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what small physical gift would you give your past self? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by Kowowow@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I have some cool little key carabiners that I would have appreciated at any age

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember when CDROMs were first introduced, and available on computers. The advertising blurb was, "able to fit the ENTIRE Encyclopaedia Britanica on ONE disk!" I'll admit, I was pretty impressed, but this was before I had any idea about how information dense the written word is compared to other media.

People used to like to say a picture is worth a thousand words. You can't have much of a picture in 5kB.

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I remember being little and adding a 10mb hdd to my first PC and my dad saying "who could ever use all this space??"