WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.080 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 00:00:08.080 --> 00:00:15.680 MOSFET was created. So that's when Mohamed Attala and Dewan Kang at Bell Laboratories 00:00:15.680 --> 00:00:20.720 first invented the MOSFET. That's the metal oxide. Oh, what the heck is it called? 00:00:22.880 --> 00:00:28.320 It doesn't matter. It's the transistor that, you know, all of the other transistors are kind 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:32.000 of based off of. Before that, it was vacuum tubes, and vacuum tubes are freaking terrible. You have 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:37.280 something stupid. Like, look at this. This is a computer. All of those are vacuum tubes. They 00:00:37.280 --> 00:00:41.360 fail like almost every single day, and you have to go around and find which stupid vacuum 00:00:41.360 --> 00:00:51.440 tube you had to replace. Terrible time. I guess I looked it up. I think there were 13 sextillion 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:57.840 MOSFETs manufactured in 2018. They're just in everything, like the phone. We can even see it 00:00:57.840 --> 00:01:06.480 right here. Small MOSFETs are in there. 1959, best year for tech. I think it's going to be 2017, 00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:15.200 2018. We had the GTX 10 series, 1080s, 1080 Ti's, 1070s, all the 10s from video. That was awesome. 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:21.360 Vega was coming out from AMD. That wasn't so awesome, but it came out. And then Ryzen was 00:01:21.360 --> 00:01:26.240 coming out and getting better. So it was really just, it was kind of the beginning of like resurgence 00:01:26.240 --> 00:01:30.880 before the chip shortage, before crazy price hikes. It was kind of a bit of a golden era. 00:01:30.880 --> 00:01:36.800 When the Blackberries first came out, and there was a messaging app that was specifically used for 00:01:36.800 --> 00:01:45.440 that, that's when instant messaging was a game changer for everything. What year was it? Blackberry? 00:01:46.320 --> 00:01:53.120 Let's see. As you pull out an iPhone. Okay, well, that's, it's the same kind of thing. I transferred 00:01:53.120 --> 00:02:02.560 over to 2002. Oh, the early 2000s. Maybe late 2010s, sort of 2016, 2018, when Team Red finally 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:08.720 overlooked Intel and consumer CPUs. You got the proliferation of Threadripper and Ryzen and all 00:02:08.720 --> 00:02:14.400 that sort of stuff. Very exciting. Cheap, good performance, sort of brought really powerful 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:21.600 computers to the masses. I would say 1977 because of the profit synthesizer. It's the first polyphonic 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:28.080 synthesizers that was fully programmable, and it had a memory. So it had presets. Before then, 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:32.000 if you had a synthesizer and you would make a sound on it, that was it. You didn't have any other 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:36.800 sounds. And if you want to replicate that sound, you had to like take a picture of the synth or 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:42.400 write down every parameter for every single knob, and then you had to recreate the sound. With the 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:49.680 profit, they had microprocessors, and that way they could actually store the different sounds into 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:55.680 different preset memories, and then you could recall it. And after that, every single synthesizer 00:02:55.680 --> 00:03:03.760 tried to do the same thing and that changed the music industry. It's an iPod. It's a phone. Well, 00:03:03.760 --> 00:03:08.800 it's an internet communicator. But it wasn't interrupted by Sam. I'd have you know that today 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:16.400 is actually the 15th anniversary of the iPhone being like they're selling the iPhone. 15 years 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:21.440 ago you could go and buy an iPhone if you lived in America. So the greatest year for you is 15 years 00:03:21.440 --> 00:03:25.840 ago. Which is 2007. Yeah, I think 2007 was a pretty good year. I was hoping it would also include 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:33.760 the PlayStation 3, but I came out like a month and a half before that. 1984. Why is that? He knows why. 00:03:33.760 --> 00:03:38.640 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, 00:03:38.720 --> 00:03:45.040 but it doesn't matter. I suppose we have a mark. Yeah. I'm gonna say 1440. 00:03:45.760 --> 00:03:50.720 What? Because that was the invention of the Gutenberg movable type printing press. 00:03:50.720 --> 00:03:55.120 Now you go, oh, a printing press like tech, whatever, but like it is the first step towards the 00:03:55.120 --> 00:04:01.360 widest democratization of information that we have ever seen in our lifetime until probably... 00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:05.840 Wait, in our lifetime? Sorry, in our existence, probably until the Silicon transistor and the 00:04:05.840 --> 00:04:11.440 invention of the Internet. But how do you think they sent... How do you... They didn't transmit 00:04:11.440 --> 00:04:15.680 information. It used to be held within a very elite class because like monks would be sitting there 00:04:15.680 --> 00:04:19.360 writing out word for word what somebody was saying or like copying the Bible. 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:24.800 What the Gutenberg printing press allowed was that it allowed information to people to print 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:29.840 their own information, to print books, to make newspapers, and spread out information in a way 00:04:29.840 --> 00:04:37.520 that was just never before seen. And you can basically say that like all of our modern existence 00:04:37.520 --> 00:04:45.120 is tied back to having easy access to written history, thanks to the printing press. 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:50.080 You know, it's gonna be controversial, but I gotta say 2020, I'm a big NFT man and that's when 00:04:50.080 --> 00:04:57.440 they first hit the scene. Please buy my apes. But realistically, probably something in the late 90s, 00:04:57.440 --> 00:05:02.800 like 96 when the N64 came out. I'm a big fan of that like transparent era of tech. I can still 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:08.320 imagine that atomic purple N64 controller I had or something in the early 2000s with like the Game Boy 00:05:08.320 --> 00:05:14.000 Advance, which was my first handheld and again that see-through purple. Gotta love transparent tech. 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:24.320 1996, N64 release. First console with a ramble pack, a stick, four ports for multiplayer. So yeah, 00:05:24.400 --> 00:05:32.880 you look at what it is, but popular split screen, best experience. 1989. What happened in 1989? 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:39.360 Arpanet. What's Arpanet? The father of the internet. Yeah, the biggest mistake. 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:44.400 Letting people have access to the internet was a huge mistake. 00:05:46.080 --> 00:05:51.840 2005, that was the year the Xbox 360 came out. Best gaming console ever. 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:56.720 What are your favorite games from the 360? So many. You got Mono for 2, you got Crackdown. 00:05:58.480 --> 00:06:03.840 I think did GTA 5 come out on the 360? Yeah, I think it was the generation. 00:06:06.320 --> 00:06:13.440 Skate, Skate 2, Skate 3. You know, oh Halo. I mean, how can I forget Halo? Halo 3 though, 00:06:13.440 --> 00:06:16.880 I think it was Halo 3. That was like the big one. I love that because I never played the other ones. 00:06:17.440 --> 00:06:24.160 I would have to say it's probably going to be 2006. In my case, 2007, wow, when actually 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:31.040 everything was on shelves and available. So in that brief window between November 2006 and then 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:36.960 just like the early months of 2007, that's when we got the Wii and that's when we got the PS3 and 00:06:36.960 --> 00:06:43.360 the 360 was the predecessor the year before in 2005, but also in November. So there's that 00:06:43.360 --> 00:06:49.760 brief window in between 05 and 07 there that I think was probably the greatest year for tech, 00:06:49.760 --> 00:06:56.960 at least personally. Overall, it's way different, but for me, it has to be that year of late 2006 00:06:56.960 --> 00:07:02.480 or early 2007. We'll do that calendar year right there because that was just so many good memories 00:07:02.480 --> 00:07:03.600 during that time period.