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.

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.

Since I was very, very little, I had a devotion to apple products. I remember entering apple stores and trying out all iPads and wanting one so badly. I got my first iPod when I was 10, and I fell in love with apps and everything involving tech :)

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.

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!

January 1984, Apple's Super Bowl commercial, that started my love of tech and stayed with me all throughout my life. Remember being mesmerized by it. The first tech I owned was a boombox by Aiwa, that I took apart and rebuilt it to make it "better" so I thought.

Growing up, we didn't have a computer at home. One weekend dad took me to his office when they got one for work. Played a game which I think was called Bricks. Got hooked.

First time I made a research on Internet. It was on Altavista in 1996... So huge...

I think it might be Norton Commander ("NC"). It was the first user interface I have seen as a kid when I just started using the computer. Till then it was only DOS commands

AOL

JPEG. When I first understood how the image compression algorithm works, I was fascinated about the signal processing technologies. So simple yet so powerful!

Falcon Heavy by SpaceX This was undoubtedly the greatest "product launch" ever. Early in February 2018, seven years after the project's first announcement, Elon Musk's SpaceX successfully launched the Falcon Heavy, a three-core rocket with 27 engines, into orbit. It is the most powerful launch vehicle in the world, able to transport 140,000 pounds of payload into lower orbit, yet it was constructed at a quarter of the price of NASA's most recent rocket. Even a homage to Elon Musk's other business was incorporated in the successful test flight: the cargo contained a cherry-red Tesla Roadster with a mannequin ("Starman") behind the wheel.

Must be iPhone!! I was even laughed at my uncle when I was told the brand is called Apple and the logo is an apple.( I was too young to heard of it )

when I could shake the screen with msn notification.. it was huge and I shake my friends' screen like crreeeaazzyyy

VisiCalc on the Apple II in 1979.

Ever since the nokia engage came out... I was kind of hooked to tech...

TV, VCR, Atari 2600, and Sony Walkman…in that order

Atari 2600 > Atari 520 STE > Sony's Mini-Disc player > Winamp+Napster

The anatomy of an 8bit video game console. Was fascinated by the engineering of SID chips as well.