Comment on Americans used record 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data in 2023
scholar@lemmy.world 6 days agoThey are smaller, more familliar numbers paired with more appropriate units that people have heard of
Comment on Americans used record 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data in 2023
scholar@lemmy.world 6 days agoThey are smaller, more familliar numbers paired with more appropriate units that people have heard of
Mac@mander.xyz 6 days ago
I guarantee you that most people still don’t know what a terabyte is. gigabytes, probably…
anyway all I’m saying is that a headlines goal is to reach and be understood by as many people as possible so obviously they’re not going to use something that nobody knows, like exa, peta, and terabytes.
I think most people have a general feeling for how much a megabyte is because most of the things that we deal with are sized in megabytes.
Strykker@programming.dev 6 days ago
But a hell of a lot more people will know what a gigabyte is compared to an exabyte, even I had to think for a few seconds to figure out what scale exabyte was compared to what I know, and I work with computer hardware everyday.
Mac@mander.xyz 4 days ago
yes, that’s what i said
Strykker@programming.dev 4 days ago
I misread and thought you said people wouldn’t know gigabytes, I disagree that people won’t know Tera bytes especially since most laptops seem to ship with at least 1TB drives these days.