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[History] Bill Gates showing how much information a CD-rom could hold in paper in 1994. [750 × 1334]
Oct 10, 2017 6:49 PM
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Napukin
Bill Gate's showing off his junk in a harness.
idonotagreetotermsofservice
Now that's an ass load.
Deadringer45
In a forest.
JohnnieBubonic
how much is this in 2017 paper?
LimusBeanusRex
A clear advancement for data storage! What a wonderful way to put it.
INeedAnUserNameButNoneIsFree
Look both paper stack. Bill is holding something on left one.... and sitting on one on right one. wtf
ishotjfktwice
Thought he had giant legs for a min
YesYouJustLostTheGameAgain
What happened to his right foot! It seems to be missing...!
antoonz
OR how much paper you'll need when everyone's eyes are exhausted from staring at a white illuminated screen.
PmMeGifsForSauce
Someone needs to remake this add with no wires.
TCGView
And now SanDisk has a 1TB SD Card. I don't even want to dare anyone to show that in paper.
skinnerspondbouy
If he fell would anybody hear?
helenfrankannekeller
Those trees look like some fat joints
handbanana10
that hurts balls
eva1220
We waste this much paper a week in our law office.
ThaMartian
how the fuck does that balance?! One slight breeze and it's all over.
Updoodilydoo
... where's the spike for the stack he's sitting on? o.0
deathbytomato
Where's the spike for the right stack...
thatwoodguy
A friend and I used to joke if you wanted to back up a CD ROM on current hard drives, the building would collapse due to collective torque
thatwoodguy
In the 80's
InTheDistanceAPlaintiveEnglishHorn
Well, if you print it small enough, it could be very few pages.
1fromneptune
Now do a blu ray
dorpjorp
Is there any data showing the effect that digital had on deforestation? If it remained near the same, where did the new lumber move to?
CrunchyOverCreamy
This picture plus your username.
DickGarden
bucef
LevelSixLotus
Led Zeppelin
Calmeister
Bill's bulge shot is like a version of 90's tinder.
DickGarden
Swipe right if you wanna see what i can do with MY wood
idownvoteplottwist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwgiE5tX1BM
cynicalwerewolf
don'tscrollupdon'tscrollupdon'tscrollup... ...Iscrolledup
JesusMaximus
Should say Bill Gates showing how to be a PUSSY MAGNET.
2222222222
Can you imagine having so much money every woman on the planet is available to you? No one is going to turn down $10mil for an hour.
iLynux
Every woman? Try every HUMAN. Again, no one is going to turn down $10mil for an hour. Not even the homophobes.
OldTimeyPaperCompanyTycoons
Step 1: be a billionaire
boethius
Bill knows. He KNOWS.
littlekiddiebums
Mmm.... Eguzmelek
GroundZer0
Don't worry baby, it's only micro when it's soft.
GeorgeGeef
That's fucked up, putting that where the trees can see it.
awildcharmander
Its also fucked up that we still basically use the same amount of paper today
ForeverDonutsWillNeverExist
gernjer
This is better than anything I was gonna say.
Jellybeanboom
Just keep walking, pretend it doesn't bother you
farny99
we must let them know fear
WillJeSuis
At least it was brought back to where it came from.
livingcheeseburger
eroso
Yeah. I can just imagine how I'd feel if the trees would some day pile up a tower of refined humans right next to me and my relatives.
WhistlePig
I love this comment so much
Ohgodtheyrealltaken
I do too.
dbrsong
You should, it's as old as this picture
hiphopbookshop
Just taunting them... This is how the events in the wonderful documentary The Happening were set into motion
hiphopbookshop
Such a masterpiece
epicstorybro
What? No....
Talmorean
Lets show how much Paper we'll save....by using that much paper...
kiddub
In a rain forest?
shhep
...by using that much paper... we'll create a viral, interesting marketing campaign that will reach much more people and save more paper!
NickRivieraMD
once. How many cd's were used to hold documents?
ItsNotASchoonerItsASailboat
Yes but that's the last time anyone ever needed paper so it balances out
YerAGrizzardArry
I like to think that he's reusing paper that's already been printed on. You make a good point though, and I'm probably deluding myself.
wekilledbambi03
At a company as large as MS I’m sure that’s a normal Tuesday’s worth of office memos and meeting notes.
Talmorean
True, you're probably right. Recycled for the add.
Shamorza
Are you totally excluding the possibility that they did not in fact stack up papers the height of 2 tall trees & put Bill Gates on the top?
Qualtagh
1994 had little photoediting; how would you fake this?
badClementine
If they can make Jurassic park, they can make this picture.
DrawSomethingEveryDay
June 9, 1993 Jurassic Park came out.
WeedlordBonerLover69
god i hope this is a sarcastic post
Shamorza
In 1994 there existed very good photoshop programs, but even in 80s and 70s there were very advanced photo-manipulating tools available 1/2
Shamorza
2/2 of course back then they were mostly mechanical and very little computer-assisted.
Qualtagh
The critical question isn't whether it was possible, but whether it was more convenient than having interns make the prop.
Cloudakira
Now do one for a 64gb flash drive.
tygerpsimatrix
It's actually pretty easy. It's about 100 times as many as the above assuming the CD was a standard 650Mb size disc.
Groose
My 256gb micro sd card
codenametrixie
Your comment is currently at 666 points. I don't want to ruin that.
c0v4h
He'll be able to have coffee with the ISS as a photo op!
zertmaster
Or the 60tb Seagate ssd or possibly the 330tb Sony tape.
etan7
If there are 677,963 page of text in a GB and a page is 0.0005m thick then 2,169 m (2.1 km)
Hijinks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYViV3nFlDA "How much does your 'ghost' weigh?"
watthefrak
About tree fidfy
Caliburn
Those poor trees.
CmRock136
Trees are renewable. Fun fact: there are more trees now in the U.S. than there were 100 years ago, according to the FAO.
BoobsWilly
That he saved by storing data on digital media rather than paper.
zippydee
#plantlivesmatter
Caliburn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov5Jgw_Nwx4
IAmJustHereToCommentAndLaugh
Did you know that storage tapes have a higher information density than flash drives. Even though flash drives are much more convenient(fast)
causality
Higher than flash drives. Lower than microSD cards.
nanyatenyaa
Yes which is why they are a purely backup medium, nothing else.
TheIncredibleOnion
What about 2 Terrabyte
NotADodgeBallCannon
Space bitches
TheStaleBread
Elon Musk, I think I found a new idea for your space program
causality
*terabyte
waluigihentai
Reach the moon, bill!
Darkspire
He'd have to wear a space suit.
nevergoingtogiveyouupnevergoingtoletyoudown
I was going to say.... do they even make 64GB flash drives?
Leonon
64GB https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168202">992">https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211992 2TB https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820242416
nevergoingtogiveyouupnevergoingtoletyoudown
By joe they still do make something that small.
Drarra
Or the 14TB HDD, WD anounced last week!
iamamitten
unfortunately, PS2/XBOX are still viable consoles (their hardware will last, in good conditions, for decades of functionality) but 1/2
iamamitten
so far, they can only address drives up to a certain size. PS2, 2TB. XBOX, also 2TB but it's a little more difficult to set up properly.
Drarra
What PS2 games can you fill 2TB with? o.O
Drarra
Mean that's more than 500 DVDs...
FragileDonkey
Zettabyte
Torenico
12 spaces
ElbowDeepInMythicalCreatures
Exobyte
FBKatB3TAdotcom
Trilobite
OPsFather
Petabyte
LoveYaSelfAcceptYaSelf
Yottabyte
cowpiefatty
Gazoontight
cicknave
Lol
SwagicalYololord
Clever +1
ErinFromTheOffice
I mean, might as well go all the way and say Yottabyte
FragileDonkey
Brontobyte followed by gegobyte are the largest from what I've gathered.
epicstorybro
eeee
0neDoesNotSimplyImgur
OP's mom
ShaneEngland
nah a googolbyte is it equals 2 to the 100th power compared to kb which is 2 to the 10th power
JewishBale
Fun fact: The first 1 TB hard drive was put on market 10 years ago and cost about 400$. Today a WD Blackline performance 2TB is about 140$
Twillo
This fact was disappointingly unfun. B-
zikaBLYAT
Umm, I distinctly remember seeing an ad for a 1 TB drive in 1995. Granted it was over $10k, but...
IronGravyBoat
I just bought a 3 TB HDD for $80.
whitewolf863
Same! Amazon ftw right
IronGravyBoat
Newegg, but it was the same price on Amazon I believe
abcEasyAs123
This may sound first world but i honestly thought we'd be further by now.
Vysh2
You can get a 8TB SAS drive at with 12Gb/s RWR for around $400.
Millillion
Advances have slowed, and demand for higher capacities has fallen off. Plus >4TB is a lot of data to lose in one failure.
MagpieNI
Frankly I'm most impressed by the fact that we can store 256GB on a microSD. The storage-to-volume ratio is incredible.
aykyle
Well, you can get a 10tb hdd for less than 400.
Pikrin
Solid state?
grandmastonguekiss
Nope, red state
namiasdf
Moore's law is approaching its limit. There is a program talking about how we're talking molecule distances to hold back electrons in
Odballl
Gotta go quantum.
namiasdf
a transistor (representing 1 or 0).
Millillion
Hard drives don't store data via transistors.
NrmlView
C'mon someone from r/theydidthemath. Time to shine.
NrmlView
Never mind, I did it. One sheet of A4 paper is approximately .05mm thick and (assuming it's text only, no pictures) can hold 2kb of data. >
jn2guru
Kilobytes (disk manufacturerers) or kibibytes (binary convention and operating system)? Also, on the paper is text, in what font? 1/2
jn2guru
Base 64 encoded? Compressed? QR codes? Binary? Unicode? Or just English?
NrmlView
I have no idea. I'm not smart enough for that. I just gleaned some basic info from Google and and did the easy math. Feel free to go deeper!
InTheDistanceAPlaintiveEnglishHorn
But that depends on how tiny the font is
Summonsays
And it depends on encoding, because in 95 it would have been 32bit and today would be 64bit.
Thecynicalspud
Is that single or double-sided?
NrmlView
I should also note the data I've used is for information on an actual sheet of paper, NOT an electronic word document.
NrmlView
Sorry. Single sided.
Thecynicalspud
Fair enough. Kudos to you for working it out, though.
NrmlView
Meaning 500 typed pages equals 1 megabyte. So, 64gb of information would be 32,000,000 pages. Those pages at .05mm each would total >
NrmlView
1.6 km, or .994 miles of stacked A4 paper.
JNied
itscayde6
ProperSouthernGentleman
consolepeasent
NrmlView
Another fun fact. After a Google search, I found the average "depth" of printer ink in a single printed letter is about 2.5 micrometers >
DickGarden
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