Heh. In my youth, home computers were somewhat rare, and modems even more so. I remember my excitement at upgrading to 2400bps, as it was about as fast as I could read the text coming across. My current pocket computer is about 4000 times faster, has 30,000 times as much RAM, has hundreds of times more pixels and colors, and has worldwide connectivity thousands of times faster. And I don’t even have to yell at my folks to stay off the phone while I’m using it!
I lived through the entire popularity cycle of fax machines.
My parents grew up with black-and-white CRTs based on vacuum tubes—the transistor was invented in 1947. They had just a few channels of broadcast TV and even audio recording media was somewhat uncommon (cassette tapes in the mid-60s, video tapes didn’t take off until the late 70s).
Heh. In my youth, home computers were somewhat rare, and modems even more so. I remember my excitement at upgrading to 2400bps, as it was about as fast as I could read the text coming across. My current pocket computer is about 4000 times faster, has 30,000 times as much RAM, has hundreds of times more pixels and colors, and has worldwide connectivity thousands of times faster. And I don’t even have to yell at my folks to stay off the phone while I’m using it!
I lived through the entire popularity cycle of fax machines.
My parents grew up with black-and-white CRTs based on vacuum tubes—the transistor was invented in 1947. They had just a few channels of broadcast TV and even audio recording media was somewhat uncommon (cassette tapes in the mid-60s, video tapes didn’t take off until the late 70s).