Nov 29 2009Don't Copy That Floppy!: Evolution Of Storage
This is a little graphic charting the progress in music storage. It's part of a larger graphic which also includes the evolutions of photo and data storage. Click THIS BIG-ASS LINK RIGHT HERE to see the whole thing. But warning: prepare to be wowed. Or at least moderately impressed with how far we've come. Now let's put a man on the moon! Or a cat. Oh. My. God -- SPACE FURBABIES -- WANT!!
Man, We've Come a Long Way From Floppies [gizmodo]
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Reader Comments
1. Blastphemer - November 29, 2009 5:19 PM
Holy crap...that's a lot of room for porn storage. Nice work scientists and engineers!!!
2. Boozie - November 29, 2009 5:20 PM
I remember my parents got a new car in '92 and we had to specially order a CD player for it, my how far we have come.
3. Truth - November 29, 2009 5:25 PM
Yeah, hours and hours of storage on an iPod of low quality MP3s. MP3s can be stored and send so easily because they are at most 10% of the original sound quality. The rest of the sound is made up by psycho acoustics. Listening to MP3s (or aiffs or whatever) all of the time will make you stressed because your brain has to make up the rest of the sound. FACT.
We have come so far! We can store loads of shit quality music!
WAV. FTW
4. naas - November 29, 2009 5:40 PM
@3 your theory < 320kbps
5. Hayley - November 29, 2009 5:45 PM
OLD
6. Closet Nerd - November 29, 2009 6:14 PM
I hope I get a new iPod this year. I have soooo much music on my old one and don't listen to nearly all of it.
7. Elisha - November 29, 2009 6:33 PM
UNRELATED: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCfRdE1JQtQ
Guy tries to use Gold Mushroom Kingdom coins in conveniance stores.
8. Garth Merenghi - November 29, 2009 6:39 PM
It's cool, but the 'data' column is messed up. Some of those boxes should be green, not red.
9. oli - November 29, 2009 7:03 PM
This is stupid. It says a 120gb iPod = 2106 CD's. But 2106x700mb does not anywhere near equal 120gb.
10. coob lah khan - November 29, 2009 7:03 PM
60 Minutes
=
1Hour
11. oli - November 29, 2009 7:06 PM
yeh 60m=1h but they are saying a cd holds 80mins per 700mb which isnt true it can hold alot more if you use the same format they are using for the ipod like mp3 or whatever
12. Paul Murray - November 29, 2009 7:08 PM
Waah! Where's the 360k floppy? I have fond memories. For that matter, where's magnetic tape?
I'd be interested in seeing this diagram plotted against how long the data is expected to still be readable. Some cuneiform tablets are thousands of years old. Plot persistence vs density (you'll need a logarithmic scale on both axes).
13. Nobody - November 29, 2009 8:00 PM
Yup the colors are wrong on the data section. Reds where greens should be. Too bad cause it wrecks a sweet chart.
14. EntropyWinsEventually - November 29, 2009 8:05 PM
It's amazing yeah... but they more room you have, the more shit you collect, and you lose yourself in a sea of mediocrity. Libraries depress me in the same way... The people will need longer and longer lifespans just to keep up their "geek cred"... ;-)
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16. Bloop - November 29, 2009 9:28 PM
The photo album says 100 photos...but it has a green square which is supposed to mean 40 photos....
WHAT THE FUUUUU-
17. DH - November 29, 2009 11:44 PM
too bad only 2 people noticed the mess up
very cool tho
18. Johnny - November 30, 2009 7:15 AM
60min(cd)=1hr(mp3) is wrong. The step were the audio is compressed to shit really needs to be included on this chart.
19. Jaded Icon - November 30, 2009 7:59 AM
@ 18
Well, contact him and reprimand the shit out of him!
20. Jeezy - November 30, 2009 10:06 AM
Hmmm. This graphic is a neat idea, but kinda poorly implemented.
#3: You are so wrong, you don't even know. naas is right. 320kbps FTW!
21. Woof (Geezer) - November 30, 2009 10:54 AM
You missed paper tape, cassette tape, DECtape, DECtape 2, and 8-inch floppies for data storage.
22. Profound - November 30, 2009 10:58 AM
wtf? tiny text on lower right corner says 1MB = 1024 Bytes
just saying
23. Zing! - November 30, 2009 1:13 PM
So um yea, why does the far right chart for data start showing red MB squares for the GB squares? Take a look at the DVD, all of the squares are red MB's. wtf, fail.
24. metin2 yang - November 30, 2009 3:04 PM
i like it