What product started your love of tech?
Aaron O'Leary
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Do you remember when technology blew your mind for the first time ever and kickstarted your tech ambition? For me it was the iPod Nano, I remember seeing the ad and being hooked on tech and especially music tech ever since.
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Siddarth Jain@sidphoenix
Video call and messaging over Yahoo Messenger.. 😅
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First time I made a research on Internet. It was on Altavista in 1996... So huge...
@olivier_toledano Ah I wish I was old enough to experience that, was only two at the time!
@aaronoleary Am I really that old? 😅
Video calling over skype :)
Microsoft Encarta. Seeing an interactive encyclopedia was mind blowing when there was a huge stack of printed books on the shelf next to the computer.
I was part of the Nintendo 64 fever! Generally speaking, videogames have encouraged a lot my love for tech and visual development.
@kathrine_reed glad to be the one! Do you relate to this as well?
@callmejeff Ooooh I have an N64 and love it!
I think it might be Norton Commander ("NC"). It was the first user interface I have seen as a kid when I just started using the computer. Till then it was only DOS commands
3 things popped into my head
· Dialup
· Gameboy
· Palm Pilot
Honorable mention: Tamagotchi
VisiCalc on the Apple II in 1979.
Even though I was using several tech products for a long time now, my love of tech to explore new products started after using Notion!
2016 -Spotify in the UK. Was blown by the ability to listen to music so seamlessly
JPEG. When I first understood how the image compression algorithm works, I was fascinated about the signal processing technologies. So simple yet so powerful!
When my parents bought our first computer. I was fascinated 😲
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when I could shake the screen with msn notification.. it was huge and I shake my friends' screen like crreeeaazzyyy
TeamViewer!
Ever since the nokia engage came out... I was kind of hooked to tech...
When I got my first Smartphone! I felt like the happiest and wealthiest person in my house.
Growing up, we didn't have a computer at home. One weekend dad took me to his office when they got one for work. Played a game which I think was called Bricks. Got hooked.