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NJtoNM t1_j9fj38n wrote
Reply to The new generations will never understand the pain for paying $100 for a 1GB flash drive by prettypistolgg
On my first work PC, I upgraded to a 70MB HDD. It was $700 to get that larger drive.
prettypistolgg OP t1_j9fig1h wrote
Reply to comment by CruisinJo214 in The new generations will never understand the pain for paying $100 for a 1GB flash drive by prettypistolgg
I remember them I just didn't have that kind of money back then lol
prettypistolgg OP t1_j9fi7vm wrote
Reply to comment by Cumupin420 in The new generations will never understand the pain for paying $100 for a 1GB flash drive by prettypistolgg
Not disagreeing, but my thought was specifically about how flash drives aren't really all that common place anymore, where as when I was in university 12 years ago it was a necessity
Marccino t1_j9fi538 wrote
I think superheroes and supervillains are implied to have superpowers. There are some heroes and villains in real life, just not super ones.
competitive-dust t1_j9fhjxk wrote
Reply to comment by jimbo_squat in The real world has supervillains but no superheroes. by [deleted]
He must be the greatest superhero of all time!
nihilt-jiltquist t1_j9fgwlc wrote
Reply to The new generations will never understand the pain for paying $100 for a 1GB flash drive by prettypistolgg
try paying $100 for 100Mb zip drive back in the previous century...
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Zedd2087 t1_j9fe3z8 wrote
Reply to comment by ScousePete in The real world has supervillains but no superheroes. by [deleted]
Yeah and you're doing exactly what they want, praise them because they made a small difference in comparison to how much evil they produce.
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landwomble t1_j9fbwpi wrote
Reply to The new generations will never understand the pain for paying $100 for a 1GB flash drive by prettypistolgg
I remember the first thumbdrive we ever got at work. Around £400 for 120mb. That's MB, not GB.
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ScousePete t1_j9f92s1 wrote
I think there are, but maybe not in the traditional sense. Without trying to trigger the crazies, Bill Gates has donated $50 billion dollars to charity over the years and Jeff Bezos’ ex wife Mackenzie Scott has donated a fair chunk also.
EchoedJolts t1_j9f8ivf wrote
There are plenty of superheroes, they just don't get press because bad news pays the bills for media companies.
ocelot-gazebo t1_j9f81i8 wrote
Reply to The new generations will never understand the pain for paying $100 for a 1GB flash drive by prettypistolgg
My "best" was a 64MB thumb drive disguised as a Swiss army knife. $98.
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jimbo_squat t1_j9f6e1f wrote
My 5 year old often fights bad guys in the toy room, so this cannot be true.
Mixt-meta4z-1463 t1_j9f5u86 wrote
Reply to The new generations will never understand the pain for paying $100 for a 1GB flash drive by prettypistolgg
A roommate I had in the Navy in the early '90s paid $1000 for a 1GB SCSI hard drive. Never mind the price of the controller card and cable.
I thought my 80286/12Mhz/4Meg with a 44Mb hard drive was the bomb. Don't forget the 9600 baud USRobotics modem! (All before Al Gore invented the interwebs)
mansnothot69420 t1_j9f5tqs wrote
Reply to The new generations will never understand the pain for paying $100 for a 1GB flash drive by prettypistolgg
The newer generations will never understand the pain of paying $100 for a 1TB NVME SSD
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prettypistolgg OP t1_j9f45p2 wrote
Reply to comment by LuxInteriot in The new generations will never understand the pain for paying $100 for a 1GB flash drive by prettypistolgg
Oh for sure. I've seen old computers that took up entire rooms and had less power than our phones today. I just remember needing a flash drive for university and having to spend $100 just to get a reasonable amount of storage. This was only 12 years ago but it didn't take long for flash storage to get mostly phased out of everyday use.
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GenXer1977 t1_j9fkwt1 wrote
Reply to comment by CruisinJo214 in The new generations will never understand the pain for paying $100 for a 1GB flash drive by prettypistolgg
Yeah, when I got my first digital camera I think 256 was either the biggest storage available or the biggest storage I could afford. I had 3 or 4 of those and then I got a 512. I think that was the biggest I had before I just switched to using the camera on my phone.