Stuff we take for granted that would have been impossible 10 years ago.

Savoir.Faire · 30-09-2013 03:00PM

Ordering an Iced Double Caramel Skinny Latte from Bucks.

Overheal · 30-09-2013 05:46PM

For less than the cost of 1 CD per month I have access to any album, any artist, any track, at any time I want on demand and available to download for offline playback. Press play and the track responds as quickly as if you popped the disc in. Even if Im in the car. Or quicker. Look up an old favorite band. Oh they came out with a new album recently? *tap*, instant gratification. Play the whole album. No buy prompt. No extra charge.

10 years ago it was a thing to spend 6 hours downloading a 2 minute audio clip from an Austin Powers movie on Napster. This clip. Audio only.

Overheal · 30-09-2013 05:50PM

krudler wrote: »

one of the new Nokia phones has a 41MP camera or something close, ridiculous, sure there's full lenght movies shot on phones these days

http://petapixel.com/2012/04/16/wal-mart-selling-the-sony-mavica-floppy-disk-digital-camera-for-just-269/

"Wal-Mart stores have so many items that occasionally an outdated one will remain on the shelves for years after they’re no longer relevant. Case in point: the Sony MVC-FD200 Mavica digital camera. The one above was recently found at a Wal-Mart in Illinois. The camera first hit the shelf back in 2002 and has remained there ever since. It featured a state-of-the-art 2-megapixel sensor and allowed photographers the convenience of storing digital photos on 1.44 MB floppy disks (remember those?). If you think Wal-Mart’s trying to rip you off, consider this: the lowest price for this camera on Amazon is nearly $1000."

Markcheese · 30-09-2013 05:58PM

Time travel , of course now that my future self has given me access to time travel there's nothing to stop me giving it to my past self either...

Pighead · 30-09-2013 06:03PM

Thanking posts on boards. Much handier system than the old way of PM'ing the person to ask for their address before sending a thank you card in the post. Gotta love technology.

AnonoBoy · 30-09-2013 06:04PM

Recently I was on a bus to work, browsing the Internet on my phone via the wifi network on board the bus. I got bored and went back to reading my book.

Then I realised what me ten or fifteen years ago would think of this and thought "well ain't technology something."

And then I went back to reading my book.

Cause books are still nice to read.

markomuscle · 30-09-2013 06:04PM

uploading a video to youtube

WilyCoyote · 30-09-2013 06:06PM

Buying a laptop for under $300

Mammanabammana · 30-09-2013 06:50PM

Hoverboards!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ZdMOMUgXE

Jordan 199 · 30-09-2013 07:58PM

Overheal wrote: »

http://petapixel.com/2012/04/16/wal-mart-selling-the-sony-mavica-floppy-disk-digital-camera-for-just-269/

"Wal-Mart stores have so many items that occasionally an outdated one will remain on the shelves for years after they’re no longer relevant. Case in point: the Sony MVC-FD200 Mavica digital camera. The one above was recently found at a Wal-Mart in Illinois. The camera first hit the shelf back in 2002 and has remained there ever since. It featured a state-of-the-art 2-megapixel sensor and allowed photographers the convenience of storing digital photos on 1.44 MB floppy disks (remember those?). If you think Wal-Mart’s trying to rip you off, consider this: the lowest price for this camera on Amazon is nearly $1000."

A camera with a 3.5" floppy drive :cool:

As for the 3.5" floppies, they sure did lack the floppiness of the 5.25" disks.

hatrickpatrick · 30-09-2013 08:05PM

Anyone remember the days when loading a website with a lot of pictures meant hitting Go and going off to boil the kettle or make a sandwich, hoping it'd be almost loaded when you got back?

Legs.Eleven · 30-09-2013 08:25PM

Not being able to knock my boobs off my knees whilst walking. 10 years ago they were all pert and firm and upright and I couldn't knock them off anything getting from A to B.

Cuh! How times change. *Looks into the distance*

Fox_In_Socks · 30-09-2013 08:28PM

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

Not being able to knock my boobs off my knees whilst walking. 10 years ago they were all pert and firm and upright and I couldn't knock them off anything getting from A to B.

You've gone from an A to a B and they're about your knees?

Hmmmm...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hyutTEBydAg/UVN-pSmJ3aI/AAAAAAAAAE8/ojRPQ0Npb7s/s1600/NotSureIfSerious.jpg

Legs.Eleven · 30-09-2013 08:28PM

Fox_In_Socks wrote: »

You've gone from an A to a B and they're about your knees?

Hmmmm...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hyutTEBydAg/UVN-pSmJ3aI/AAAAAAAAAE8/ojRPQ0Npb7s/s1600/NotSureIfSerious.jpg

You have to kind of knee them out of the way but you get there in the end!

Fox_In_Socks · 30-09-2013 08:32PM

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

You have to kind of knee them out of the way but you get there in the end!

I've kneaded a boob the odd time, but never kneed one!

Stuff we take for granted that would have been impossible 10 years ago.

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