The older thing was objectively better

I’m helping my father in law with a project that has entailed me looking up some hardware specifications for something. I might share what that something is at some point, but it’s kind of irrelevant for this post. All you need to know is the 1998 iteration was as good as what they release now. And in some specific technical specifications, the 1998 version was better. 1998 was almost three decades ago, to put that into context. Yes, I feel old, and I apologise if I’ve now made you feel that way too. I was using a Palm III in school at that time. Lou Bega’s cover of Mambo No. 5 hadn’t even come out yet. And this specific hardware device was better back then. As in, objectively better. That gives me pause. I’m into retrocomputers (no, really!?), but I’m the first to admit my modern machines have better hardware than my Commodore 116, or my Atari ST. The rapid pace of development that occurred between those machines and the low-end laptop upon which I’m writing this is wild. We went…