Generation NeXT


The pace at which the things are changing for the newer generations is just amazing...

Had been silently watching a bunch of collage going chaps and was trying to compare our times when we were in collage. Some parallels...

We had internet provided in the collage which later spread to a couple of cyber cafes and then to our rooms at home. I remember once the next day's exams were postponed and we got the news from some hostilities in our chat rooms late in the night. We all decided to celebrate and decided to meet near the collage..everything decided over the chat...was considered the most hi-tech thing to do...In the present day...such messages are spread via SMSs...chat rooms are a thing of the past.

We had queues in front of copiers for the notes just before the exams. Now soft copies of PDFs are exchanged over the emails, which are obviously mailed in yahoo groups.

We all were thrilled when we started getting CDs along with "chip" and "PC quest" mags. The CDs were talk of the town when it had a MP3 encoder bundled. I had left my PC (100 MHz/16MB RAM) all night to encode a couple of songs (Shamak davar - Mohaabat Kar le). Now bootable DVDs with full Linux versions are shipped with the mags and students are frusted with the "slow" 3GHz 1 GB RAM machines.

We used to work on XT machines for our lex/yacc labs, where we could have had a coffee break while the program was being compiled. A recent visit to the collage lab caught me by surprise when I saw a couple of SUN servers installed in a "server room".

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