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What product started your love of tech?
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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Anna Filou
I think I was always in love with tech. I grew up around computers, so there wasn’t anything that truly blew my mind. But I remember the first time I saw Google. I must have been around 3 or 4. I asked my dad what it is and he said you type the subject you want to learn more about, and it lists everything there is to know about it.
Then I remember playing flipper and solitaire on an IBM laptop running Windows 1995. Endless entertainment.
Then having a mobile phone that can play Java games. That’s when I discovered you can download things from the web and put them into other devices — life changing 😆
Then I saw a demo on YouTube of the Oculus Rift + Omni treadmill. That was probably the closest it got to mind-blowing. I thought I can finally go into the game! But so far I’ve never had the chance to experience a game in true VR (with an omnidirectional treadmill and natural controls). 🥲 Maybe when I do, that’ll be what blows my mind.
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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!
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.
3 things popped into my head
· Dialup
· Gameboy
· Palm Pilot
Honorable mention: Tamagotchi
I was part of the Nintendo 64 fever! Generally speaking, videogames have encouraged a lot my love for tech and visual development.
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 I got my first Smartphone! I felt like the happiest and wealthiest person in my house.
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
when I could shake the screen with msn notification.. it was huge and I shake my friends' screen like crreeeaazzyyy
