the shrinking of the mobile phone through the years.
From the shoeboxes used in the eighties to the present where you could lose your phone through a hole in your pocket if you're not careful.

Been Watching "Millennium" a lot recently. The Frank Black Character's super advanced computer system looks incredibly dated.The series was made,What,ten years ago ?.The dail-up modem alaways raises a smile as Frank tries to stop evil in all its forms but has to wait for a connection.

i'm still using a ruby iMac, she's a little slow, but somehow my new broadband internet connection is pretty fast [and i've only recently changed from dial-up so, anything seems faster] faster than my Dad how has a lovley new iMac, but takes longer to load up pages.

2001: A Space Odyssey. Seven years ago, dressed in our crimplene Mao suits, we'd built a ritzy anti-gravity space station and colonised the Moon - but there were no mobiles so we still had to find a phone box.

I know the show is 30 years old but I was watching an episode recently (don't ask me why!) and after they solved that weeks case they went to a bar to relax and wrap events up. They sat and watched fascinated as someone played "Pong." I laughed but gee it made me feel old.

I seem to remember some scriptwriter talking about how modern technology has ruined one of the most crucial and most-used plot devices. In a lot of dramas, thrillers etc. the plot hinges on people not being able to contact other people. And of course these days that scenario can only happen in the most far-fetched circumstances.

Still got an Mac classic in the loft. And - rarity of rarities - an Apple printer (they only made them for a couple of years I think). Not a Mac geek by the way. Just too idle to take them to the tip.

I remember when "The Blair Witch Project" came out in 1999, they said that they’d had to set it five years earlier to make it seem plausible that none of the three had a mobile phone.

I'd love them to do a retro "24" where Kiefer Sutherland has to use phone boxes and they can’t just 're-task the satellites' at the push of a button.

I recently re-read Dougals Coupland's Microsferfs, largely because I thought it would be amusing to read something which captured late 90s zeitgeist and was based in the world of cutting-edge computing. (The story is set among a group of ex-Microsoft employees who have quit to start up their own games company.)
What I found, and not with any surprise, is that Coupand's sentimental take on the family and friendship is the real theme of the book. What did amuse me was a description of a long meeting where the gamesters have to decide whether or not their new invention is going to have sound!

Losing the original thread a little but damn I loved that computer!
Buying Crash! magazine.
It was a good time for me.
Wrong meeting? Sorry.

On a seperate note does anyone remember a short lived magazine called "LM"?.
I'm sure the first issue had Mark E smith on the cover and I'm sure it had some connection with Crash! magazine?

Despite many viewings, Zoolander still brings me out in fits of laughter watching Derek try to "turn left"....

and of course, this....

BUT that cutlerly, designed by Arne Jacobsen, still looks super modern. And don't you dare disagree, because I've just spent a fair whack on an entire set of it...

(This was supposed to be a reply to Archie Valpariso about 2001, not the cutlery in Seinfeld. I haven't bought that)

Is being repeated on some channel, and my misanthropic flatmate has taken to watching it all over again. Good lord, it manages to make a programme made in the late 80s/early 90s look as modern as a stagecoach. It's set in the future as it is, but in the particular episode I saw with a 'flash forward' the blind chap could finally see. Can't imagine how the visually impaired feel about it being another two centuries before the technology is available to correct their eyesight.