as a kid I would have to say Cd's and like someone else said Laserdiscs.. When i was 15 I had the first Sony portable Discman that I thought was amazing that I could carry around this and listen to it with little headphones.. Haha I know it was when I was 15 cause I was a freshman in High School and I took it to school for mos and it must have wowed someone else cause they stole it from my locker after I had it 6 mos
The internet was a HUGE wow for me cause i got online in 1998 when I was house sitting at my mom's while she was out of town. she had just bought the IBM aptiva a week or so before. I got online after she left and I think I was online 18 hours straight
. I then bought a Webtv and over the next 5 to 6 mos bought PC components one piece at a time as I could afford them and a buddy put it together for me.
Blu-ray is a wow for me cause I've always loved movies and home theater. I had Laserdiscs before dvds came out and I moved over to dvds only cause I could buy movies at half the price of LDs. But when Blu-ray came out it was a game changer for me with the quality.
My android phone is for sure a wow thing for me. I've had 2 other smartphones before the android but looking back at them they were not that smart at all. I love to be able to now go away from my laptops and pcs and watch whole movies on the couch and to be able to check all my stats, emails, myspace, FB and all that shit i would have to get up and check atleast once during a 2 hour movie.