Tell me something tech-related that no longer astonishes you.

From the set of encyclopedias I'm about to give the kiddo:

Childcraft Encyclopedia, volume 7, page 342:

"Instead of shelves [like a library], a computer stores information on magnetic tape, or film, or tiny metal rings, or wires, or disks like phonograph records....

Big modern computers can store a billion pieces of information."

Guess the copyright date on these encyclopedias.

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Also, a couple of stories from my "gosh-wow" file at AOL, both circa 1998:

Me: Okay, do you have two phone lines, so we can try signing on while you're on the phone?

Caller: I have THREE phone lines.

Me: Wow.

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Me: Okay, let's check your system requirements-- how much RAM do you have? You need at least 32 MB.

Caller: I have a gig of RAM.

(what I wanted to say) Me: What? I couldn't hear you over the angelic choir.

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...and y'all?

(OKCupid) How stupid is that?

Seen in a journal:

"I was totally amazed at the number of morons who thought that somehow because I was checking in late last night that I was just sitting here with the hopes of having some naked idiot with their cock in their hand messaging me."

Gee, maybe they felt comfortable telling you that they were naked because YOUR PROFILE PICTURE IS NAKED. (Or at least topless and showing off major cleavage down to mid-breast, where the pic is cropped. It could well be naked.) ETA: The self-righteous tart now says that she's wearing a pink-and-white halter top. Well, that would be nice, if the shirt was actually visible in the pic, but it's not. Deliberate cropping? No idea. She also says that you'd see more at the beach. Lovely, but we're not AT the beach.

If you are of the opinion that nudity is not offensive, then you'd better not be using it as a pejorative for other people and not yourself. If you are of the opinion that nudity does not mean sexuality for you, then you must be willing to allow it to mean sexuality for other people, so long as that opinion does not lead to actions that do you any harm, and not use that as an insult either.

Unless you just mean that other people's nudity is yucky because they're not as pretty as you, and I got news for that-- your attitude makes you ugly, and you're going to grow into a bitter, puckered old woman who doesn't get the attention she thinks she deserves.

And that's a lot sadder than a guy with a penis who knows what he wants to do with it.