Slashdot has an interesting discussion of a BBC article on "Email as the New Database."
I remember when I could not afford a 2 gig hard drive. I remember how hard it was filling my hard drive with useless programs and games. Now I have 2 gigs for email!!
My first hard drive, purchased by a company that I was on a short consulting gig with to test its grammar-checking software in the mid-1980s, was a massive 5 megs. I couldn't imagine how I'd ever fill that much space. I can also remember, with sharp financial clarity, scraping my grad student TA income together to purchase four 512K SIMMS for my Mac SE/30 for something like $400.... In fact, when I was young, we used to have to carry our bits from the hard drive to the logic board by hand, two miles, sometimes in a foot and a half of snow, uphill both ways.
Damn, you kids got it easy.
(I actually posted a link to the BBC article in a Datacloud entry two and a half months ago. I don't think I've ever been that far out in front of /. coverage before. Still, the discussion at /. is pretty a pretty interesting bit of insight into the work habits of geeks (as always).)
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