JA Westenberg on Warpcast

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My debut prompt! Flashback to the first product, tool or toy that captured your imagination and made you fall in love with the possibilities of tech. What was it? How did it make you feel? How did it shape your view of the future? Share your nostalgic tech tale in a cast-length post.

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for me it was probably my very first ipod. it was the first thing i saved up for when i was in elementary school and it was the first product i owned. i loved how i could customize my album art and download music through limewire. so nostalgic!

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It was the Casio SK-1 that made me fall in love with tech! I was absolutely blown away that I could load a beat, play keys, record my voice and add effects… all on one little keyboard. It made me feel like a pop star!

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i don't know if Legos were my first . but they were and remain my favourite . i loved building things .

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I loved Prezi and how it could transform a presentation. It felt like magic after years of PowerPoint. I'm now a huge fan of Canva and how easy it is to make visual components for many platforms and uses. They make it affordable to create professional branding. And they continue to innovate.

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I hated the internet at first, but 2 friends started a programming biz and I ended up working for them. Learning php and mySQL was eye opening to the power of the internet probably the first thing to capture my imagination. It made me feel like I could create something that most people couldn't. (Thx for prompt!)

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the first thing that came to mind was my girl tech password protected diary! I remember changing the code everyday, writing my secrets with invisible ink. Even though I was an only child and no one was looking through my stuff, it made me feel special, like my thoughts and ideas mattered enough to be protected

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I'm going Sony minidisc. There was tech before, but I was just a kid playing Sega and Gameboy, not thinking, just playing. Then mtv and grunge came. Music was my life in 1992, and wtf! You could record and record and not lose quality? Switch and swap? No more tdk 90s? No more pencils to rewind time?

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For me, it was the iPhone 4 It felt unreal, holding an iPhone in my hand, its sleek design and touch screen mesmerized me It made me doubt so many things, cos at that point I kind of felt there was nothing that could be better than this. It felt like I held the future and made me curious about what's to come.

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My tech tale started early and in depth, my older brother (14 years older) was studying electronics engineering in ANU when I was 6, we saw each other once a year whenever he could take the flight from Canberra to Medellin. One time, he brought me a Katita toy to teach me the basics of mechanics, I was enthralled

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The first PlayStation From the process of buying it (I thought there wasn't much a difference between PS1 and 2 and ended up choosing 1 to save my dad money), to the first time I wondered how they fit "a whole world" in just a CD It was one of the major sparks of my curiosity for tech and stories as a child

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I had quite a few “creative play” toys as a kid that stoked my imagination: Legos, Tinker Toys, Lincoln logs, erector sets … But one product (two, really) that blew my mind was the Apple II+ that was our family’s first home computer, and the game Lode Runner, with its way-ahead-of-its-time level editor.

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In 1986(?) I loaded some kind of music software on my C64. It was sampled electric guitars from Billy Idol's Flesh for Fantasy. And it sounded like real guitars, not the blip blops in the games. It was a strange and overwhelming feeling. I think I kind of understood that we would be able to synthesize anything one day

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The first digital photo camera 📷: almost instantly seeing the photo and deleting it if you needed to (the SD card could only hold about 20 if I remember correctly). It sounds ridiculous now, but compared to film 🎞️ rolls it was mind boggling 🤯.

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Getting the blue 2nd Gen iPod Nano as a kid was a great feeling. Such a sturdy and responsive product, no more having to futz around with my portable CD player, I had more space for music than I knew what to do with. To this day I still have an MP3 in my possession because there's so much music that you can't stream.

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oh definitely my C64 with the datasette as a kid. not only my first experience with computer & tech but also the fact that you could literally fix a completely tangled tape by just cutting & taping it back together & the program/game whatever was on it would still run. I thought everything would be possible for me.

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Maybe not the first for me, but certainly one of the most impactful: N64. I’d gravitated towards gaming w/ systems like SNES & Gameboy, but the N64 opened up a whole new world for me at the time. The world building, storytelling, caring about these characters & creatures in game and forging memories w frens IRL

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Unlikely answer but it was the ear phones. Back in 2012 when I first layed my hands on one, I was like wowow. What’s this cool thing, I became instantly hooked, always plugged up $ vibing. I even learnt more of its anatomy over time and garnered some experience in the rare skill of fixing spoilt ear phones. Warra era

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Someone got a CD of Pink Floyd The Wall for Xmas when I was ~6 and I listened on headphones with a discman and I 1) could not believe what I was hearing: that such sounds were possible and 2) in love with the private/personal experience I was having thru the tech and how I could bring it with my anywhere I wanted.

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