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The computers were always slow. SSDs are a wonderful thing as are multicore processors.
But I miss when I had a positive view of tech.
I'll never forget booting into an SSD for the first time on my 2011 MacBook Pro. It was absolutely mind-blowing how much faster it was. A few weeks later I upped the RAM to 16gb and it was like I was carrying a supercomputer.
I still have a positive view of the technology, it's the people who demand that they control every aspect of it that I'm weary of.
Yeah, SSDs are one of the biggest innovations in computer speed in my memory. That, and actual good internet. I was raised with dial-up and HDDs, though I remember my dad coding (and playing things) with MS-DOS before I was old enough to understand it. I fully remember going to a game site and loading up a 2MB Adobe Flash game. I had time to go make a sandwich while it downloaded.
I had lots of games individually bookmarked, because it saved a lot of time compared to waiting like 30 seconds for each page to load. If I only bookmarked the site’s landing page, I would have to wait for the welcome page to load, then the Games section to load, then the first page of the Action Games genre to load, then the second page of the Action Games section to load, before I could finally get to my game. Even skipping those four or five pages and going directly to the game page could easily save a solid 2-3 minutes of waiting.