To facilitate a better backup solution, last night I bought a hard drive and built a computer out of junk I had in the basement to house it. Dual-P3/500, 384M of memory, 137G of disk, 16M video card, sound, U2W SCSI, USB, 100bT, CD, and a 3.5" floppy drive, just cuz.
And as I was building it out of things other people threw away, it occurred to me that, when I started in college, it would have been a supercomputer beyond the dreams of avarice. Fifteen years ago, it'd have cost more than this house. Ten years ago, it would have cost more than my truck. Five years ago, it was a production webserver.
And now, it's a $45 hard drive and some stuff I pulled out of a dumpster.
What kind of currency grows in these new deserts, These brand new flood plains?
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And as I was building it out of things other people threw away, it occurred to me that, when I started in college, it would have been a supercomputer beyond the dreams of avarice. Fifteen years ago, it'd have cost more than this house. Ten years ago, it would have cost more than my truck. Five years ago, it was a production webserver.
And now, it's a $45 hard drive and some stuff I pulled out of a dumpster.
What kind of currency grows in these new deserts,
These brand new flood plains?