Jbelkin
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1999
Hey, We're Way Better Than a Computer!
Can You Even Imagine??
Sep 22, 2024 5:48 PM
Jbelkin
34359
805
10
1999
Hey, We're Way Better Than a Computer!
Can You Even Imagine??
TheOvy
It's amazing how quickly consumer CPUs went from 100mhz to 1,000. The Pentium 100 released in March of '94, and by March of '00 you had the Athlon 1000. Tech was escalating so damn fast.
ballinthegroin
Do you really want a clone?
guardianzero
Started with a lazer128.. I thought it was so powerful! Now I'm like, My tech is slow and old.. guess I'll just play some old games..
OnceBotheredTwiceShy
7 of 9 got out of the cubicle earlier than I thought.
soulseekbob2320
My 1st computer was an IBM AT with a 10 Megabit (!) Hard drive.
jeffois
#7 I remember when the first Philips Plasma came to my local market. $54,999 local currency. Probably about $30k USD, maybe more. And that would've been early 2000's. And fuck me, they sucked. The 4" screen also required a box about 1.5x the size of a modern gaming PC that you had to put... Somewhere.
Poppypoppoppop
qcernie
Microsoft "You will be assimilated."
OxJunk
#4 ah yes the original screen tap
Tmissfrizzle
I remember playing the jedi Knight 2 jedi outcast tester game for months at Circuit City. When I finally saved up enough money to buy it, I was basically shaking on the way home.
shameofslate
#1 If that is Seven of Nine, I’d really like to see Nine
thisismycatsaccount
I was unaware that Micron PCs were the key to avoiding the corporate ladder.
lordmogul
Dunno, Micron always made fine RAM under their Crucial brand.
But I think that is a different Micron.
aPokal
zerby
Chandler was ahead of the times.
howdoIsavethis
Tech companies in 2024: we need you in the office
Logatto
Resistance is futile
DSREX
#6 Gateway PC was a South Dakota company, they were near a large college town. If you had a Gateway it was likely assembled by a college student working their way through.
Zainadin
I don't see "Dude he got a Dell."
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
#1 I rate this ad a solid 7 of 9!
ThatShiftyMonkey
Does 7 of 9 = 5/7 ?
Psionickitten
Kinda hard to get a perfect 5/7, but Seven of Nine will do.
SJBSavageInk
It's crazy to me that these look like this when growing up they didn't feel the way they do looking at them now. Lol
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
🔊 there's gold in the details
OhIfIMust
Time to watch more Computer Chronicles!
Primatebuddy
Oh hell yeah!
youreathing
I think you'd enjoy this channel. https://www.twitch.tv/oldtimeycomputershow
MyBigMouth
#1 🎵🎵 Working 7-9 what a way to make a living 🎵🎵
sadurdaynight
And you better not let a little thing like commuting impact your productivity, Johnson! Compaq computer gives you no excuses! /s
Geistbar
#6 $69/month for 48 months is $3,312 total. Pentium 2 came out in 1997, although the 450 mhz model came out in 1998. Adjusted for inflation the pricier PC in that ad cost $6,396.35. And would have been obsolete within 48 months. Not "no longer the best around" but wholly outclassed by newer equipment and not even certain to be able to run newer software.
sadurdaynight
Cpu growth was exponential then. Had a friend who just upgraded his gaming rig just to find it outdated a few months after.
lordmogul
The 450 MHz Pentium II was in august 98, And in Feb 1999 came the 500 MHz Pentium III, in may the 550 MHz model, in september the 600 MHz, in october 733 MHz, in december 800 MHz,in march 2000 the 866 MHz and in may the 1000 MHz.
That is almost double the performance in less than a years. Nowadays we can only dream of that level of growth. Especially since performance increase these days mostly comes form more cores, but not all software can make use of that.
CarlBassett
I knew someone who bought a Gateway around that time. They bought the highest spec machine, and said yes to every option. More RAM? Yes, Bigger monitor? Yes. Better graphics card? Yes. Cost them just over £3k. Slightly over a year later another mutual friend bought a gateway. The cheapest spec machine they offered was a faster processor and more RAM than the first one, and cost half the price. Back then the newest top spec machine was junk 18 months later and pretty much unusable.
jridley
Back then I figured that a decent PC cost about $1800, the one you really wanted was $2500. And yea, would be obsolete in a year or so. Thankfully we're pretty much out of that cycle - a 3 year old PC/laptop at this point is still perfectly usable. I haven't bought a new laptop for 15 years, I get 3 year old off-lease ones for a couple hundred, jack in an SSD and more RAM and run them for 5 years. My current is 8 years old and still fine.
nero4ty2
The gateway laptop I bought for college in 98 was 2500, I was paying it off way longer than it was actual usable, the Chromebook my kid in 1st grade just brought home for free “at point of use, I realize my taxes pay for it” is so much more capable in every imaginable way and is $200 to replace
Uskaanax
I was a district manager for Circuit City. >.>
Mokelmokel
Nice, I was the DM at Blockbuster until I switched over to Toys R' Us
Emuc64
I know we said your super power was too great and that you could rest. But we really need you to come out of retirement and work at Twitter, Tesla, Amazon, oil companies, Nestle, the supreme court, congress...
Alphee99
Hope you weren't mine because he was an asshole. Lol
acetothermus
#1 I don't recall ever seeing Jerry Ryan in a TV commercial before Voyager. Neat.
jammer909
I think that's the one here I remember best.
SquidBaitBadgerDroid
Everyone has to start somewhere
QuigleyDownUnder
Will not be a cog in the machine, becomes a borg anyway.
sleete
She was in voyager in 97 and this commercials from 99. So your statement still stands
triptolemus510
Jeri
victell
I thought Rachel McAdams at first.
kahooki
Nice*
(*= Of course I upvoted afterwards. I have manners.)
kahooki
See?
RummageSaleBubbler
Seven of Nine will not be a cog in a machine
Jaqdakloun
Nerd...but yeah that was fucking hilarious
p7zjnq9gei9000
Borg prequel
AyatollahBahloni
Neither will Annika Hansen
circlebreaker
funkystay
tertiary adjunct of unimatrix zero one
HandoB4Javert
Cilvaa
fine wine
dasharknbear
I was like 7 of 9 has a good swing.
CarlBassett
I'd let her assimilate me.....
SergeyPrkl
Then and now. Even more now.
Psionickitten
Can I imagine? I was there, Gandalf, I was there 3000 years ago.
tooomanystevesgotbanned
Ditto. I remember when the Pentium II came out.
kmikl
I worked for Digital before they were absorbed into Compaq... and then into HP and totally bastardized.
Psionickitten
I worked at a CompUSA as my first job.
kmikl
CPQ had a lot of consumer stuff sold there.