Evolution Of Computer Storage – Part Two

Big Data

Since writing my article about the Welshman who unknowingly tossed the entire GDP of an Australasian country into his trash can, I've not once considered myself hard done by. The (daily) realisation that 8000 Bitcoins sit under a mountain of caterpillar-tracked black-bin refuse and industrial waste must be a tough pill to swallow.

Back in the 1950s, such a feat would have been nigh on impossible – not only because the country of Kiribati didn't exist under that name until 1979 and so it didn't technically have a GDP to throw away, nor because of the inexistence of "cryptocurrencies", but rather that the size of a Hard Drive was such that you physically couldn't fit it in your wheelie bin. At least not in one piece.