how time flies

[juldea]

Eight years ago I was crazy excited by the idea of 64MB of information on a keychain. People are regularly carrying 1,000x that information on their persons these days. Neat!

Hahaha, I found my first exposure to slashfic. Harry Potter, of course!

Ah, the decade in review.

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[thespian.livejournal.com]

Target was, as part of their Black Friday Sales, selling Western Digital 1 TERABYTE drives for like, $90.

TERABYTES! FOR HOME USE! AT TARGET!

I have 200 gig on my external after 2 years, and I was still tempted by that just because TERABYTE.

I am easily tempted.

[how-low-am-i.livejournal.com]

Praytell, what is slashfic?

[juldea.livejournal.com]

You are a friend of shadowravyn, I disbelieve you do not know this term. If you indeed don't, I consider it something she has shielded you from for a reason, thus I will not cross that boundary until she has given me permission!

[purple-dj.livejournal.com]

"Oh bother," said Pooh.

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

Well, if you compare keychains to keychains, it's just about up to a factor of 100x. Though lots of people *do* carry netbooks and laptops around these days.

Did I ever tell you about the slashfic that Henry Jenkins once wrote? It was a pairing that actually squicked kestrell :-)

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Point on the comparison, but I think my excitement was over the portability of such (and I did have a laptop at the time, but it was... wow, around the same size as my current flat screen monitor here), which is indeed matched by my netbook (which could handle 60G+, but I was cheap and went for less.)

I do think I have heard about this slash, though I can't recall at the moment what it is/was.

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

Scrooge/Marley

[lucasthegray.livejournal.com]

Really? I'd consider 64GB to be 1000x 64MB. Why wouldn't you?

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

Huh. They got an order of magnitude bigger when I wasn't looking. /blush

[purple-dj.livejournal.com]

I remember once (when computer shows were still useful), I went to a show looking for a new CD-ROM drive. My drive at home was a 2x and I wanted something faster. I literally had the experience that each pass across the floor, I kept finding *faster* drives: first a 4x, then a 6x, then a 8x. My friends and I started joking that the development time for faster CD-ROMs must only be about 10 minutes, and we should make a few more laps and try for a 12x.