Expensive Things That Are Now Cheap

[@aaronw8606]

Data storage: DASD - ~$50000.00 per gig Ironwolf 10TB - ~$0.03 per gig

[@Brown614]

Two very different uses and quality.

[@anilchandra617]

IBMer?

[@TetraSky]

@@Brown614 These days, we just pay that 50k per GB on mobile data.

[@aaronw8606]

@@TetraSky only when roaming internationally

[@aaronw8606]

@@Brown614 quality is arbitrary so I got nothing. But, seeing as when our computer room was upgraded, the DASDs came out and were replaced with racks loaded with off-the-shelf 5.25" drives, I'd say their use was the exact same... because it literally was. That being said, can you use a DASD exactly as you would a modern "hard drive"? No, it wasn't designed for that. Can you use a modern "hard drive" exactly as you would a DASD? Yes, because it's just about data storage and retrieval.

[@HipyoTech]

"Expensive things are now cheap" What about college?

[@annoyingguyoninternet1631]

It is. Just not in US.

[@miloslogic]

governments still have to make money somehow, right?

[@annoyingguyoninternet1631]

@@miloslogic they can give free education so those educated people can get high paying jobs and pay high taxes

[@YurLord]

In the USA, "free" is never sustainable. There is always a cost on the back end. It's not worth it. Not everyone needs to go to college to make good money.

[@carl_84]

Or housing... Or cars...

[@breakcoregirlxd]

My wallet is happy with these changes

[@Roof_Pizza]

It's still empty you just have more stuff.

[@emre_sus]

@BILLIE SAYS DUH Lol bot shut the f up and look at the mirror

[@Jr-fm2ye]

I’m the 100 like

[@danmar007]

My new wallet was more expensive than any other.

[@Starius2]

Then you should be thanking the benefits of capitalism

[@anthonylenzo3675]

I remember buying a 16MB flash drive for $99 and it came with a 3" CD that had Windows & Mac drivers Yes one had to install the drivers from the CD in order to use the flash drive on that computer..

[@pcfreak1992]

I forgot which Windows version it was, but it was big news when Windows starting shipping with a generic USB mass storage driver so you no longer needed to use the driver from the CD.

[@nazmulfahad3044]

The included CDs were a gesture from flash drive manufacturers to let you know you should buy a CD instead

[@anthonylenzo3675]

@@nazmulfahad3044 No actually it was a 3" CD not full size 5" CD they contain the drivers in order for the flash drive to work on a computer. Need to install one time on that system. Now a days the drivers are on the flash drive themselves which loads up automatic no matter what system it is...i.e Windows, Mac, Linux/Unix

[@anthonylenzo3675]

@@pcfreak1992 It was Windows 98 SE.

[@nazmulfahad3044]

@@anthonylenzo3675 I think the drivers are in windows server because i have Corsair high end flash drive which installed driver on first time. But i can download the driver manually from Corsair site as well. The Corsair driver is signed by Corsair but the installed one is signed by Microsoft

[@SamBebbington]

I remember buying a 1Gb microSD card for £25, now you can’t even buy them in that low capacity!

[@xenonram]

I remember having Smartmedia memory cards in MB capacities. Like 2 and 4 mb for our first digital camera in the mid 90s.

[@Darkest_matter]

I bought a 128gb for that price recently but years ago, spent £10 on 4gb. Aah SanDisk.

[@NurAdinugraha]

Flash based storage price seems getting cheaper and won't stop anytime soon Disc however, they don't change that much for the last couple years, do they? I wonder why

[@the_kombinator]

I paid $150 for a used 212 Mb hard disk in the mid 90s. I recall it was SO MUCH BIGGER than my 42 Mb drive. Yeah, filled it up in a matter of a week - install ALL the diskette-based programs!

[@aldeed]

@@NurAdinugrahathats because discs are already the cheapest and best they can reasonably be. They are the end of the technology tree for physical spinning storage. To make them cheaper we would need increased demand and some breakthroughs that could compete with flash storage. Physical, especially spinning storage will never compete with flash storage.

[@eustache_dauger]

That brick of a phone can still be used as weapon for self defense.

[@victorrobles353]

nokia 3310: pathetic

[@kaneo1]

Yep, get a Nokia for concealed-carry.

[@evenrik_2214]

@@victorrobles353 but it isnt that heavy

[@MohsinExperiments]

Hahaha Paul Heyman!

[@Marco_Onyxheart]

I have a Friden EC-130 in my bedroom. It's one of the first fully electronic calculators. Weighs 20kg and it can only add, subtract, divide, and multiply. It cost $2,100 in 1964, or $6,000 today.

[@Shojikitsune1]

(Bad Indiana Jones impersonation): That belongs in a museum! Still kind of an interesting find. I bet it has a story.

[@dumpsterdawg]

"10 inches was considered large at the time" Well according to most guys it still is.

[@pietrmuffei8874]

Wait a minute. Guys.

[@G0lden07]

Hol' up. I don't like how I imagine this comment.

[@naamadossantossilva4736]

In Africa the average is 6 inches,so even down there it is.

[@abishekraju4521]

Not just guys. Girls too. Even by the most conservative estimate.

[@WhenDoesTheVideoActuallyStart]

25.4 centimeters is still considered large. They're often considered too large.

[@scottthomas8136]

I remember begging my parents for an LED pocket calculator from Radio Shack when they first came out. This is was around 1974 and they were crazy expensive (around $400) Now of course they’re so cheap you can pick them up for a few bucks in the checkout line.

[@proehm]

Dollar Tree (US) - 30-ish function Scientific Calculator for, of course, $1. It is smart enough to do 1/3*3=1.

[@quantumleaper]

My dad bought one from LED pocket Caluclator in 1972 when Ardens(sp?) first opened near my house. I still have it and it still works great. I almost tried to get my computer teacher to let me use it on a test. I still remember she said NO calculators on the test, but I think she meant the one were required to have for class.

[@Ababb21]

When I was working for Best Buy a few years ago, I was looking up old receipts for a customer when I stumbled across a receipt for a $2,000 TV from like 2005. It was a 32inch 720p lcd TV. For 2K. I was blown away. I also remember working in the tech industry when the first commercial 1TB hard drive was released. All the guys and I joked how that was such an insane amount of space that someone would never be able to fill. Here I am today raging that my 2TB SSD seems to fill up way too fast.

[@EyesOfByes]

My parents still have their 1987 B&O CRT TV. The sound punch is still amazing

[@doctordothraki4378]

2:23 The TV's resolution is 852x480, yet KZbin's 480p 16:9 resolution is 854x480. Funny that there is no standard regarding this. I will go on. KZbin's 240p 16:9 resolution is 426x240, which is 852x480 cut in half (quarters? Square-cube law is funny). Even in the realm of non-square pixels (like DVD and MiniDV), there is disagreement. People can't decide if the 4:3 or 16:9 frame is the whole 720x480 or 704x480 plus 16 columns for blanking.

[@psycomutt]

The bane of any retro game nerd is all the non standard resolutions on modern displays.

[@zero11010]

The top of the Washington monument is made of aluminum BECAUSE at the time it was really rare and corrosion resistant. That was a display of wealth for us as a nation.

[@jb888888888]

More expensive than gold. Napoleon had aluminum plates he used when he really wanted to show off at state dinners.

[@davidgoncalvesalvarez]

This topic was worth a long video on itself instead of a techquickie.

[@crosytsui]

Remember when SSD first came out?

[@gothnate]

1978. Truly. They did. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive

[@Ebalosus]

The first SSD I got when I was rebuilding my gaming rig back in the far-off year of 2011 cost me about US$120 for a crucial 128Gb drive. At the time, that was considered excessive for the OS to live on, with the likes of Ars Technica recommending a 64Gb drive.

[@djvycious]

@@Ebalosus I remember when I got my Samsung 250gb in 2015. I think it was $150-$200. Now it's sitting in a box because it was empty and unused, and I didn't put it back in in my latest case swap.

[@Ebalosus]

@@djvycious it’s crazy that even as relatively recently as 2015, SSDs were still considered somewhat luxurious upgrades for a lot of people. These days you’d be hard-pressed to recommend hard drives for anything other than external media storage, or for large-pool storage in things like NAS’s and gaming desktops. The prices of SSDs have fallen so much that the last time I remember putting a conventional drive in someone’s laptop was back in 2018, and that’s because they didn’t want to spend the extra $30 to get an SSD for it.

[@flutterymuffins]

I remember having to get a flash drive back in the early-mid 2000s for school. It was a massive 512Mb; I still have the poor thing.

[@epicwiigamer0258]

Same, but I borrowed it from family friends in ~2012 for a school project. My parents were like "be careful with that thing, it cost like $30 and you have to give it back afterwards!!!" Yeah, they never asked for it back lol

[@TheFourthWinchester]

@@epicwiigamer0258 4GB was the norm since 2010.

[@f.f.s.d.o.a.7294]

I still use my 512 mb flash drive from 2004.

[@Shojikitsune1]

Let's go even further back. I was taking classes at a local community college and all of the computer labs had just been fitted with shiny new Iomega Zip 100 drives. Students were expected to work from and save to only that drive. By the time I finished my associate degree just two years later, most of those had been replaced in turn with 4-port USB hubs and you had to buy a USB drive for your work.

[@f.f.s.d.o.a.7294]

@@Shojikitsune1 What's the oldest piece of computer hardware you use on a regular basis? For me, it's my computer case dating back to 1999. It still has a floppy drive in it, since I can't find the plastic insert if I were to remove it.

[@zero11010]

I’m guessing the cost of a functional minimal car has gone down a lot in the last hundred years.

[@Shojikitsune1]

Sure the *cost* to make them has gone down. They still sell for a lot thouogh. Step 3: Profit!

[@bronxsmash8869]

As a graphic technology student back in the early 2000 the flash drive was a huge advance in portable storage we where using Zip disks and had to have a Zip drive so when we started to get flash drives we where excited

[@JanTuts]

Cheap things that are now expensive: everything else...

[@Exarian]

Food? Education? Medicine? Housing? Lmao simply learn to eat flash drives.

[@purplewine7362]

@@Exarian this is a tech channel so obviously they'll talk about tech things smartass

[@tim3172]

@@purplewine7362 Shhh, they think they're being profound. Let them have their moment.

[@B.M.Skyforest]

@@purplewine7362 I don't think he ever implied that this channel must talk about those.

[@ptzzz]

Things I think that would have been nice to be included are: LEDs, Calculators (basic 4 function, scientific, & graphing), SDcards (or flash storage in general), and Transistors.

[@Octamed]

BUT, my *40 year old* "Rank Arena" wooden tv STILL WORKS. Unlike every single modern TV I've ever bought.

[@brandonbajc2084]

I bought a 1 gb flash drive from microcenter in 2004 for $80 lmao 🤣 it was an all aluminum SanDisk with a blue silicon cover. I wore it around on my keyring everywhere and everyone at school called me a nerd (not in a good way either, this was back when being nerdy was very socialy bad) I still have it!!

[@Apocalymon]

I remember, in 2003, predicting out loud, at a Fry's store, that one day USB thumb drives would reach 1 TB. A guy in the aisle overheard me & said I was crazy. Couple years later, Kingston came out with a CHUNGA drive. Very fast & compact for its day, but also very expensive. They're still VERY expensive collector items; Now you can get portable 1 or 2 TB portable SSD which are faster, smaller, & cheaper than those old TB Kingston “thumb” drives

[@placid7088]

Men in 1900 :Atleast that 2021 flash drive was less though

[@harleyspawn]

CD-R drives. I remember the first ones I could afford were barely under $500. The older consumer ones were a few $1000.

[@darshanmm]

The resolution of that first "Slim" Plasma T.V is what I am watching this video at!!😎

[@NeovanGoth]

Back in the days you were happy to get a free magazine to your computer. Now you can occasionally get a free computer to your magazine.

[@zero11010]

The first computers compared to home computers today.

[@TheSektorz]

i like how 5 bucks back then is like a trillion dollars today

[@SanderEvers]

Inflation. Yeah, it's terrible.

[@scottneulist9495]

I remember borrowing my mum's old 64GB external HDD to move files from an old laptop to a then-new laptop. She scolded me because she bought it years ago for $200, meanwhile at the time it would have cost roughly $30 for a USB that was magnitudes faster, lighter, smaller, and easier to use. Now I'm PCMR with 2TB SSD (half NVME, half SATA) and 3TB HDD space. Oh how far we've come

[@jason_ityk]

Our first hard drive was 4gb in 1997, part of a $2500 IBM ($4k today!). 24 years later and I bought a 4tb drive, literally a thousand times as much, for $80. Never ceases to amaze me.

[@jqv94]

I still remember when my older sister bought a 512MB thumb drive in 2002 and said "This will be the largest storage device I'll ever carry in my life." Flash forward 19 yrs later and she now carries 4 4TB external harddrives (she has reliability concerns), a 128GB thumb drive for documents and a 512GB phone (S20 Ultra) with another 512 micro sd card for media storage. As for the 512MB thumb drive, it still works and uses it for online account archive (she did a lot of care to it given the price when she bought it).

[@Mr.Quinlan888]

I remember my brother and I buying a 19 inch Zenith TV, in 1990 to play our Nintendo, Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis consoles on. That beast weighed 150+lbs and took up half the living room.

[@markkocsicska2590]

Drones and 3D printers. I remember looking at them only a little bit more than a decade ago and realising they cost way more than a decent used car. Now they are all over the place and really affordable.

[@ThisManzzz]

Watching Riley do and say anything always makes my day 1000x better.

[@sireuchre]

The reason flash memory dropped had a ton to do with an expose of an anti-trust situation where the manufacturers were colluding to keep prices up. This also impacted RAM chips. After some legal troubles, said companies were forced to lower prices by tons, and as real competition happened, it drove prices even lower.

[@NeonVisual]

If we had a time machine and shown owners of the DYNA T A C a galaxy z fold 2, and told them we are from the year 3000, they would probably have believed us.

[@meskisz]

Imagine showing an Iphone in middle ages. You would be instantly a witcher of black magic.

[@sushimshah2896]

@@meskisz why specifically an iPhone though?

[@NeonVisual]

@@meskisz apple fan boys will be burned at the stake regardless of the century in which they find themselves.

[@nyftn]

rofl

[@Toobst8ker]

A week of Riley makes my week go round

[@cfltheman]

Of course back in those days it was cheaper to get someone to repair your TV if something went wrong with it. Now it is cheaper to just buy an new one, which does not help with the waste problem we currently have.

[@bcyrx]

I hate that I can say this sentence... While in college I worked in retail and we started selling 19" flat screen ED TVs (that weird middle between SD and HD for a little while) for around $1,000. I was in retail for the transition from only having giant tube TVs to having only cheap LCD HD TVs... It was "only yesterday" but somehow also really long ago.

[@FederalBureau_OfInvestigations]

3:27 on the column on the right "xx gadgets ahead of their time" is a phenomenal video idea and I'm surprised you guys haven't done one yet. So c'mon let's do it

[@mikedestazador5116]

I would certainly like your view on more historic tech on more videos guys

[@nkillick]

"Back in my day"..... I love to be a fly on the wall when you say that for the first time. :-)

[@potatosordfighter666]

I have a lot of stuff that would go great in this video. A cell phone from 1994, a 32MB SD card, the list goes on

[@VSigma725]

I still remember being a kid in the late 2000s and not being able to afford more than a 1GB Memory Stick for my PSP. Those were the days...

[@kadavercade3597]

I just hope recent flagship phone prices go down to affordable prices.

[@KabukeeJo]

The first Laptops used to cost a fortune. Now they are affordable.

[@igameidoresearchtoo6511]

Not really, they weren't even marketed to home users, for large companies spending over 3000$ on a portable 6502 was considered revolutionary, and it still is.

[@KaasIsLekker]

expensive things that are now cheap: The segue to the sponsorships AUCH

[@proCaylak]

"Segway" was the brand name of those infamous self-balancing two wheeled scooters. the word you are looking for is "segue".

[@KaasIsLekker]

@@proCaylak Thanks will change it :D

[@haydenw8691]

And just like Linus' segue, I'm gonna skip it since it is an ad.

[@Electrify85]

In the early 2000s I just dealt with burning CD and DVD rewritable discs. USB drives were too easy to lose and too expensive. Later I just connected my smartphone to the computer and used the SD card in it to move data portably.

[@Big007Boss]

Reminds me of my first flash drive with a wapping 128 MB of storage.

[@quantumleaper]

I remember my first Flash drive which was 128MB and had a Read Write switch on the side which kept sticking on the Read ONLY setting.

[@ChaseFace]

I will literally watch any video you put Riley in

[@derfman1963]

In 1990 I sold Tandy computers in the BX. If I remember correctly, I sold 10mb hard drives for $400 and 20mb for $600. The 128kb(yes, kilobyte) memory upgrade was $175 I think. Yeah, that was expensive.

[@auro1986]

a video about cheap things that are now expensive would be the longest video online

[@Pyriphlegeton]

Technological Progress is truly incredible.

[@avenged110]

I remember getting my first flash drive at Office Depot back in the day. It was something like $30 for a 2GB Kingston. Still works, still use it, hah.

[@hovant6666]

On my grade 2 school supplies list was a 1.44 MB floppy drive. In high school, 2 GB flash drives were the standard. Today, I have a 256 GB flash drive and a 16 TB HDD

[@GurunathHirve]

What about those earlier refrigerator-sized Hard Disks? 😁

[@kimnice]

You mean IBM Ramac 305 from 1956? 3.75MB of storage for the price of $3200 per month? Four month price is equivalent for over 1500 4TB units in 2021

[@GurunathHirve]

@@kimnice exactly 😁

[@igameidoresearchtoo6511]

It was made for some specific purpose, to store data without corrupting it, (something VERY common back in those days), because it mechanically stored data using hand sewn hand made magnets on strings, which is harder to corrupt than a modern disk due to its mechanical properties.

[@Tefan13]

Brazil, 1999. I remember when my father sold his car to buy a PC for his college degree. It was a beige box with a a red light, a blinking green one and the big number in green backlight 533. It was awesome PC back in the day. GBC Emulator, Age of Empires 2, Warcraft, The Sims, SimCity, Cesar III, Virtual Cop, ... Ahh, good days. :D

[@feltzdog]

HDDs: More along the lines that we've paid the same price for a "mid range" HDD but the price per gigabyte keeps reducing. Paying $120 for a 120GB drive was a steal at $1 a GB, now a days we're closing on a 8TB drive being $120.

[@db95gt]

The thing i miss most about older TV's is usable speakers.

[@Drunken_Master]

My 32 MB USB flash drive still works after more than 20 years.

[@robmartian6659]

Back around 2005 I started my first of college and paid somewhere around $35 for a 1GB flash drive. I also paid something like $550 for a 5th gen iPod... while rocking a used Palm Treo 650 I was lucky to get my hands on. Honestly... I ended up using my iPod as a storage device instead. Fun times.

[@bluespartan076]

The original Apple Macintosh 128k was $2495 at launch back in 1984. now some CIB and complete units go for around 400 - 700 depending on the condition. About the original launch price of the Amiga 500 or Atari STFM back in 1985

[@LyricsFred]

Yes, Flash Drives, I remember the first one I used was because it was provided by the employer of my cousin (we couldn't even buy one lol), I remember it was a 16mb drive. I remember that i was impressed that you could plug multiple drives on any computer and transfer files directly, something that wasnt possible with CD's or DVD's unless you had multiple Disc Readers.

[@itsdeonlol]

I remember SD Cards were so expensive back in the day.

[@yerry_verse]

keep making episodes like this !!!!

[@DaBudaa1]

My first thumb drive was from Crucial that I bought back in 2006. It was 600 MB for around $60.

[@CryoCrow]

The first consumer digital cameras were $1,000

[@AdrianParsons]

I remember buying a 2.1 MP digital camera *on sale* for $350.

[@alexbecker3789]

1:07: There are no free phone ! Even in your example is mentioned 'Purchase a new Samsung Galaxy A12 on a monthly payment'. PURCHASE is the opposite of FREE.

[@Masterrunescapeer]

Yes and no, these are heavily subsidized, basically the larger mobile operators want people to move away from 3G which means they can refarm that spectrum. They're "free", but depends on operator.

[@xenonram]

There are plenty of carriers that offer free phones. Not subsidized, not financed, not leased, but free. They'll give you an old phone for free, and make their money back in a few months. Some even give newer phones for free, but in the contract it says you need to pay it off if you cancel your service before x amount of months. You're still not paying for it though.

[@MrKnocik]

4k for a mobile phone? We are not far off with Fold. Give few more years and there will be one at 4k price tag.

[@drabberfrog]

The only difference is the fact that you can buy much cheaper phones today even if $4,000 phones exist.

[@MrKnocik]

@@drabberfrog but that one was the top of the tech at the time... but also not too much of a competition.

[@drabberfrog]

@@MrKnocik yeah, at that time if you wanted a mobile phone what else could you have bought?

[@MissesWitch]

Flash drives are the main one for me, Seeing how memory got so much cheaper blows me away.

[@florintest5135]

Micro SD cards, you should have covered that too. I remember in 2008 when I got my Nokia N73 Music edition, having a whooping 2GB SD card slot meant you were the baddass of the block.

[@adamgreenhill110]

Studio headphones are so cheap now, especially the past few years (thanks gamers). We can get a $1000 studio headphone for like $200 now

[@zero11010]

Clothing with certain fabrics and even just a color is actually feasible now and it wasn’t hundreds of years ago (this is why no older countries have purple in their flag color).

[@paganphil100]

zero11010: Its also the reason why the "Redcoats" (British army) wore red.....it was the cheapest dye.

[@jackkraken3888]

It's crazy how expensive stuff was in the past.

[@VirginHobby]

What's interesting to me is going back in time with the numbers of today's tech, as if to say a $350 TV today (a pretty nice tv) would be ~$35 in 1946 dollars. WOW!

[@joea3728]

if I remember correctly, I remember seeing an advertisment for a 5MB hard drive for $1500.00. mid-1970s. add the inflation factor, and multiplied to 1GB, or 1TB , well, let's just say, I could not afford it.

[@capnthepeafarmer]

I've still got my old Motorola brick. It still works, only problem is that the cell network no longer works on analog and you can't connect to the cell network.

[@zero11010]

In most of the US oranges were a special treat for holidays because they were rare and expensive.

[@ShukenFlash]

I still remember (and own) my first flash drive. I saved up $80 in high school to buy a "huge" 256MB flash drive to use for school instead of 3.5" floppies.

[@ShukenFlash]

And my second was a whopping 2GB Geek Squad branded one from Best Buy. I think I only had 64GB of storage in my computer at the time so that seemed absolutely massive. These days I have 128GB of storage in the tiny MicroSD card in my phone. It's insane how cheap and dense storage has become

[@c0pyimitati0n]

Flash drives were small and expensive, but file sizes were also much smaller, so you didn't near 1gb of storage. I think my first PC had something like 320MB of storage 😆

[@the1untitled]

“As we make more new expensive things, the old expensive thing get less expensive” THEN WHERE IN THE WORLD ARE THE OLD GPUs BELOW MSRP?!

[@RealSugam]

its all about market demand and that phone in the video is a lot older then 10 yrs.

[@Shojikitsune1]

AliExpress, of course. Right next to firestar....power supplies! Yeah. Just as an example, an Intel i7 990X extreme Edition was $1000 USD at release in 2011 ($1270 in 2021) and AliExpress has them for around $190 US today.

[@TobenVonFreiheit]

My first MP3 player, an RCA Lyra had 32mb of storage and cost me over $200. I now have a 1tb micro SD in my phone that cost me $150.

[@timspooner59]

Back in 80s I had a dynatac. In nz cost about $ 6500 at that time which is same u quoted. My friend had another type which came in a brief case size Metal case which weighed about 10 lbs with battery

[@Hjorth87]

Back in my high school days in 2006 I had a 64mb flashdrive my dad had gotten as a promo item. It saved a lot of reports, but damn things have moved on

[@1972LittleC]

I remember working at a technical research company, when we got a couple of half gb usb sticks from a supplier, and we had to hand them over to upper management, because it was too big of a gift for us lowly purchasers....

[@MuhammadAhmad-ke5cl]

oh make a part two for cheap things that are expensive now!

[@K_ingh16]

Older things get cheaper Ferrari 250 GTO: are you sure about that

[@Big_Tex]

I recall the first OLED TV - about 11 inches, about the size of license plate, for $2200 at Sony Style stores around 2008.

[@alaskanmalamute101]

2:00 Colour TV Ad in black and white 😂

[@VaibhavChippalkatti]

Looks like we're going back to that price tho

[@richardcrossley5581]

Back in my high school days, a box of 10, 5.25 inch floppy disks (100 Kbytes on a BBC Micro) were 15 GBP. That makes 1 TB about 15,000,000 GBP.

[@Nauskills]

I can imagine the guy buying the 4000$ (10 000$ inflated) phone just to flex and to tell people he's calling "yeah I'm using my 10 000$ phone haha"

[@squanchy474]

SSDs, optical mice, high refresh rate monitors, blue tooth headsets

[@DeepfriedChips]

That’s until things become old enough to be considered vintage to the point people overcharge even over the base price

[@johnlucky2344]

the first cd burners.... now you can them in a cereal box ;D

[@roadrash2005]

Yeah I remember when my friend having a CD burner to copy a pc game was amazing

[@Tofu3435]

I remember before pendrives i used floppy disks to bring SNES roms to home from school. I didn't have internet at home.

[@gothnate]

SSDs have all that beat. The first was in 1978. The StorageTek STC 4305 boasted a 45 MB capacity and a $400,000 price tag ($1,666,846.63 in 2021). That's $8,888.88 per MB in 1978 dollars. Here's a link to read more about it. This page includes flash storage, too. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive

[@LOTR_BTTF]

First flash drive I ever purchased was in like 2004. About $45 for 128mb. Also got a 256mb a few months later that cost about $50 (though I actually still have that one 17 years later and it still fully works).....fast forward to last week and I got two 32gb drives for like $8.

[@zonefour]

I still have a 64 MB SanDisk flash drive and a 1 GB WD external hard drive that I bought from Circuit City. I paid A LOT of money for those things.

[@MrDaddynomates]

I had my first mobile phone in 1996. It was too expensive to use. I eventually gave it back to the store. I waited a few years until they became affordable.