Jan 10, 2010, 03:46 PM
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In 2000, I was fresh out of high school and trying to find my direction in life. Now I’m 5 years out of tech school and still trying to find my direction in life.
In 2000, an MP3 player could hold about 5 songs and not many people owned one. Now they can hold close to 50,000 songs and everybody has one.
In 2000, cell phones were bricks with monochrome screens and they didn’t do much more than make/take phone calls. Now they’re practically full-fledged computers.
In 2000, some people used flatbed scanners to get their photos onto their computers. Now everybody has a digicam or cell phone with a camera, and some of us don’t even need to go near our computer to share our pics.
In 2000, terrorism was a middling global threat that wasn’t taken all that seriously. Now it’s a middling global threat that’s constantly used as justification for violation of constitutional rights.
In 2000, some people would grumble about gas costing $1.60/gal.
In 2000, we were really impressed when the characters in our PSX games didn’t look like they were made of cardboard or when our N64 games had – *gasp* – speech!
In 2000, MTV was still about the music and TLC was still about learning.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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