...Which is damn awesome!

I remember my dad flipping a commentnmymway years ago after hearing me and my mates talking about our PCs, upgrades, what ifs, etc. Those days: the concept of a terabyte was an expression of absurdity, we'd use the word the way kids on a playground would say they'd one day have a HUNDRED BUCKS!!

He drew a parallel between PCs in the 90s and hot rods in the 50s, saying how everyone who had any depth of knowledge on his block had that knowledge on the field of automotive tuning and spent their off days and wages on their cars.

I see a comparable metaphor at play here and I still do not disagree with it.