History Quotes / TechnologyMarchesOn

->''"Whatever happened to UsefulNotes/{{Laserdisc}}? ''Everything's'' better on Laserdisc!"''

-->-- ''Literature/LifesLittleInstructionBook, Vol. 1'' (The book's three volumes were released throughout TheNineties, when the Internet was new to consumers.)

-->-- ''Literature/LifesLittleInstructionBook'' (The book's three volumes were released throughout TheNineties, when the Internet was new to consumers.)

->''Help our school buy a computer!''
-->-- Sign seen in '''''Series/FreaksAndGeeks''''' [[PeriodPiece set c.1980]]

->''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.''
-->-- http://www.adrr.com/lingua/alien.htm

->"Thomas Alva Edison invented the phonograph. ''(deadly silence)'' The ... record player? ''(more silence)'' It was before [=CDs=]. Plastic hadn't been invented yet."
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'s'' Mr. Ratburn running afoul of this trope

->''"Whatever happened to Laserdisc? ''Everything's'' better on Laserdisc!"''
-->-- '''WebAnimation/{{Strong Bad|Email}}'''

->''"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."''
-->--'''''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''''' on ''{{VideoGame/Daikatana}}''

->''"Metropolis, the City of Tomorrow, last place on the planet with phone booths."''
-->--'''Chris Sims''' and '''David Uzumeri''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/recap-smallville-episode-10-18-booster/ on]] ''{{Series/Smallville}}'' ("Booster")

->''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.''
-->-- '''[[http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/time-can-be-rewritten-13-system-shock-virgin-books-1995/ El Sandifer]]'''

-->--''Series/{{Friends}}'', [[note]]This was the cutting edge laptop around Nov 1995, the time of the air of 'The One with the List'[[/note]]


->"Don't touch that dial"\\
"Stay tuned"
-->-- Two phrases once used to mean "stay on our station during the commercial break" that refer to antiquated television technology.

-> '''Gordon''': You sound funny, like you're in a well. Are you in a well?\\
'''Gary''': It's called speaker phone, get with the decade, man!
-->-- ''WebVideo/NinjaTheMissionForce''

->''Any data file of crucial importance will be padded to 1.45Mb in size.''
-->-- '''#99 on the EvilOverlordList''', c. 1996

->''What... what is this strange plastic object he's inserting into his stereo? A 'cah-sette', you say? Never heard of them.''
-->-- '''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''s [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Road_House_1989.aspx recap]] of ''Film/RoadHouse1989''

->"Sixty years from now, it will be a child's toy. But today, it's the most powerful weapon on Earth."
-->-- '''Vandal Savage''' on a laptop sent back in time, ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''

->''"The antique database server used to have all the RAM anyone would ever need: 16 whole kilobytes!"''
-->-- '''[[MonsterCompendium Monster Manuel]] factoid''' on an "ancient database server", ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing''

->''"And they probably redesigned the whole sickbay too! I know Engineers, they LOVE to change things!"''
-->-- '''Dr. Leonard [=McCoy=]''', ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture''

->''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."

->''"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."''
-->--'''''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''' [[http://www.agonybooth.com/movies/Strange_Days_1995.aspx on]] ''Film/StrangeDays''

->''"Besides, don't video conferences feel futuristic and cool?" Or available on all mobile devices this day and age?''
-->-- '''{{LetsPlay/Chuggaaconroy}}'''

->''"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."''
-->-- '''[[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]]

->"They have phones in booths now? ''Finally'', I don't have to lug this heavy cell phone around!"
-->--'''Hermes Conrad''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''

->'''Computer:''' INSERT DISK. INSERT DISK.
->'''Sprig Plantar:''' Anne, [[WhatAreRecords what the heck is a disk?]]
->'''Anne Boonchuy:''' I don't know! [[TrappedInAnotherWorld I'm from another dimension]], [[ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder not]] the 90's!
-->--''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': "[[Recap/AmphibiaS2E02FortInTheRoad Fort in the Road]]"

->'''►Voltron Bugzilla◄:''' If [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Pucci]] had obtained Whitesnake more recently he would've had the power to turn stands and memories into pendrives.
->'''Spoker:''' If he gained even more recently
->The memory would be in form of cloud storage.
-->-- Comments on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MME4WA7c-Hk&lc=UghqC2MbJ1Q9tXgCoAEC this YouTube video]]

->'''Hilary:''' DAD! YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT I JUST SAW!\\
...Okay, you won't believe it. But I need an old camera! Non-digital! NOW!
->'''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?...
->'''Hilary:''' UGH! How did you people get ANYTHING done back in your day?!
->'''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.
-->--''[[ComicStrip/SallyForthHoward Sally Forth]]'' for July 12, 2022

->''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...''\\
[cut to Caddy inside his car, [[VisualPun the word TECHNOLOGY speeds by outside]]] ''Whoa, look at it go!''
-->-- '''{{WebVideo/Caddicarus}}'''

->'''Elvis''': When the cat-sitter traced the number, she realized...THE CALLS WERE COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!!
->'''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.
->'''Elvis''': They heard a text-beepy sound from under the bed.
-->--''Webcomic/BreakingCatNews''

->'''Anne Boonchuy:''' I don't know! [[TrappedInAnotherWorld I'm from another dimension,]] [[ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder not]] the 90's!

-->-- '''{{WebVideo/Caddicarus}}'''

-->--''[[ComicStrip/SallyForthHoward Sally Forth]]'' for July 12, 2022

-->-- Comments on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MME4WA7c-Hk&lc=UghqC2MbJ1Q9tXgCoAEC this YouTube video]]

-->-- '''[[WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail Strong Bad]]'''

-> '''Gordon''': You sound funny, like you're in a well. Are you in a well?
-> '''Gary''': It's called speaker phone, get with the decade, man!

-->-- '''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''s [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Road_House_1989.aspx recap]] of ''Film/RoadHouse''

-->--''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': "[[Recap/AmphibiaS2E02FortInTheRoad Fort in the Road]]"

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-->'''Computer:''' INSERT DISK. INSERT DISK.
-->'''Sprig Plantar:''' Anne, [[WhatAreRecords what the heck is a disk?]]
-->'''Anne Boonchuy:''' I don't know! [[TrappedInAnotherWorld I'm from another dimension,]] [[ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder not]] the 90's!

-->--''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'', "[[Recap/AmphibiaS2E02FortInTheRoad Fort in the Road]]"

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-->-- '''Popular Mechanics''' magazine, 1949

-->--''Series/{{Friends}}'', [[note]]This was the cutting edge laptop around Oct 1996, the time of the air of 'The One with the List'[[/note]]

-->'''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.\\

-->--''Series/{{Friends}}''

-->-- '''[[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 19/06/17, the average RAM for [=PCs=] is between 8 and 16 GB.[[/note]]

-->-- '''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2011/11/time-can-be-rewritten-13-system-shock.html El Sandifer]]'''

-->-- Well known, but ''very'' dated, [=PSA=]

-->-- '''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2011/11/time-can-be-rewritten-13-system-shock.html Phil Sandifer]]'''