Tech Now vs Then - Sponsored by SAGE

[nicklmg]

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Well, this video makes Linus seem like a bit of an old man... But why the heck are kids these days so darn spoiled?

 

 

[ImBleu]

Kids nowadays tech things for granted. Gone are the days of appreciating 1GB of GDDR3.

 

 

 

Who's the Linus stunt double? I don't see socks and sandals here. Does LG need to send him more?

[TrigrH]

2 minutes ago, ThatCoolBlueKidd said:

Kids nowadays tech things for granted.

plz

[Aereldor]

5 minutes ago, ThatCoolBlueKidd said:

Gone are the days of appreciating 1GB of GDDR3.

Only because 1GB of GDDR3 isn't capable of a lot anymore.

That being said, up until last year, I was still running games off 256 megabytes of it. I had to mod Skyrim to run at 480p at well below its lowest settings to get a playable framerate.

[mikat]

yessss, just in time b4 school

 

but the strangest this about this video is that i can relate to linus more than to his son... and i'm only 15 lol.

ok, except for 4,6 and 8.

[vanished]

Gone are the days of the 80 year old telling stories of "back in my day"; tech moves so fast that 15 year olds will tell those stories to 10 year olds

[blu4]

I still think it's 90s when people say 10 years ago. I'm old.

[MetaDrow]

Thanks Linus for making some of us feel really old, even if some aren't even that old (me included).

[gonvres]

le wrong generation in reverse 

[Ronda]

Yes, it was totally your cute kid that inspired you to do the video and not the sponsorship dollars.

[LLOYD-AF]

Is that t-shirt design available yet? Ive been gone for a few weeks so might have missed a post regarding them.

[nicklmg]

4 minutes ago, LLOYD-AF said:

Is that t-shirt design available yet? Ive been gone for a few weeks so might have missed a post regarding them.

http://teespring.com/ltt-gold

 

http://teespring.com/ltt-silver

[Guest]

Got me thinking of my childhood.got more similarities to Linus..thx for making this video

[DXMember]

how old is Linux?
If I would have to guess I'd say he's 10 years older than me,

but I remember all that from being a lot older then his kid

 

-- Great content, more of these should be done

[paps511]

I remember all of those innovations.. and I'm not even that old...

[Razor512]

I hated having to take long walks across Pangea to get a book, or buy a game.

[Vladelos]

I would love a GIF of Linus skate rolling with the cassette player 

[.spider.]

OMG now I remember that I had a SEGA Game Gear too.

I totally forgot that because it died ~20 years ago. 

[Bl00dgod]

every game had the "LAN" modus

and noone had internet to get whatever you'd like form all over the world

[Streetguru]

Mobile games ain't got shit on gameboy games. Mostly due to physical buttons, but there weren't no micro transactions or ads in the middle of them.

[nicklmg]

9 hours ago, Ronda said:

Yes, it was totally your cute kid that inspired you to do the video and not the sponsorship dollars.

Hate if you want, but your sass is severely misplaced.

Yes, the video was sponsored. Employees here have to eat - sorry. But if it was just about the money, why would we spend the time to come up with (what I believe is) a genuinely interesting concept in an effort to provide an entertaining end result - which I think we did here.

If the goal here was to make a quick and easy buck, why wouldn't we just do a product showcase of the system? Surely that would be a hell of a lot easier than coming up with a concept, scenarios, sourcing props, etc.

The world isn't black and white. Being paid to do something shouldn't imply that money is the only motivation.

[vanished]

2 hours ago, Vladelos said:

I would love a GIF of Linus skate rolling with the cassette player 

http://giphy.com/gifs/26z0FLM4jevfufQZy

[Ronda]

36 minutes ago, nicklmg said:

Hate if you want, but your sass is severely misplaced.

Yes, the video was sponsored. Employees here have to eat - sorry. But if it was just about the money, why would we spend the time to come up with (what I believe is) a genuinely interesting concept in an effort to provide an entertaining end result - which I think we did here.

If the goal here was to make a quick and easy buck, why wouldn't we just do a product showcase of the system? Surely that would be a hell of a lot easier than coming up with a concept, scenarios, sourcing props, etc.

The world isn't black and white. Being paid to do something shouldn't imply that money is the only motivation.

I don't hate it.

I wouldn't have commented at all if I did.

I guess I just find Linus' sense of humour to be so dry I never considered it a genuine attempt at humour. Like how with every joke on the WAN show the badness of the joke is the joke.

So when there's a whole video of just that, I struggle to believe that's something he really wanted to make.

But on second thought I guess it would be silly to think Linus would keep making those jokes so candidly and consistently if he didn't truly enjoy them.

My apologies, oh, forever thanked bestower of videos.

[NumLock21]

I still remember watching movies on VHS and when you have to go to a different scene, you have to press the FF or REW on the remote while the movie is still playing. Unlike DVDs, just select a chapter. 

And Linus has a BSB CD, I have that too.

 

[ssysm]

I still have a IBM Laptop in my Basement and with 50+ 8Mb Floppy Disk that hasn't been read for about 25 years...