So I'm probably going to date myself, but I recall the days where there was one Wang word processor in the office at the Army and the rest of us used IBM electric typewriters with multi-color tissue paper we prepared with carbon paper.
Since that time, computers and electronics have moved at light speed. My friend Talia provided me with some interesting facts about bits and bytes and I had to share.
1 Bit = Binary Digit
8 Bits = 1 Byte
1000 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte
1000 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte
1000 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte
1000 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte
1000 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte
1000 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte
1000 Exabytes = 1 Zettabyte
1000 Zettabytes = 1 Yottabyte
1000 Yottabytes = 1 Brontobyte
1000 Brontobytes = 1 Geopbyte
At one time in the not too distant past, a megabyte was huge. We will probably be carrying around little flash drives with a brontobyte soon! Ah - progress!
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