@@Brown614 quality is arbitrary so I got nothing. But, seeing as when our computer room was upgraded, the DASDs came out and were replaced with racks loaded with off-the-shelf 5.25" drives, I'd say their use was the exact same... because it literally was. That being said, can you use a DASD exactly as you would a modern "hard drive"? No, it wasn't designed for that. Can you use a modern "hard drive" exactly as you would a DASD? Yes, because it's just about data storage and retrieval.
I remember buying a 16MB flash drive for $99 and it came with a 3" CD that had Windows & Mac drivers Yes one had to install the drivers from the CD in order to use the flash drive on that computer..
I forgot which Windows version it was, but it was big news when Windows starting shipping with a generic USB mass storage driver so you no longer needed to use the driver from the CD.
@@nazmulfahad3044 No actually it was a 3" CD not full size 5" CD they contain the drivers in order for the flash drive to work on a computer. Need to install one time on that system. Now a days the drivers are on the flash drive themselves which loads up automatic no matter what system it is...i.e Windows, Mac, Linux/Unix
@@anthonylenzo3675 I think the drivers are in windows server because i have Corsair high end flash drive which installed driver on first time. But i can download the driver manually from Corsair site as well. The Corsair driver is signed by Corsair but the installed one is signed by Microsoft
In the USA, "free" is never sustainable. There is always a cost on the back end. It's not worth it. Not everyone needs to go to college to make good money.
I have a Friden EC-130 in my bedroom. It's one of the first fully electronic calculators. Weighs 20kg and it can only add, subtract, divide, and multiply. It cost $2,100 in 1964, or $6,000 today.
Flash based storage price seems getting cheaper and won't stop anytime soon Disc however, they don't change that much for the last couple years, do they? I wonder why
I paid $150 for a used 212 Mb hard disk in the mid 90s. I recall it was SO MUCH BIGGER than my 42 Mb drive. Yeah, filled it up in a matter of a week - install ALL the diskette-based programs!
@@NurAdinugrahathats because discs are already the cheapest and best they can reasonably be. They are the end of the technology tree for physical spinning storage. To make them cheaper we would need increased demand and some breakthroughs that could compete with flash storage. Physical, especially spinning storage will never compete with flash storage.
When I was working for Best Buy a few years ago, I was looking up old receipts for a customer when I stumbled across a receipt for a $2,000 TV from like 2005. It was a 32inch 720p lcd TV. For 2K. I was blown away. I also remember working in the tech industry when the first commercial 1TB hard drive was released. All the guys and I joked how that was such an insane amount of space that someone would never be able to fill. Here I am today raging that my 2TB SSD seems to fill up way too fast.
The top of the Washington monument is made of aluminum BECAUSE at the time it was really rare and corrosion resistant. That was a display of wealth for us as a nation.
I remember begging my parents for an LED pocket calculator from Radio Shack when they first came out. This is was around 1974 and they were crazy expensive (around $400) Now of course they’re so cheap you can pick them up for a few bucks in the checkout line.
My dad bought one from LED pocket Caluclator in 1972 when Ardens(sp?) first opened near my house. I still have it and it still works great. I almost tried to get my computer teacher to let me use it on a test. I still remember she said NO calculators on the test, but I think she meant the one were required to have for class.
2:23 The TV's resolution is 852x480, yet TH-cam's 480p 16:9 resolution is 854x480. Funny that there is no standard regarding this. I will go on. TH-cam's 240p 16:9 resolution is 426x240, which is 852x480 cut in half (quarters? Square-cube law is funny). Even in the realm of non-square pixels (like DVD and MiniDV), there is disagreement. People can't decide if the 4:3 or 16:9 frame is the whole 720x480 or 704x480 plus 16 columns for blanking.
I hate that I can say this sentence... While in college I worked in retail and we started selling 19" flat screen ED TVs (that weird middle between SD and HD for a little while) for around $1,000. I was in retail for the transition from only having giant tube TVs to having only cheap LCD HD TVs... It was "only yesterday" but somehow also really long ago.
In 1990 I sold Tandy computers in the BX. If I remember correctly, I sold 10mb hard drives for $400 and 20mb for $600. The 128kb(yes, kilobyte) memory upgrade was $175 I think. Yeah, that was expensive.
I remember my brother and I buying a 19 inch Zenith TV, in 1990 to play our Nintendo, Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis consoles on. That beast weighed 150+lbs and took up half the living room.
The original Apple Macintosh 128k was $2495 at launch back in 1984. now some CIB and complete units go for around 400 - 700 depending on the condition. About the original launch price of the Amiga 500 or Atari STFM back in 1985
I still remember when my older sister bought a 512MB thumb drive in 2002 and said "This will be the largest storage device I'll ever carry in my life." Flash forward 19 yrs later and she now carries 4 4TB external harddrives (she has reliability concerns), a 128GB thumb drive for documents and a 512GB phone (S20 Ultra) with another 512 micro sd card for media storage. As for the 512MB thumb drive, it still works and uses it for online account archive (she did a lot of care to it given the price when she bought it).
I remember borrowing my mum's old 64GB external HDD to move files from an old laptop to a then-new laptop. She scolded me because she bought it years ago for $200, meanwhile at the time it would have cost roughly $30 for a USB that was magnitudes faster, lighter, smaller, and easier to use. Now I'm PCMR with 2TB SSD (half NVME, half SATA) and 3TB HDD space. Oh how far we've come
Drones and 3D printers. I remember looking at them only a little bit more than a decade ago and realising they cost way more than a decent used car. Now they are all over the place and really affordable.
Back around 2005 I started my first of college and paid somewhere around $35 for a 1GB flash drive. I also paid something like $550 for a 5th gen iPod... while rocking a used Palm Treo 650 I was lucky to get my hands on. Honestly... I ended up using my iPod as a storage device instead. Fun times.
SSDs have all that beat. The first was in 1978. The StorageTek STC 4305 boasted a 45 MB capacity and a $400,000 price tag ($1,666,846.63 in 2021). That's $8,888.88 per MB in 1978 dollars. Here's a link to read more about it. This page includes flash storage, too. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive
As a graphic technology student back in the early 2000 the flash drive was a huge advance in portable storage we where using Zip disks and had to have a Zip drive so when we started to get flash drives we where excited
3:27 on the column on the right "xx gadgets ahead of their time" is a phenomenal video idea and I'm surprised you guys haven't done one yet. So c'mon let's do it
In the early 2000s I just dealt with burning CD and DVD rewritable discs. USB drives were too easy to lose and too expensive. Later I just connected my smartphone to the computer and used the SD card in it to move data portably.
On my grade 2 school supplies list was a 1.44 MB floppy drive. In high school, 2 GB flash drives were the standard. Today, I have a 256 GB flash drive and a 16 TB HDD
if I remember correctly, I remember seeing an advertisment for a 5MB hard drive for $1500.00. mid-1970s. add the inflation factor, and multiplied to 1GB, or 1TB , well, let's just say, I could not afford it.
Same, but I borrowed it from family friends in ~2012 for a school project. My parents were like "be careful with that thing, it cost like $30 and you have to give it back afterwards!!!" Yeah, they never asked for it back lol
Let's go even further back. I was taking classes at a local community college and all of the computer labs had just been fitted with shiny new Iomega Zip 100 drives. Students were expected to work from and save to only that drive. By the time I finished my associate degree just two years later, most of those had been replaced in turn with 4-port USB hubs and you had to buy a USB drive for your work.
@@Shojikitsune1 What's the oldest piece of computer hardware you use on a regular basis? For me, it's my computer case dating back to 1999. It still has a floppy drive in it, since I can't find the plastic insert if I were to remove it.
Of course back in those days it was cheaper to get someone to repair your TV if something went wrong with it. Now it is cheaper to just buy an new one, which does not help with the waste problem we currently have.
Back in 80s I had a dynatac. In nz cost about $ 6500 at that time which is same u quoted. My friend had another type which came in a brief case size Metal case which weighed about 10 lbs with battery
First flash drive I ever purchased was in like 2004. About $45 for 128mb. Also got a 256mb a few months later that cost about $50 (though I actually still have that one 17 years later and it still fully works).....fast forward to last week and I got two 32gb drives for like $8.
Back in my high school days in 2006 I had a 64mb flashdrive my dad had gotten as a promo item. It saved a lot of reports, but damn things have moved on
Micro SD cards, you should have covered that too. I remember in 2008 when I got my Nokia N73 Music edition, having a whooping 2GB SD card slot meant you were the baddass of the block.
The Moto DynaTAC 8000X was not the first wireless phone (aka mobile phone) device, but rather the first wireless handheld Cell phone. Prior to the invention of the cell phone and cellular networks in 1979 (Japan had the first cellular phone network), there was “Mobile Radio Telephone”, an analog mobile wireless telephone service that used two-way radio devices to transmit a call over a landline telephone network to a two-way radio device, often located in a car but could also be carried around a portable battery powered form factor. These early wireless mobile phone devices suffered from the problem that the technology available at the time meant that every user of any particular Mobile Radio Phone service all shared a central radio transmission tower and a limited set of frequencies to transmit/receive calls on. This severely limited the capacity of the networks at the time. Early models also required to contact a operator first, then have the operator make the call for you via a rotary dial phone then connect your two-way radio service to the landline via a acoustic coupler or other method manually. Later they developed automatic means of connecting calls. The invention of Cellular networks solved the capacity problem by subdividing the coverage area of a network into smaller cell tower coverage areas, which meant the each cell tower only needed to accommodate the small number of users at a time and if the cellphone user was moving about, the system would automatically transfer the user between cell towers. Thus the total network capacity was much greater the in Mobile Radio Phone days (Mobile Radio Phones continued to exist in some remote rural areas long after cell service took over most everywhere else but has since died off completely, with satellite phones, or voip over wireless Internet technology replacing it.). In the Mobile Radio Phone days, the service was a very niche one only for the very rich or specialized professions like Private detectives or whatnot (TV’s private detective “Cannon” for the 70s was shown with one in his luxury car). The advent of cell service, while initially very expensive (Thousands of dollars for early cell phones and $5 a minute for cell calls in the mid-80s), it improved so Much on the the technology that many more folks bought into it at least for business or limited personal use. As prices dropped drastically on handheld units and cell phones got much smaller, longer lasting per charge, and more capable, normal folks began to buy into it, until the present day when some folks have nothing but a cell phone (I.e. no landline).
Our first hard drive was 4gb in 1997, part of a $2500 IBM ($4k today!). 24 years later and I bought a 4tb drive, literally a thousand times as much, for $80. Never ceases to amaze me.
I've still got my old Motorola brick. It still works, only problem is that the cell network no longer works on analog and you can't connect to the cell network.
HDDs: More along the lines that we've paid the same price for a "mid range" HDD but the price per gigabyte keeps reducing. Paying $120 for a 120GB drive was a steal at $1 a GB, now a days we're closing on a 8TB drive being $120.
Flash drives were small and expensive, but file sizes were also much smaller, so you didn't near 1gb of storage. I think my first PC had something like 320MB of storage 😆
Got my 50" 4k Hisense roku tv for under 250 a year or so ago. Insane! Cant say about reliability yet, but it's worked perfectly fine and looks great compared to my old 2008 era 50 inch 1080p flat screen
My first flash drive, was bought in like 2002. Paid $80 for 256MB. Oh, how times have changed. But at least we had more than 5 companies controlling the whole internet. -_-
Storage isn’t cheap if you’re Microsoft or Apple. 256GB jump for £400 on the Surface or £200 on the MacBook. But I loved all of these examples! A modern take on that first smartphone where we dock our phones to a mid sized display of 8-9 inches or so could be lovely, and would limit the e-waste of smart display SoC, memory, storage etc.
I like how the tech back then, was so big compared to today, and it was way over priced (well probably not at the time, it may have been too). Everything back then was heavy asf. Like the TV's, Cars where built heavier, and anything back then. If it has weight, and looks old, you know the era.
The first SSD I got when I was rebuilding my gaming rig back in the far-off year of 2011 cost me about US$120 for a crucial 128Gb drive. At the time, that was considered excessive for the OS to live on, with the likes of Ars Technica recommending a 64Gb drive.
@@Ebalosus I remember when I got my Samsung 250gb in 2015. I think it was $150-$200. Now it's sitting in a box because it was empty and unused, and I didn't put it back in in my latest case swap.
@@djvycious it’s crazy that even as relatively recently as 2015, SSDs were still considered somewhat luxurious upgrades for a lot of people. These days you’d be hard-pressed to recommend hard drives for anything other than external media storage, or for large-pool storage in things like NAS’s and gaming desktops. The prices of SSDs have fallen so much that the last time I remember putting a conventional drive in someone’s laptop was back in 2018, and that’s because they didn’t want to spend the extra $30 to get an SSD for it.
I still remember (and own) my first flash drive. I saved up $80 in high school to buy a "huge" 256MB flash drive to use for school instead of 3.5" floppies.
And my second was a whopping 2GB Geek Squad branded one from Best Buy. I think I only had 64GB of storage in my computer at the time so that seemed absolutely massive. These days I have 128GB of storage in the tiny MicroSD card in my phone. It's insane how cheap and dense storage has become
Clothing with certain fabrics and even just a color is actually feasible now and it wasn’t hundreds of years ago (this is why no older countries have purple in their flag color).
I had my first mobile phone in 1996. It was too expensive to use. I eventually gave it back to the store. I waited a few years until they became affordable.
TV's have gotten cheaper also because smart tv's can grab your watching habits, send it to the manufacturer, and they can sell that info to advertisers. They no longer have to get 10yrs of profit per customer at the point of sale. Just look at the price of pc monitors that don't have those apps in them compared to a TV.
The flash drive was a game changer, $100 for 32mb sure but you couldn't put a price on rewritable storage back then when 1 in every 100 computers had a cd writer and rewritable cds corrupted after 5 uses.
The reason flash memory dropped had a ton to do with an expose of an anti-trust situation where the manufacturers were colluding to keep prices up. This also impacted RAM chips. After some legal troubles, said companies were forced to lower prices by tons, and as real competition happened, it drove prices even lower.
Yes, Flash Drives, I remember the first one I used was because it was provided by the employer of my cousin (we couldn't even buy one lol), I remember it was a 16mb drive. I remember that i was impressed that you could plug multiple drives on any computer and transfer files directly, something that wasnt possible with CD's or DVD's unless you had multiple Disc Readers.
Wonder if that battery life on those phones was because they had to send out a stronger signal to reach cell towers or some other transmission location because there were fewer locations as opposed to now.
I remember "back in the day" (around the year 2000) when I was a kid and I had a job at a bottle collection facility. (Yeah kids, back in the day bottles weren't just crushed and melted and reused, they were sorted and shippet back to the original fabrication and then cleaned and reused there.) I ended up saving up about 2500 USD TWICE for being able to buy a shitty laptop and an AWESOME 1GHz (single threaded) AMD Athlon desktop PC with a Geforce .... MX 2 (I think) and not only are both of these items waaaaaay more affordable today, but they are also far more future proof and will last you a long ass while. And... Those are 2000 prices, 5000 USD in today money is more like about 7500 USD right? I mean that's about 20% of downpayment of a god damn HOUSE!
How about common tech you can no longer buy? For example a 64MB SD or MicroSD card. Why would you want it? Old electronics often don't recognize capacities above a certain size.
Things I think that would have been nice to be included are: LEDs, Calculators (basic 4 function, scientific, & graphing), SDcards (or flash storage in general), and Transistors.
When I was in 6th form they still had us using 3.5" floppy discs for storing our work. Not all the machines had USB? Not everyone could afford a flashdrive? This was 03-05
I bought a 1 gb flash drive from microcenter in 2004 for $80 lmao 🤣 it was an all aluminum SanDisk with a blue silicon cover. I wore it around on my keyring everywhere and everyone at school called me a nerd (not in a good way either, this was back when being nerdy was very socialy bad) I still have it!!
I remember, in 2003, predicting out loud, at a Fry's store, that one day USB thumb drives would reach 1 TB. A guy in the aisle overheard me & said I was crazy. Couple years later, Kingston came out with a CHUNGA drive. Very fast & compact for its day, but also very expensive. They're still VERY expensive collector items; Now you can get portable 1 or 2 TB portable SSD which are faster, smaller, & cheaper than those old TB Kingston “thumb” drives
Cannabis. Cannabis was once (more) expensive and now it's hella cheap. 8 dispensaries in walking distance of my home all slashing prices to compete. lol. 85 new dispensaries per month in Ontario most of them opening in the GTA (my neck of the woods). lol
I had a phone installed in my BMW, it was soooo expensive and sooo impractical as its fitted IN the car. I cant imagine what I was thinking, I also had one of the first IBM microdrives. 🤷♂️👍👍
Brazil, 1999. I remember when my father sold his car to buy a PC for his college degree. It was a beige box with a a red light, a blinking green one and the big number in green backlight 533. It was awesome PC back in the day. GBC Emulator, Age of Empires 2, Warcraft, The Sims, SimCity, Cesar III, Virtual Cop, ... Ahh, good days. :D
How about video games? For example, RPG games used to be pretty expensive, with a SNES RPG going for a whopping $70-80 in early 90's money (as an example, Earthbound was $70, Chrono Trigger was $80). Thankfully, disc-based formats allowed games to be manufactured at a much lower cost, going forward.
Yeap..and Secret of Mana in summer of 1994..I paid around 80 bucks taxes and all for it too. Ah... Super Metroid days too ( not 80 bucks but still well over 40 something best case I think)
Data storage:
DASD - ~$50000.00 per gig
Ironwolf 10TB - ~$0.03 per gig
Two very different uses and quality.
IBMer?
@@Brown614 These days, we just pay that 50k per GB on mobile data.
@@TetraSky only when roaming internationally
@@Brown614 quality is arbitrary so I got nothing. But, seeing as when our computer room was upgraded, the DASDs came out and were replaced with racks loaded with off-the-shelf 5.25" drives, I'd say their use was the exact same... because it literally was. That being said, can you use a DASD exactly as you would a modern "hard drive"? No, it wasn't designed for that. Can you use a modern "hard drive" exactly as you would a DASD? Yes, because it's just about data storage and retrieval.
I remember buying a 16MB flash drive for $99 and it came with a 3" CD that had Windows & Mac drivers Yes one had to install the drivers from the CD in order to use the flash drive on that computer..
I forgot which Windows version it was, but it was big news when Windows starting shipping with a generic USB mass storage driver so you no longer needed to use the driver from the CD.
The included CDs were a gesture from flash drive manufacturers to let you know you should buy a CD instead
@@nazmulfahad3044 No actually it was a 3" CD not full size 5" CD they contain the drivers in order for the flash drive to work on a computer. Need to install one time on that system. Now a days the drivers are on the flash drive themselves which loads up automatic no matter what system it is...i.e Windows, Mac, Linux/Unix
@@pcfreak1992 It was Windows 98 SE.
@@anthonylenzo3675 I think the drivers are in windows server because i have Corsair high end flash drive which installed driver on first time. But i can download the driver manually from Corsair site as well. The Corsair driver is signed by Corsair but the installed one is signed by Microsoft
My wallet is happy with these changes
It's still empty you just have more stuff.
@BILLIE SAYS DUH Lol bot shut the f up and look at the mirror
I’m the 100 like
My new wallet was more expensive than any other.
Then you should be thanking the benefits of capitalism
"Expensive things are now cheap"
What about college?
It is. Just not in US.
governments still have to make money somehow, right?
@@miloslogic they can give free education so those educated people can get high paying jobs and pay high taxes
In the USA, "free" is never sustainable. There is always a cost on the back end. It's not worth it. Not everyone needs to go to college to make good money.
Or housing... Or cars...
I have a Friden EC-130 in my bedroom. It's one of the first fully electronic calculators. Weighs 20kg and it can only add, subtract, divide, and multiply. It cost $2,100 in 1964, or $6,000 today.
(Bad Indiana Jones impersonation): That belongs in a museum!
Still kind of an interesting find. I bet it has a story.
I remember buying a 1Gb microSD card for £25, now you can’t even buy them in that low capacity!
I remember having Smartmedia memory cards in MB capacities. Like 2 and 4 mb for our first digital camera in the mid 90s.
I bought a 128gb for that price recently but years ago, spent £10 on 4gb. Aah SanDisk.
Flash based storage price seems getting cheaper and won't stop anytime soon
Disc however, they don't change that much for the last couple years, do they? I wonder why
I paid $150 for a used 212 Mb hard disk in the mid 90s. I recall it was SO MUCH BIGGER than my 42 Mb drive.
Yeah, filled it up in a matter of a week - install ALL the diskette-based programs!
@@NurAdinugrahathats because discs are already the cheapest and best they can reasonably be. They are the end of the technology tree for physical spinning storage. To make them cheaper we would need increased demand and some breakthroughs that could compete with flash storage. Physical, especially spinning storage will never compete with flash storage.
That brick of a phone can still be used as weapon for self defense.
nokia 3310: pathetic
Yep, get a Nokia for concealed-carry.
@@victorrobles353 but it isnt that heavy
Hahaha Paul Heyman!
When I was working for Best Buy a few years ago, I was looking up old receipts for a customer when I stumbled across a receipt for a $2,000 TV from like 2005. It was a 32inch 720p lcd TV. For 2K. I was blown away.
I also remember working in the tech industry when the first commercial 1TB hard drive was released. All the guys and I joked how that was such an insane amount of space that someone would never be able to fill.
Here I am today raging that my 2TB SSD seems to fill up way too fast.
My parents still have their 1987 B&O CRT TV. The sound punch is still amazing
The top of the Washington monument is made of aluminum BECAUSE at the time it was really rare and corrosion resistant. That was a display of wealth for us as a nation.
More expensive than gold. Napoleon had aluminum plates he used when he really wanted to show off at state dinners.
I remember begging my parents for an LED pocket calculator from Radio Shack when they first came out. This is was around 1974 and they were crazy expensive (around $400) Now of course they’re so cheap you can pick them up for a few bucks in the checkout line.
Dollar Tree (US) - 30-ish function Scientific Calculator for, of course, $1. It is smart enough to do 1/3*3=1.
My dad bought one from LED pocket Caluclator in 1972 when Ardens(sp?) first opened near my house. I still have it and it still works great. I almost tried to get my computer teacher to let me use it on a test. I still remember she said NO calculators on the test, but I think she meant the one were required to have for class.
2:23 The TV's resolution is 852x480, yet TH-cam's 480p 16:9 resolution is 854x480. Funny that there is no standard regarding this. I will go on.
TH-cam's 240p 16:9 resolution is 426x240, which is 852x480 cut in half (quarters? Square-cube law is funny).
Even in the realm of non-square pixels (like DVD and MiniDV), there is disagreement. People can't decide if the 4:3 or 16:9 frame is the whole 720x480 or 704x480 plus 16 columns for blanking.
The bane of any retro game nerd is all the non standard resolutions on modern displays.
My first thumb drive was from Crucial that I bought back in 2006. It was 600 MB for around $60.
I hate that I can say this sentence... While in college I worked in retail and we started selling 19" flat screen ED TVs (that weird middle between SD and HD for a little while) for around $1,000. I was in retail for the transition from only having giant tube TVs to having only cheap LCD HD TVs... It was "only yesterday" but somehow also really long ago.
"10 inches was considered large at the time"
Well according to most guys it still is.
Wait a minute. Guys.
Hol' up. I don't like how I imagine this comment.
In Africa the average is 6 inches,so even down there it is.
Not just guys. Girls too. Even by the most conservative estimate.
25.4 centimeters is still considered large. They're often considered too large.
In 1990 I sold Tandy computers in the BX. If I remember correctly, I sold 10mb hard drives for $400 and 20mb for $600. The 128kb(yes, kilobyte) memory upgrade was $175 I think. Yeah, that was expensive.
I remember my brother and I buying a 19 inch Zenith TV, in 1990 to play our Nintendo, Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis consoles on. That beast weighed 150+lbs and took up half the living room.
The original Apple Macintosh 128k was $2495 at launch back in 1984. now some CIB and complete units go for around 400 - 700 depending on the condition. About the original launch price of the Amiga 500 or Atari STFM back in 1985
I still remember when my older sister bought a 512MB thumb drive in 2002 and said "This will be the largest storage device I'll ever carry in my life."
Flash forward 19 yrs later and she now carries 4 4TB external harddrives (she has reliability concerns), a 128GB thumb drive for documents and a 512GB phone (S20 Ultra) with another 512 micro sd card for media storage.
As for the 512MB thumb drive, it still works and uses it for online account archive (she did a lot of care to it given the price when she bought it).
BUT, my *40 year old* "Rank Arena" wooden tv STILL WORKS. Unlike every single modern TV I've ever bought.
The resolution of that first "Slim" Plasma T.V is what I am watching this video at!!😎
I remember borrowing my mum's old 64GB external HDD to move files from an old laptop to a then-new laptop. She scolded me because she bought it years ago for $200, meanwhile at the time it would have cost roughly $30 for a USB that was magnitudes faster, lighter, smaller, and easier to use. Now I'm PCMR with 2TB SSD (half NVME, half SATA) and 3TB HDD space. Oh how far we've come
Drones and 3D printers. I remember looking at them only a little bit more than a decade ago and realising they cost way more than a decent used car. Now they are all over the place and really affordable.
Back around 2005 I started my first of college and paid somewhere around $35 for a 1GB flash drive. I also paid something like $550 for a 5th gen iPod... while rocking a used Palm Treo 650 I was lucky to get my hands on. Honestly... I ended up using my iPod as a storage device instead. Fun times.
SSDs have all that beat. The first was in 1978. The StorageTek STC 4305 boasted a 45 MB capacity and a $400,000 price tag ($1,666,846.63 in 2021). That's $8,888.88 per MB in 1978 dollars.
Here's a link to read more about it. This page includes flash storage, too.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive
As a graphic technology student back in the early 2000 the flash drive was a huge advance in portable storage we where using Zip disks and had to have a Zip drive so when we started to get flash drives we where excited
3:27 on the column on the right "xx gadgets ahead of their time" is a phenomenal video idea and I'm surprised you guys haven't done one yet. So c'mon let's do it
In the early 2000s I just dealt with burning CD and DVD rewritable discs. USB drives were too easy to lose and too expensive. Later I just connected my smartphone to the computer and used the SD card in it to move data portably.
On my grade 2 school supplies list was a 1.44 MB floppy drive. In high school, 2 GB flash drives were the standard. Today, I have a 256 GB flash drive and a 16 TB HDD
I have a lot of stuff that would go great in this video. A cell phone from 1994, a 32MB SD card, the list goes on
if I remember correctly, I remember seeing an advertisment for a 5MB hard drive for $1500.00. mid-1970s.
add the inflation factor, and multiplied to 1GB, or 1TB , well, let's just say, I could not afford it.
Men in 1900 :Atleast that 2021 flash drive was less though
I remember having to get a flash drive back in the early-mid 2000s for school. It was a massive 512Mb; I still have the poor thing.
Same, but I borrowed it from family friends in ~2012 for a school project. My parents were like "be careful with that thing, it cost like $30 and you have to give it back afterwards!!!" Yeah, they never asked for it back lol
@@epicwiigamer0258 4GB was the norm since 2010.
I still use my 512 mb flash drive from 2004.
Let's go even further back. I was taking classes at a local community college and all of the computer labs had just been fitted with shiny new Iomega Zip 100 drives. Students were expected to work from and save to only that drive. By the time I finished my associate degree just two years later, most of those had been replaced in turn with 4-port USB hubs and you had to buy a USB drive for your work.
@@Shojikitsune1 What's the oldest piece of computer hardware you use on a regular basis?
For me, it's my computer case dating back to 1999. It still has a floppy drive in it, since I can't find the plastic insert if I were to remove it.
Of course back in those days it was cheaper to get someone to repair your TV if something went wrong with it. Now it is cheaper to just buy an new one, which does not help with the waste problem we currently have.
Back in 80s I had a dynatac. In nz cost about $ 6500 at that time which is same u quoted. My friend had another type which came in a brief case size Metal case which weighed about 10 lbs with battery
First flash drive I ever purchased was in like 2004. About $45 for 128mb. Also got a 256mb a few months later that cost about $50 (though I actually still have that one 17 years later and it still fully works).....fast forward to last week and I got two 32gb drives for like $8.
I would certainly like your view on more historic tech on more videos guys
Back in my high school days, a box of 10, 5.25 inch floppy disks (100 Kbytes on a BBC Micro) were 15 GBP. That makes 1 TB about 15,000,000 GBP.
I still remember being a kid in the late 2000s and not being able to afford more than a 1GB Memory Stick for my PSP. Those were the days...
Back in my high school days in 2006 I had a 64mb flashdrive my dad had gotten as a promo item. It saved a lot of reports, but damn things have moved on
I will literally watch any video you put Riley in
Studio headphones are so cheap now, especially the past few years (thanks gamers). We can get a $1000 studio headphone for like $200 now
My first MP3 player, an RCA Lyra had 32mb of storage and cost me over $200. I now have a 1tb micro SD in my phone that cost me $150.
Micro SD cards, you should have covered that too. I remember in 2008 when I got my Nokia N73 Music edition, having a whooping 2GB SD card slot meant you were the baddass of the block.
I just hope recent flagship phone prices go down to affordable prices.
Back in the days you were happy to get a free magazine to your computer. Now you can occasionally get a free computer to your magazine.
I recall the first OLED TV - about 11 inches, about the size of license plate, for $2200 at Sony Style stores around 2008.
The Moto DynaTAC 8000X was not the first wireless phone (aka mobile phone) device, but rather the first wireless handheld Cell phone. Prior to the invention of the cell phone and cellular networks in 1979 (Japan had the first cellular phone network), there was “Mobile Radio Telephone”, an analog mobile wireless telephone service that used two-way radio devices to transmit a call over a landline telephone network to a two-way radio device, often located in a car but could also be carried around a portable battery powered form factor. These early wireless mobile phone devices suffered from the problem that the technology available at the time meant that every user of any particular Mobile Radio Phone service all shared a central radio transmission tower and a limited set of frequencies to transmit/receive calls on. This severely limited the capacity of the networks at the time. Early models also required to contact a operator first, then have the operator make the call for you via a rotary dial phone then connect your two-way radio service to the landline via a acoustic coupler or other method manually. Later they developed automatic means of connecting calls. The invention of Cellular networks solved the capacity problem by subdividing the coverage area of a network into smaller cell tower coverage areas, which meant the each cell tower only needed to accommodate the small number of users at a time and if the cellphone user was moving about, the system would automatically transfer the user between cell towers. Thus the total network capacity was much greater the in Mobile Radio Phone days (Mobile Radio Phones continued to exist in some remote rural areas long after cell service took over most everywhere else but has since died off completely, with satellite phones, or voip over wireless Internet technology replacing it.). In the Mobile Radio Phone days, the service was a very niche one only for the very rich or specialized professions like Private detectives or whatnot (TV’s private detective “Cannon” for the 70s was shown with one in his luxury car). The advent of cell service, while initially very expensive (Thousands of dollars for early cell phones and $5 a minute for cell calls in the mid-80s), it improved so Much on the the technology that many more folks bought into it at least for business or limited personal use. As prices dropped drastically on handheld units and cell phones got much smaller, longer lasting per charge, and more capable, normal folks began to buy into it, until the present day when some folks have nothing but a cell phone (I.e. no landline).
Our first hard drive was 4gb in 1997, part of a $2500 IBM ($4k today!). 24 years later and I bought a 4tb drive, literally a thousand times as much, for $80. Never ceases to amaze me.
I've still got my old Motorola brick. It still works, only problem is that the cell network no longer works on analog and you can't connect to the cell network.
"Back in my day"..... I love to be a fly on the wall when you say that for the first time. :-)
I still have a 64 MB SanDisk flash drive and a 1 GB WD external hard drive that I bought from Circuit City. I paid A LOT of money for those things.
HDDs: More along the lines that we've paid the same price for a "mid range" HDD but the price per gigabyte keeps reducing. Paying $120 for a 120GB drive was a steal at $1 a GB, now a days we're closing on a 8TB drive being $120.
CD-R drives. I remember the first ones I could afford were barely under $500. The older consumer ones were a few $1000.
Flash drives were small and expensive, but file sizes were also much smaller, so you didn't near 1gb of storage.
I think my first PC had something like 320MB of storage 😆
Got my 50" 4k Hisense roku tv for under 250 a year or so ago. Insane! Cant say about reliability yet, but it's worked perfectly fine and looks great compared to my old 2008 era 50 inch 1080p flat screen
My first flash drive, was bought in like 2002. Paid $80 for 256MB.
Oh, how times have changed.
But at least we had more than 5 companies controlling the whole internet. -_-
Storage isn’t cheap if you’re Microsoft or Apple. 256GB jump for £400 on the Surface or £200 on the MacBook. But I loved all of these examples! A modern take on that first smartphone where we dock our phones to a mid sized display of 8-9 inches or so could be lovely, and would limit the e-waste of smart display SoC, memory, storage etc.
How about refrigerators? When the first consumer electric ones came out in the early 1920s, they cost more than a car (the recently released Model T).
I like how the tech back then, was so big compared to today, and it was way over priced (well probably not at the time, it may have been too). Everything back then was heavy asf. Like the TV's, Cars where built heavier, and anything back then. If it has weight, and looks old, you know the era.
Remember when SSD first came out?
1978. Truly. They did.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive
The first SSD I got when I was rebuilding my gaming rig back in the far-off year of 2011 cost me about US$120 for a crucial 128Gb drive. At the time, that was considered excessive for the OS to live on, with the likes of Ars Technica recommending a 64Gb drive.
@@Ebalosus I remember when I got my Samsung 250gb in 2015. I think it was $150-$200. Now it's sitting in a box because it was empty and unused, and I didn't put it back in in my latest case swap.
@@djvycious it’s crazy that even as relatively recently as 2015, SSDs were still considered somewhat luxurious upgrades for a lot of people. These days you’d be hard-pressed to recommend hard drives for anything other than external media storage, or for large-pool storage in things like NAS’s and gaming desktops.
The prices of SSDs have fallen so much that the last time I remember putting a conventional drive in someone’s laptop was back in 2018, and that’s because they didn’t want to spend the extra $30 to get an SSD for it.
I still remember (and own) my first flash drive. I saved up $80 in high school to buy a "huge" 256MB flash drive to use for school instead of 3.5" floppies.
And my second was a whopping 2GB Geek Squad branded one from Best Buy. I think I only had 64GB of storage in my computer at the time so that seemed absolutely massive.
These days I have 128GB of storage in the tiny MicroSD card in my phone. It's insane how cheap and dense storage has become
Clothing with certain fabrics and even just a color is actually feasible now and it wasn’t hundreds of years ago (this is why no older countries have purple in their flag color).
zero11010: Its also the reason why the "Redcoats" (British army) wore red.....it was the cheapest dye.
I had my first mobile phone in 1996. It was too expensive to use. I eventually gave it back to the store. I waited a few years until they became affordable.
Music CDs have dropped by around 2/3 accounting for inflation here in the UK... (Yes, some of us luddites still buy them :))
Black Friday of 2020 Walmart had a 65 inch 4K tv for $228. Amazing how far we’ve come
TV's have gotten cheaper also because smart tv's can grab your watching habits, send it to the manufacturer, and they can sell that info to advertisers. They no longer have to get 10yrs of profit per customer at the point of sale.
Just look at the price of pc monitors that don't have those apps in them compared to a TV.
The flash drive was a game changer, $100 for 32mb sure but you couldn't put a price on rewritable storage back then when 1 in every 100 computers had a cd writer and rewritable cds corrupted after 5 uses.
keep making episodes like this !!!!
This topic was worth a long video on itself instead of a techquickie.
The reason flash memory dropped had a ton to do with an expose of an anti-trust situation where the manufacturers were colluding to keep prices up. This also impacted RAM chips. After some legal troubles, said companies were forced to lower prices by tons, and as real competition happened, it drove prices even lower.
IOmega Jaz Cartridge, $100.00 for 1gig in 1996 and you needed to add the SCSI bios to your computer to use it.
Yes, Flash Drives, I remember the first one I used was because it was provided by the employer of my cousin (we couldn't even buy one lol), I remember it was a 16mb drive. I remember that i was impressed that you could plug multiple drives on any computer and transfer files directly, something that wasnt possible with CD's or DVD's unless you had multiple Disc Readers.
My 32 MB USB flash drive still works after more than 20 years.
My dad still has a usb stick packaged that says 250 dollars and it’s a 1gb one
a video about cheap things that are now expensive would be the longest video online
Wonder if that battery life on those phones was because they had to send out a stronger signal to reach cell towers or some other transmission location because there were fewer locations as opposed to now.
Technological Progress is truly incredible.
I remember "back in the day" (around the year 2000) when I was a kid and I had a job at a bottle collection facility. (Yeah kids, back in the day bottles weren't just crushed and melted and reused, they were sorted and shippet back to the original fabrication and then cleaned and reused there.)
I ended up saving up about 2500 USD TWICE for being able to buy a shitty laptop and an AWESOME 1GHz (single threaded) AMD Athlon desktop PC with a Geforce .... MX 2 (I think) and not only are both of these items waaaaaay more affordable today, but they are also far more future proof and will last you a long ass while.
And... Those are 2000 prices, 5000 USD in today money is more like about 7500 USD right? I mean that's about 20% of downpayment of a god damn HOUSE!
In most of the US oranges were a special treat for holidays because they were rare and expensive.
How about common tech you can no longer buy? For example a 64MB SD or MicroSD card. Why would you want it? Old electronics often don't recognize capacities above a certain size.
I think there's programs that try to reformat newer cards to make them compatible with older devices. Fortunately, I saved up old micro cards
Watching Riley do and say anything always makes my day 1000x better.
Things I think that would have been nice to be included are: LEDs, Calculators (basic 4 function, scientific, & graphing), SDcards (or flash storage in general), and Transistors.
I hope the price of SSD's drop to the same level thumb drives have but hopefully SSD's aren't completely outdated by then.
When I was in 6th form they still had us using 3.5" floppy discs for storing our work. Not all the machines had USB? Not everyone could afford a flashdrive? This was 03-05
A week of Riley makes my week go round
I remember when my grandma bout me my first 1GB stick for $120. The biggest one you could get at Best Buy at the time.
I bought a 1 gb flash drive from microcenter in 2004 for $80 lmao 🤣 it was an all aluminum SanDisk with a blue silicon cover. I wore it around on my keyring everywhere and everyone at school called me a nerd (not in a good way either, this was back when being nerdy was very socialy bad) I still have it!!
I remember, in 2003, predicting out loud, at a Fry's store, that one day USB thumb drives would reach 1 TB. A guy in the aisle overheard me & said I was crazy. Couple years later, Kingston came out with a CHUNGA drive. Very fast & compact for its day, but also very expensive. They're still VERY expensive collector items; Now you can get portable 1 or 2 TB portable SSD which are faster, smaller, & cheaper than those old TB Kingston “thumb” drives
What was the reception and coverage like on those super early cell phones?
I’m guessing the cost of a functional minimal car has gone down a lot in the last hundred years.
Sure the *cost* to make them has gone down. They still sell for a lot thouogh. Step 3: Profit!
My first flash drive was a Staples 128mb for like $90. I just got 2 128gb for $19.
Flash drives are the main one for me, Seeing how memory got so much cheaper blows me away.
Still have a 512MB USB stick from around 2004 that somehow still works flawlessly and still has it's use :)
A Game Boy Advance in 2001 was $100. Now I can get one in working condition for $30-40 last time I checked
Cannabis. Cannabis was once (more) expensive and now it's hella cheap. 8 dispensaries in walking distance of my home all slashing prices to compete. lol. 85 new dispensaries per month in Ontario most of them opening in the GTA (my neck of the woods). lol
I had a phone installed in my BMW, it was soooo expensive and sooo impractical as its
fitted IN the car. I cant imagine what I was thinking, I also had one of the first IBM microdrives. 🤷♂️👍👍
Brazil, 1999. I remember when my father sold his car to buy a PC for his college degree.
It was a beige box with a a red light, a blinking green one and the big number in green backlight 533.
It was awesome PC back in the day. GBC Emulator, Age of Empires 2, Warcraft, The Sims, SimCity, Cesar III, Virtual Cop, ... Ahh, good days. :D
I remember getting a 16mb usb drive for elementary and it was around 15 dollars. Crazy times
I can imagine the guy buying the 4000$ (10 000$ inflated) phone just to flex and to tell people he's calling "yeah I'm using my 10 000$ phone haha"
My parents used that black and white TV 📺! I think you are missing the categories of things like dvds and also gaming handhelds.
How about video games? For example, RPG games used to be pretty expensive, with a SNES RPG going for a whopping $70-80 in early 90's money (as an example, Earthbound was $70, Chrono Trigger was $80). Thankfully, disc-based formats allowed games to be manufactured at a much lower cost, going forward.
Yeap..and Secret of Mana in summer of 1994..I paid around 80 bucks taxes and all for it too. Ah... Super Metroid days too ( not 80 bucks but still well over 40 something best case I think)