Transitioning from CD player to Apple iPod was pretty great. All my iPods (earlier models, when the color options were white, then black and white) remain fully functional.<p>There was also a moment in time when Google Translate "broke the mold" for me. It was mid-2010s. I was traveling through Eastern Europe. Using Google Translate I could have real-time conversations with persons speaking another language, in a less common dialect of that language. Translate captured both the semantics and pragmatics of each conversational exchange. Couldn't believe it. I could also use my phone's camera to translate text on signs and menus in real-time. Granted, it ate my battery. It also closed the gap in human-human communication instantly.
When I used torrents for the first time - the client had these funky animated packets coming from seeders and leechers. I don’t know if that counts as a “moment” but my mind was blown.<p>These days my feeling is that the most memorable moments are still yet to come.
First time I pirated Windows XP.<p>Bought the disc for 5£ from an ambulant seller who'd sell also porn DVDs (but that's a story for another time)<p>The disc was in a soft plastic envelope, inside printed in B/W the XP logo and also loose inside the envelope the "serial" to insert when prompted and the instructions on how to install.<p>I did all the procedure according to the instruction provided and inserted the serial without much hope and sure enough it worked!<p>Visited the guy for a couple of years for pirated PC games, movies and porn DVDs....good times.