Tech That's Gotten Much Much Cheaper Than When You Bought It

[KnoxHarrington]

I just bought a 1GB flash drive for $4.95. This amuses me, because I remember buying a 256MB flash drive probably about 3 or 4 years ago for around $100. So I just got 4 times the storage space for about 1/20 of the price.

What stuff did you buy for a much higher price back in the day than it sells for now?

[Snoogans]

I just bought a 1GB flash drive for $4.95. This amuses me, because I remember buying a 256MB flash drive probably about 3 or 4 years ago for around $100. So I just got 4 times the storage space for about 1/20 of the price.

What stuff did you buy for a much higher price back in the day than it sells for now?

Most of this stuff is going to be technology based just cause they keeps advancing so fast.

Phones are the other big thing that get cheaper really fast

[mikeyboy]

http://ishoppinghome.com/images/veritech-microsdcard.jpg

I recently picked up a 4Gb for $7.

It's roughly 12 times the size of the hard drive on the computer I had in school.

I was rooting around at my in-laws, and I found an old 128kb memory card that was still in the package. It still had the price on it -- $60.

[HBox]

Every piece of electronics I've ever bought.

[IMSlacker]

Paid about $500 for a 2.1 megapixel camera six years ago.

[patsopinion]

its the rube thread!


http://www.hdatech.com/hardware/MacBookPro.jpg
for 2k a few years ago
but i just upgraded it
so now it is better then the new ones they sell for 2300

[Badinia]

http://www.webtechgeek.com/NewYorkPics/sony-network-walkman.jpg

I bought a kind of slick-looking Sony MP3 player for my spouse at the Tokyo Narita Airport, I think it might have been 2002.

It held 256MB, that's right, 8 hours of music and only set me back $300!

I saw one at the grocery store for eleven bucks over Christmas and laughed a little.

[zildjian361]

My first VCR was a Sharp front loader which was new at the time, 1986 cost $500 and had a remote with a wire.

[Drunky McBetidont]

when i was a boy, i had to walk 9 miles uphill to school in the snow with no shoes. both ways!

how old are you people?

[AnnoyedGrunt]

I just bought a 1GB flash drive for $4.95. This amuses me, because I remember buying a 256MB flash drive probably about 3 or 4 years ago for around $100. So I just got 4 times the storage space for about 1/20 of the price.


That's what I was going to say, only it was closer to 6 years ago and 64mb.

[underdog]

My HD DVD player.

My 14.4 modem.

[Badinia]

My 14.4 modem.

I found a one baud modem in my Dad's garage.

It was the size of a shoebox.

Long Live Spaghetti Cat.

[patsopinion]

That's what I was going to say, only it was closer to 6 years ago and 64mb.

it had to have been longer ago then that
the 5bg ipod was introduced in october of 2001
theres no way that you have your time line right
because there were gig players out prior to ipod for less then 100 bucks at time of launch

[celery]

LCDs seem to be dropping in price really quickly too. I paid around $400 for a 19 inch Viewsonic 3 years ago. Now you can get a 22 inch for half that .

[KnoxHarrington]

LCDs seem to be dropping in price really quickly too. I paid around $400 for a 19 inch Viewsonic 3 years ago. Now you can get a 22 inch for half that .

I remember going to Best Buy probably about 8 or 9 years ago and seeing a 50 inch plasma on display. For $15,000.

I remember remarking, "Fuck, that costs more than my car." Which it did.

Those early plasmas were unreliable as hell too. I'm just hoping someone bought it and is stuck with a massive piece of shit when far better TVs are out for at least $14K less than he paid, but I'm sure anyone who could pay $15K for a TV back then doesn't care about that.

[sailor]

Most of this stuff is going to be technology based just cause they keeps advancing so fast.

or because that's what the thread title says.

I was rooting around at my in-laws, and I found an old 128kb memory card that was still in the package. It still had the price on it -- $60.

you should return that shit.

[SatCam]

it had to have been longer ago then that
the 5bg ipod was introduced in october of 2001
theres no way that you have your time line right
because there were gig players out prior to ipod for less then 100 bucks at time of launch

flash memory vs. hard disk memory

[instrument]

I bought breakfast of champions on ebay for 3.99, now i could have bought a kindle and dl'd it for nearly 400 bucks.

i think i'm confused.

[Coach]

First Microwave we ever had was over $2,000...now you can pick up a comparable one for 200 bucks.