deskthority

By official records, there is only one person still living from the 1800s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Morano

What's her favourite switch?

webwit wrote: What's her favourite switch?

I LOL'd xD . Probably shouldn't have, but I did anyway :p .

webwit wrote: What's her favourite switch?

I thinking something like this:

Its amazing to think how different the world it now to when she was born, form the first powered flight to landing on the moon! From simple mechanical calculators to quantum computing! When she was born AC power distribution has only just been implemented about 10 years prior, now we have advanced nuclear fission reactors and are currently building experimental fusion reactors. Even the simple telephone was only just connecting each city together and now i can sit in the middle of a field on a phone that is 100,000s (if not more) of times more powerful that the first computer communicating in milliseconds to any other computer on the planet.

Its crazy when you think about it.

If you guys want to have a look the past in pictures this is good...

http://www.shorpy.com

andrewjoy wrote:
to landing on the moon!

on a phone that is 100,000s (if not more) of times more powerful that the first computer

The statistic that boggles my mind is that today, just an average moderate smart phone has more raw computing power and memory than the entirety of ALL the computers at NASA, combined, when we landed a man on the moon.

My grandparents told me about the first time that they saw cars, airplanes, radios, etc, although telephones were already in place (in urban areas usually well before electricity).

That's right, not only the computing power but the nano manufacturing that even makes this possible. For fun here's the first 5MB hard drive being loaded onto a plane 1956:

seebart wrote: That's right, not only the computing power but the nano manufacturing that even makes this possible. For fun here's the first 5MB hard drive being loaded onto a plane 1956:

Thats not a hard drive

THIS is a hard drive!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBjoWMA5d84

In other (microprocessor ) related news

ARM holdings, the company that designs all ARM processing cores ( yes even the cores in your chips apple!) has just been sold for £24 billion not bad for a company that does not actually make anything. When you look at how widespread the ARM is nowadays it hard to imagine it was developed by a relatively tiny computer manufacturer. Its in bloody everything, it is one of the most widely used processors ever, 15 billion of them last year alone! That has to be snapping at the z80s heels if not already ahead of it.