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		MrDunham on July 16, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FCC proposes to increase minimum broadband speeds ... To pile on here with a tangential analogy: My parents worked at IBM in the 70s through '00s. They told me when new hardware came to the office that had a gigabyte of storage and their reaction: "A gigabyte! What would you ever do with a whole gigabyte?!"

sethammons on July 16, 2022 [–]

I had the exact reaction when my dad brought home our first 1gb hd in the 90s. "Do you realize how many books you can store pn that?!"

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