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[–] 9 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I graduated highschool in 2004, so I'd say roughly around 2002 I was marveling at the massive 1GB hard drive my friend got lol

I think 16GB of ram would have blown our minds.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Huh, I got a PC in 1997 with a 2GB hard drive. It didn't take long (a year or so) for that to start feeling small compared to others my friend had. He got an 8 GB HD in probably 1998 and a 20 GB shortly after. It was ram I remember being so small. That PC I mentioned from 97 had 24 MB RAM which was good in 1997. It took a couple of years for anyone I knew to exceed 64 MB.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago*

    When I was a in high school Staples ran a deal for a 64GB flashdrive for $64 (1/2 off). My mom and I each bought 1 and it was such a steal! I felt like the coolest nerd at school with so much capacity! I considered trying to install UT2004 on it to play at school (I never did but knew nothing about computers and thought it'd work at that age).

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago*

    Gonna guess you mean USB drive, and not HDD.

    In 2004, 128 and 256 GB HDDs were pretty standard, and if you had some extra budget to throw at a PC, you could get a 512GB.

    My budget laptop in 2004 had a 128GB HDD, 256MB RAM (quickly upgraded to 768MB) and like a 1ghz dual core processor.

    I remember having a 512MB usb stick and thinking that I would never have to delete anything off it, because I would never have enough word docs or projects at school to fill it up all the way.

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