Line #15 Quotes/TechnologyMarchesOn


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2	[[folder:Advertising]]
3	->''"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up863eQKGUI Don't copy! Don't copy that floppy!]]"''
4	-->-- ''Advertising/DontCopyThatFloppy'', Well known, but ''very'' dated, PSA
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7	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
8	->'''Hilary:''' DAD! YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT I JUST SAW!\
9	...Okay, you won't believe it. But I need an old camera! Non-digital! NOW!\
10	'''Ted:''' Well, your grandma might have one. Though we'd need to get some film. But first we'd have to select a speed, depending on light and subject. Are we talking landscape photography? Sporting event? Overcast day?...\
11	'''Hilary:''' UGH! How did you people get ANYTHING done back in your day?!\
12	'''Ted:''' You know what I miss about old cameras? Fotomats. I bet living inside one would be like having a house and a studio apartment at the same time.
13	-->-- ''ComicStrip/{{Sally Forth\|Howard}}'' for July 12, 2022
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16	[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
17	->''"And they probably redesigned the whole sickbay too! I know Engineers, they LOVE to change things!"''
18	-->-- '''Dr. Leonard [=McCoy=]''', ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture''
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21	[[folder:Literature]]
22	->'''''394.''' Learn how to use the internet.''
23	-->-- ''Literature/LifesLittleInstructionBook, Vol. I'' (The book's three volumes were released throughout TheNineties, when the Internet was new to consumers.)
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26	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
27	->''Help our school buy a computer!''
28	-->-- Sign seen in ''Series/FreaksAndGeeks'' [[PeriodPiece set c.1980]]
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30	->'''Chandler:''' All right, check out this bad boy. 12 megabytes of ram. 500 megabyte hard drive. Built-in spreadsheet capabilities and a modem that transmits at over 28,000 b.p.s.\
31	'''Phoebe:''' Wow! What are you gonna use it for?\
32	'''Chandler:''' Games and [[TheInternetIsForPorn stuff]].
33	-->-- ''Series/{{Friends}}'', "[[Recap/FriendsS2E8TheOneWithTheList The One with the List]]"[[note]]This was the cutting edge laptop around November 1995, when the episode aired[[/note]]
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35	->''"My dad...when he was shown around a computer once, when he was a young man, and the guy showing him 'round very proudly said...it was in the West Country, and he proudly said...'Yes, right. This is a computer, and, erm, we...we predict that, in the future, there will probably be about eight of these.'"''
36	-->-- '''Creator/BillBailey''', ''Series/{{QI}}''
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39	[[folder:Magazines]]
40	->''"Computers in the future may weigh less than 1.5 tons."''
41	-->-- '''Popular Mechanics''' magazine, 1949 [[note]]Well, they are not wrong...[[/note]]
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44	[[folder:Video Games]]
45	->''"The antique database server used to have all the RAM anyone would ever need: 16 whole kilobytes!"''
46	-->-- '''[[MonsterCompendium Monster Manuel]] factoid''' on an "ancient database server", ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing''
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49	[[folder:Web Animation]]
50	->''"Whatever happened to Platform/{{Laserdisc}}? ''Everything's'' better on Laserdisc!"''
51	-->-- '''Strong Bad''', ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail''
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53	->''"See, that's the trouble with the cutting edge: it's hard to stay on 'cause it's very thin, and it keeps moving as it hacks at your balls."''
54	-->-- '''''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''''' on ''VideoGame/{{Daikatana}}''
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57	[[folder:Webcomics]]
58	->'''Elvis:''' When the cat-sitter traced the number, she realized...THE CALLS WERE COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!!\
59	'''Beatrix:''' Like...the location was turned on...? Or...? Did the caller ping off a super-close tower or something? Was the caller connected to their wi-fi? I mean, the calls could be coming from ANYWHERE.\
60	'''Elvis:''' They heard a text-beepy sound from under the bed.
61	-->-- ''Webcomic/BreakingCatNews''
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64	[[folder:Web Original]]
65	->''"What... what is this strange plastic object he's inserting into his stereo? A 'cah-sette', you say? Never heard of them."''
66	-->-- '''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''s [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Road_House_1989.aspx recap]] of ''Film/RoadHouse1989''
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68	->''"One huge advancement the filmmakers totally missed was the explosion of the internet at about the same time the movie came out (in fact, the only reference to the internet is the official site URL in the closing credits--which naturally uses the wrong slashes). Of course, including the internet would have invalidated the story entirely. If one can just download somebody else’s brain recordings, then there’s no need for a dealer like Lenny, and poof!—there goes the whole movie."''
69	-->-- '''''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''' [[http://www.agonybooth.com/movies/Strange_Days_1995.aspx on]] ''Film/StrangeDays''
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71	->''"Any data file of crucial importance will be padded to 1.45Mb in size."''
72	-->-- '''#99 on the EvilOverlordList''', c. 1996
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74	->''"As for pain skins: We would have loved to do pain skins but look at how great UT's textures look and you'll probably realize that we've already maxed-out what users' systems can handle in terms of textures. It will be a fine, fine day when every video card has texture compression and every system has 128Mb of RAM so we can double or quadruple our use of textures without slowing peoples' systems to a crawl."''
75	-->-- '''[[Creator/EpicGames Mark Rein]]''', ''[[http://web.archive.org/web/20000116024138/http://www.unrealuniverse.com:80/features/articles/gamespotuk.shtml Mark Rein vs Gamespot UK]] at Unreal Universe''[[note]]At 24/10/18, the average RAM for [=PCs=] is between 16 to 64 GB. With video cards doing much more than 'texture compression'.[[/note]]
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77	->''"Metropolis, the City of Tomorrow, last place on the planet with phone booths."''
78	-->-- '''Chris Sims''' and '''David Uzumeri''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/recap-smallville-episode-10-18-booster/ on]] ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', "[[Recap/SmallvilleS10E18Booster Booster]]"
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80	->'''►Voltron Bugzilla◄:''' If [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Pucci]] had obtained Whitesnake more recently he would've had the power to turn stands and memories into pendrives.\
81	'''Spoker:''' If he gained even more recently\
82	The memory would be in form of cloud storage.
83	-->-- Comments on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MME4WA7c-Hk&lc=UghqC2MbJ1Q9tXgCoAEC this]] Website/YouTube video
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86	[[folder:Web Video]]
87	->''"Slowly, but surely, shareware turned into my last cat: it fell in the toilet and died. Not just because technology was speeding ahead at a rapid pace...''\
88	[cut to Caddy inside his car, [[VisualPun the word TECHNOLOGY speeds by outside]]] ''Whoa, look at it go!"''
89	-->-- '''WebVideo/{{Caddicarus}}'''
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91	->''"Besides, don't video conferences feel futuristic and cool?" Or available on all mobile devices this day and age?''
92	-->-- '''LetsPlay/{{Chuggaaconroy}}'''
93
94	->'''Gordon:''' You sound funny, like you're in a well. Are you in a well?\
95	'''Gary:''' It's called speaker phone, get with the decade, man!
96	-->-- ''WebVideo/NinjaTheMissionForce''
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99	[[folder:Western Animation]]
100	->'''Computer:''' INSERT DISK. INSERT DISK.\
101	'''Sprig Plantar:''' Anne, [[WhatAreRecords what the heck is a disk?]]\
102	'''Anne Boonchuy:''' I don't know! [[TrappedInAnotherWorld I'm from another dimension]], [[ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder not]] the 90's!
103	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': "[[Recap/AmphibiaS2E02FortInTheRoad Fort in the Road]]"
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105	->''"[[UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison Thomas Alva Edison]] invented the phonograph. ''(deadly silence)'' The ... record player? ''(more silence)'' It was before [=CDs=]. Plastic hadn't been invented yet."''
106	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'''s Mr. Ratburn running afoul of this trope
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108	->''"They have phones in booths now? ''Finally'', I don't have to lug this heavy cell phone around!"''
109	-->-- '''Hermes Conrad''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''
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111	->''"Sixty years from now, it will be a child's toy. But today, it's the most powerful weapon on Earth."''
112	-->-- '''Vandal Savage''' on a laptop sent back in time, ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''
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115	[[folder:Miscellaneous]]
116	->''"Don't touch that dial"\
117	"Stay tuned"''
118	-->-- Two phrases once used to mean "stay on our station during the commercial break" that refer to antiquated television technology.
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120	->''"This book excerpt is roughly 256 Kilobytes of text in length, and may load slowly if you have a slow modem, or not completely if you are short of memory."''
121	-->-- http://www.adrr.com/lingua/alien.htm
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123	->''"I am a sucker for [[TheNineties 90s]] techno-thrillers about computers, and that I am completely powerless to resist any book that is set, quite literally, “when the information superhighway comes online” in 1998. So crack open a bottle of Zima and put on some Music/{{Jewel}}. Because it’s 1995, and people are about to make some very, very embarrassing predictions."''
124	-->-- '''[[http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/time-can-be-rewritten-13-system-shock-virgin-books-1995/ El Sandifer]]'''
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