4 ms·
No it all really changed when storage service manufacturers realized that they could market 1,000,000,000 bytes as "1 gigabyte", to people who then saw their co
by yyyfb 2y ago
No it all really changed when storage service manufacturers realized that they could market 1,000,000,000 bytes as "1 gigabyte", to people who then saw their computer tell them that there was about 7% less than a gigabyte in there.
- Hikikomori 2y agoI think that started before the gigabyte.
- Izkata 2y agoCan't say when they started using it, but gigabyte external hard drives would be about when the gap got large enough normal people started to notice it.
- latentsea 2y agoYup, this is when I started to really notice it too.
- Hikikomori 2y agoThey did it the 70s.