Story Time w/ Boogie - Computers, Technology, and Games! 

life will never be this good again

after 4 years i still enjoy this video :)

I'm watching this video on it's 10th birthday, and it's still very enjoyable.

It's so cool to see someone in genuine awe, we really take today's technology for granted. My mam often makes the Star Trek comparison. :) In a lot of ways though, I envy my parents generation and wish I grew up in a simpler time. When they were growing up, there were still fields in the suburbs that are now so built up, and kids were given so much freedom. I see some children nowadays practically being raised by the internet and social media, and it's damaging to their social skills and empathy... Not saying I'd swap places, I enjoy having toilet paper 😂 There are pros and cons to every era.

Hey! Boogie2988 Thanks for helping us realize: "we live the in future."

just watched this video again for the 4th time since 2012 and it still makes me stop and think. When you get your mind into that perspective it really can make someone super happy. Instead of wishing for everything you dont have

I'm 38 also and seen gaming go from Pong with it's couple of sprites on the screen to how it is now, I remember Getting my first gaming PC which was top of the line at the time a 486 DX2 66 Mhz with 8MB ram a 2MB cirrus logic Graphics card, a sounblaster 16 sound card and a 2x speed CD Rom drive, to play games on CD's that had full Speech when characters talked etc was just amazing to me back then, also I remember the internet when it was just IRC & newsgroups / bulletin boards now look at it

back in my day, we had to walk 20 miles to school, in the rain, with no shoes, uphill, carrying a 50lb backpack, whilst hauling a 30 ton tank, with no guarantee of making it back home. and back then, when we got home, we had to use our HANDS to open the door, and if the door wasn't open, it meant that it was LOCKED. whenever it was locked, we had to use a small, metal, jagged object known, as a key. keys were also used for starting cars. of course now, we have flying barrels with wings. -Grandpa

I am 15, and I very much do realize what age and day we live in. Sometimes it takes just stepping back for a moment and realizing that we have advanced so much from where we were 30 years ago, or even 20 years ago. It astounds me sometimes that people can be so ignorant to say that we have not advanced, nor have we creatively pushed our bounds. But sometimes other than looking at all of this amazing stuff we have now, I enjoy going back and playing games before my time, etc. Truly amazing.

It is funny listening to this video literally the day after of you putting together your 2015 computer... What is next? Mind blown!!!

the glory days of boogie2988. i miss these days

It has occurred to me a few times just how incredible the world is today. I'm sitting here, in my room recovering from surgery, and while I do, I watch a guy on the other side of the world talk about stuff. I was born in '94, so I grew up playing games like Crash Bandicoot, which absolutely blew my mind, it let me do things that I'd never even considered as a possibility! Now it's so standard to just be able to control an avatar in a 3d environment, I really can't wait to see what comes next!

Finally seeing this 8 years later. I always enjoyed these types of videos. All the best to you in the new year sir

I'm 25 and when I stop to think about technology, it is pretty amazing. I try to appreshate everything I have. Boogie you are so awesome. You make my day everyday a video comes out

Honestly, I think this all the time. I'm 21, but I'm still amazed by everything these days. Cars in particular are amazing. Some of the cars coming out now look like nothing I could have imagined. I was just sitting in class today looking at my phone and thinking about how amazing that technology is. Even though I'm younger, I still remember when no one in my family had a cell phone. And when a portable game console, with a grayscale non-backlight screen was mind-blowing technology.

I'm only 21 and I remember when we got a Atari (not sure model) and playing Pong, then we got the NES and wow that was hours and hours of fun. Kids these days who complain if there is a small lag in a online game would never know what to do with a AOL dial-up connection where you had to wait a few seconds just for a simple page to load. technology truly is amazing of how far it's come in only the last 15 years.

being born in the late 80s, I can say that I too am in awe of the things I've seen through the 90s and 00s. we've come so far in just my 24 years of life.. you're right, we are living in the future.

Great video boogie! I talk about this stuff with my dad all the time. Im still in high school so people complain about technology and not having the best item, but even my iPhone 3 is still beyond my imagining as a child. Playing an app like Curiosity that is so simple is still so much fun just because i think of what it was like before the iPod Touch and the iPhone. It truly is amazing how we can control a world of information by touching some piece of smart glass.

I actually think about things like this often. Most people don't, so it's probably odd to think of a 16 year old thinking about this, but I mean we live in a time where you can do anything. You can learn anything. If you wanna learn magic tricks, a few clicks of a keyboard and you're learning it. It's just amazing to think that say like 200 years ago, people had to learn from other people, or from books, or just flat out not learn at all. It's crazy if you seriously think about this time.

Whooooo time travel! i am here from 01/03/2016

Not much older than me, I'm 30. I remember hookin up the Atari 2600 and playing pong and thinking it was the best damn thing in the entire world, gleefully listening to beeps and boops. Phones to, remember rotary? Fuck up one number and have to dial the whole thing again. Or when they'd start to die the ring would not stop, it'd just be a constant ringing noise from your phone causing you to run to it even quicker. And now that I'm a little older, I appreciate peace n quiet, more than anything.

I remember going to my Grandma's to use her VCR to tape Robotech. I had to show her how to use the timer and have it tape the show for me. We had just gotten cable, but still no VCR or microwave. Those tapes cost me a lot of my allowance to buy. I remember them being very expensive or maybe my allowance was small. Those VCR tapes of Robotech fell apart in the early 2000's. The first cell phone I got came with an antenna that attached to my car to help it get a signal.

absolutely amazing how technology is now

I grew up playing wolfenstein 3d on an IBM 5150 PC (xt series if i remember rightly) running dos 3.0, it was magnificant. 128 kbits of memory with a 4.7 Mhz processor. It is amazing how quickly technology advances, at the time i couldn't imagine sitting typing onto a website after watching a video from someone on the other side of the globe .

I just bought a new tv the other day and basically cried... I was so happy with everything it can do and how hard I worked for it.

I'm 20 years old, and I grew up in Norway with only 3 channels :O

SLI performance has drastically improved with the 7000 and 600 series from AMD and Nvidia, respectively. It doesn't scale to 100%, but it scales to around 80-90% with some games. It depends on your resolution and CPU, respectively. Is it worth it? Depends, If you're already thinking about building a high-end gaming rig, an extra $350 to get more oomph in games where you would want it. Looking around online it looks like Far Cry 3 benefits from SLI/CF setups. And pretty good scaling too.

Although I'm young (15); even I've seen a MASSIVE change. I remember when I thought the PS2 and Xbox were powerful systems and seeing the graphics and thinking they're realistic. And now we have machines which are (PS4) many times more powerful. From big box TVs to ultra-thin HD plasmas and LCDs. Slow internet speeds where RU-vid in 2005/2006 would take a while to load a vid at 240p to 1080p videos being instant on full screen. I can't imagine how a 37 year old views this.

Editing to and from back and forth to SSD is suboptimal infact, due to the fact that the circuitry inside a SSD is adapted toward a certain number of writes and reads, at some point they start degrading. My studio use mechnical drives, 4x3TB one's to edit onto, this is to preserve the RAW filesizes, and with 4x drives in raid 0, you attain high speeds any which way. SSD is great as a middle-medium for storage however, I just wouldn't use it for editing on, wont last us 3 months.

One thing I'd really like to see, is when you are explaining stuff such as graphics of games, maybe have a picture pop up of the graphics because some of us haven't experienced some of the older games and can relate to exactly what you are saying. I'm 20 years old and I'm guessing many other viewers are much younger so I'm sure it would be greatly appreciated! Thanks Boogie, keep up the great content.

I was just thinking about what you said in your comment the other day. I'm only 24 and I remember when there were no cell phones and you had to find a pay phone to make a call or a 14.4kbps internet connection when the internet was new. The older generations always lament how our generation doesn't know how to use a rotary phone or a record player, but I think the gap within our generation on how we experience modern change in communication, social networking, and tech is much more profound.

This should have been a thanksgiving special

First thing I ever got gaming on was the AMIGA, and I always look back on the days I learned how to programme games using AMOS. I will never ever forget those countless times I was amazed at just how much fun I had playing games on my AMIGA, then being incredibly astounded at new handheld Gameboys... A small gaming device!? SERIOUSLY??

I am 23, the first computer game I remember playing is Minesweeper, and Pickle Wars. Playing Duck Hunt on the Nintendo was around the same time..Now I have a lvl 90 Paladin on WoW and walk around with my Experia Play (PSP Phone). It does not seem like it has been a long time but I agree with you completely that even just in my time it has changes SO much.

I'm 19 and thinking about it now I do notice how lucky we are with this technology, because I use to have that same tv as you Boogie except mine didn't have wheels and then seeing a large flat screen tv (I still have this) then the tvs that we have now.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU, i totally thought i was the only one who thought about stuff like this!!!! i'm 26 and every time i try to talk about this subject to one of my friends who's the same age as me they look at me like i'm nuts and that i'm making a big deal out of nothing. it bothers me so much that people don't notice this stuff with the profound thought that something like this requires. the world is changing so rapidly, i can't stop thinking about what we have and what's to come

For sure boogie, I'm only 25 but I remember being in grade school and playing oregon trail on an old apple with a black and green CRT monitor. I tell people everyday that we are living in the age of technology so long as we don't all kill each other or have a complete economic meltdown we will continue to grow. Unfortunately lost my job as a mechanical engineer after 5years (got laid off) I am excited to be going back to school for IT. Please video your build!

I just built my first computer from components a week ago so I feel somewhat like you do boogie. The first time I loaded up some of my favorite games on it was amazing and this is the coolest machine i've ever owned. I love your descriptions in this video and I'm glad you keep your videos constantly fresh and entertaining!

Back in the day I saw my uncly play Need For Speed 2 and I was AMAZED that you can go a bit off the road. Nowdays you can drive freely on a freakin island. Back in the day I thought the cut scenes of comand and conquer 1 we're MIND blowing. Today we make MOVIES with nothing more than computers.

I build a similar computer lately, not as powerful as yours though .. my mind is still wobbling .. I think you will love your new machine. Good luck with it!

That zombie game was my all time favorite game to play on my acer windows xp gaming desktop pc 24 / 7 when I was 18 years old 24 / 7

Can't wait for gameplay channel, usually with channels like fluffetalks or smosh which I ain't subbed to anymore I would never start watching gamieplay but with boogie I just find it really interesting listening to him speak and it will be good with his new pc.

i come from other country and how amazed I was when I arrived here.

Thanks for opening up my mind again to technology Boogie man...

You don't look any older than 29.

Boogie, I just want to say thank you. I started watching your videos a few months ago and subscribed. One, because you are outrageously funny, and Two, because you actually know what you're talking about when it comes to technology and gaming. I love all of your videos. I've had a very stressful month preparing for my final exams this semester. So when I took a break, I would hop on your channel. I knew I could get a great laugh, or a cool discussion about games. Again, thank you. Keep it up!

Hell Im 19 and I think the same way. Its crazy. Even I grew up on Sega master system, SNES and N64, Gameboys...

Also, although I didn't really ever go to a lot. LAN parties were still a big thing when I got into xbox gaming. Halo 2 used to be the only thing to play online, now there are hundreds of titles to play online. Nothing is and ever will be as good as halo 2 online though :(. Nothing cannot top that feeling of what it was like when everyone was still figuring out how to compete with other people and adapt to different playing styles. Now everything is so predictable its not even fun sometimes.

I love your appreciation for technology, people are o hard to impress these days, such short term memory. When the N64 came out, that was ground breaking, I couldn't believe the how incredible the graphics were, playing Ridge Racer or Goldeneye just made me drool.

Started my birthday day watching Boogie. Love you man!

Hey Boogie, I spent 9 hours yesterday building a computer with almost the same specs. You will not be disappointed, press the power button and you're in Windows in under 10 seconds, blows apart any game you can throw at it. Windows System Rating is 7.7/7.9 for my processor and RAM, and 7.9/7.9 for the gaming graphics and boot drive (the SSD). Prepare to kick some gaming ass!

I live in a world where I have bought over 10 games that I haven't played. Usually I would have 1-5 games and play 1 at a time or rarely 2 or 3. Nowadays it's more like stockpiling and playing whatever fits, while leaving some behind. Money goes easy, but earlier in my life money was conserved. Things have changed alot.

I used to have chats with my old IT professor and we'd just sit thinking "how did someone know to send an electrical charge through metal so that some other hunk of metal could interpret it as information?!?" Blows my mind every time I think of it. This was a good video boogie

love these story times!

Hey Boogie, I recently built a 3570k system with a 7850 GPU and 16gb of ram too. I'm 28, I remember playing zelda on NES and after that being in aw when I saw Mario 64 for the first time. And as a tech enthusiast I can relate to what you say, and I'm 100% with you on this. Thank Science we can have such an elevated quality of life today, and thank God he gave us life to enjoy it. Thank you for making lots of your viewers think about these things.

I remember seeing sonic the hedgehog and thinking nothing could look better than this..crazy stuff

Your "Grandpa did you really" at the end was GREAT! It really puts things into perspective. Also makes our medical procedures sound BARBARIC haha. Great job Boogie! Keep on 2988ing! :D

Boogie, you are genuinely the best youtuber around. I look forward to story time every week. Please never stop.

I definitely can see how in just the last 10 - 15 years technology has evolved. The internet has revolutionized the way we do just about everything. Video games look photo realistic at times and a home entertainment system could be attained by someone on a rather low income. It's simply an amazing time if you know where to find entertainment.

i know how you feel, when i was a kid, any 3d game would blow my mind! i didn't even had a n64 yet... my first console... oh good old times... everything was simpler then...

The fact that I can watch a video a day after you made it, through the internet at my leisure is crazy. Go back 100 years, no one could have even imagined that. It truly is magical.

Boogie you just put my mind! I'm 26 now and i remember my first Commodore64. I remember the feeling when i first played Doom. That graphics man! Little Big Adventure 2 was my first game on CD... I still like to play it sometimes. About 4 years ago when my friend introduced me to some tech news i said "Shit, man, when i was young that was science-fiction". Yes i do realize we live in "Star-Trek world".

I got the 2600 for my 6th birthday. When the NES came out, my mind was blown. Zelda was the most amazing thing I ever saw. Gold cartridge and all. Now, shit is almost life like.

this is the first video where Boogie2988 started saying "Through the power of the internet."

I'm 46. My first video game was Pong. My first computer was a Commodore 64 with a tape drive. Damn, I'm old.

I knew I was done for when it came to gaming when playing wolfenstien 3d on the comp. in the kitchen. Everyone shared it, so you only got so much time to play. I eventually saved up enough for my own, and have been gaming ever sense.

I always try and appreciate all that I have, because I am a very lucky person! It's easy to get used to things so I like to take a moment now and then to think about how lucky I really am. I love to listen to your voice Boogie, awesome stuff!

A 37 inch tv today is under 500 dallars. And there's over 2000 channels with charter. Technology came far even from ten years ago.

Ok look, im only 13. I love you content boogie. I just feel so lucky, to be able to live in this day and age. I mean yeah my family doesn't have money flowing out everywhere, But i have basically everything i could ever want or need. A good PC, pretty much every console right now, clothes, food. I am so lucky, And yet i still take a lot of stuff for granted. I am so grateful and so impressed with all of this stuff and i look forward to everything i will experience as i grow older in life.

I know how amazing this world is, I think about it every day. It's a thought that motivates me to live life, I love technology and computers and games, it's part of the reason that I love your channel so much. Love your channel boogie, trust me I appreciate every day of my life. I think i was born a decade late, I wish I was your age and grew up in the time you did. Also, grats on your new channel, already subscribed =)

I'm only 24 but I do remember a little bit of the age of Brick Cell Phones, pagers, and Televisions that weight more than I do. Back then I really didn't think about technology. "Nice giant TV dad, now I am going outside to play in the dirt pile."

I didn't have cable until I was 16. We had one of those huge antennas on our house until a storm ripped it off the roof. It really is amazing how TV technology has changed, though. I'm spoiled by progressive scan; gaming on 480i or 1080i makes my eyes hurt now. Ironically, I use CRT computer monitors for HD gaming. Some of those old things can actually handle 1080p. Everything old is new again! Your PC specs sound awesome! Humble Request: Please benchmark it with 3DMark and share the results!!

Never really viewed technology that way, guess it's because I'm only 13. It's incredible how much we have accomplished over the years

I ADORE Boogie's Story Time videos. So much moral and food for thought, cheers to you mate, keep them rolling!

similar to what you are saying i recently got a about 3500 classic console games snes,nes,sega,n64, etc. and i got them all from my friends cpu via flash drive and i though how much space would it take up if i had all the games on hard copies it was a mind blow

I'm running on a very similar computer, if you're upgrading from a weaker system I'm pretty sure you'll be in awe at just what it's capable of.

i'm 14 and i remember the big box tv's, the old cars, the old consoles, no fancy cell phones, no one even heard of touchscreen, and then here i am now and boom!

My 1st PC was a Commodore 64 that had a TAPE hard drive. Now running with 8 core processor crazy amount of HDD space and I remember how tiny that screen was now I have 4 monitors all in HD so I hear ya Pandora's box is open sir.

Really got me thinking boogs. As being 15 years old I can't wait for the new technology that will arise 20-30 years from now.

I'm only 20 and I realize what amazing tech we have. And I often think of the time when the iPad will look like a primitive toy.

I remember thinking the graphics on the original Half Life and Kingdom Hearts were the best when I was a kid. It is amazing how far we have really come technology wise since then.

It snows in ND during the winter months, Boogie.

when I got my i7-2600k in april. it's mind blowing. you can edit video about 100x faster than any other. you will be very happy!

So true man, i'm 28 i feel i've grown up WITH computer games. I remember playing Goldeneye on the N64 in an HMV store and i actually said "Man, graphics can't get better than this". Because that's how big it was! The first game a kid might ever play today could be Mario HD, or FarCry3, and that is their benchmark of graphics and gameplay. Its crazy. These are the worst graphics most of those kids will see We are in the future, and i cant even start to imagine what the future-future will bring.

You inspire me every time I watch one of these story time videos the one about your weight brought a tear to my eyes as I have dealt with the same problems and in fact I still do but keep up the good work.

Watching in 2019!

1 gtx670gpu is fine for 1080p max details for xsplit or dxtory, as long as you dont do video editing, gaming, recording, installing and something else all together, your fine. scaling gpu for xsplit, is very low to say, scaling on gaming itself, is high. but recording hardly depends on cpu, not gpu

Wow pcs are way better now it's hard to imagine using gtx 660 nowadays

Yeah boogie I often catch my self doing the same thing. Thinking.about where we've come.and.how fast. And also think how would life be today if we had everything today. 16 years ago. And it developed up until now. Mind boggling. Love the vids keep it up!.

i remember when computers was running command lines and games was on floppies. its crazy how technology blew up to be what it is. whats is the MOBO you used???

Everyone always says, appreciate what you have and I do try... But no one has ever put it like you have just now boogie.... You've made me realise

Hey Boogie, I am a huge fan, and I don't want to undermine your videos, but flying cars are most definitely a possibility in the next 100 years. A buddy of mine is actually starting a company that is working towards just that. The key is to take the human element out of the loop. Autopilots have just a few kinks to work out before they are better than human pilots (they are already better at takeoff and cruise). Avidyne is an interesting company working on these advanced autopilots.

I have the exact same one!

I'm 37 and my Dad died in 1991. I often wonder what he would make of things now. I bought the Indiana Jones box set on dvd a few days ago and watching it, I had a sudden flashback of watching it with my Dad on a Betamax video and using a remote control linked by a 20ft cable to repeatedly rewind and watch the part where Mary punches Indy and thinking it was miraculous.. Rewinding a film!! Laughing so hard as the punch goes backwards and then swings forward again.

I kinda felt that way when I first got my iPhone. I was just like "Wow, this thing is crazy".

Boogie.. please. I love you, Thanks for making everything wonderful in my life. Every single time I watch your videos I learn something, take something away from it , and grow from it. I'm 22, I'm trying my best at this world and feel like I'm failing, but watching you succeed is the best thing I can hope for. :)

Thank you for making me feel old, and I'm only 22 XD. I grew up playing the genesis, N64, ps1 and PC. The internet was still pretty brand new when we first got it. I still remember that awful sound of Dial Up. I used to think doom had the most amazing graphics when I first played it. Now I look back and shake my head lol. When I first heard about the ps2 coming out, I about shit myself. I couldn't wait to play GTA III when it had these amazing crisp graphics. Now that is all old new haha.

As another long time gamer that started out on the 2600 and arcade games, I have to agree with you Boogie, things have definitely come a long way. I remember our 1st vcr. The thing was like $600 and was huge...complete with wired remote lol. I also grew up in a house with the massive furniture tv. Good story time, takes me back. 40 years old here.

currently i just find confusing the fact that people (a few) still say that black ops II is waay too futuristic. well, it has a few "toys" we dont have yet, but a big part of them u can see working prototypes, or "army only" devices that even looks out of this dimension face to face, but none the less, THEY DO EXIST, and those who doesnt, the key word is: it doesnt exist YET.

I really wish I watched this before watching your new computer build