DFW HOYA
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Post by DFW HOYA on Aug 12, 2006 13:30:45 GMT -5
Aug. 12, 1981 was the debut of the IBM personal computer. With all due respects to the Apple IIc and TRS-80 fans left out there, think how much in life, in society, even the concept of culture today, has been driven in the last 25 years by this single product's launch. "The Personal Computer has become the vehicle by which innumerable new concepts and technologies have been introduced. Industries that are the backbone of the world economy have been created. The Internet, the Amazon’s, E-Bay’s and Google’s of the world have transformed the way we buy and research information. E-mail is reducing the US Postal Service to a secondary player. Digital Cameras are input devices to our PC based storage systems. We carry our Personal Communicators with us wherever we go so that we can ‘Always Be in Touch’. Music travels with us. Radio is omnipresent. Video is now traveling with us. Navigation to any location is punching a few buttons on a GPS device. " www.technologyevangelist.com/2006/08/25th_anniversary_of_1.html |
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DanMcQ
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 12, 2006 16:02:21 GMT -5
How did we ever make it through college without PCs?
Or cell phones, for that matter?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2006 16:42:38 GMT -5
And yet the stupid TOOTHBRUSH was rated the best invention ever by those eggheads at MIT.
Morons.
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JimmyHoya
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Post by JimmyHoya on Aug 14, 2006 9:13:09 GMT -5
I feel like the wheel, fire, and Ben Franklin shocking himself were a smidge more important than the toothbrush, but you can never underestimate the villain of bad breath.
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Aug 14, 2006 9:15:19 GMT -5
I hope they were being sarcastic. Look I love personal hygine as much as anyone else on this board that isn't SoCal85 (he's against it), but PC's and the internet have funamentally changed the way we work, measure productivity, and communicate.
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JimmyHoya
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Post by JimmyHoya on Aug 14, 2006 9:35:15 GMT -5
....and perhaps most importantly, procrastinate at work.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2006 14:51:36 GMT -5
... but PC's and the internet[/i] have funamentally changed the way we work, measure productivity, and communicate.[/quote] God bless Al Gore... |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2006 15:25:34 GMT -5
... but PC's and the internet[/i] have funamentally changed the way we work, measure productivity, and communicate.[/quote] God bless Al Gore...[/quote] Just think, Buff: without the internet, you never would have known that hifigator even existed..... |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2006 15:27:30 GMT -5
Just think, Buff: without the internet, you never would have known that hifigator even existed..... Check that: God bless I HATE you Al Gore... |
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hifigator
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Post by hifigator on Aug 14, 2006 15:41:04 GMT -5
I feel like the wheel, fire, and Ben Franklin shocking himself were a smidge more important than the toothbrush, but you can never underestimate the villain of bad breath. I would add pennicillin to that list as well, not to all of the other medications which followed. I would rather have my teeth fall out than die from measly infection I got from scratching my hand -- slightly more important in my book I would say. |
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hifigator
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Post by hifigator on Aug 14, 2006 15:42:19 GMT -5
PS Buff, I hate Al Gore too ... but for a slightly different reason.
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Boz
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Post by Boz on Aug 14, 2006 16:41:02 GMT -5
Top 5 inventions of all time (not discoveries, mind you):
1. The ladies' two-piece swimsuit
2. Animation
3. The MOOG synthesizer
4. X-Box
5. Thermal bags for pizza delivery
As TK would say, "That's it! That's the list!"
(good luck tonight Kornheiser)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2006 19:49:35 GMT -5
6. The Zamboni
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hifigator
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Post by hifigator on Aug 15, 2006 15:51:29 GMT -5
It's not exactly "high tech" but whoever invented toilet paper deserves a bit of credit. I just wonder how many leaves the ancient people used at some point of the poison ivy variety.
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Post by Frank Black on Aug 17, 2006 22:17:11 GMT -5
It's not exactly "high tech" but whoever invented toilet paper deserves a bit of credit. I just wonder how many leaves the ancient people used at some point of the poison ivy variety. Toilet paper? |
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