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Having just upgraded again, some 12 years later, I now have three orders of magnitude more storage than I did back then (post upgrade). I would have struggled to believe that a decade ago.

When we bought our first PC, 1 GB harddisks were around but very rare and expensive, no average computer person had one. The guy we bought the computer from was a very rich man who had a need for lots of storage and he had a GB drive in his own computer (our computer had about 40mb storage as far as I can remember). I remember thinking how 1GB was so impressive- those drives were selling for over $1000 back then...

Now when I go to officeworks there are 1GB USB drives at the counter in the impulse buy section!!! - it's crazy when I think back to this guy and his amazing GB drive and the expense. I could have never imagined back then that in the future you'd be buying GB drives in the same way you'd buy a lollipop at the supermarket.

Quote from Fastwalker :

Technology evolves gradually so u hardly notice it.

I disagree.... I remember buying a 16MB compact flash card in the not hugely distant past... now for less money you can get an 16GB micro SD card that's smaller than a finger nail. That I find pretty mind boggling. There are a lot of little things like that that make me go, wow, things really have changed. Also I remember our first pentium computer being a P100, with 16MB of ram and something like a 500MB HD... now we have cell phones with more, and that does still impress me.

Even over a shorter timeframe I'm seeing changes that I still find pretty impressive.

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I could have never imagined back then that in the future you'd be buying GB drives in the same way you'd buy a lollipop at the supermarket.

Glad I'm not the only one that finds these changes impressive! I do seriously find a 16GB memory card smaller than my finger nail just incredible... I just can't comprehend how it's possible, haha And these things are so cheap now!