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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

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MOSFET was created. So that's when Mohamed Attala and Dewan Kang at Bell Laboratories

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first invented the MOSFET. That's the metal oxide. Oh, what the heck is it called?

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It doesn't matter. It's the transistor that, you know, all of the other transistors are kind

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of based off of. Before that, it was vacuum tubes, and vacuum tubes are freaking terrible. You have

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something stupid. Like, look at this. This is a computer. All of those are vacuum tubes. They

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fail like almost every single day, and you have to go around and find which stupid vacuum

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tube you had to replace. Terrible time. I guess I looked it up. I think there were 13 sextillion

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MOSFETs manufactured in 2018. They're just in everything, like the phone. We can even see it

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right here. Small MOSFETs are in there. 1959, best year for tech. I think it's going to be 2017,

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2018. We had the GTX 10 series, 1080s, 1080 Ti's, 1070s, all the 10s from video. That was awesome.

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Vega was coming out from AMD. That wasn't so awesome, but it came out. And then Ryzen was

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coming out and getting better. So it was really just, it was kind of the beginning of like resurgence

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before the chip shortage, before crazy price hikes. It was kind of a bit of a golden era.

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When the Blackberries first came out, and there was a messaging app that was specifically used for

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that, that's when instant messaging was a game changer for everything. What year was it? Blackberry?

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Let's see. As you pull out an iPhone. Okay, well, that's, it's the same kind of thing. I transferred

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over to 2002. Oh, the early 2000s. Maybe late 2010s, sort of 2016, 2018, when Team Red finally

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overlooked Intel and consumer CPUs. You got the proliferation of Threadripper and Ryzen and all

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that sort of stuff. Very exciting. Cheap, good performance, sort of brought really powerful

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computers to the masses. I would say 1977 because of the profit synthesizer. It's the first polyphonic

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synthesizers that was fully programmable, and it had a memory. So it had presets. Before then,

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if you had a synthesizer and you would make a sound on it, that was it. You didn't have any other

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sounds. And if you want to replicate that sound, you had to like take a picture of the synth or

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write down every parameter for every single knob, and then you had to recreate the sound. With the

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profit, they had microprocessors, and that way they could actually store the different sounds into

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different preset memories, and then you could recall it. And after that, every single synthesizer

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tried to do the same thing and that changed the music industry. It's an iPod. It's a phone. Well,

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it's an internet communicator. But it wasn't interrupted by Sam. I'd have you know that today

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is actually the 15th anniversary of the iPhone being like they're selling the iPhone. 15 years

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ago you could go and buy an iPhone if you lived in America. So the greatest year for you is 15 years

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ago. Which is 2007. Yeah, I think 2007 was a pretty good year. I was hoping it would also include

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the PlayStation 3, but I came out like a month and a half before that. 1984. Why is that? He knows why.

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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,

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but it doesn't matter. I suppose we have a mark. Yeah. I'm gonna say 1440.

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What? Because that was the invention of the Gutenberg movable type printing press.

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Now you go, oh, a printing press like tech, whatever, but like it is the first step towards the

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widest democratization of information that we have ever seen in our lifetime until probably...

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Wait, in our lifetime? Sorry, in our existence, probably until the Silicon transistor and the

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invention of the Internet. But how do you think they sent... How do you... They didn't transmit

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information. It used to be held within a very elite class because like monks would be sitting there

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writing out word for word what somebody was saying or like copying the Bible.

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What the Gutenberg printing press allowed was that it allowed information to people to print

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their own information, to print books, to make newspapers, and spread out information in a way

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that was just never before seen. And you can basically say that like all of our modern existence

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is tied back to having easy access to written history, thanks to the printing press.

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You know, it's gonna be controversial, but I gotta say 2020, I'm a big NFT man and that's when

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they first hit the scene. Please buy my apes. But realistically, probably something in the late 90s,

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like 96 when the N64 came out. I'm a big fan of that like transparent era of tech. I can still

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imagine that atomic purple N64 controller I had or something in the early 2000s with like the Game Boy

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Advance, which was my first handheld and again that see-through purple. Gotta love transparent tech.

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1996, N64 release. First console with a ramble pack, a stick, four ports for multiplayer. So yeah,

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you look at what it is, but popular split screen, best experience. 1989. What happened in 1989?

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Arpanet. What's Arpanet? The father of the internet. Yeah, the biggest mistake.

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Letting people have access to the internet was a huge mistake.

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2005, that was the year the Xbox 360 came out. Best gaming console ever.

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What are your favorite games from the 360? So many. You got Mono for 2, you got Crackdown.

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I think did GTA 5 come out on the 360? Yeah, I think it was the generation.

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Skate, Skate 2, Skate 3. You know, oh Halo. I mean, how can I forget Halo? Halo 3 though,

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I think it was Halo 3. That was like the big one. I love that because I never played the other ones.

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I would have to say it's probably going to be 2006. In my case, 2007, wow, when actually

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everything was on shelves and available. So in that brief window between November 2006 and then

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just like the early months of 2007, that's when we got the Wii and that's when we got the PS3 and

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the 360 was the predecessor the year before in 2005, but also in November. So there's that

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brief window in between 05 and 07 there that I think was probably the greatest year for tech,

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at least personally. Overall, it's way different, but for me, it has to be that year of late 2006

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or early 2007. We'll do that calendar year right there because that was just so many good memories

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during that time period.