Sign of amazing technological change

RacinReaver
Tue, 22 Oct 2013 21:49:39 +0000

You should see when new big games get put out on Steam. A few of them have made 5 GB seem reasonable in size. Often times each patch (at times weekly) will eclipse 1 GB. It blows my mind I’m able to download at over 1 MB/sec without the use of torrents. It’s amazing you can now expect downloads faster than 1 3.5" floppy a second. Heck, you can’t even fit most of the songs you’d download off of iTunes nowadays on a single floppy.

It’ll be interesting to see what happens in the future as many other first world nations invest in upgrading their telecom infrastructure while our industry fights tooth and nail saying consumers aren’t interested in cheaper, faster, more reliable internet.