Tech Buyer's Guide...From 2000

[vixiv]

I remember this stuff

OP - Tech Buyer's Guide from 2000

Creative's $500 Nomad Jukebox (pictured above), was not only "sleek"-at least when compared to a CD Walkman-but "can hold as much music as 150 CDs."

The Extiva was a $350 DVD player from Samsung with the Nuon chip, so "you can also play videogames." Not sure which videogames we were referring to there.

Our pick for digital camera was Nikon's twisty CoolPix 990, 3 million pixels for 1 thousand dollars.

Gateway laptop with 12.1-in. display, 550MHz chip and a year of free AOL was "a great deal" at $1300.

Two-way pagers from Motorola, $180 each, let you send messages back and forth, and came in "four hot colors."

LG's Touchpoint 3000 smartish phone cost $400, combined an address book and an organizer, and had one killer app: "Tap someone's name, and it dials for you."

The $300 Iomega HipZip took little PocketZip magnetic disks instead of flash memory so it was easier to "get with the MP3 revolution"-hooray for obscure proprietary formats that died within a year!

Cybiko was invented a decade ago but promised to do almost more than what the Peek does today-with wireless messaging and an MP3 "attachment."

 

[kayzeezay]

at the talkabout, I had one of those

 

[mo matik]

I remember the motorola pager, but I even remember the commercials for the Cybiko. Crazy how quickly technology is advancing right during our lifetimes.

 

[ac4three]

Cybiko!!! Paging kash55!

 

[redman]

Originally Posted by AC4Three

Cybiko!!! Paging kash55!

I wanted a Cybiko at any cost.

 

[new wu]

im way too young to remember any of this stuff.

 

[derventa]

I found newspaper in school from 1996 and they had ads for computer with like 150mhz, 32mb ram, and 10mb of storage for like $1500 i was like

just checkout bestbuy(or any other electronics site) with the wayback machine

http://web.archive.org/web/*/bestbuy.com

 

[JayDean03]

those motorola talkabouts were for the peeps that couldnt afford the timeport

@ that price for that laptop.

time done flew by

 

[urb]

Technology hella changed, I was like ten when all of this was big.

 

[thunderchunk69]

I have radioshack catologs with Tandys for sale

 

[redrum sb]

The rate of the advancement of technology in our lifetimes is completely mind boggling.
9 years from now everything will be obsolete as well...

 

[uptown roamer]

Those are some god awful designs

 

[bjamez20]

i remember tryin to convince my parents i needed a 2 way pager

 

[bijald0331]

word to moore's law

 

[axel f0ley]

i remember that crappy panasonic shackwave cd player at 200 bucks.

 

[crumbs]

ooooo 2way pagers

 

[vixiv]

Another wacky picture...

1GB in 1988

VS. 1GB today

 

[dathbgboy]

*%%# seem so primitive compared to the technology now, but even back then we knew that it was crap

I wanted the talkabout until I seen Hov's Motorolaskytel, then I changed my mind since the small ones seemed so generic

 

[mc otaku]

i was so close to coppin that Nomad Jukebox

 

[servechilled81]

Originally Posted by VIXIV

Another wacky picture...

1GB in 1988

VS. 1GB today

 

[drunken cow]

In 10 years. Kids gonna laugh at our iphones/ps3/360s/etc. I cant even image with the next big thing is going to be after the iphone/ipod phase. Its going tobe crazy.

 

[oskar kokoshka]

i wanted a cybiko so bad

 

[yuras718]

http://www.youtube.com/v/P0J31fERtpA&hl=en_US&fs=1&http://www.youtube.com/v/P0J31fERtpA&hl=en_US&fs=1&http://www.youtube.com/v/P0J31fERtpA&hl=en_US&fs=1&http://www.youtube.com/v/P0J31fERtpA&hl=en_US&fs=1&

 

[raptors29]

Originally Posted by bjamez20

i remember tryin to convince my parents i needed a 2 way pager

I did too, and my dad said you're not a drug dealer

 

[mangudai954]

The $300 Iomega HipZip took little PocketZip magnetic disks instead of flash memory so it was easier to "get with the MP3 revolution"-hooray for obscure proprietary formats that died within a year!



Yoo I remember this

that thing was the +#%@