Every generation has their stories... Lets have a thread about the history of technology framed by decade. I'll start with some of my perceptions going back to 1960's
1960's: Space race, moon landing, ARPANET, early computers
1970's: Circuit integration, wide spread availability of electronic components
1980's: Homebrew computers, PC, Dial-up BBS systems
1990's: Internet access becomes commonplace, gopher, early web browser, netscape changes everything for WWW, computers get faster every year, GPU shows up
2000's: ...ok, computers get faster every year, GPUs getting faster
2010's: ...ok, computers and GPUs still getting faster, but slowing down. VR seems like it must be the next big thing?
2020's Software becomes shittier and shittier as more women get into programming.
2030's The population growth has reduced as more men have turned to VR women.
>>54747296
Nigga you forgot cellphones becoming commonplace, Followed by smart phones becoming common place, Broadband being widely available, Machine learning, Voice recognition, image recognition, Wikipedia becoming useful and not a joke, Increasing storage density, cheap solid-state storage, elastic internet connected off-site servers (cloud). GPS being readily available.
Oh yeah and a fucking 5$ computer.
Tell me again all we've done is make things faster in the last 16 years.
2040:
KabyLake is released
Previous gen Nvidia cards catch fire at driver release
AMD tdp on cards is now only 125% @700w
OPs mom's vagina has the Venus rover landed inside
The U.S.A. average Internet speed is now 15mb/5mb
Internet in the U.S. is now governed
Predictions of the year of the Linux desktop for 2050
>>54748488
Okay, the Linux desktop line made me split out water
>>54748488
L O fucking L
>>54748464
>>54748464
cellphones - 1990s
broadband - enabled by OFDM algorithm from 1950s patent, but couldn't be realized in hardware until FPGA 1990s.
Machine learning - 1970s
Voice recognition - 1970s
Image recognition - 1970s
>>54748464
Faggot all that stuff is older than you think. All we've done since the 90s is basically more speed, more pixels and everything smaller, which are good things, but not as world changing by far.
We're entering a dark age.
>>54748488
Underrated
>>54748488
2050: GNU/Hurd has been finished
>>54748488
FUCKING LOST
