By the time I was actually aware of what computers were and how they more or less worked, five megs wasn’t a ton of storage to me, but even then the increasing

By the time I was actually aware of what computers were and how they more or less worked, five megs wasn’t a ton of storage to me, but even then the increasing quantity of data being stored and the decreasing size of the storage media has never ceased to amaze me. When I was 12, I bought my first hard drive for my computer. It was a fair amount of money, relatively slow (IDE) and was only 60 gigs IIRC. I don’t remember the price but everything is expensive when you’re 12; it was probably on the order of about $100. When I was 15, I got my first MicroSD card, it was four gigabytes, and I was completely astounded by it. Something the size of my fingernail could store a thousand PERFECTLY LEGALLY OBTAINED MP3s, and it wasn’t even that expensive, even at the time. Fast forward to 2023, and I buy a 512gb MicroSD card for about the same price (not adjusted for inflation). It’s insane. It doesn’t feel like it should be possible. Humans can be cool sometimes.