All right, Alex, what was the greatest year for tech? The greatest year for tech without a doubt, no disputing it, is 1959. That's the year that the
MOSFET was created. So that's when Mohamed Attala and Dewan Kang at Bell Laboratories
first invented the MOSFET. That's the metal oxide. Oh, what the heck is it called?
It doesn't matter. It's the transistor that, you know, all of the other transistors are kind
of based off of. Before that, it was vacuum tubes, and vacuum tubes are freaking terrible. You have
something stupid. Like, look at this. This is a computer. All of those are vacuum tubes. They
fail like almost every single day, and you have to go around and find which stupid vacuum
tube you had to replace. Terrible time. I guess I looked it up. I think there were 13 sextillion
MOSFETs manufactured in 2018. They're just in everything, like the phone. We can even see it
right here. Small MOSFETs are in there. 1959, best year for tech. I think it's going to be 2017,
2018. We had the GTX 10 series, 1080s, 1080 Ti's, 1070s, all the 10s from video. That was awesome.
Vega was coming out from AMD. That wasn't so awesome, but it came out. And then Ryzen was
coming out and getting better. So it was really just, it was kind of the beginning of like resurgence
before the chip shortage, before crazy price hikes. It was kind of a bit of a golden era.
When the Blackberries first came out, and there was a messaging app that was specifically used for
that, that's when instant messaging was a game changer for everything. What year was it? Blackberry?
Let's see. As you pull out an iPhone. Okay, well, that's, it's the same kind of thing. I transferred
over to 2002. Oh, the early 2000s. Maybe late 2010s, sort of 2016, 2018, when Team Red finally
overlooked Intel and consumer CPUs. You got the proliferation of Threadripper and Ryzen and all
that sort of stuff. Very exciting. Cheap, good performance, sort of brought really powerful
computers to the masses. I would say 1977 because of the profit synthesizer. It's the first polyphonic
synthesizers that was fully programmable, and it had a memory. So it had presets. Before then,
if you had a synthesizer and you would make a sound on it, that was it. You didn't have any other
sounds. And if you want to replicate that sound, you had to like take a picture of the synth or
write down every parameter for every single knob, and then you had to recreate the sound. With the
profit, they had microprocessors, and that way they could actually store the different sounds into
different preset memories, and then you could recall it. And after that, every single synthesizer
tried to do the same thing and that changed the music industry. It's an iPod. It's a phone. Well,
it's an internet communicator. But it wasn't interrupted by Sam. I'd have you know that today
is actually the 15th anniversary of the iPhone being like they're selling the iPhone. 15 years
ago you could go and buy an iPhone if you lived in America. So the greatest year for you is 15 years
ago. Which is 2007. Yeah, I think 2007 was a pretty good year. I was hoping it would also include
the PlayStation 3, but I came out like a month and a half before that. 1984. Why is that? He knows why.
That's a good year. That was a good year. What came out in 1984? I don't know why we're coming back to me,
but it doesn't matter. I suppose we have a mark. Yeah. I'm gonna say 1440.
What? Because that was the invention of the Gutenberg movable type printing press.
Now you go, oh, a printing press like tech, whatever, but like it is the first step towards the
widest democratization of information that we have ever seen in our lifetime until probably...
Wait, in our lifetime? Sorry, in our existence, probably until the Silicon transistor and the
invention of the Internet. But how do you think they sent... How do you... They didn't transmit
information. It used to be held within a very elite class because like monks would be sitting there
writing out word for word what somebody was saying or like copying the Bible.
What the Gutenberg printing press allowed was that it allowed information to people to print
their own information, to print books, to make newspapers, and spread out information in a way
that was just never before seen. And you can basically say that like all of our modern existence
is tied back to having easy access to written history, thanks to the printing press.
You know, it's gonna be controversial, but I gotta say 2020, I'm a big NFT man and that's when
they first hit the scene. Please buy my apes. But realistically, probably something in the late 90s,
like 96 when the N64 came out. I'm a big fan of that like transparent era of tech. I can still
imagine that atomic purple N64 controller I had or something in the early 2000s with like the Game Boy
Advance, which was my first handheld and again that see-through purple. Gotta love transparent tech.
1996, N64 release. First console with a ramble pack, a stick, four ports for multiplayer. So yeah,
you look at what it is, but popular split screen, best experience. 1989. What happened in 1989?
Arpanet. What's Arpanet? The father of the internet. Yeah, the biggest mistake.
Letting people have access to the internet was a huge mistake.
2005, that was the year the Xbox 360 came out. Best gaming console ever.
What are your favorite games from the 360? So many. You got Mono for 2, you got Crackdown.
I think did GTA 5 come out on the 360? Yeah, I think it was the generation.
Skate, Skate 2, Skate 3. You know, oh Halo. I mean, how can I forget Halo? Halo 3 though,
I think it was Halo 3. That was like the big one. I love that because I never played the other ones.
I would have to say it's probably going to be 2006. In my case, 2007, wow, when actually
everything was on shelves and available. So in that brief window between November 2006 and then
just like the early months of 2007, that's when we got the Wii and that's when we got the PS3 and
the 360 was the predecessor the year before in 2005, but also in November. So there's that
brief window in between 05 and 07 there that I think was probably the greatest year for tech,
at least personally. Overall, it's way different, but for me, it has to be that year of late 2006
or early 2007. We'll do that calendar year right there because that was just so many good memories
during that time period.