What You Could Do With A Laptop In The Past

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There is a rather entertaining infographic posted on Dell's corporate blog that makes you really think about what you could have done with a laptop in different periods throughout history. Think about it. ;)
 
I would go back to 1981 and tell Bill Gates that my laptop is packing 16GB of DDR3.

Who's packaging now bitch!?





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Regarding the comment on replacing the 9000 people working on breaking the enigma code, Winston Churchill would have dropped you into a black hole so fast and dark you'd still be looking for a way out, IF he didn't have you immediately terminated as a threat to the common wealth.
 
Don't even need a laptop for this, replace a laptop with a current tablet, or even a cell phone, and you'd be a wizard. A tablet would be even more impressive to be honest. Bring a cell phone to the 1960's and they'd think you were Spock.
 
Brent_Justice said:
Don't even need a laptop for this, replace a laptop with a current tablet, or even a cell phone, and you'd be a wizard. A tablet would be even more impressive to be honest. Bring a cell phone to the 1960's and they'd think you were Spock.
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You might want to check that. A current cell phone would be non functional in any significant manner in the 1960's.
 
Magnus said:
You might want to check that. A current cell phone would be non functional in any significant manner in the 1960's.
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Well obviously there wouldn't be cell phone service. But cell phones these days can do so much more than just make phone calls. Wait till I show them he Tricorder app :p

The ability to watch movies and audio in such high quality from a touch screen device that small would be amazing to someone of that decade.
 
In medieval times, you'd be called a witch or sorcerer. No thank you, I would not want to be locked up in the lord's dungeon or put on public display in a pillory.
 
Brent_Justice said:
Well obviously there wouldn't be cell phone service. But cell phones these days can do so much more than just make phone calls. Wait till I show them he Tricorder app :p

The ability to watch movies and audio in such high quality from a touch screen device that small would be amazing to someone of that decade.
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And they would take the phone and drop you in a hole because they lacked the manufacturing technology to reproduce it. You knowledge of how the app works would be useless.
 
In current times, Dell should be either using a spell checker or hire somebody who knows how to spell.

If you play your cards right, you can get a cushy possition at court.

Should be "position".
 
cyclone3d said:
In current times, Dell should be either using a spell checker or hire somebody who knows how to spell.

If you play your cards right, you can get a cushy possition at court.

Should be "position".
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Obviously the person who typed that up didn't use a laptop with a spell checker...
 
Any further back than the late 1800s and the laptop would run until the battery died and you'd be stuck with a fancy brick.
 
A little tangential, but ever since I was a kid I've thought about how you could go back a thousand years in history with a semiautomatic rifle and basically conquer an area as far as you could ride a horse. Even ammo wouldn't be a big deal, once you shot a couple people in a row no one who didn't understand the technology would push their luck.
 
Kritter said:
Any further back than the late 1800s and the laptop would run until the battery died and you'd be stuck with a fancy brick.
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pretty sure you could find zinc and copper before 1800 hehe
 
I'd want a current laptop back in the days of my 486DX2 @ 66 Mhz just so I wouldn't have to use boot disk maker to run my favorite Lucasarts games!
 
Kritter said:
Any further back than the late 1800s and the laptop would run until the battery died and you'd be stuck with a fancy brick.
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Bring a solar battery charger with you... ;)

I know it was the dark ages, but they still had sun. :D
 
Aluisious said:
A little tangential, but ever since I was a kid I've thought about how you could go back a thousand years in history with a semiautomatic rifle and basically conquer an area as far as you could ride a horse. Even ammo wouldn't be a big deal, once you shot a couple people in a row no one who didn't understand the technology would push their luck.
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I always thought about having an apache helicopter or an abrams tank to the past. Or say a fully stocked aircraft carrier with a minimal crew size. World domination!
 
I've often wondered what it would be like to bring some technology back in time. Aside from the burning at the stake bit, i think for the most part it would be pretty useless. if you go back further than say 100 or maybe even 50 years, they simply aren't going to understand the concept at all. I mean yea someone like Da Vinci was obviously a genius but would he understand a laptop? There is no way he would. It's not just the laptop, you have understand a lot of "modern" things that go along with it to understand a laptop.
 
I'd go to the early 1900's and with an afro, a glock, and a backpack full of bullets, end slavery!
 
If it was the medieval times it would have to be a kindle for the battery life... Or one of those solar powered DVD players. Or a calculator...
 
plinko said:
In medieval times, you'd be called a witch or sorcerer. No thank you, I would not want to be locked up in the lord's dungeon or put on public display in a pillory.
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That's why you bring your boomstick.

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Brent_Justice said:
Well obviously there wouldn't be cell phone service. But cell phones these days can do so much more than just make phone calls. Wait till I show them he Tricorder app :p

The ability to watch movies and audio in such high quality from a touch screen device that small would be amazing to someone of that decade.
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Well, obviously if you took a laptop back in time, there would be no power or internet. So, most of those things would be invalid anyway. Besides, if it was a Dell, the battery would be dead within the hour.

I've always thought about what would happen. During most times, you'd be killed and the magic item would either A. Be destroyed or B. Be used without you.
 
Aluisious said:
A little tangential, but ever since I was a kid I've thought about how you could go back a thousand years in history with a semiautomatic rifle and basically conquer an area as far as you could ride a horse. Even ammo wouldn't be a big deal, once you shot a couple people in a row no one who didn't understand the technology would push their luck.
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"And this is my BOOMstick!" comes to mind.
 
The best use I can think of would be gathering a collection of modern news articles about the state of the world, especially the loss of liberties in the US, along with a lot of what is now considered history but to them would still be the future, and take it back to the signing of the US Constitution. Then show the framers how amazing technology in the future will be, and how the really important things have gone so terribly wrong. Maybe they could tweak the Constitution a bit to clear some things up, and leave notes and warnings for future generations so that perhaps, maybe, they could stave off or at least delay significantly the erosion of freedoms that's going on today despite their best efforts at the time.
 
[RIP]Zeus;1038512742 said:
Bring a solar battery charger with you... ;)

I know it was the dark ages, but they still had sun. :D
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Not to be picky or anything...but the 1800s was a little bit past the dark ages...and they had knowledge of electricity in the 1800s, with knowledge of how the laptop charger works and knowledge in electrical design one could easily charge a laptop battery. :cool:
 
Aluisious said:
A little tangential, but ever since I was a kid I've thought about how you could go back a thousand years in history with a semiautomatic rifle and basically conquer an area as far as you could ride a horse. Even ammo wouldn't be a big deal, once you shot a couple people in a row no one who didn't understand the technology would push their luck.
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Almost didn't work for the British in the Boer Wars against the Shaka Zulu tribe. ;)
 
Brent_Justice said:
Don't even need a laptop for this, replace a laptop with a current tablet, or even a cell phone, and you'd be a wizard. A tablet would be even more impressive to be honest. Bring a cell phone to the 1960's and they'd think you were Spock.
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Tablet Wizard FTW!!!
 
XamediX said:
I'd go to the early 1900's and with an afro, a glock, and a backpack full of bullets, end slavery!
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Like that dave chappelle one where the player haters went back in time and shot the slave master.

NickJames said:
That's why you bring your boomstick.

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Ash said:
This... is my boomstick! - It's a twelve-gauge, double-barreled Remington. S-Mart's top of the line. You can find this in the sporting goods department. That's right, this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Retails for about $109.95. It's got a walnut stock, cobalt-blue steel, and a hair trigger. That's right... shop smart: shop S-Mart... You got that?!
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