 How tech has changed |
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 Apr 29 2006, 03:25 PM
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Prime Runner  Group: Members Posts: 3,577 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Gwynedd Valley PA Member No.: 1,221  |
ok kids, every now and then we get a thread about SR tech that we have now, decades ahead of what was expected in 1989. Cell phones and the current internet are the best examples. but I just had it come round in another direction.
FX has "Commando" runinng. They just had the scene where a bad guy sees Arnold in a mall when he's supposed to be hundreds of miles away. The baddie grabs Rea Dawn Chongs purse and starts burrowing throw it. Being a 21st century woman I thought/misremembered he was going for her cell phone. WRONG! his dialogue is "Gimme a damn quarter!" a quarter for a pay phone? I don't know what surprises me more. Look at the cars in early James Bond films. the 'cool cars' in Goldfinger, except for the Austin Martin are, well really bad. Anyone else think of stuff that was standard with these movies that we'd laugh at now? |
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Apr 29 2006, 04:01 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,479 Joined: 6-May 05 From: Idaho Member No.: 7,377 |
Man, I can't even find a payphone where I live anymore...
I always love watching old movies and seeing those tv's with uhf dials and old videogame systems when the characters are like "check out the Rad graphics!"...heh... |
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Apr 29 2006, 04:05 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,006 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Cannons for travel to the moon.
~J |
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Apr 29 2006, 06:00 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 314 Joined: 25-February 06 Member No.: 8,307 |
The first Lethal Weapon. There's a scene where Murtaugh's calling the shrink, and he's using a mobile phone... Man, it was HUGE!
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Apr 29 2006, 06:39 PM
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Chrome to the Core Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,152 Joined: 14-October 03 From: ::1 Member No.: 5,715 |
I remember that scene. Also; any other 80's flick with mobile phones. Friggin' GIGANTIC.
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Apr 29 2006, 08:00 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,430 Joined: 10-January 05 From: Fort Worth, Texas Member No.: 6,957 |
Dr. Who last night had the Doctor and Rose in 1987 London. At one point Rose pulls out her cross-time cell phone (looks just like a modern cell phone) and her dad's eyes bug out of his head. Shortly after, a cutting edge technogeek with his own mobile phone comes out. The thing is bigger than his head.
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Apr 29 2006, 08:45 PM
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Ain Soph Aur Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,477 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Montreal, Canada Member No.: 600 |
Snow Fox, I had the EXACT same reaction when I saw that movie recently too! |
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Apr 29 2006, 10:03 PM
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Prime Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,577 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Gwynedd Valley PA Member No.: 1,221 |
Yeah I saw that. the 80's cell phone looked more like a concealed weapon. Rose's phone is a normal cell-and bigger than the one I carry, it works pantime because the Doctor meddled with it so Rose can call her mother. |
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Apr 29 2006, 10:22 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 204 Joined: 27-October 05 From: Waterloo, ON Member No.: 7,900 |
I never liked that. The point of going with the Doctor is that you're cutting yourself off from the realy world, like he is. It lowers the feeling of alienation if you *can* always go home again. |
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Apr 29 2006, 11:24 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,430 Joined: 10-January 05 From: Fort Worth, Texas Member No.: 6,957 |
Well, since you're in a time machine, you can always go home again (albeit sometimes you'll miss by a year). The phone just cuts down on travel time.
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Apr 29 2006, 11:41 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 142 Joined: 29-March 06 From: Quebec, Canada Member No.: 8,415 |
2001 will probably make our sons or grandsons laugh. :D
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Apr 29 2006, 11:53 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,430 Joined: 10-January 05 From: Fort Worth, Texas Member No.: 6,957 |
You had to carry your phones in your pocket instead of your head?
What is a "remote control?" Grampa, why is grandma's back massager shaped like that? |
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Apr 30 2006, 12:51 AM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
Because people were a lot more uptight about sex back then. You can buy a customized love-bot in any vending machine today but back then we bad to rely on "back massagers."
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Apr 30 2006, 12:54 AM
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Man In The Machine Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,264 Joined: 26-February 02 From: I-495 S Member No.: 1,105 |
Leave it to James to nudge the toe over the line.
Yeah, having watched Hackers not 2 days ago, Im still so greatly entertained by the tech. 28.8k modem... I think I still have an external one banging around somewhere... |
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Apr 30 2006, 03:12 AM
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Prime Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,577 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Gwynedd Valley PA Member No.: 1,221 |
Just look at the computer screens in the original Battlestar Galactica.
In 2010 Roy Schieder, on earth, is drinking budweisser out of a foil pouch. As something most people may not know. Top Gun is now outdated. this year the Navy retired the F-14. |
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Apr 30 2006, 03:18 AM
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Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928 |
'bout time really. They were really old.
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Apr 30 2006, 04:05 AM
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Chrome to the Core Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,152 Joined: 14-October 03 From: ::1 Member No.: 5,715 |
I just put a wireless card into my sis' old Compaq. And I mean old. Like... 300MHz old. My parents are finally wisening up to the 'net. Or should that be "being assimilated"? (Yes, yes. 300MHz isn't old compared to what I'm sure some people have. Hell, I've got one up in the attic that I'm certain barely hits 100MHz. Got a C64 around here somewhere as well.) |
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Apr 30 2006, 04:55 AM
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Man In The Machine Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,264 Joined: 26-February 02 From: I-495 S Member No.: 1,105 |
Hey... my 390E is a 300 mhz, and its had a wireless card in it since 1999...
You want old? I have an IBM XT around somewhere I should donate to a museum... that and a 1st generation SPARC. Pity about the F14. It was so damm cool to look at. But I suppose since its primary payload, aka the phoenix missel was out of date by 1991... |
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Apr 30 2006, 04:59 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 72 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Oak Ridge, TN, CAS Member No.: 407 |
* I had an Amiga 500 for a while during the mid '90s.
* I'm currently on an AMD K6 (450 Mhz.) |
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Apr 30 2006, 02:22 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 903 Joined: 7-February 03 Member No.: 4,025 |
I recently saw an old episode of Knight Rider. David Hasselhoff and his blonde-of-the-week are tracking down the bad guy. They find him and are about to give pursuit. But first, they stop the car -remember: the car with an AI personality, that's indestructable and can drive itself- and Hasselhoff tells the blonde, "Go find a phone and call the cops."
Speaking of cars, just last night I noticed that stunt-driving on TV with modern cars has changed a lot. You just can't fishtail a 2005 Tiburon like you can a 1970-something Charger. |
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Apr 30 2006, 02:33 PM
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Prime Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,577 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Gwynedd Valley PA Member No.: 1,221 |
Front wheel drive is more standard now. that makes fish tailing difficult-which is why it is more standard.
As for the F-14, the A-10 Warthog is even older but is in place until 2020. The Navy is waiting for the F-22, it is using the F-18 Hornet in the meantime. And IF you watch Independance Day you'll see almost no F-14 or F15's in the attack scenes. Almost all the fighters are F-18's. A case of time growing up to meet the movie. |
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Apr 30 2006, 02:58 PM
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Canon Companion Group: Members Posts: 8,021 Joined: 2-March 03 From: The Morgue, Singapore LTG Member No.: 4,187 |
Soooo that's what was bugging me in Independance Day! With the amount of payload a F-15 can carry there should be no reason they wouldn't field them in a battle for the planet!
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Apr 30 2006, 04:39 PM
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Great, I'm a Dragon... Group: Retired Admins Posts: 6,699 Joined: 8-October 03 From: North Germany Member No.: 5,698 |
Maybe Emmerich didn't like the look/style of the F-15? ;)
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Apr 30 2006, 08:06 PM
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Old Man Jones Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 4,415 Joined: 26-February 02 From: New York Member No.: 1,699 |
Thing about those old mobile phones? They could work in the freaking mountains. They had like 100 times the tramsmitting power as today's cellphones. I would hazard a guess that if you could still hook one of those phones up to today's network, there would be no such things as dead zones for you. -karma |
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Apr 30 2006, 08:19 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,156 Joined: 15-March 03 From: Fresno, CalFree Member No.: 4,252 |
Fun story about old technology. My friend's dad is a photographer, and he uses old style photo equipment, all film and whatnot, and he has one of those old style brick cellphones. I used to rag on him for being in the past, but then someone broke into his van. I guess they thought all his stuff was too old, because all they stole was a few CDs and other assorted unimportant stuff.
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