Is there anyone here who was already an adult when they first used the internet? I'd be interested in hearing how a 30+ plus year old would have reacted to the internet.

I don't remember my first experience with the internet but I remember how I thought of it - as some 'encyclopedia' type thing that was filled with bonus material attached to CD-ROM programs. I know I also went on Yahooligans for school during computer class. I didn't "really" start using the internet until grade 3 or…

I don't see how 'complexity' makes a computer good. 'Complexity' gives a computer an unreal aura, a sense that what you are using is somehow arcane, it makes it special. That massive grey box in the study with the glowing screen in the dark, which requires some training to use, will never be part of the real world…

@Apotheosis: I honestly have seen too many movies set in the modern world released since ~'99. Have stories changed radically because the internet has limited possible plot turns?

@TendoMentis: Wizard-Google searches that would have shortened the series considerably:

I'm surprised they didn't put the Harry Potter films under the same treatment; most of the mysteries the kids tried to solve could have been done in a sec if they had google.

Hacking, massive traffic jams, rampant pirating, cheap knock offs, scalping... Why do the Chinese seem to be such a... I don't know ... Crude, over-numerous, parasitic bunch?

@Papsky: Or someone with an axe.

So what are the top 10 for laptop users? We can't exactly poke around with our 'rigs', you know, or clean our vents.

@topsully: Maybe that's exactly why the ThinkPad was used as a prop?

@adm1n: Well some apps, such as battery apps or 'wallet' apps, really do add to the phone, while website apps are useful in non-network zones. They also tend to be less cumbersome than webapps, which are constantly loading and reloading.

@Almightywhacko:

@curiouscomputer: Do you mean, it's great that it's not a touchscreen, or that it's bad that it's not a touchscreen? Both are legitimate and plausible arguments.

@MattWPBS: So how many vaguely square inch-sized devices with a screen on it had you seen before the new Nano?

@ortizlgnd4: Yeah, great idea. Go back to the year 1909, experience a few happy years... Then Witness WWI and spend the rest of your life in a radically different society.

@ChrisDaMan: I think our brains would explode from the awesomeness.

Weren't there no HDR videos at all a few weeks ago?

@SyphonFilter: How on earth could so little cost £1,000,000?

I like the images at the top of the page - one showing a train in the country from the early 1870s and the other a plane over a city from 1930. It must have been so exiting to be a tech geek back then, especially if you were born in the 1870s or so. During your childhood and early adulthood you would have been awed by…

@fughedaboudit: No, but there have improvements in surveillance and subterfuge tech.