| >Still, that's insane, the country had less than 100Mbps. It's easy to take for granted just how much Fucking God Damn Technology we have mundane access to today. That 14700K or 7800X3D CPU? That's more powerful than entire national supercomputers back in the day. A 64 gigabyte stick of DDR5 RAM? Bill Gates once said 640 kilobytes is enough for everyone. And you probably needed multiple sticks. A 20TB hard drive? With helium? Do you understand the bandwidth of a station wagon full of hard drives barreling down the freeway in the 1980s?! Wait, nobody probably even knows what a station wagon is anymore... 1gbit/s internet? 10gbit/s ethernet? We sung the melody of dial up modems conducting international diplomacy better than any politicians. 360Hz liquid crystal display monitor with billions of colors and millions of pixels? We used to completely evacuate air out of glass or ceramic tubes and fire fucking lasers with them to show monotone pictures in neon orange or green. Modern, minimalist user interfaces? To hell with them, Windows 95 was the pinnacle of human engineered interface design. ...Wait, did we actually devolve? Maybe it was a mistake to make sand think after all. |
Gates has always denied saying this, and no one has ever produced the original quote. It’s more like something IBM would have said about the PC, they’re the ones that created that limit.