r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Uguero • 17d ago
of a storage unit
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/theneighborupstairs 16d ago
Man look at those essential workers just going to town with their essential work. Fast forward to now and we're sucking water out of rivers to cool servers that are hot from making fruit and vegetable cheating edits. Meowmeow mememeowmeow.