Reblogged from ilovecharts
A 1TB hard drive that sells for as little as $60 today would have been worth $1 trillion in the 1950s, when computer storage cost $1 per byte, according to Dag Spicer, senior curator of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif.
And a modern-day 4GB stick of RAM would have cost $32 billion.
Mind = Blown
Computer History Museum to highlight storage, from RAMAC to microdrives (via world-shaker)(via world-shaker)
on-a-bridge writes:
If only because I’m the exact opposite. I see on shows like Hoarders where people are literally panicking over their stuff being taken away, and I understand exactly how they’re feeling, because I’ve felt the same thing over the opposite trigger. I’ll be in my…
I totally get this. I have been throwing things out like crazy lately! I want an empty room. I want to be one of those deeply spiritual monk people who are able to separate themselves entirely from the physical world and physical possessions…I’m off to throw more stuff away.
A joint chart and public service announcement from Loldwell and The System, all about the proper attribution of work (including places like, yknow, Tumblr).
See Something? Cite Something.
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Many of our submitters would do well to keep this chart in mind. We get a lot of unsourced material in our inbox.
