I remember in college when I had to store my design projects on zip discs. I may yet have a zip drive somewhere around to read them. Although, I imagine by now my zip discs have been corrupted.

In grade school, we put everything on floppy discs. I even remember the old Amiga computer my family had. We got the computer in 1984 and had to put a disc in to run programs and applications. It had the best games like Test Drive and crazy eights.

Today if I handed someone a floppy disc with my files, they would look at me funny. Very few people still use floppy discs. Better yet, if I handed someone a zip disc, they would hand it back because no one in their right mind still uses a zip disc. Most have moved on to CDs, DVDs, USBs, servers, and external Hard drives.

It continues to amaze me how fast that transition happened. Lately, I've noticed it even more. I'm considering buying another external harddrive. This one would be for photos from my new digital camera. The first external hard drive I bought was several years about ago for several hundred dollars. It holds 250 GB, while the second one for $170 holds 500 GB. Today, I was searching on Amazon and found a 500 GB external HD for $70-115. That under half the price I paid. I'd like to also mention the price for the 1 TB hard drive. It now equals what I bought for my second external hard drive. The fact that the capacity has more than doubled for the same price simply astounds me. Although, it shouldn't, because that's how it i with the rapid development of technology and the market demand.