Homo-Sapiens-Tech

Trying to remember what my first PC looked like, how it felt and worked, and how fast it was, makes me think that 2002 is really that far away, and that the smartphone sitting on my desk next to me would outperform that first PC of mine spec wise and of course when it comes to speed as well, without any chance for the PC to at least stand decently against it. If I remember correctly I was having a 1.7 Ghz AMD processor on that oldie, some 64 Mb video card, a 80 GB HDD and I was fortunate enough to have a CD writer as well.

It cost about $800 if my memory is not cheating on me and sold it some years ago with probably $50... My long time passed away uncle comes to my memory when writing this post also, as he was at some point asking me, him being a villager that lived most of his life in his native village, what a PC is and how does it work... and what can you do with it. It was so hard to explain to someone that only used a radio as a tech gadget for his entire life how a PC works. Needless to mention that until he passed away internet became a reality of our lives and I was asked about it as well.

My first access to internet was at a school's PC and the first things that I googled for were hot girls and tunned cars. Haven't evolved too much since then... We didn't even had unlimited internet at that time and by the time I got to have unlimited data on my PC I was close to leaving to college. Have to mention though that I was living in Romania, as I am doing right now also, and we joined the tech revolution a bit late, but we are catching up on you guys at a fast pace. Throughout high-school I had to go to internet cafes with friends to play Counter Strike online so you know.

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Once I got unlimited data pack on my PC I discovered the miracles of torrents and got to download tons of movies and music from piratebay... Again, we're talking Eastern Europe and the early days of technological revolution for me and my country. We didn't had smartphones yet, but it sure felt good to have access to the world wide web through those old PCs and to get our hands on so much stuff, illegally of course.

I had a giant collection of music, tons of stolen movies and free internet porn and things couldn't get any better. Actually they did, as in 2004-2005 if not mistaking, youtube was launched and that's when my collection of music was becoming useless and when the world seemed to become so accessible and diverse. I mean, nowadays there's basically anything that you can find on youtube. Having it at the end of my fingertips it meant that storage was no longer a problem. You can always find your favorite music where you left it and size don't matter any longer.

Going to college I had my first social media account opened, and that was a HI5 one. Don't even know if that exists anymore, but it was somehow of a prelude for facebook and a way of showing off with whatever the moment had to offer. Facebook melted out my experience with HI5 and it has built an almost one decade relationship between me and hundreds of people all over the world, with most of them never having the chance to meet... or talk to. Facebook made somehow everyone available and was sculpting virtual identities for all of us.

It also made online communications way easier with its messenger app and later with the launch of whatsapp. Smartphones, at first non touch screen ones, made ditching old texts seem so natural and since then no communication has been the same. You can literally send the whole picture of a situation and there's no need to ignite one's imagination when talking a life event, which is not literally a good thing if you ask me. A useful one though...

I had my awakening moment, when I simply got over saturated by Facebook, in the summer of 2017 and ever since I haven't used the damn app, nor instagram. I still have my twitter and it comes at hand tbh. I would never get back to using facebook and I wrote quite a few posts in regards of why I consider it a plague rather than a gift for humanity. I also don't believe that it was invented by Suckerberg in his dorm.

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I don't know who Satoshi is and whether he has really invented BTC, but I'm glad someone did, because blockchain technology and crypto is by far the most disruptive piece of tech that's currently occupying a big part of my life. It managed to change so much the way I look at money, investing, spending time online, privacy, entitlement over my own personal virtual data and freedom of speech that it is absolutely pointless to even try and put that into words.

Never have I imagined when talking to my uncle about PCs that at some point in the future there will be another type of currency, other than what the society of those times was offering, and I would hold, earn, trade and transact it on almost daily basis. We didn't even had credit cards back then... It's less than 20 years since I had that conversation with the uncle but on the evolutionary scale of technology it feels like ages. I mean, we've got used to have all these things at hand, but at some point it was difficult to even envision them.

Someone did though, otherwise we wouldn't be able to be talking and owning such marvelous things. Fuck it, I wasn't even imagining three years ago that I will be able to earn cryptocurrencies by blogging, or that I'll ever blog... Technology is shaping our lives in unimaginable ways and it's currently the major catalyst for tectonic moves in the world. It's what actually makes the world spinning... and there's so much to be discovered and produced en mass. I wish my uncle was alive, maybe he'd give me some crypto money for his pension fund... and I would for sure had to explain who the fuck Satoshi Nakamoto is...

Thanks for attention,
Adrian

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