My wife and I have started watching 24 on Netflix and have become quite addicted to it. Since we’re behind the times, we don’t have to wait a week between each episode, instead we can blow through 2 or 3 episodes a night.
The technology in the show is kind of humorous as they’ve been using Palm OS based devices, at least in the early episodes. So far I’ve seen the Samsung SPH-I300 as well a Handspring Visor. I even caught a glimpse of SplashPhoto on the Visor!
This brings back memories of all the technology I thought was so cool way back when. Comparing it to today, it seems so primitive. If you look at the first Palm OS based smartphones, the way they handled data was quite primitive. Basically they “dialed” a special number (00 in many cases) to trigger the packet data connection. This, of course, prevented voice calls during the time. Then using the stylus seems so crude. Let’s not forget the displays; today’s devices have full color, awesome looking displays. The displays way back when were grayscale screens that were not pleasant on the eyes. The devices were not very robust and resetting the devices was a common occurrence; I got rid of my Treo on Sprint when the battery died because the device crashed and I hadn’t noticed it.
I can’t wait to keep watching to see what other tech memories come back!