What was your favourite peice of technology 10 years ago?

Mint Sauce

Thread just inspired by a TV ad, one of their responces was a walkman. To be honest, I think its coming on 12 years since I played a cassette.

My favourite peice of technology was a mini disk player. Wow how them things took off.

Seachmall

Computer.

And it still is to this day.

Daith

USB memory stick. Whopping 16MB I think was my first one.

Where To

Electric Kettle.

Still is.

pcardin

I vote for computer too :rolleyes:

krudler

Playstaton 2

castletownman

My Nokia 3210.

Particularly my epic games of snake

Chuck Stone

The mechanically propelled horseless carriage.

HigginsJ

krudler wrote: »

Playstaton 2

Is the PS2 really that old?

I was going to say Sega Megadrive

celticcrash

Tv remote control

BrokenArrows

Cd/dvd burner combo.

KirkCheated09

PS1, don't think ps2 is that old, playin crash bandikoot and spyro.

p

My minidisc player.

whirlpool

My Sony Discman (i.e. portable CD player.)

slievenamon fella

have to say mine was my big block of a gameboy pocket:D:D

WeleaseWoderick

HigginsJ wrote: »

Is the PS2 really that old?

I was going to say Sega Megadrive

Yep, PS2 launched in late 2000!

Ghandee

It was ten years ago when the original xbox came out, and with that we saw the best debut game EVER.

Halo!

Agent J

HigginsJ wrote: »

Is the PS2 really that old?

I was going to say Sega Megadrive

Megadrive is over 20 years old... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Genesis

karma_

The wheel.

krudler

HigginsJ wrote: »

Is the PS2 really that old?

I was going to say Sega Megadrive

yup, its 12 years old now, sure the ps3 is 6 years old, the xbox 360 is 7. the next gen is just around the corner should be new versions of both in the next two years. are you like me and still think the 90s was ten years ago :pac:

efb

My laptop- 6GB Hard Drive!!! Lolz

Deedsie

The Kickass phone in the matrix... The bottom flicked out as if by magics...

Basq

When I was in Canada in 1998, I bought a 32MB Diamond Rio MP3 Player.... think it was THE first MP3 Player.

Awesome!

TeddyTedson

Ghandee wrote: »

It was ten years ago when the original xbox came out, and with that we saw the best debut game EVER.

Halo!

Pew Pew!

Woot woot woot!!



Anyone else hate think about the past?
Kind of freaks me out to think I was 15 and doing my junior cert.
Here's my results anyway
Maths (H) B
English (H) C
Irish (O) B
History (H) C
Geography (H) B
German (H) B:(
C.S.P.E (C) D...WTF!?
Materials - Wood (H) B
Tech Graphics (H) B


No As for TedTedington :mad:

a fat guy

PS1, I didn't get the PS2 for a while.

I still love my old PS1 and its games more than any other consoles too.

McChubbin

My first MP3 player- a Creative Zen V. 4 gigs of memory. I was fascinated by it. Nowadays, I've since replaced it with a 16gig model and I've come to use it so often that it's practically become a part of me.
My next big gadget purchase will be a Kindle Touch. Wheee! New gadgets!

Seachmall

krudler wrote: »

are you like me and still think the 90s was ten years ago :pac:

I always get strange looks when I start a sentence with "Remember 10 years ago when..." and then proceed to describe something from the 90s.

Nineties were the besties!*


*Shoe-in for the "Gayest Thing I've Said on Boards" award.

Bobby42

Mini disc player. Think there was a window of about 2 months between mini disc players being released and MP3 players taking over.

tonsiltickler

Pentium 3 450Mhz- beast
ps2- games are better than any of the crud out nowadays

JohnMearsheimer

Probably my mobile phone. The technological progress of the last 10 years seems to have been made at lightning speed. When I was in 6th year 10 years ago, phones with crappy cameras were only becoming mainstream. When I started college in 2003 I was still using a floppy disc to save my essays.

Seachmall

tonsiltickler wrote: »

ps2- games are better than any of the crud out nowadays

Clearly you haven't played Duke Nukem Forever...

im invisible

day long tournaments of mario kart on the nintendo 64, fair enough it was 5 years old at that stage, but it was some game, also zelda

Tzar Chasm

My favourite things

PS2
1999 Renault Laguna
Ericsson T20

Micky Dolenz

Basq wrote: »

When I was in Canada in 1998, I bought a 32MB Diamond Rio MP3 Player.... think it was THE first MP3 Player.

Awesome!

Did it cost a million bucks?

Tzar Chasm

My favourite things

PS2
1999 Renault Laguna
Ericsson T20

deise go deo

PS1 for the win, remember getting it for my birthday, now its hard to imagine a time when the Analog controle sticks did nothing.

Jimoslimos

My Sony MP3 CD walkman - an important, if brief step in the evolution of personal music devices.

Basq

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Did it cost a million bucks?

Yeah.. close enough!

Wiki wrote:

The Rio retailed for US $200 with the ability to hold around 1 hours music at a bitrate of 128 kbit/s.

It was great for about 2 years when the holder for the battery worn away so had to use a combination of glue and tin-foil to keep it going.

Basq

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Did it cost a million bucks?

Yeah.. close enough!

Wiki wrote:

The Rio retailed for US $200 with the ability to hold around 1 hours music at a bitrate of 128 kbit/s.

It was great for about 2 years when the holder for the battery worn away so had to use a combination of glue and tin-foil to keep it going.

krudler

JohnMearsheimer wrote: »

Probably my mobile phone. The technological progress of the last 10 years seems to have been made at lightning speed. When I was in 6th year 10 years ago, phones with crappy cameras were only becoming mainstream. When I started college in 2003 I was still using a floppy disc to save my essays.

its made how fast phone tech goes, sure the iphone is 5 years old now, the original 2g model is a dinosaur of a phone, no mms, cant forward texts, no copy and paste, slow ass internet. you could get a 50 quid phone that would be better these days.

mickrock

Television.

Riesen_Meal

I still use Minidisc to this day, best portable sound recorder out there for handiness and sound quality!

im invisible

a VCR with VideoPlus+ technology

Mint Sauce

Wow. More minidisk owners than I thought.

HalloweenJack

Playstation.

IM0

Polar S710i heart rate monitor :cool:

Victor Meldrew

Tzar Chasm wrote: »

My favourite things

PS2
1999 Renault Laguna
Ericsson T20

Had a T28. the really skinny one with the metal back. When I put it in my ar$e pocket, I got a pain in said butt cheek.

Weird.

RichieC

My computer!

Battered Mars Bar

HigginsJ wrote: »

Is the PS2 really that old?

I was going to say Sega Megadrive

KirkCheated09 wrote: »

PS1, don't think ps2 is that old, playin crash bandikoot and spyro.

a fat guy wrote: »

PS1, I didn't get the PS2 for a while.

I still love my old PS1 and its games more than any other consoles too.

2002?, jesus yer very bad lads. I remember on 9/11 I was looking forward to Metal Gear II coming out. Reading about it in a mag that day :pac:

Tzar Chasm

Victor Meldrew wrote: »

Tzar Chasm wrote: »

My favourite things

PS2
1999 Renault Laguna
Ericsson T20

Had a T28. the really skinny one with the metal back. When I put it in my ar$e pocket, I got a pain in said butt cheek.

Weird.

Yeah I had one too but i found it fiddly, the t20 was basicly the same phone with a bigger case

Wetai

Daith wrote: »

USB memory stick. Whopping 16MB I think was my first one.

You can store 3 backups of the internet on that!