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What was your favourite peice of technology 10 years ago?

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  • #62
    gubbie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,134 ✭✭✭gubbie


    Oscars Well. wrote: »
    Gameboy! :D

    10 years ago wasn't the 90's

    Gameboy came out in 1989


  • #63
    bullets
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,612 ✭✭✭bullets


    The mini-disc.

    I was on the mini-disc majordomo mailing list and imported one
    from Hong Kong before they were available in Ireland.

    It was Huge In Asia long before it was available in Europe and the media
    push happened too late. Its major failing was that people kept comparing
    it to MP3 players and CD'R at the time. It was never meant to compete against
    this. It was designed as a replacement to tape. Some Sci-fi films/programs
    featured it back in the day such as the Film Strange Days, The Vampire British TV show Ultraviolet, and as far as I can remember the Matrix featured one.

    ~B


  • #64
    keithsfleet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,071 ✭✭✭keithsfleet


    My Sony mobile phone with Polyphonic ringtones that you could compose. I also loved it cause it had a rollie wheel on the side that pretty much did everything include ironing your socks.


  • #65
    H2UMrsRobinson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 777 ✭✭✭H2UMrsRobinson


    castletownman wrote: »
    My Nokia 3210.

    Particularly my epic games of snake

    I've still got mine, it doesn't work, but I just can't bring myself to throw it away. It was a great design, battery lasted a week and I had a myriad of interchangeable covers for it.


  • #66
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Ten years ago it was definitely my 128MB mp3 player. Just enough to hold about two albums. It was tiny too; the player was an actual thumb drive, and then it ran on a AA battery. So overall about the size of two modern USB sticks. Not too shabby.


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  • #67
    c_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    Floppy disks. As I had no internet access at home, I'd stay late in college and pack as much porn into 1.44mb as possible for home use on an old computer.

    We've come a long way baby :cool:


  • #68
    Agricola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Got my first pc at home in early 2002, so I'd imagine my Celeron powered Dell beast was my pride and joy this time 10 years ago. Remember installing the original Thief on it and Deux Ex and wondering why everything was even more ropey looking than I had expected. (I didnt know about integrated graphics chips back then!)


  • #69
    Dr. Jonathan Crane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 261 ✭✭Dr. Jonathan Crane


    GameBoy Advance.


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