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Showerthought: I was cleaning out my old laptop bag and found a receipt for a 1TB hard drive I bought in 2012.
It cost me $120 back then. I just looked it up, and for the same price now you can get cloud storage with AI that can actually find specific photos for you (like 'show me pictures of my dog at the beach'). I found that stat on a tech history blog. It's wild how the value shifted from just holding data to actually understanding it. Anyone else have an old tech purchase that feels like a relic now?
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garcia.mila6mo ago
My buddy was moving and found his old iPod classic. He paid like 300 bucks for it in 2007, loaded with his whole music library. Now he just shrugs and streams everything for ten bucks a month. The crazy part is he said the iPod still works perfectly, it just feels like a museum piece. Makes you realize we used to buy the hardware, but now we're just renting the service.
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ninar686mo ago
@garcia.mila's iPod still has value as a physical thing you own, though.
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joseph_green136mo ago
I always thought old tech was worthless, but my 2008 Zune still feels like my music.
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kai_ramirez386mo ago
Found my old graphing calculator from high school, cost a fortune and now my phone does all that math for free lmao. It's just a weird plastic brick in my desk drawer. The value really did evaporate once the function got baked into something else.
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