I once held in my hand the main part of a ferrite core memory module from the early 70s. It was kilobytes at best. I also recall looking at recommended require

I once held in my hand the main part of a ferrite core memory module from the early 70s. It was kilobytes at best. I also recall looking at recommended requirements for Dungeon Keeper 2 - 266MHz CPU, 64MB RAM and thinking "that's absurd - no such device exists!". I was a kid back then, so what did I know? Later on in college a friend showed us his absolute monster of a laptop with a whopping 8GB of RAM - he could spin up several VMs on one device! Groundbreaking on a (nominally) portable device. So yeah, safe to say the notion of gigabytes of RAM anywhere close to a regular person belongs firmly to the 21st century.