When i was a kid, i thought bill gates invented computers

When i was a kid, i thought bill gates invented computers

What tech assumptions did you have as a kid?

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Calculators had all the combinatons written in them.

I thought Digimon were real

I actually thought P=NP

Technology would continue to improve as I got older.

this
sad but true

By the year 2020, we'll have VR games that require a full-body suit to control your character, and it can simulate the feeling of being struck in combat.

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I thought that eventually those higher end games would be playable by low-mid priced computers if I waited long enough.
So far that's only true for dos-era games, and even those have issues.

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fug

When I was younger I thought Apple invented smartphones.
I was pretty stupid.

learning technology would be fun

I thought viruses were contagious. I destroyed my hard drive to my old computer because I feared connecting it to my new p4 machine and getting it infected too.

I hope your stupidity isn't contagious.

born in January, millennial?

You must 18+ to post here.

that computer were as waste of money and time, and spending that time and that money on friends was better

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Tell him to get THE FUCK OFF MY BOARD

I thought Steve Jobs programmed apple computers.

Technically he did a little bit of programming back in the Apple I days. Alth

key word, little. He basically copied most of people's shit, like all the other Indians. He went to India to learn to copy and paste.

Hey, stack overflow didn't exist back then so at least it wasn't fucking C-c C-v. Although Jobs is still a massive faggot and he deserved what he got

>What tech assumptions did you have as a kid?
PowerPC was going to be the future.

Aren't all the big, succesfull technology guys theives? Like not just computer guys but all levels of techology, full of ripoffs and patent trolls.

You're right. Although I'll never be as rich as him, he mastered stack overflow before its time. Thats fucking genius on Zuckerberg levels.

What did he get?

We idolise geniuses. Most geniuses are massive faggots who fuck the little people for accolades and glory

No. Not all. But as far as Microsoft and Apple making a fortune off the ideas and work of others, then giants have no heart. I hate sounding like a linux fag, but at least linux doesn't charge people for coping work.

>he deserved what he got
billions of dollars and a smoking hot daughter?

Cancer and eventual permanent hell

Daughter of an edgelord, fantastic

The only Hell is the one he created that we have to live in.

That adults in society understood technology better than me.

They did and still do not. People in general are retards, probably less than 10% bothered to learn more than six year old me.

Which one, the 4 or the 5?

Yea. I learned that the hard way. Being young and naive used to be so comfy.

The chick with the red dress. 10/10.

Looks like a chinaman.

apple die

>Asian
fuck outta ere. she's the one on the right

Lisp is a relevant programming language.

[spoiler]I actually fell for the Al Gore invented the Internet meme[/spoiler]
I know better now, and seem to be actually one of very few who know the real creators.

I thought a separate cpu runs the bios.

Tough crowd. I'm here all hour.

Who created the internet then?

Bob Dole. What do they teach you kids in school these days?

Conceptualized by J.C.R. Licklider, further expanded and developed by a research team at ARPA, sanctioned by Ike, notable members of developing the TCP/IP stack Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn.

Several other big names who I can't recall in the immediate moment.

Ok, here we go. Full list of the core team who actually invented the INTERNET.

Bob Taylor
Vint Cerf
Frank Heart
Larry Roberts
Len Kleinrock
Bob Kahn
Wes Clark
Doug Engelbart
Barry Wessler
Dave Walden
Severo Ornstein
Triett Tjacj
Rpger Scantlebury
Charlie Herzfeld
Ben Barker
Jon Postel
Steve Crocker
Bill Naylor
Roland Bryan

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Ok, here we go. Full list of the core team who actually invented the INTERNET.

Bob Taylor
Vint Cerf
Frank Heart
Larry Roberts
Len Kleinrock
Bob Kahn
Wes Clark
Doug Engelbart
Barry Wessler
Dave Walden
Severo Ornstein
Truett Thach
Rpger Scantlebury
Charlie Herzfeld
Ben Barker
Jon Postel
Steve Crocker
Bill Naylor
Roland Bryan

uhmm where are the women and the people of color?

doing other things, fuck off with your shitposting political flamewar bullshit

When I was a kid, I didn't know who he was.

when i was a kid i brought a floppy disk to school and thought i was the coolest kid for thinking about it and having portable storage for my computer homework and files. I also thought I could get viruses on my parents desktop by opening the windows 95 version of notepad multiple times and saving each of them as fast as i could, repeatedly.

RPG's would suck ass in this thing, fuck actually running everywhere.

When I was a kid I thought computers and programs were interesting, four years into a CS and CE degree and I've realised that I was wrong.

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>i thought bill gates invented computers
he invented windows which for 99% of the population is "computers".

that everything regarding tech was just binary

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I thought Abacus is a computer.

i used to be excited for new developments, now it's just;
- mah thinness
- lets remove as much connectivity and expansion as possible
- lets make everything wireless (not as cool in practice as once imagined)
- internet speed hasn't improved nearly as fast as hoped
- touch everything

That the turbo button increased performance by 2X

I was very scared of viruses, believing on em having almost supernatural powers of destruction, at a point i would not turn on my 8bit computer on a 13th friday just to be sure it would not wreck it, even knowing very well that the computer could not actually keep the date or time.

arguably, there have been several viruses that deliver their payload on a specific date, for added effect
though obviously not on a system with no RTC

I thought intel made quality chips

I used to think back in 04 that every frame of my nfs ug 2 was pre rendered

>What tech assumptions did you have as a kid?

That there are laws that control how computers are used, bad guys go to jail. True story. I was raised to go to the police for help.

I got better.

I thought if you wrote the name of a show on a VHS tape you could watch the show.

The system had no harddrive either.
But fear is fear.

Calling it 1/2 or 1/3 throttle would have been better, but your computer being twice as fast is also not really wrong.

>there are laws that control how computers are used
There are though.

when i was a very young kid i thought an NES worked by pushing bits of paper through the rf switch and into my TV

can... can i virtually fuck with it