In 1956, 5MB is needed to be escorted through the plane and is actually big enough to fit a plane. Now, I could hold a 1GB in the palm of my hand. How did we become so high tech that we don’t even need our storage to be the size of a kid’s homemade castle box?
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well, the components we use to store bits (1s and 0s that make up data) were very large and inefficient when they were first invented and used. Over time, technology improved and the components got much smaller, and new ways of storing bits were invented that were smaller.
For example, we used to use disk drives, which had a physical disk that stored bits, and a needle that could read the bits. But now lots of computers use solid-state drives, which store each bit in unmoving microscopic components. They’re smaller and faster than disk drives.
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