• TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
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    3 days ago

    Back in the day, I had just envisioned storage media getting more and more dense, to the point where we might be using some kinda holographic cube or some shit in the future to store petabytes of data.

    I never thought of the entire world just constantly streaming and downloading everything around the planet on demand. The state of Internet bandwidth in those days made it hard to imagine.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      1 day ago

      Same. And HDD space was so unbelievably expensive vs the cost of physical media that it just didn’t register that it might be cheaper to host it all in the cloud even if internet speeds improved. A CD/DVD costs pennies to make (a bit of metal encased in plastic), a HDD costs orders of magnitude more for the same capacity. I thought surely we’d move to more dense, optical media.