, which is why even the general pop scene consists of copycating old shit because nobody actually makes anything new, hence the predominant hipster shit style that lives off of copying things that were new decades ago, pessimism is at an all time high and I think that says a lot about the current mindset of a society.
>>46112819
I can't wait until our rightful united Korean overlords conquer the whole world with their high-tech military.
>>46112739
>I can honestly say I don't miss growing up in the days of DOS or 56k dial-up
No fucking shit. The fact that anybody could possibly look back fondly on this is a monument to pseudo-intellectual hipsterism.
I feel I've been born at a time when the foundation of technological innovation has been laid out, leaving the more surface level and tangible innovations to people like me. Which is good, because I'm more of a front-end person than anything.
20 years in the future I feel it would be much harder to jump on the train because all the ideas are taken.
>>46113620
Do you think that this is a bad idea? If so, why?
I think it is best for everyone to dismantle Russian nukes. Also, nuclear energy is one of the best (if not the best) energy production techniques.
I mean there's tons of uranium in the ground, we are never going to use it all.
see
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Nuclear-Fuel-Cycle/Uranium-Resources/Supply-of-Uranium/
>5,900,000 tons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_uranium
> yearly consumption of 65 000 tons
means about 90 years of uranium, and it's all quite easy to mine.
After that, there's 4 000 000 000 tons of uranium in the seawater, giving us ENOUGH fuel.
>>46115211
>non approved computing devices suffered a hack that bricked them
b-but there's always a single device staying unused, not connected to the internet, not connected to the power
How would they hack it?
>>46115942
[govt programmed kill switch] All devices that ever connect suffer the kill, all comps made after 27 with it built in.
>>46113119
Same year, same feels. When I got one it was a 486 Compaq. But it forced me into learning Linux, so it's ok.
>>46114533
What about starting it now? Someone knows how to create TCP/IP replacements?
>>46114576
Man, you can run every single game from SNES!
>>46114735
Third world fag here. Jumping from 56k (0.5 k downloadd) to ADSL (20k downloads) was monstrous.
>>46114544
Were you lost on your way to tumblr?
And MicroSDcards are getting slower as they get bigger......
Not even USB 4.0 or whatever they're coming out with right now can speed these things up.
>>46116085
get with the times, gramps.
>>46116199
shit, that's fast
Is that Alaska?
>>46116216
Funland
>>46116179
Xe's not entirely wrong.
Men have this insufferable ego where they pretend to be stoic alpha males but are unbelievably juvenile.
Most people people are juvenile morons as a blanket statement anyway, though.
>>46112998
The 90s were really an awesome decade to be growing up in. Computers and the web were just exploding all over the place, except you still needed to be technically competent (especially in the early 90s) to really appreciate/use them. Nowadays you don't. Anyone who did some growing up before Windows 95 came out will understand.
>>46116644
Fuck.
Off.
You.
Fucking.
Autist.
Holy shit.
You are a monumentally autistic excuse for a human being. Do you even think before you type or do you just shit in your hand and throw it at the keyboard?
You're saying that the 1990s was an "awesome" decade to grow up in because the technology was HARDER to use? This is so fucking stupid and lacking of self awareness that you've given me a goddamn coronary
>>46116709
Good. Anybody who gets this defensive about not understanding how their computers works deserves to die of a coronary.
>>46116794
Unbelievably stupid and pseudo-intellectual. That mentality is absolutely cancerous.
The entire concept of a user interface is to be a seamless extension of yourself. A user interface is a method, do you understand?
You'd rather that software were needlessly convoluted and hinder potentially millions of man hours and hold back the rate at which technology progresses for no other reason to superficially inflate your ego.
Punch yourself in the throat, please and thank you. I am not an angry person, you are just monumentally stupid and represent something that deserves to be vilified.
>>46116844
People were more productive before the unknowledgeable could use the internet. Inconvenience encourages learning and an appetite for wonder, instead of mindless consumption.
>>46117068
That's an absolute lie, and if objective logic won't convince you take a look at the plethora of statistics showing that this is the smartest and most "productive" generation of humans that has ever existed by an exponential margin.
>technology breeds stupidity!
>convenience breeds stupidity!
>everyone is a mindless consumer whore!
>everyone is a bleating retard!
>everyone but me!
>>46112739
>took ten years for 10x the capacity
pretty shitty considering they can make TB sd cards, only they're not done millking the GB models for another decade of profit.
>>46116709
>This is so fucking stupid and lacking of self awareness that you've given me a goddamn coronary
you honestly believe the retarded should have access to this?
look at what 4chans become.. bunch of retarded 10 year olds thinking they're clever.
now everyone has access to how to kill someone and get away with it
sacks of shit cyberstalking and identity theft at uncontrollable levels.
it wont last long now regardless.
>>46112739
I was born early 90's. I missed a lot of early computers, but I still had my fair share of the then current stuff. I wouldn't change it because I appreciate the frame of reference.
I also think that computers are going to become so dumbed down that even being able to open up an options menu will get you labeled as a wizard.
>>46117094
>millennials
>most productive
Pick one.
>>46117124
I want to think you're trolling, because everything you just said was moronic or objectively untrue.
Technology is a catalyst for slingshotting humanity into a golden age of virtually everything. You're extremely hard pressed to find something that has not become much better in recent years due to the influx and exponential growth of technology.
I'd rather be born earlier so I could have lived in the golden era of computers
>>46112888
>Resource depletion is very real and will affect everybody regardless of country.
The effects will be middleclass and rich people drowning in slave trader boats, thinking they got a actual shot at entering the west.
Its not even significant.
People will die in starvation in the third world, and its fine, because that is how being a part of a population of long term bad decision making works.
>>46117143
Millennials are the greatest generation in the history of humans in every way imaginable, you fucking pseudo-intellectual sperglord.
I refuse to believe that you're so lazy that you can't be bothered to do a quick Google search on the exponential growth of human intelligence and prosperity, so you must be going out of your way to feel profound because you're insecure. There's a word for it, and it's called 'pseudo-intellectual"
>>46117176
gr8 b8 m8 I r8 8/8 etc.
>people always predict things will get worse and we are living in the golden age
>things actually always get better
>>46117189
You are an unbelievably stupid individual who goes out of your way to try and feel profound even when shown objective statistics that shows that you are not a profound intellectual.
Who would miss you if you died? Your mother? Would your mother even really care, or did she realize that you wouldn't grow out of your pseudo-intellectualism when you were around 12 and begrudgingly rolls her eyes every time you give her a speech about how you were born in "le wrong generation"
>>46117235
To be fair, things actually become worse, but only the older generations will actually notice and complain about it.
The younger generation was born into it, so it's really all they know, they certainly aren't going to complain about it unlike their grandparents.
>>46117258
So things were better 50 years ago?
>>46117258
Absolutely everything is consistently getting better at an exponential rate.
The only person who could possibly believe otherwise is a moronic pseudo-intellectual who feels a need to desperately cling onto profundity.
Newflash: Your grandparents are borderline retarded compared to the intelligence of millenials. Literally borderline retarded This is a fact.
>had i been born in the late 70s i would have been a systems programmer most likely due to C64 and other home computers that let you tinker with them
>had i been born in the 2000s or late 90s i would have been some other kind of programmer because tools to program and develop are so easy to use and advanced
>born right in the middle when windows was king, no dev tools to play with
>end up getting a degree in music
please kill me forever
>>46117278
What good is intelligence when kids don't even want to make friends offline, or play outside, or learn to write, or even do basic math?
All they want is instant gratification by pushing a button, and they want it now.
>>46117278
>Absolutely everything is consistently getting better at an exponential rate.
That's not true. More people have myopia now than ever before.
>>46117278
>Newflash: Your grandparents are borderline retarded compared to the intelligence of millenials. Literally borderline retarded This is a fact.
see >>46115223
>>46117301
Kids play inside on their computers and game consoles because it's fucking awesome.
You're telling me that if people in the 60s had the ability to play Batllefield they'd be outside playing sports? That's fucking absurd.
Also, learning to write and basic math? What fucking drugs are you on?
This is the most educated generation of humans that's ever existed.
What "good" this intelligence is is an influx of engineers, scientists, doctors and computer programmers building a brighter future.
>>46112739
I'm in my early twenties and I've loved tech since forever. I don't know how tech will be in twenty years, but here's hoping it's like the leap during the 90s and the new milenia.
Dial-up can go fuck itself, I don't miss it at all.
>>46117332
Oh, okay. So because of one cherrypicked scenaro where people were more accustomed to user-friendly interfaces and they had to hesitate to find a feature it clearly means that this generation is full of idiots.
The average IQ of the people living when your grandpappy growing up was 80. This borders on mentally retarded and incapable of attending a public school system.
>>46114606
Reported to the FBI
1990-2003
Was the right time to enjoy computing.
>someone actually believes and is afraid of this bullshit nonsense tinfoil tales about how we all gonna use thin clients and shit
There's a reason PC is a thing. Because not all people are as dumb as /g/ likes to ridicule and they actually care about owning their computers. There's also a reason why companies have their own servers and infrastructure. Holy shit you don't actually believe enterprises will EVER completely rely on the botnet?
>>46117369
this is so stupid for so many reasons
>>46112819
>muh cyberpunk future
Nuh nigga, it's all gonna be the same for tech savvy people.
It will be users who get dumbed down, not technology.
>>46117401
Implying it wasn't awesome to upgrade every 2-3 years and get noticeable improvements.
>>46117375
>Because not all people are as dumb as /g/ likes to ridicule and they actually care about owning their computers.
Unfortunately that is something that can be "educated" out. Such as by teaching children with cheap, largely disposable tablets, all connected to "the cloud".
The future of "personal computing" is grim.
>>46116709
15 y/o who struggles with 'puters detected
I'm 20 and if anything I'd rather have been born five years earlier, so that I could have been there when the internet gained more traction.
>>46117102
>took ten years for 10x the capacity
>10x
>10
>128 gb = 10x 128 mb
>not 1000X
lrn2read, nigger
>>46117454
My age is no more relevant than the color of my skin.
Also, 15 year olds are the pseudo-intellectuals like the guy I replied to bitching about how everything today sucks and they were born in "le wrong generation"
>>46117475
17 y/o spotted
>>46117409
What reason will anyone have to question the cloud and their thin clients when it's the only thing they've ever known?
The closest any end user will come to programming will be sandboxed scripting languages that resemble Scratch and in no way will they let you run software outside of the sandbox of your web browser.
>>46117467
I'm 25, you probably want 10 years earlier to be more aware and appreciative of what was happening.
>>46117424
People will quickly grasp the concept of being dependent on the network and cloud service provider or being able to perform computing locally. And while it is a fact that average person isn't that tech-savvy, I don't think people are dumb and ineducable.
>>46113058
This image is funny, but when people use the serious version of that quote, fuck it's retarded. First of all, no matter what era you where born in, you probably weren't destined to be some explorer anyway. Second of all, there is still plenty to explore on earth, and surely nothing is stopping you from becoming an astronaut and exploring "the galaxy" whatever that means; you could have already done that 40 years ago.
>>46117516
Thanks, Lori.
>>46117485
"Black person spotted"
If you think this is any different, you're a moron with no critical thinking.
>>46117516
Yeah, but when you "explore the earth" now you're not charting new territory.
>>46117545
Not if you explore underwater, but that's definitely not as cool.
>>46116644
> tfw my first OS was Windows 98 and I just barely missed it
I also used Mac OS 9 (?, could have been 8) at school.
But I'm pretty sure I had experience with Windows first.
Fuck. And I kept using Windows 98 until 2007, when I moved to Windows XP. I think I used that until I moved to Ubuntu in 2012. And yes, I did have plenty of experience with Windows Vista and Windows 7, I just never really bothered with them at home. I also had a lot of experience with Windows 8.
>>46117576
unless you find a diamond mine, more oil deposits, a uranium mine, or a highly advanced civilization down there, then there's no point in exploring the ocean
>>46117534
>Hurr
That'd be the case if you were more than 20. Most people browsing 4chan are in their twenties, like OP said, so you have absolutely no reason to be insecure about your age unless you're underage.
It actually kind of seems sad to me that children growing up today will never be able to experience the way technology was before you had to log into your Google, Microsoft, or Apple accounts just to use your computer.
>>46113337
>have any of you had to get your porn from a playboy bought at 1am from gas station? no, it's all free and delivered to your screen at the click of a button.
It's TOO easy to get. If it wasn't so easy for us in the first place, maybe so many people here wouldn't be so dependant on it.
>>46117504
>People will quickly grasp the concept of being dependent on the network and cloud service provider
No they won't. Common people want convenience first. As long as the provider provides, they won't care how. Look at Apple's popularity for evidence.
>or being able to perform computing locally.
The problem is people are actively being trained into being consumers. Consumers don't need local computing.
>And while it is a fact that average person isn't that tech-savvy, I don't think people are dumb and ineducable.
For your sake I hope you're just an idealist rather than seriously that naive.
I live in a small European country where, for some reason (hint), tablets are cheap as dirt. In the last couple of years, children have been starting school with a new problem: they can't pick up a pencil and write their ABCs properly. But, surprise surprise, they can use a tablet just fine. You tell me that isn't a sign of things to come.
>>46117636
>Hurr
>That'd be the case if you were white. Most people browsing 4chan are 75% Caucasian, like OP said, so you have absolutely no reason to be insecure about your age unless you're colored.
Confirmed for moron with no critical thinking.
Let me spell it out: This is not a conversation about if I am underage, this is a conversation about the merit of being prejudiced against somebody because they're of a different age from you.
My argument being that prejudice is prejudice, and ageism is equally (by an objective definition in the dictionary) as bigoted as racism.
>>46114603
That's kind of the appeal of Facebook...
If it was just status updates I would have deleted that shit a long time ago.
>>46114892
> 18-
/g/ is more like 14-40
You north-americans are all pessimistisc dumbfuck conspiracionists, geez
I'm sad I'm not born after the singularity and not being one of the first humans not to die on natural causes.
>>46113119
You got 20kbps? I got 5kbps back on 56k.
>>46114713
>on a technology discussion board
>knows so little about the power of technology that landing a man on the moon couldn't be possible
Damn NASA and their flying rockets it's all smoke and mirrors!
>>46117545
Okay, but if you went back 50 years, you could probably chart SOME new territory, and that was around that time that you could start exploring "the galaxy".
Not that it really matters, it's still new to you.
But seriously, who gives a fuck, most people probably wouldn't have even became explorers if they had the chance.
>>46114576
'97 fag here too, though my birthday isn't until September.
I still have this very old dinosaur from 2000 that my parents never threw away, I keep my porn on there because nobody would ever think to look there.
Was also briefly considering just putting them on a flashdrive and storing it in the walls of my house.
>>46117807
Fuck it, you're right.
What "exploring the world" meant was drifting aimlessly in the ocean for 4 months in the vague and unlikely hope that you'll find new land, living on a restricted diet of heavily salted imperishables and hoping that you don't get a splinter and die of 8 different diseases.
>>46117816
Just encrypt whatever drive you store it on. Even if someone does find it, they can't do shit. Unless of course they force the password out of you.
>>46117816
>being a millennial
>having physical porn
lolwut
>>46117851
Just suspend it over a tub of sulfuric acid at all times
>>46117858
Not him, and I don't have physical porn myself, however, I understand why people do it. You can waste a huge amount of time just looking for what you will look at. So if you find something good, might as well save it for later.
>>46117419
486dx2 66 to pentium 233
>holy shiiiit
pentium 233 to p3 667
>holy shiiiit
p3 667 to p4 1.7
>holy shiiit
p4 1.7 to a64 3500+
>pretty nice
a64 3500+ to ax2 7750be
>multitasking doesn't slow shit down, nice
ax2 7750be to fx8320
>m-more multitasking, long operations take much less time, but otherwise doesn't feel all that much different
>>46117873
I just see any other solution as being more viable.
Put it in an obscure folder on your computer, put it on something like Dropbox, or something, get creative. Physical media is dead son.
>>46117869
Or you know, don't do that, and just encrypt it. You can always "forget the password" or say it's not yours if someone finds it. The latter would work if the place you put it isn't a place exclusively used by you. Also, I wonder if it would be possible to just encrypt part of it, in case someone does want to encrypt it. Or maybe do something so that it doesn't even show up on the computer unless you do something, so if someone goes in for an inspection, it just conveniently be "broken".
>>46117713
Is this what people teach at school in America now? That is the single most retarded thing I've seen today, and I've seen a whole lot of retarded stuff today.
Bigoted? How the hell am I bigoted? It's not like you're stuck being 14 or whatever age you are, you grow up like everybody and with age you gain more experience that will hopefully make you more intelligent. Of course I'll value somebody's opinions less if they're younger unless they're geniuses who can easily hold a conversation with adults without having to feel insecure about their age. Of course I'll naturally discard younger people's opinions much easier because of their age, because we've all been there.
Being older is not a goddamn privilege because everybody grows up, so please try to refrain from posting this kind of bullshit elsewhere.
>>46117903
>uploading porn to the cloud
born in 1967 bitches
>trs-80 in grade school
>played first video game in grade school (Space Wars)
>apple ][ in high school
>video arcades everywhere
>128k mac in college
>golden age of pinball machines
>tfw doom first released
>tfw suddenly a wild internet appears
>wireless phones & SMS
>fucking Google
>o shit the iPod
>now it's the iPhone
>aaaaand 4chan
more or less brings us to the present day
the ride has always been fun no matter how shit-tier the tech -- it all looks shit-tier when you look back from the future
>>46112819
>in 20 years
Most ISP are already starting to implement download caps and every normalfags uses tablets instead of computers, the shitty future is already here.
>>46117926
>ipod
>iphone
>noteworthy milestones in computer history
>>46117914
In America bigot is just used for anyone who disagrees with you.
>>46117816
Underage b& youre only 17 MODS
20 years later for sure
>>46112739
Age 34 here, I have no regrets. I started with the Commodore 64, and I feel that in my childhood years I was just the right age to appreciate the new advances in technology. Modern flash memory is just about the only innovation I would've loved to see being available in the 80's. I was cool with everything else.
>>46112819
It won't replace computers because better tech is always bigger until it's cheap.
>>46117954
Not even an Apple fan, but the really of the iPad was a major turning point in history. Before 2010, it was pretty much standard that everyone used a computer, and when they wanted a computer, they wanted a real computer. But in 2010 when Apple released the iPad, it created a huge change in the industry. The tablet industry exploded, with companies rushing to release their own tablets. After 2010, the tablet started being though of by consumers as a viable alternative to the desktop, while desktops started being though of more and more as work/gaming machines.
Just because you don't like something, doesn't mean that it wasn't significant in history. I personally don't even like tablets, but this was definitely a historical event.
Also, all those "the desktop is dying" people know nothing about technology, and sound like they have never had a job, and don't realize that someone has to actually design, program, and host the crap that they use on there little tablet.
That being said, the tablet was very significant to history, since it marked a turning point where tablets became normie machines and desktops became le geeky work machines.
>>46117534
>>46117713
16 year old nigger spotted. Shouldn't you be in school at this hour tyrone?
>>46117926
Dad please go and stay gone
>>46117914
It's not retarded, it just escapes your realm of thought because you have no critical thinking skills.
You're putting me down solely based on the grounds that I have an arbitrary feature (my age), with no kind of actual argument with merit to it.
Judge people by the contents of their character, physical details are arbitrary.
Because you're an idiot with no thinking skills, I know you're going to say "well teenagers are idiots"
This is typically true, it's not an absolute. It's also typically true black people have an IQ of 85 and no higher education, this does not mean that you paint all black people with the same brush. Understand?
>>46118056
> everyone is in the same timezone as you
>>46112822
I really doubt it.
A person growing up back in the days of DOS or win 95 or web 1.0 could easily point to features they found sorely lacking in their computers. The lack of visual interfaces. Slow internet speeds. Ugly design. Etc.
What are the obvious areas for improvement now? Does anybody pick up a reasonably high end smartphone and go "God dammit, this thing is so fucking frustrating!"
Is anyone really unhappy with their download speeds these days?
As much as people like to talk about unbelievable leaps and strides in computing in the coming decades, the truth is that computers right now are a pretty mature technology. Once specs get to the point where every piece of shit laptop has more performance than the user would need, what are the obvious areas of advancement?
>>46118065
australian 16 year old nigger
>>46118078
Batteries.
>>46118078
For laptops it would be power and cooling, which will require the maturation of parts and design, for desktops it will probably be the implementation of wireless adapters as a standard, and eventually an all in one router/computer/printer/monitor or something like that
>>46112888
In the future cars will run on hybrid technology that combines electric batteries with small combustion engines that burn hydrogen/ammonia/natural gas/maybe alcohol to charge the batteries.
Nuclear energy and, if there's a God, Thorium will provide us with electricity. I see no problem with our future energy needs other than big oil lobbying to keep the alternatives away from the market. the alternatives already exist, we just need to embrase them.
>>46112739
>missing out on the wild wild west internet of the late nineties/early 2000s
No thanks. It was a fun ride.
I bought a 256gb micro SD from ebay for 38$ CAN...not sure if scam
>>46118061
Your arguments are:
>hurr you have no critical thinking skills
>durr age is exactly like skin colour
Did you even read my post? Please tell me exactly where I said or even implied that teenagers are all idiots. And nope, teenagers are not idiots, they just lack exactly what you think I lack: critical thinking, which develops with experience and therefore age.
Are you saying that I should value a toddler's opinion in the same way that I would trust some guy in their twenties'? Because that's exactly your argument.
>>46112739
naaa. I got to see the end of the cassette, rise and fall of the CD, and the domination of Digital Distro. Not to mention I still remember the days before 3d models in vidya.
>>46118348
>Did you even read my post? Please tell me exactly where I said or even implied that teenagers are all idiots.
You admitted yourself that you are prejudiced against teenagers and think their opinions are automatically nullified.
>Are you saying that I should value a toddler's opinion in the same way that I would trust some guy in their twenties'? Because that's exactly your argument.
You should value a toddler's opinion if the toddler has an intelligent opinion. Physical features are an arbitrary detail.
I can't change you, there's no room for reasoning with someone who has their mind made up already. But I hope you don't sleep well at night knowing how astoundingly short-sighted and hypocritical you are.
>>46118440
>if the toddler has an intelligent opinion
stahp muh sides
>>46118440
>You admitted yourself that you are prejudiced against teenagers
Yes, I am biased against people who have a worse understanding of the subject in question.
>and think their opinions are automatically nullified.
I never said, that, read again.
>>>>Of course I'll value somebody's opinions less if they're younger
>>>>less
>You should value a toddler's opinion if the toddler has an intelligent opinion.
NO FUCKING SHIT. I don't expect the toddler to be able to come up with a sound argument for it, though, unless, like I previously mentioned, the toddler is a genius.
>>46112819
Should I get a Yeeloong Looongsoooooon or whatever then?
>>46113164
>>46112819
Honestly, I think google will be a force of good in that respect. And to be honest, nobody can really fuck wit dem, nawmsayin
>>46118519
>Yes, I am biased against people who have a worse understanding of the subject in question.
Being a teenager does not automatically mean your opinion is of less value.
>>>>>less
I understand. Someone's opinion is not automatically worth less because they're a teenager.
>NO FUCKING SHIT. I don't expect the toddler to be able to come up with a sound argument for it, though, unless, like I previously mentioned, the toddler is a genius.
You do not understand.
It is almost universally true that a toddler is a goddamn idiot that can barely even speak. It is not an absolute.
A toddler's opinion is not automatically worth less because they are a toddler.
Do you follow? Let me make it as clear as possible to eliminate any hangups:
It is usually true that teenagers are not very intelligent. It is not universally true every teenager is not intelligent and has nothing intelligent to say. If you rand every teenager with the same label of being unintelligent, you are horribly bigoted and should be ashamed.
>>46118494
>stahp muh sides
Astute counter-argument.
>>46118580
Please learn to read.
>>unless, like I previously mentioned, the toddler is a genius.
It is not universally true but it is almost universally true, the possibility of what you mentioned happening are so tiny it shouldn't even be taken in consideration normally.
And for the record, your post was not discarded because you're so obviously an underaged faggot, but because it's stupid.
>>46118873
k
have a good day
>>46113413
>Given that you've got another 40-50 years left
Don't be silly anon, you know that any of us could die at any minute.
>>46118908
You too.
>>46117366
>this is the eurpes faglord, legal age is 14
>>46118994
Is it now?
Interesting...
>>46112739
I'm 19 and I barely avoided social media and having my real name attached to all of my shitty early internet behavior.
It's going to get even worse when everyone can see what you did everyday as a five year old.
Kids 20 years from now will probably have tracking devices implanted like fucking animals too.
All in all, I wouldn't want to be born 20 years from now. Things are only going to get worse for technology and concepts like free speech.
>>46120082
How will politics and PR work in the future, when everyone in the first world will have at least 30 years of embarassing and compromising social media posts attached to their name?
I'm in my 30s. Get fucked, OP.
>>46120341
I don't want to be a politician, but I could probably do that 20 years from now since almost everyone else my age looks like shitheads online.
Look at this example. This will follow this idiot to the grave.
This isn't even the worst example.
I'm glad I never did anything as stupid as this dumb little fuck. I'm glad to be a hkv. The alternative just isn't worth it.
>>46112819
Cloud storage monitored by the government, might I add.
>>46117151
Overall happiness, actual (not percieved) quality of life, uses of techonology.
