r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Uguero • 17d ago

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In 1956, IBM shipped a 5MB hard drive... and it weighed over a ton. Yep, just 5 megabytes required a forklift and a cargo plane. Today, that's not even one iPhone photo.

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u/Phenomenal_Hoot 17d ago

No joke. There was a time powerful computers took up a whole ass big room. Now the phone you’re looking at this on is like 100x those computers.

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u/catfroman 16d ago

If you only have a 500MB phone you may want to upgrade

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u/Phenomenal_Hoot 16d ago

Yeah I’m browsing Reddit on a Nokia 5110 what’s it to ya?

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u/alprey1 16d ago

I read your comment in his voice