| With Google and Microsoft making new application | | | | because of how slow modems were. Now I can |
| that you can access via the internet the only thing | | | | probably download about 1 gig in an hour if I have a |
| you will need to store on your own computer will be | | | | real quick broadband internet connection. |
| pictures, videos, and articles. Everybody will soon be | | | | With the first computer that I had had a 40 Meg |
| able to do everything from designing sites, creating | | | | hard drive and I thought that I would never be able |
| graphics to things as simple as writing papers via web | | | | to use up that much space. Now, I have 2 hard |
| based applications. This is because of the language | | | | drives one 100 Gig and the other 60 gigs and I |
| AJAX and the web surpassing Web 2.0 technology | | | | constantly have to delete things that I no longer |
| and going to the new Web 3.0. | | | | need because otherwise I will need to get a larger |
| Nowadays everybody always wants a bigger and | | | | drive. |
| bigger hard drive every time they get a new | | | | Technology is changing so fast these days. It used |
| computer. They feel that this is needed as desktop | | | | to be that maybe a new computer would come onto |
| applications are growing larger and larger in space | | | | the market every year. Now I see new ones almost |
| requirements. Because of the new technology that | | | | everyday. When I had a 486 DX66 I had 16 Megs of |
| exists today more than one user can access the | | | | RAM which I thought was screaming fast. On my |
| same applications without it slowing down for | | | | latest system I have just under 4 Gigs of RAM and |
| everybody else. | | | | think I may need to try upgrading to 8 gigs real soon. |
| I remember the first version of Windows by | | | | Maybe one of these days the US Space Shuttle will |
| Microsoft maybe requiring 8 Megs on your hard drive. | | | | work based on a pentium instead of the snail slow |
| Now with Windows XP it is taking up more than 1 gig | | | | system they currently use. Most of their problems |
| of my hard drive. I used to have to wait an hour to | | | | are because of the old technology they use every |
| download a simple DOS gave that was only 2 Megs | | | | day. |