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Yeah. Here's another: Space Invaders is now closer in time to the Gamecube than the Gamecube is to today.

Similarly, Windows 95 is now closer in time to the Intel 4004 microprocessor than to today.

I've heard this put as "we're farther in time from the PS2 than the PS2 was from the Atari 2600"

It makes you think though. Has the innovation run out of steam?