Inventions/Creations that kinda "blew you away"

[boskey]

High speed internet (I think the first version we had was called DSL, pause) was a huge improvement over the dial up era. It basically changed everything overnight...

 

[aXiom]

As a CD book carrying ass nikka who prided himself in his large collection of CDs.

I went through multiple phases:

MP3 Discs
Rewritable mp3 discs
Mini disc players
Off brand mp3 players

but the iPod.. life changing

 

[patscorpio]

Napster - downloading any fukking song in about 8-10 mins with my 56K modem

Emulators - blew my fukking mind when i was able to play nintendo/sega/arcade on my compaq pc in 1997...hell when that nintendo 64 emulator hit during the 64's lifetime...game changer

 

[WIA20XX]

On the music tip, I still find Shazam amazing. I can just hold up my phone and it will tell me what song is playing.

 

[WesCrook]

On the music tip, I still find Shazam amazing. I can just hold up my phone and it will tell me what song is playing.

Soundhound

 

[xXOGLEGENDXx]

Bluetooth/wireless headphones

 

[King Poetic]

satellite tv and access to watch other sports

Growing up I was a huge Georgetown Hoyas fan and could never see games unless it was on cbs when they play Syracuse or Connecticut…

same goes with the nfl because it was only raiders, 49ers and rams game showing and had to wait for the news to come on and get the other scores

 

[datnigDASTARDLY]

High speed internet (I think the first version we had was called DSL, pause) was a huge improvement over the dial up era. It basically changed everything overnight...

Yup broadband highspeed internet was like some tesla lightbulb shyt in realtime. Nikkas never fapped so much and so hard in they life during that time

 

[Idaeo]

Zero Latency VR

 

[Fillerguy]

Car engines. Didn't realize how amazing they are until i took one apart in high school. They're literally controlled explosions and used to significantly more dangerous 100 years ago.

 

[UpAndComing]

Not gonna lie, VHS or Cassette tapes always blows my mind lol. How you can get all of that video and audio on a small roll of film is amazing

 

[Deltron]

Smart phones / computers sizing down.




When shyt was this huge ()

Now I got a system infinitely better in the palm of my hand.

 

[JuvenileHell]

Emulators - blew my fukking mind when i was able to play nintendo/sega/arcade on my compaq pc in 1997...hell when that nintendo 64 emulator hit during the 64's lifetime...game changer

Facts! I was already into gaming and computers when emulators came about, I remember spending time scouring the internet for ROMS to use in this MAME emulator I downloaded. being able to play all those arcade games on my PC had me like when I was a teenager

on that note Fightcade is also a huge game changer, well Fightcade 2. the amount of retro games you can play online with others is crazy

 

[patscorpio]

Those retro videos of peoples reaction when the Internet first hit is hilarious

the retro videos on GPS devices were interesting

 

[humminbird]

The Internet
The iPod
Torrents
The PSP (it was my first time seeing a multimedia device like that)
The Smartphone
Chat GPT