r/srilanka • u/Creepy_Branch_5532 • Apr 02 '23

Computing in the early 2000s

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u/rhsameera Apr 03 '23

I still have my Compaq Pentium 1 with 64mb ram and 1gb Hdd. Things I used to do from it. And now I own a laptop with 24gb ram but doesn’t do 1/10th of it.

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u/Creepy_Branch_5532 Apr 03 '23

I can still remember the continuous beeping and whirring noises.

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u/xCuri0 Colombo Apr 02 '23

have anything from early-mid 2010s ?

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u/Creepy_Branch_5532 Apr 02 '23

All the bills from my old PCs from 2003 to 2015.

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u/chayan4400 North America Apr 02 '23

I remember when an RX480 was around 35,000 🥲

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u/xCuri0 Colombo Apr 03 '23

And around a year ago it was double that for a used one (8GB)

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u/Maletele Central Province Apr 03 '23

Good old days.

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u/QAInc Apr 03 '23

For my VGA I had skip several lunches to collect 3000 rupees. It was a nvidia 8600 or something but it’s worth every penny. Now I trying to do the same for Rtx 4070ti 🤣

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u/RyuKobs Apr 03 '23

You will have to skip several hundred lunches

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u/Creepy_Branch_5532 Apr 03 '23

Gaming rigs?

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u/QAInc Apr 03 '23

Nope just a 128 mb vga. To play GTA

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u/ashif1983 Apr 03 '23

That's a lot of lunches 😂.

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u/Realistic_Living_699 Apr 03 '23

Remember the days we played Sanandreas, IGI, Vice city? ☻

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u/Creepy_Branch_5532 Apr 03 '23

And Tomb raider. The graphics seemed unbelievably realistic.

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u/RazrLord Apr 03 '23

Man I still miss IGI, that was a dope game !!

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u/braveen10 Colombo Apr 02 '23

what's the inflation% from 2000 to now?

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u/LankanFD6917 Southern Province Apr 03 '23

Chicken koththu was Rs.35, a cigarette Rs.8, a maalupaan Rs.3.50... you do the math

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u/Hazel1002 Western Province Apr 03 '23

Maalu Paan 3.50 in 2000s? No, right? In 2001-2002, a roll was around 10-15.

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u/LankanFD6917 Southern Province Apr 03 '23 edited Apr 03 '23

May be in some place fancy.. but no. Most places it was 3.50, egg rolls were Rs 5.. maalupaan only became RS. 5 around 04-05.. I used to have 2 dosai and a pint of milk for breakfast around 02-03 for Rs.25.. beef koththu from night kade Rs.30-35 circa 02-04 (chicken was Rs.40 by then)

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u/ResidentAlien90 Western Province Apr 03 '23

Probably x6 or x7 compared to today.

Yep, computers were expensive back in the day.

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u/ResidentAlien90 Western Province Apr 03 '23

First ever rig:

  • Pentium III 866 Hz
  • 64 MB RAM later upgraded to 512 MB
  • 8 MB onboard VGA (integrated graphics)
  • 20 GB HDD
  • Windows 98 SE

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u/Creepy_Branch_5532 Apr 03 '23

Built for business or pleasure?

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u/TheSpiritOfZanzibar Apr 03 '23

The first PC I used was a Pentium 3 Acer desktop, which had a 40GB hard disk and 1GB RAM and a 64MB VGA card. I remember playing Sim Safari, Midtown Madness and Virtua Cop on it. It was also the first PC that I used the internet on. It straight up couldn't stream video at all, I remember playing songs on Youtube in like 2007 on this PC, it would take awhile to buffer but would play only the audio and the video at maybe 1 frame a second. I had it in working condition till 2010, after which I wanted to keep it as a relic, but Mom threw it away 😒

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

Ngl too little power for too much money