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Yeah, what piece of technology were you extremely impressed with in the past, but that is laughably outdated now? I remember how blown-away I was when I first played Grand Theft Auto: III when it was new, thinking that game had reached the limit of how much a game world can possibly offer.
Dvds were like magic when they first came out. My dad and my family were determined keep our outdated vhs players though. Very stuck in our ways we were
I thought the ipod nano was the greatest thing to have ever lived. Then I got a first gen ipod touch and my mind was further blown. Now I look back and think, how could I ever type on one of those tiny ass things.
I remember when my two brothers and my two cousins as well as me self used to sit on the lounge watching this tiny Digitrex PD-150 portable DVD player because we didn’t have a tv at the time.😂
The nostalgia.
I thought the graphics in Twisted Metal 2 were great about 16 years ago.
I also remember thinking there was no way Mapquest would ever go obsolete, and was such a cool advanced technology. This was about 15-ish years ago.
I was amazed at my Motorola Razr phone and that was the "fancy" phone at the time (2006).
I still have an old CRT TV with a date of 1992 on the back that was top of the line when it was new, and love the "demo" feature that walks you through every menu option and shows you what it does. That was a genius feature, and I don't know why they ever got rid of it! It would be even more useful with the Smart TVs with vastly more features. Even if it's outdated and I've had numerous people question why I don't replace it with a modern flat screen, it still works great and I have quite a bit of fun watching old nostalgic stuff on it.
SMS.
It blew my mind when my sister showed me her sending a text msg and receiving one back
I bought a new "big" TV in 2000, like a 36 inches. I was astonished by how light it was. My previous TV was much smaller but weighed over 50 pounds.
CD and DVD burners were amazing, you had to buy them as extras but then they became a standard.
Vapes, I got one of the first ones ever back around 2008 or so. It was so bad by today's standard though. So bad.
The original Xbox that I got for christmas. The graphics that console had blew me away.
Slide Rules...
But are they really outdated. If the world economy collapses and the things fall apart... we will be back to slide rules quickly (for those of us who have one).
How spin phones worked.
I'm still amazed by modern circuit boards though.
C.D.'s and D.V.D.'s. The sound and picture quality is amazing,and you can just skip to wherever you want! 💿
Minidiscs. I couldn't believe there could be so much music stored on such a tiny thing.
When Pokémon HeartGold/SoulSilver came out I was impressed by the Pokéwalker a trusty old pedometer that allowed you to take your Pokémon with you inside of a device, me in 2010 was extremely impressed.
I remember lots of people in my school would have them, they would be whipping out their DSes and they would transfer their Pokémon to that little device.
Still have mine luckily it isn't broken and still functions despite not using that thing anymore.
I thought pocket calculators were pretty amazing.
I bought my first one while I was going through US Navy technical schools back in the mid-seventies - a Texas Instrument model with red LED display. I remember hesitating about buying it because of the cost. Having just looked up the history of TI calculators and enlisted pay rates back then, I see that sold for about $25, and my monthly basic pay was just over $400. So it wasn't a trivial buy.
Adjusted for inflation, $25 in 1976 is worth about $120 today. It's pretty amazing how you can now buy a not totally awful smartphone for around that price.
My HP calculator from 1982 is still used to this day (I've had to change the batteries several times). I did almost all of Engineering school, and many engineering jobs with that programmable calculator.
If mere calculators were that expensive back then, I can't even imagine how expensive PCs were in the late 70s.
Personal portable CD players, iPods hadn’t taken off yet and they were still for the coolest of the cool.