Ten years of technology

It just occurred to me the other day the pace at which technology is now moving. It is moving at a rapid rate!!!! I can remember just twelve years ago getting my first mobile phone. I thought it was the greatest thing ever. It was funny because it was expensive to and only maybe one in three maybe four people had one. It didn't take long after text messaging became cost effective for everyone to start getting phones, in fact by the end of 98 it was becoming very fashionable to have a Nokia phone.
I remember how I used to install windows 3.11 and Dos 7 onto the same 5G hard drive just because certain things wouldn't run in windows (i.e. games). I even remember some of the games like police quest. This was cutting edge. Or the first War Craft (still a cool game in my eyes) that was installed from 8 disks which it was PK zipped to.
Another was our TV sets with their VHF video players!!! What was that all about!! I remember how cool it was to have a car with a tape deck. Ho weird was it that when you made arrangements everyone made sure they where there and on time!

Now days it's inconceivable to not be able to check your emails or even worse your facebook status from your phone. Your phone that has GPS mapping, a camera, web browsing, MMS messaging and it is still used to speak to people and send text messages. And everyone has a phone now.
It is also now normal to have a 150G or more hard drive for one operating system (unless you one of those like me who likes to play and tries more than one!). We even have vertualization software to run multiple systems on one machine. Games are just huge and practically have 3D effects.
You can even stream movies from you computer to run on your home cinema system over wireless connections. We have little MP3's and Ipod's we can just plug into our car stereos which hold hundreds of songs.
We seem to be moving faster and faster towards more integrated systems. I reckon it won't be long now that our car stereo will sync with our phone/mp3 player which we have just downloaded new songs to as we heard something new on the radio while shopping.
It is still funny how when organizing to meat people now we are always late or phoning to say we late!!! Well it just shows how fast paced our lives are becoming.