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sd4.sd-lj.si — It's amazing how quickly technology advances these days...

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  • voogzy, on 10/10/2007, -31/+187truly amazing what it has come to ...
    This hard drive was on display in the museum of computing, a part of a computer and modern communications festival we held in Murska Sobota, Slovenia.
    more pictures and info here: http://www.frisk.si or http://www.sobotainfo.com/index.php?mode=gallery&g ...
    • L4WL3RS34L, on 10/10/2007, -16/+65Ha, he's getting dugg down on his own story.
      • Rukaribe, on 10/10/2007, -155/+4Just post the link, leave a description, shut up, and let the story speak for itself.
        • Salzar, on 10/10/2007, -1/+89wow heaven forbid that others links may be interesting!
          • LordVance, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8Digg law requires me submit each individual link as a separate article, it is the only way.
            /sarcasm
      • portis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29She's holding an outdated SD card. She should instead be holding a MicroSD card.
        • GhostCow, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Yeah, and my main microsd is 4gb, not 1
          • PARAPA, on 10/10/2007, -5/+6Not much of a comparison then is it tho, idiot.
    • gr3yn3t, on 10/10/2007, -53/+1You could've added that comment in the description.. What a novel idea!
      • ryodoan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+43but then his links would not be clickable.
      • voogzy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+30in truth... at first i forgot to add the links so I added them as comments... why do people even trouble them selfs with such details and why does it even matter?
        • expat001, on 10/10/2007, -2/+19Because my parents hate me and I need to take my frustration out on a person I don't know!

          /sarcasm
          • honeymustardn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6We knew it was sarcasm.
          • DharmaTurtle, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2This is digg, honey dear. Nobody understands you or your sarcasm.
    • tyywebb, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15Long live the singularity!
      • one1plus1one, on 10/10/2007, -0/+22For those of you wondering about TYYWEBB's comment, the "Singularity" refers to a theory advocated by Dr. Ray Kurzweil, in which technology is growing at an exponential rate.

        For example, if you took someone from the year 1700 and transported them to the year 1799 they wouldn't notice much difference.

        If you take someone from the year 1800 and transport them to the year 1899 they might be slightly amazed.

        If you take someone from 1900 and drop them in time's square, they would be shocked and astonished, and feel as if they were on an alien planet.

        The same effect will occur when taking someone from the year 2000 and dropping them into the year 2050 -- they will perceive an "alien planet" and not recognize the new technology. Sometime around 2050 technological growth will begin to spike towards "infinity". (So the theory of the "singularity" goes, which I personally believe, but it is controversial.)
        • Koldkompress, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4You can hear Kurzweil talk about his Kurzweils law here:
          http://longnow.org/projects/seminars/
          Which also has many seminars, some involving the Singularity etc.
          Long Now is a foundation with foresight being the theme, and what can happen on a large scale (200+ years)
    • donwilson2, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8Site is starting to slow down -- http://sd4.sd-lj.si.nyud.net:8080/diggit/20yago.jp ...
    • Juntistik, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Honestly I'd take the giant disk drive. It just looks too cool
      • streak, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The disk drive might actually have been faster for streaming.
    • Clearz, on 10/11/2007, -2/+88This is what to expect in 2027 in the way of storage media
      http://www.johncleary.net/sd.jpg
    • Juntistik, on 10/19/2007, -3/+1Anyone stop to think maybe the guy didn't have a micro SD card on him at the time? I think he just took the card out of his camera and took a picture with it and then used the internal memory to save it.

      .... just a thought..
    • slazer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1that's a HUGE disk!
    • krisis3cool, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0http://www.kingsofchaos.com/recruit.php?uniqid=wug ... join the war!
  • voogzy, on 10/10/2007, -34/+33The second link is http://www.sobotainfo.com/index.php?mode=gallery&g ...
    my mistake...
    • Salzar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Thanks for the great additional content, these old parts show how far we have come
  • whatson, on 10/10/2007, -21/+11Very very cool!
    • bassgoonist, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7Why didn't they put a microSD card next to it instead though? Those even come in 2gb sizes now...
      • brutalentropy, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2hell there are 16gb SD cards out now. I think that would be even more impressive... "One of these would have been 16 of these!"
  • 1iProd, on 10/22/2007, -5/+717Should have used a microSD card, that would REALLY show how far we've come.
    • aywwts4, on 10/18/2007, -3/+80For those who haven't seen a microsd card http://www.watermarkfactory.com/resources/terms/im ...

      They are thin as a dime, light as possible, the max is 6gig at the moment but 8 gig sizes will be on the market shortly, and 1 gig costs about 12 dollars.
      • Dustmuffins, on 10/10/2007, -9/+212 dollars? I paid 30 for mine!
      • shadowblade989, on 10/10/2007, -1/+46I've seen the regular microSD cards, but where did you find these floating ones?
        • daxsymbiont, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2OMG AMSTERPIECE OF TECHNOLOGY.

          FLOATATIONINSTM
      • bioret2, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8 ...
      • ACMoxon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Got one for my phone, which has a spring-loaded slot -- and I'm afraid every time I pop it out that it'll go flying, and I won't be able to find it because it's so dang small!
      • Shawn4168, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3They're much, much thinner than a dime.
        • aywwts4, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Because I'm that sort of guy, (an ass) I just popped out my micro-SD and had a dime on my desk. If you discount the tiny raised ridges on the edges of a dime, it is almost exactly the same thickness.

          I dont think "the tiny raised ridges on the edges of a dime" = "much much thinner"
    • Yazoo, on 10/10/2007, -4/+42I think i could've written 1gb worth of binary in a smaller area than on that old thing.
      • Firehed, on 10/10/2007, -2/+33Doubt it - I've actually done the math on the first hard drive made (the size of a washing machine with 5MB capacity), and it came out to about a third of a square millimeter per bit.
    • FenrisUlf, on 10/10/2007, -1/+28True, microSD is about the size of your pinky nail.
      • theprez, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14Anybody else that lifted up their hand to look at their pinky?
        • bennison, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Guilty as charged...
        • trib4lmaniac, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Bah, I have now; but only because you mentioned it.
    • bobartig, on 10/10/2007, -3/+38They should have gotten a 4 GB MicroSD card, then painted 1/4 of it yellow with an arrow pointing to it saying "1GB somewhere in here".

      Seriously, using a standards SD card? That thing's a boat! All my flash drives are like stick of trident gum now, and my flash cards are MicroSD =P
      • juicebag, on 10/10/2007, -4/+17Though they are cool, I don't see how that is convenient.
        • iRoy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I've got a 1 GB MicroSD card in my cell phone. They are convenient because you can store quite a few MP3's as well as pictures (My phone has a 2.0 megapixel camera w/ flash).

          I think he should have used a MicroSD card as well but I guess you wouldn't be able to see the "1 GB" printed on the card because it is so damn small.
    • voogzy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+29I would have but at the time the only thing at hand was the one on the picture...
      and the picture wasn't taken to be put on digg. we just taught it would be interesting to see.
      i see no point in using a 2,4gb or any other capacity card for comparison. the point was 1gb vs 1gb.
      and yes it is too bad i didn't have a 1GB microSD at hand...
      • crash331, on 10/10/2007, -14/+2The point is that a 2 or 4gb SD card is the same size as a 1gb SD card, so the comparison of 1gb to 1gb didn't really work that well.
    • tnoy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Fry's Electronics occasionally sells a micro SD card, with a micro-mini SD card adapter and a mini-SD card to SD adapter in a kit. Its like Matryoshka dolls for nerds.
  • macktitude, on 10/10/2007, -20/+9great pic, how times have changed...
  • Cymrubeats, on 10/24/2007, -13/+357Man, that's one giant 1GB card in that guys hand, hasn't MicroSD hit there yet?
  • Lane, on 10/21/2007, -7/+241or up to 32gb in that same SD size.
    • tomis, on 10/10/2007, -14/+9Yet the flash based iPods top out at 16GB, even while technology marches forward, some companies are always behind the curve.
      • Macskeeball, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26There's this little thing called cost to consider.
        • MrMongoose, on 10/10/2007, -4/+5I'm sure it would have "cost" apple a bundle to put a simple card slot on the iphone and touch, right?
          • daldredge, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Yes - can't have users upgrading their products if it causes future sales to be lost.
          • theprez, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Take your apple hate to an apple story...
    • Goop, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13Yeah, they should have lined up 32 (or 64) of those old, mainframe drives and THEN held up the SD card.
  • ChronicFiles, on 10/10/2007, -5/+196Mirror at http://m3.bestpicever.com/piles/?s=1gb
  • L4WL3RS34L, on 10/10/2007, -32/+14It took me over 5 minutes to load that pic, is the filesize 1GB or something?
  • theShiba, on 10/10/2007, -18/+163Did we really need a 2592x1944 picture to show us that? This is not going to survive digg...
    • zybch, on 10/23/2007, -3/+25And, yep, its down. Pity the server didn't have 1Gb of bandwidth.
      • doshindude, on 10/23/2007, -1/+8That site server is prolly running on that engine of a hard drive in the pic.......>_>
    • appleswitch, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Some of us like quality.
    • ButchersBoy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2It's only 84k
  • MrMysterious, on 10/23/2007, -9/+63This server running on a 20 year old Apple IIe?
    • gravis86, on 10/23/2007, -3/+17Apple II gs. Get it straight.
      • hanapbuhay, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I miss 1.44MB homemade high-density floppies... NOT!
  • DeathRay2K, on 10/10/2007, -13/+5Already down... :(
  • thatsbologna, on 10/10/2007, -19/+4down after 30 diggs LOL
    • allyant, on 10/10/2007, -4/+9Will people stop saying that, what has the number of diggs the article received got to go with the site being down?
      It's not like only 30 people visited the site.
      • ufia, on 10/10/2007, -4/+4Until you can provide us with the actual number of hits, the number of diggs is the only measure we've got. Stop whining!
  • Alex4412, on 10/10/2007, -14/+2Or get a microSD 8gb!
  • ekravchenko, on 10/10/2007, -30/+5the site is down... :( yeah yeah blah blah, huge 20 years ago vs small today... meh blah blah blah buried
  • butiamjessica, on 10/10/2007, -21/+445 diggs and the site is down? Badddd sd4.sd.si whatever .com
  • samadam, on 10/10/2007, -6/+61I think it is important to look at even smaller scales. Just about two years ago, well into the internet age, I bought a generic 512 MB usb stick for about $30. I figured it was a fair price. Now I can get a higher quality one with twice the capacity for a third the price. That's in just 2 years. I know flash memory has plummeted in price, but it just goes to show how quickly we are moving forward.
    • onewingedangel9, on 10/10/2007, -5/+3Yeah that doesn't mean you shouldn't buy technology though. I mean if you keep waiting for more space and lower price you'll never buy anything becuase it will keep getting better. It does make it real nice when you wait 5 or so years to buy another computer.
    • da_bradler, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2The thing is we aren't really figuring out how to make things cheaper, were just figuring out how to make things smaller, it would still cost about the same now that it did then to make that same hard drive, but the difference is now we have figured out how to make that hard drive thousands of times smaller and in that way cheaper. A platter of processors costs pretty close to the same except we can now fit four processors in the space of 1 and thousand transistors in the place of 10
      • goanalog, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4the gb card was probably cheaper to buy than the other was to build, wouldn't you think you insufferable nincompoop
    • uidzero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16When USB drives first came out I bought a Sony USB vault memory stick. I guess it was like early 2000's (2002 or 2003 I think). It was 128MB and I got it ON SALE for $299. :-/
    • xJudahx, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1yes
  • D3koy, on 10/10/2007, -12/+56Yet we still can't keep a page from crashing...
    • JSchwage, on 10/10/2007, -1/+21Pages don't crash. Servers do.
      • codazzo, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1oh man I was SO expecting that! you where right there under "view 1 reply"! you are SO weirdly awesome!
    • uziko, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5pages don't crash, they fail
    • appletalk, on 11/10/2007, -1/+1Pages don't crash, they turn unresponsive.
    • DolFan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Pages don't crash - Congressmen bend them over. (Sorry, I couldn't resist)
  • Ascendancy5, on 10/10/2007, -17/+260 diggs, and the server is already down. Come on now...
  • pukiman, on 10/10/2007, -14/+10420 years, is not that "quick".
    • donmanguno, on 10/10/2007, -3/+53that statement alone is indicative of how quickly technology advances in our day.
    • uziko, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13it took 10,000 years to invent fire (that's a guess), 20 years is lightspeed
      • Firehed, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4The better your technology is, the faster it continues to advance. It's exponential growth, not linear. What did you expect?
      • grumpyrain, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4You got to remember that half the folk hanging around here weren't born in 1987.
      • Enroth, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0But it took 30 seconds to get from the spark to a small camp fire and only hours from there to burn down an entire forest.
    • xJudahx, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1yes
    • sleepwalkers, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I think the point is the progress made in 20 years. Other fields don't evolve nearly as quickly.
  • staticoranges, on 10/12/2007, -54/+168But will it Blend?
  • Doomsan, on 10/10/2007, -6/+29size matters...
  • CrasyMike, on 10/10/2007, -13/+7If we keep posting the same thing over and over we make more of a point. Server down. Server down. Down already. Server down.
  • Rikushix, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17It's one thing to pop up a picture of a super computer and say "This is 64 kb 30 years ago" but it's pretty amazing to have someone hold up the tiny example of engineering against what it was like 20 years ago.
  • airwalkery2k, on 10/10/2007, -5/+56Plus, consider the price difference. I'm sure that big hunk o' junk probably cost a couple million back in its day. Whereas that little card can be bought for $10 from Wal-mart.
    • 80hd, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14The big one looks like it runs on jet fuel
  • Doorfingers, on 10/10/2007, -18/+8Is 20 years really quickly?
    • pezoamo, on 10/10/2007, -6/+4Good point. Thats like my WHOLE life. Ive been here for a ***** while
      • allan17, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4No, you really haven't.
      • daldredge, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Too bad you didn't learn proper English sometime during those 20 years.
  • hadak, on 10/10/2007, -12/+2mirror please.
  • DolphinGL, on 10/10/2007, -12/+52That SD card is pretty big. I have a 1GB microSD that's a fraction of that size.
    • perkoff, on 10/10/2007, -10/+5Very impressive.
    • graduisic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I think there are 4GB microSD's now. I have a 2gb SD in my chocolate. I think that the card was a better buy than the phone.
    • crossmr, on 10/10/2007, -3/+510/3 is a fraction....
  • IllBeBack, on 10/10/2007, -11/+5Maybe they should have had that picture cached on a 1GB SD card to keep the site up.
  • reyazi, on 10/10/2007, -11/+1for the guy asking about the micro SD here's a comparison:
    http://www.konovo.com/flash%20memory%20card/micro% ...
  • daradib, on 10/10/2007, -13/+2Mirror: http://sd4.sd-lj.si.nyud.net:8080/diggit/20yago.jp ...
  • daradib, on 10/10/2007, -13/+2Mirror: http://sd4.sd-lj.si.nyud.net:8080/diggit/20yago.jp ...
  • eyefork, on 10/10/2007, -8/+1The card really adds a hint of elegance
  • Samsong, on 10/10/2007, -12/+1http://sd4.sd-lj.si.nyud.net:8080/diggit/20yago.jp ...
    Mirror...
  • notclaude, on 10/10/2007, -12/+1Mirror: http://images.xnr.be/e966008db17eb0ba77c02b9ac8d10 ...
  • ThreeDee912, on 10/10/2007, -12/+1Mirror via CoralCDN
    http://sd4.sd-lj.si.nyud.net:8080/diggit/20yago.jp ...
  • cosmotic, on 10/10/2007, -30/+3It's not amazing at all. And these days? It progresses at a constant rate. This is lame.
    • a1532b, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14Really? You don't find that much advancement in 20 years to be amazing? Not only is the new technology a fraction of the size, but it's gone from requiring a motor and a gigantic mechanical element to being stored completely on an electronic flash medium. To make it even greater, that old hard drive probably cost 12-15000 dollars back then and now you can get the same for 10 or 20. Seriously, you're probably saying that because you've grown up with this technology and it doesn't seem new to you, but trust us adults when we say it is an amazing advancement.
      • xister, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4That's right! Why, when we wanted to write data, we had to chisel stone tablets!
  • mf0thrilla, on 10/24/2007, -5/+224That iPod must have been a real bitch to jog with.
    • IMustBeEmo, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11Nah just better exercise. Zooming in on that picture, it looks like it says 32 KG / 70 LBS
    • huwy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Ah I remember the days when jogging was a sport for gentlemen.
      • Jawsh91, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I believe it was pronounced "Yogging"

        /anchorman quote
    • Christbait, on 10/10/2007, -5/+3I bet it would be a real solution for fatty's to drop some pounds much quicker.
      • DephexTwin, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2It's funny because it's your mom.
    • keysersoze525, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9It was called the iPodium
      • sleepwalkers, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3The iCan'tLiftThisDamnThing, available in 32 and 64 KB.
    • Aedilus, on 10/10/2007, -6/+3Funny, yes, but I can't believe you got that many diggs. I almost want to digg you down because of your numerous diggs.
  • compgeek, on 10/10/2007, -14/+2jesus that thing on the left is Fing HUGE!!!!!
  • abaddon, on 10/10/2007, -15/+3you know i just realized.. no matter how much porn you have on your hard drive it seem to sound like more then what it is...... example i have 4GB of porn and 4 GB of music which sounds like more... i know completely off topic but the eureka moment came while looking at the pic.....
    • WolfDV, on 10/10/2007, -2/+94gb of either is not very much . .. you need to start downloading more
    • Christbait, on 10/10/2007, -4/+3YOU NEED TO DOWNLOAD MOAR INTERNETS
  • hawksfan03, on 10/10/2007, -6/+12it appears this person is still using the same server they purchased 20 years ago too...
  • akf2000, on 10/10/2007, -15/+3Moore's law, *****.
    • casual7y, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Moores law applies to computing power in the form of silicon semiconductors.

      not so much memory storage.
    • 16x9, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Are we "*****" because you don't understand what Moore's Law is? Or are we "*****" anyway and it's just a happy coincidence that you don't know that Moore's Law doesn't apply in this situation?

      I'm just askin'.
  • whatson, on 10/10/2007, -10/+31Because of DIGG Effect the whole Slovenian (.si) internet is going down! :)
  • EvilHeadBoy, on 10/10/2007, -10/+5you mean, a gigabite was a washing mashine back then? COOL! I think gigabites should definantly still do our laundry
  • truegodofwar, on 10/10/2007, -8/+2Website must be hosted on the 220V drive.
  • Subterfug, on 10/10/2007, -2/+54I edited it to show how 1GB will look in the future.
  • Tivor, on 10/21/2007, -10/+35The guy needs to cut his fingernails.
    • butiamjessica, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14How lame can you be?
    • nufa, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16That's a woman's hand, idiot
      • uidzero, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12They don't know what a woman looks like. They must have wandered over here from Slashdot. ;-)
      • ApolloXLII, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1woah... man hands.
      • appleswitch, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2...a what?
    • p0tent1al, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I love how there is always a dumb ass comment from someone that notices something in the background that really isn't important otherwise.

      Like the next comment is going to be "Dude, what is up with that guy in the background, it looks like he is holding some silly pose or something?!?!"
      • Netrilix, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Dude, I love that type of floor pattern.
      • rajulkabir, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1No, the probem with the person in the background is that he/she has absolutely no ass.
    • teh_techie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4OH MY GOD! You need to trim your BRAIN!
      Seriously, wouldn't that be neat?
  • kaskoosek, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6I actually thought it would be bigger due to some 50s hard disk pic of a KB.
  • CWal37, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Actually I couldn't figure out where the old 1GB was at first, I thought it was the gravity gun from Half-Life 2. The impending Orange Box release and TF2 beta must be driving me insane.
  • flamov, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2Should have shown a Micro SD card because they can shoot up to 2-3 GB's
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