I remember having a computer when I was 18 with a 500 MB harddrive and thinking - I will NEVER use up all this space. Then I forced my parents into getting me a 1.2 GIG harddrive which was totally unheard of at the time. I ripped my computer apart with all the wonderment of a child discovering their toes for the first time. I installed the drive and proudly declared to the world “I WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO FILL UP ALL THIS SPACE!”.

my kids will never imagine…1.44 MB

Then I jumped on my 14.4kb modem and dialled into my Compuserve account and started the labourious process of downloading the latest in technology Netscape Navigator 2.0 at a whopping 9 MBs that ended up taking about 10 hours to download.

Technology was fantastic. I could hardly believe the speed that I could get data! And I remember thinking back then to my first computer - an Apple IIC. When Graham and I would play Mystery House (the first game from Sierra in 1980). Gaming had never been so amazing and realistic! And there was even a little dead man that you found in one of the rooms.

Mystery House

Going even further back, I used to hack into Bob’s Televideo computer with an amber monitor and 8 1/2″ floppies to play a stockmarket trading game. I think he even had a whopping 12baud modem to dial into bulletin board systems. Please note that I was only 4 at the time…

And now I have a portable USB drive that is bigger then that 500 MB drive that I thought I would never fill.

I love technology. It is great.