I just tossed 512MB RAM into the garbage. Really, that’s half a gig of RAM. In the garbage. Because really, what on earth I’m I going to do with it. No one would ever upgrade to that these days. And I have it because it’s all that came in my wife’s PC which I just upgraded to 2Gigs of RAM.

It’s really hard to wrap our minds around how fast thing change with electronics. It really hit me when I remembered that just 10 years ago, in 1998, I bought a laptop before going off to college. I had to choose between getting 4 or 8 MEGS or RAM. Really, 8 MEGS was considered a lot. That’s as much as the laptop could handle.

And you know what getting 8 MEGs cost me: a place to live. I spent so much money on the upgrades for my laptop that I didn’t have enough money left to afford an apartment. Instead I slept in a tent, outside of the city, in the National Forest. No joke.

Now, just 10 years later, a stick of RAM that is 64 times larger than all the RAM in my laptop is so worthless I don’t even think twice before throwing it in the garbage.

By that rate in another 10 years I’ll be tossing 128 GIG RAM chips in the garbage. Globber.