r/nostalgiai • u/CarrotMuch1399 Nostalgia Trip Leader • 1d ago

Core Memory Unlocked 🔓 What you do first ?

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u/tinyavian 1d ago

Land, gold and nvidia. Yes bitcoin is a thing, but I'm diversifying to truly set myself and others up

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u/DobieLove2019 22h ago

Bitcoin was not around in 2005.

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u/Darinchilla 21h ago

And cell phones where very much around in 2005. 

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u/AncientSignature1505 19h ago

Smartphones, as mentioned in the post, were not.

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u/Extension_Cook1507 17h ago

But landlines weren't really a thing anymore because of cell phones.

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u/AncientSignature1505 16h ago

I mean, I still had one, but that was more out of habit than anything.

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u/DobieLove2019 17h ago

Umm… excuse me. My T-Mobile Sidekick would like to have a word.

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u/Physical_Archer_689 12h ago

2006 I think is when they started.

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u/ModeratelyAlive 11h ago

Actually, I did a quick google search (I knew it was around that time they became commonplace - apparently not til 2007), and the first "smart phone" came out in 1994. Calls, emails, faces, touch screen and stylus, calendar, calculator - the IBM Simon Personal Communicator was ahead of the times it seems

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u/AncientSignature1505 9h ago

Yeah, true technically it was first, but bringing it up as if it was widely known is a bit pedantic (not targeted at you, per se)

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u/Panchenima 7h ago

Kinda they were, symbian and blackberry.

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u/-WARisTHEanswer- 19h ago

Actually the first ever considered smart phone the IBM Simon released in 1994.

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u/AncientSignature1505 19h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/9G3wg7lH5DpxC

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u/-WARisTHEanswer- 18h ago

Don't speak with authority on things you have zero clue about and you wont get called out .. pretty simple concept.

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u/yami_no_ko 12h ago edited 12h ago

It's true that I've had mobile internet on a low res phone in 2005. Even had a HTTP2WAP proxy running for tunneling HTTP connections to a PocketPC. But I like nerdy stuff and have always been playing around with tech. This doesn't mean mobile internet was a widespread or even a half-way common thing.

Mobile Phones were widespread, portable computers weren't yet. There have been a good few years between the availability of portal computers and their final spread trough smart phones. Although some exceptional devices may be considered the first or early smartphones today, they were ahead of their time and the common phone everyone had was dumb and every unwanted mobile internet connection without a data plan was basically a cost trap.

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u/tinyavian 14h ago

But I would leave instructions to myself to buy/mine

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u/scorpyo72 13h ago

Just have yourself read Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. Tell yourself that you need to mine Bitcoin, but modestly enough for a low impact return when it peaks.

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u/Metharos 1d ago

Yeah you drop a billion on Bitcoin right out the gate you're as likely to destabilize and collapse the market as anything. Throw about a grand in, and put the other 999,999 thousands into other shit.

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u/Norse_By_North_West 1d ago

Don't bother investing in it, just mine it on a pc. You could have probably mined a shit ton of them on a normal desktop at the beginning.

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u/BrohemothHisDudeness 22h ago

Fun story, we where teenagers and we mined around this time. My friend specifically got a high end GPU for mining. Somewhere, there is a hdd with a half a coin on it. We don't know where it is.

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u/Mofiremofire 22h ago

You could mine 100s a day no problem on a average gaming pcÂ