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The whirring hard drives that once occupied entire university labs held but a fraction of the data we carry in our pockets every day -- and that's only 50 years of progress.
Today, as we move further into the cloud, and witness the latest and greatest pocket media devices, we thought it fitting to take a look back at how far we've come on our quest to store as much information in as little space as possible.