If what is referred to as progress leads to things like flooding the market with 1920x1080 glossy, reflective displays for PCs, then there's issues to me.
There's been more than just SSD out there that have been huge as far as progress. Multi-core processing pretty much ended all the hangups and fears of programs endlessly cycling on your CPU and hindering your chances of killing it easily. Now, we're to the point you can have an app hang and not even notice it right away as it pegs a 1 of 4 or more cores.
Not sure the date exactly mouse wheels became the norm (early part of the 2000s but not sure the year), but I'd hate having to click to scroll everything all over again. Try playing some of the older PC games before the era of the scroll wheel. The UI looks pretty dated on them when you realize you can't scroll. Semi related, but the addition of more gestures to touchpads for laptops as well.
Wifi was still pretty new for the average person 10 years ago as well. I mean we all had wifi routers I would guess, but the average consumer wouldn't be thinking about it for a few more years.
Prices dropping dramatically on IPS type displays is also huge to me at least. If only non-glossy, high resolution monitors above 1920x1080 became more predominate.
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If what is referred to as progress leads to things like flooding the market with 1920x1080 glossy, reflective displays for PCs, then there's issues to me.
There's been more than just SSD out there that have been huge as far as progress. Multi-core processing pretty much ended all the hangups and fears of programs endlessly cycling on your CPU and hindering your chances of killing it easily. Now, we're to the point you can have an app hang and not even notice it right away as it pegs a 1 of 4 or more cores.
Not sure the date exactly mouse wheels became the norm (early part of the 2000s but not sure the year), but I'd hate having to click to scroll everything all over again. Try playing some of the older PC games before the era of the scroll wheel. The UI looks pretty dated on them when you realize you can't scroll. Semi related, but the addition of more gestures to touchpads for laptops as well.
Wifi was still pretty new for the average person 10 years ago as well. I mean we all had wifi routers I would guess, but the average consumer wouldn't be thinking about it for a few more years.
Prices dropping dramatically on IPS type displays is also huge to me at least. If only non-glossy, high resolution monitors above 1920x1080 became more predominate.