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What was your favourite peice of technology 10 years ago?

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  • #32
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭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


  • #33
    Tzar Chasm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,069 ✭✭✭Tzar Chasm


    My favourite things

    PS2
    1999 Renault Laguna
    Ericsson T20


  • #34
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭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?


  • #35
    Tzar Chasm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,069 ✭✭✭Tzar Chasm


    My favourite things

    PS2
    1999 Renault Laguna
    Ericsson T20


  • #36
    deise go deo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,677 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #37
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


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


  • #38
    Basq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,501 ✭✭✭✭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.

    :D


  • #39
    Basq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,501 ✭✭✭✭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.

    :D


  • #40
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #41
    mickrock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,021 ✭✭✭mickrock


    Television.


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  • #42
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


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


  • #43
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    a VCR with VideoPlus+ technology


  • #44
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Wow. More minidisk owners than I thought.


  • #45
    HalloweenJack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,574 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    Playstation.


  • #46
    IM0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    Polar S710i heart rate monitor :cool:


  • #47
    Victor Meldrew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 767 ✭✭✭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.


  • #48
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,331 ✭✭✭RichieC


    My computer!


  • #49
    Battered Mars Bar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 672 ✭✭✭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:


  • #50
    Tzar Chasm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,069 ✭✭✭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


  • #51
    Wetai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 773 ✭✭✭Wetai


    Daith wrote: »
    USB memory stick. Whopping 16MB I think was my first one.

    You can store 3 backups of the internet on that!


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  • #52
    Bob the Seducer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,178 ✭✭✭Bob the Seducer


    My Sega Dreamcast, couldn't forgive myself if I chose anything else!!

    Honourable mentions however to my Xbox, minidisc player and cheapo mp3 CD player.


  • #53
    Cpt. Kelloggs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23 ✭Cpt. Kelloggs


    Playstation. Also thought my Nokia 3210 was pretty cool, pretty sure that was around ten years ago...


  • #54
    clashburke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 172 ✭✭clashburke


    Have to say Spyro on PS1 and Mario on Game-Boy original :cool:


  • #55
    paddydriver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,092 ✭✭✭paddydriver


    My 2000 shares in Apple that I picked up for cheap:D


  • #56
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Doovde player.


  • #57
    Captain Slow IRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,651 ✭✭✭Captain Slow IRL


    Dell XPS T450, 15" crt monitor, zip drive, windows 98, dial-up modem and a world of porn the likes of which ye'd never seen.


  • #58
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    The computer. I can scarcely imagine living without it.


  • #59
    miralize
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,207 ✭✭✭miralize


    Dell Latitude C510


  • #60
    Oscars Well.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,285 ✭✭✭Oscars Well.


    Gameboy! :D


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  • #61
    CL7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 684 ✭✭✭CL7


    Xbox.

    Well other than my pc anyway. I don't think I'd have been able to function without that.


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