What is something that's crazier than the wildest dreams of any ~1970s nerd, but exists today? I'll start with an easy one:

me (1999): I just want 1GB of ram and 1TB of hard drive, I can’t see a world where more than that would be necessary.

We were ripping DVD’s to 200mb divx at the time and an OTA cartoon might only be 25mb because SD+compression.