Duke Nukem Forever Timeline
This is pretty cool. Someone compiled a list of things that have happened in the world since Duke Nukem Forever was announced. Needless to say…a lot happens in 10 years.
Fun Facts
Computers & Internet:- In 1997, the fastest consumer internet connection was a 33.6 kbps modem. On average, consumer internet connections are 300 times faster today.
-Â When Duke Nukem Forever was announced, the fastest processor available to consumers was a 233Mhz Pentium. Since then the clock speed of consumer processors has increased over 16 times (32 times counting dual cores), and the fabrication process has decreased from 250nm to 65nm.
-Â In October of 2001, Apple announced the iPod and Slashdot dismissed it as an immediate failure. Since then there have been 5 generations of iPods, as well as the iPod Mini, iPod Shuffle, and iPod Nano with 42 million iPods sold worldwide as of 1/06.
One Comment
Inevitable Winter on June 21, 2006 at 6:33 am says:
A note on the iPod failure thingie.
I’ve come to learn that you should almost NEVER discredit new technology in today’s day and age. A lot of young people have different habits than us old cronies. Where we get comfortable, they crave constant “new-ness” and “fresh” things. They’re life is one of constant change, and they thrive on it and accept newer ideas much easier and quicker to adapt to new trends.
I also believe today’s kids are richer than we were, but that just might be me getting old.