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What was your favourite peice of technology 10 years ago?

  • 09-05-2012 07:32PM
    #1
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭


    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.

    :D


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Comments

  • #2
    Seachmall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    Computer.

    And it still is to this day.


  • #3
    Daith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,399 ✭✭✭Daith


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


  • #4
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    Electric Kettle.

    Still is.


  • #5
    pcardin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,218 ✭✭✭pcardin


    I vote for computer too :rolleyes:


  • #6
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Playstaton 2


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  • #7
    castletownman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,250 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    My Nokia 3210.

    Particularly my epic games of snake


  • #8
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    The mechanically propelled horseless carriage.


  • #9
    HigginsJ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,317 ✭✭✭HigginsJ


    krudler wrote: »
    Playstaton 2


    Is the PS2 really that old?

    I was going to say Sega Megadrive


  • #10
    celticcrash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 851 ✭✭✭celticcrash


    Tv remote control


  • #11
    BrokenArrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,548 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    Cd/dvd burner combo.


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  • #12
    KirkCheated09
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,617 ✭✭✭KirkCheated09


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


  • #13
    p
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,119 ✭✭✭p


    My minidisc player.


  • #14
    whirlpool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭whirlpool


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


  • #15
    slievenamon fella
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 136 ✭✭slievenamon fella


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


  • #16
    WeleaseWoderick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,497 ✭✭✭WeleaseWoderick


    HigginsJ wrote: »
    Is the PS2 really that old?

    I was going to say Sega Megadrive

    Yep, PS2 launched in late 2000!


  • #17
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


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

    Halo!


  • #18
    Agent J
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,909 ✭✭✭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


  • #19
    karma_
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,797 ✭✭✭karma_


    The wheel.


  • #20
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭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:


  • #21
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    My laptop- 6GB Hard Drive!!! Lolz


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  • #22
    Deedsie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,463 ✭✭✭Deedsie


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


  • #23
    Basq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,496 ✭✭✭✭Basq


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

    Awesome!


  • #24
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭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:


  • #25
    a fat guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 800 ✭✭✭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.


  • #26
    McChubbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,080 ✭✭✭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!


  • #27
    Seachmall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭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.


  • #28
    Bobby42
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,316 ✭✭✭Bobby42


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


  • #29
    tonsiltickler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 249 ✭✭tonsiltickler


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


  • #30
    JohnMearsheimer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,302 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #31
    Seachmall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    tonsiltickler wrote: »
    ps2- games are better than any of the crud out nowadays

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


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