Technology Marches On/Quotes

""Help our school buy a computer!""

- Sign seen in Freaks and Geeks set c.1980

""Don't copy! Don't copy that floppy!""

- Well known, but very dated, PSA

"This book excerpt is roughly 256 Kilobytes of text in length, and may load slowly if you have a slow modem, or not completely if you are short of memory."

- http://www.adrr.com/lingua/alien.htm

""Thomas Alva Edison invented the phonograph. (deadly silence) The ... record player? (more silence) It was before CDs. Plastic hadn't been invented yet.""

- Arthur's Mr. Ratburn running afoul of this trope

""Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.""

- Popular Mechanics, 1949

"They probably redesigned the whole Sickbay, too! I know Engineers, they love to change things!"

- Dr. Leonard McCoy, Star Trek the Motion Picture