My brother used to live in Birmingham, UK. Based on his stories, this is pretty much how I picture it.

Other avenue to explore for the handheld is maybe a smaller Gameboy Advance inspired handheld form factor that is portable and small with small E-Ink displays as buttons on the sides and one main E-Ink screen.

If Superman actually dances in the 2025 Movie, it might be some of the defining tonal shift in James Gunn era of DC Universe compare to Zack Snyder era.

The top panel is from a behind-the-scenes YouTube video about the opening scene of The Peacemaker series.

Modified bottom panels from SMBC Comic

For comparison most of the common MP3 that can be bought at 2001 like the Rio 600 can go about with about 32MB to 64MB of flash storage memory. So a first generation iPod can store half or all of the songs in those players in RAM.

The first generation 2001 iPod has about 32MB of RAM, this is made for both skip-protection and buffer. This is a pretty big RAM capacity for a portable music player at that time.
#ipod

The gap from Minecraft Alpha (2009) to today (2024) is almost twice as long as iPod (2001) to Minecraft Alpha (2009). It’s 8 years for iPod to Minecraft alpha and 15 years for Minecraft Alpha to today.
#ipod #minecraft

That’s a pretty good reference.

TIL: Accounting for inflation, the humble Sinclair ZX Spectrum cost almost as much as a PS5.

In 1982, the ZX Spectrum was £125 that’s about £426.53 in 2023 with inflation. PS5 costs about £449.99 in 2023.

www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-pol...

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