Technology in the Year 2000

[VaSteve]

Yeah, I said 2000. It's been 10 years, what do we have that we didn't back then?

I'm sure there's a ton of stuff....My wife and I came up with the following:

iPod
iPhone
Satellite Radio
Tire Pressure Monitoring System
Digital TV
Tivo/DVR
Whatever system my current cellphone works on compared to the dual band one I had in 1999


OK, what else?

[Scott R]

Blackberrys with cell phones built in.

[red-beard]

My cable modem was an astounding 500kb/s! More than 10 times faster than dial up.

VOIP was just coming out, and some places allowed free phone calls around the USA
MP3 players did exist, Like the RIO, but they pretty much sucked, not enough memory
HDTV was still basiclly a pipedream
No Blu-ray or HD-DVD
Handheld GPS systems
I don't remember car navigation systems
Bluetooth was still trying to compete with Wifi
Wifi g,n
Windows XP

[gr8fl4porsche]

Smart phones and DVR's are the tech items that have changed the way I do business and relax.

TPMS came out in the late 80's on a high tech 2 door sports car called the 959!

Airbags were commercially available in the early 70's.

Sometimes it takes decades for tech to really hit mainstream. I got my first cell phone in 1988. I think it was about $1,600.00. 20 years later they are disposable.

[VaSteve]

What about those thumb drives? Even in late 2004, I recall doing a cost justification for some at work. Now they give them away at trade shows. You can't live without them, almost.

[TechnoViking]

Hybrid cars

[TechnoViking]

Kindle

[onlycafe]

obama.

[Dottore]

bacon scented candles.

[cl8ton]

How about a virtual keyboard/mouse for your iPhone
Just what the fat fingered phone user needs!

Video: iPhone hacked to support the Magic Mouse

[herr_oberst]

Cheap flat screen - TV and computer

Woot

[Jim Richards]

Parf

[URY914]

I just got a fax machine. This thing is cool! Every time it rings I run over and watch the paper roll out of it.

[Scuba Steve]

Where I am now vs. then-
- smartphones (Nokia N82 vs. Motorola microTAC)
- HDTV (47in LCD vs. 26in woodgrain Magnovox)
- wifi vs. the LAN at school / 28.8K modem my parents had
- online classes at night vs. going there in person enables me to go to school while on the road with work
- ipod touch vs. 64MB RIO + a fat CD wallet
- cheap, high capacity USB storage vs. Zip disks
- 5MP digital camera that takes great pictures vs. Sony Mavica that used floppies
- NiMH batteries that charge in minutes vs. throwing out alkalines

[VaSteve]

Forgot about digital cameras.....my first one in ~2000 was like $450 and used 4 AA batteries. I have almost as good of one in my blackberry.

[TerryBPP]

Plasma TVs
The Smart (car)
DVD burners (10 times the storage as a CD)


....and FING GOOGLE MAPS ON MY PHONE! amazing

Still waiting on my flying car like Back to the Future II

[Jim Richards]

Dude, you don't have your flying car, yet?

[Porsche-O-Phile]

No Google in 2000 if I recall correctly. I used to use altavista for all my searches "way back when".

No iAnything. HDTV was a concept. Flat screen/plasma TVs were like $11,000. I did have an mp3 player (which I still have) called a RioPlayer. Not bad but the memory limit is under 1MB.

[Scuba Steve]

Yeah digital cameras are why I switched to NiMH to begin with. Google was around in 1998 - a bunch of us in the dorm I was in switched to it that year because it didn't throw popups or other crap on the screen along with the search results.

[TechnoViking]

Originally Posted by Jim Richards

Parf

We have a winner for the best innovation in the last decade!