{"id":817,"date":"2006-02-15T22:53:54","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T04:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2006\/02\/15\/total-hard-drive-space-on-my-desk\/"},"modified":"2006-02-18T12:36:28","modified_gmt":"2006-02-18T18:36:28","slug":"total-hard-drive-space-on-my-desk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2006\/02\/15\/total-hard-drive-space-on-my-desk\/","title":{"rendered":"Total Hard Drive Space On My Desk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is not to brag or anything, but I just noticed that the amount of hard drive space, that I have currently have sitting on my desk, is absolutely staggering.<\/p>\n<p>First, a little history:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My family&#8217;s first computer, a 386sx\/16, had a 40MB hard drive in it. This was about 1991.<\/li>\n<li>Then we got a Pentium-60 in 1995 and that had a 500MB hard drive.<\/li>\n<li>I switched over to the Mac when I went to college (1996), and the drive that came with that was 800MB, I think..<\/li>\n<li>Then I bought a Blue and White G3 Tower (99? I forget), with a  6GB hard drive.<\/li>\n<li>After the Blue and White came my current Powerbook (2003), 80 GB drive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, with the new drive I just bought tonight, I have sitting on my desk, in various computers and iPods and external drives, 789GB of Hard drive space.<\/p>\n<p><strong>789GB!<\/strong> To put that into perspective a bit, in terms of my family&#8217;s original computer, I have about 20,000 times as much storage space now. The concept of lots and lots of hard drive space in and of itself is not foreign to me, I&#8217;m around this stuff all the time, but to think of how this has progressed in the past 10 years, is just crazy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not to brag or anything, but I just noticed that the amount of hard drive space, that I have currently have sitting on my desk, is absolutely staggering. First, a little history: My family&#8217;s first computer, a 386sx\/16, had a 40MB hard drive in it. This was about 1991. Then we got a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-db","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}