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Undernews: Signs of progress

Price of 1 gigabyte of storage over time:

1981 $300,000

1987 $50,000

1990 $10,000

1994 $1,000

1997 $100

2000 $10

2004 $1

2012 $0.10

I was online in 1981. The word "gigabyte" was rarely used. For anything. In fact, "megabyte" was something of an abstract concept. A personal computer's RAM was measured in K, and not so very much of that.