Every time Luke or Linus say "speaking of..." I think the video is done, and it's sponsor time :-)

As a Bulgarian, I don't know where did you get that picture at 4:00, but it made me giggle. The largest disk, the one that he is talking about, says "Сделано в Болгарии", which means "Made in Bulgaria". 'ИЗОТ' is the name of the factory, where they used to make them and as it happens, it was in my home town. In the 80s this factory was one of the biggest and most modern computer electronics manufacturers in eastern Europe and it supplied the chips and memory modules for much of the Soviet era electronics, including those for the Soviet space agency. Now it's abandoned, but a lot of the facilities and internal structures were sold out. I actually have the steel case of one of those massive 80s computers (along with a bunch of 80-100W industrial steel fans for cooling) that I use as a rack in my garage. :D In my town, these old disks have become something of a collectible, a memory from the past. They're quite rare nowadays, so I was surprised to see them in that photo.

Insert floppy disk 1 of 25.

do a "history of linus tech tips"

In 1988 I bought a 10mb hard disk, at the time that was super impressive. What is still impressive, is that I tested it a few months ago and it still works!

Fun fact, my dad and uncle were some of those workers that repaired memory bit by bit on those loops if some RAM would fail. Interesting stories

3:37. When he said: "foundation was laid. Speaking of..." I thought he was going to say "speaking of getting laid..." and then would make a segue into the sponsor.

"Floppy disks aren't useful anymore". I agree, but tell this to the government :)

Gta 5 in punch cards lol

His english is so perfect that the auto-generated subtitles didn't make a single mistake! P

Maybe in several years a terabyte would be so small like gigabytes or megabytes or something.

"Multi TB SSD's of today", yes those things I can TOTALLY afford.

Would love to see you store your 8k videos in those punch cards

1956: Yey IBM finally introduced 5mb of harddrives. 2016: Despite having 15 feet tall, It only held 5mb of data. 2100: Back 2016 when Google span their data center for about a mile but only held hundreds of exabyte. Pathetic

You forgot to mention that old computers used cassette tapes to store data as well

It is (for me) extremely hard to imagine that 50MB back in the day were as much as 2TB today.

Insert floppy disk 1 of 200000000000000000 to install gta 5

2:58 - I might be wrong but I think that's how the Apollo's computers were built 3:45 - not a floppy ;)

I work for IBM... we've moved from punched cards now.

imagine if our computers was hooked up to a big ass factory looking thing with fucking scrolls and shit getting written with data....and that only had an equivalent amount of 50GB I would just want to die if that was ever my life...

I remember when it became a novelty to use a floppy disk. Now I find it a novelty to use a CD.

I needed a condensed documentary on this and you delivered 100%! man you guys are good!

3:40 "And speaking of getting smaller" OH FUCK NOT THE AD SPOT ALREADY, SERIOUSLY? "...there's still no solution..." PHEW.

I'm so early that here we still use scrolls

Used to have my games on 60 and 90 minutes audio cassettes, read and write was on a mono cassette deck.

last time i was this early linus worked at NCIX

Ah, Floppy diskettes. As a kid back in 1999 I used a floppy disk to transfer the Age of Empires II installer one tiny chunk at a time from my mom's internet enabled PC with an old floppy drive installed, to my much older, personal machine that ONLY had a floppy drive. If I recall correctly, the total size was around 400MB... But it was worth it.

You gotta make an updated version of this "History of Series" so much has changed in 5 years. Also, I love needing out to them and need more!

- Ah, very similar to a video I covered in my Science in History series!

How a SSD works (how does data stay on a cell , what is a cell made of , why does a cell break over time ,etc.)

100 years later... Linus tech tips Petabyte server was very small compared to modern standards.

amazing how far we have come. excellent video, great information, love these keep up the great work!

I remember taking a report to school to print on a floppy disk.

Why "Almost famous zip drive" Luke? I had an external zip disk reader and 10 disks... man I loved those times :)

Several others have mentioned the cassette drives, which I believe either Amiga or Commodore64 (that's 64 kilo-bytes) both used for storage. However, some other iterations were skipped, as I remember in the 80's our WP dept. had a 10Mb hard drive a little louder than the dorm refrigerator size-spot it occupied. Besides Zip drives, both Zip and Jaz drives were brought to us by Bernoulli, the name of a principle that built a 5-1/2" 150Mb drive/cartridge combo that used air to keep multiple magnetic layered for read/writes. Then there was also Syquest, that gave is 5-1/2" 44Mb, 88Mb and 280Mb single HD platter cartridges in a plastic case. They also made the EZ135, a 3-1/2" variant that held a whopping 135Mbs again on a single cartridge disk platter. There were LS-120 floppies that didn't last...long, and magneto-optical disks, similar to those EZ135s, albeit a CD-in-a-cartridge. These disk types and peripherals existed because hard drives weren't all that big, nor 'dirt' cheap: Up 'til 2000, the average business machine had a 20Gb HDD. So I'm kinda disappointed when Luke blew right over SDXC cards, because for $8 I could throw my 49-disk collection of EZ135 cartridges on a thumbnail sliver, and still have 30 Gbs to spare. ;) BTW those last five technologies - if you ever want a picture, I have them running on my desk.

Thank you for adding to the general confusion between storage and memory.

The problem with flash memory is you lose a lot of data WHEN, not if, they take a crap.

3:24 that is definitely "fifty feet tall" ;D

Wow, this was more than a quickie! I'm impressed with your stamina, Luke! I love you!

I worked on a system that used cards and drum storage in the early 80's. And the drum held about 700K bytes. It also had core memory. Each card that was about 18 inch square held 1024 Bits. It took 16 cards to hold 1K words.

first HDD was not 50 feet. I think you meant 50 inches.

Edit a video Using Windows 2000 and Floppy Disks.

I love that my college online class uses linus's groups to teach the class for computer concepts

love the history videos! You guys should do the history of computer monitors.

But wait. Before using floppy disks, they used cassete tapes, did'nt? I remember of a C64 cassete tape driver that people used to store data.

DNA wil be the future storage medium

I'm glad I can recognize the rope core memory in the thumbnail, from the Apollo program.

Dang its 2020 and tech has already improved huge amounts.

gotta love 8gb of phone memory

i didn't know that my country Bulgaria have made 8inch drive

Hi! Thanks for the nostalgia! I loved this, can you do one on upcomming storage please?

In the late 60s and early 70s Univac 1108s came with two types of drum memory. The first was head per track and was used to store things like OS overlays and temp files when doing a compile. The second was a long cylinder (6ft or so) with a single moving head where seeks took a loong time...

Wow no one noticed the shots fired at gwb

5:26 impossible, perhaps the archives are incomplete

Very good education.... Keep up the good work

fun fact. floppy disks are still being used in theaters. the movement of the tracks above stage can be saved on them as the computer that controls this al is stil running on dos and not windows or something

I'm sitting here with my $2 ebay 32GB Micro SD card like "woah"

0:35 1700? So early?

This is a good video, but I think it deserves a modern refresh and a bit more history and context with each generation of storage tech. Thanks for listening. Have a good day.

omg i love you guys, this is the best episode EVER

See the trend here? Each new thing replaced an old thing. Apple removing the headphone jack replaces an old thing with nothing new, useful or standard.

Can you guys do a video on why computers freeze?

Love it..Bring back my History - 1967 SNET telephone company and Billing Systems and IT Thank you !!

floppy disk are still used in stage lighting boards to store shows lighting on. So you program the lighting needed by scene and its stored on the disk.

Is he more orange than usual?

They guy completely missed a very important history of storage, the traditional hard drive 2.5 inches 3.5 inches which was the gold standard for many years. Jumping from floppy drive to USB Stick Drive to SSD, Dude do better research next time.

Your are soo good at this!!!

This video relives a hole lot of memories. I never found out there was such thing as flash memory until I bought an hp40g+ calculator back in either 2005. The manual suggested inserting a flash memory chip. Into a special slot built into the calculator. So I thought I was in seventh heaven with my SD Card because I could keep backing up my HOME directory onto this card. if things crashed I used the SD Card to get it back. Eventually I learned how to organize my data into a DOS/Windows directory hierarchy. I built my Home directory archive filenames out of today's date. That way I know when I made them.

Two or three years and we will have 1TB microSD, isnt that soo cool?! Just cant wait for flexible displays so we can have 10' tablet in size of pen when rolled up.

i still have a crush on you

A core memory pioneer passed on in 2018: Minnesotan Mike Mikkelson, a great entrepreneur back in his day & a good guy!

That was interesting. Thanks for making this video. I still have my massive full-colour computer book, from high school. It has the history of computers, including data storage up to when the book was published. I still remember another student telling me it's a book we'll keep forever. He was right.

And still we're so far faaaaar away from beating a human brain. :)

Yet how come storage space hasn't gotten any larger in the past 3 years or so? It's been at some sort of supposed stand still. Not only that the price of 1 TB harddrives has hardly come down even though it's old technology now. The monopoly of technology control on the human species is RIDICULOUS. We should be MUCH more advanced by now. But we are suppressed, still relying on oil and paying some other human being for electricity when it comes for FREE all day long and can be collected and stored.

YES! I have searched and waited (not) everywhere on the internet for this video.

We still use a 5.25" floppy on my former work for putting a program into the CNC milling machine.

THE HARD DRIVE ON MY LAPTOP IS ONLY 32 GIGABYTES!!!!!!!

Where's the gay dude?

Great instructional video!

very informativ ! , thanks for the great Videos you make !.

Around 2005 I was studying to become an Industrial Technician. At our school we had a somewhat old Numeric-Controlled Lathe and a boring tool. We did draw in CAD, but the these drawings had to be printed on this long punch tape of red paper. Just to make a simple chess bishop on the lathe required a tape about two meters long!

You missed acoustic and magnetostrictive delay lines, which would have fit in nicely before mentioning core memory. Acoustic delay lines used sound waves traveling through vats of liquid, usually mercury. Magnetorstictive types used vibrations through a nickel alloy wire. Sound representing the bits was transmitted at one end, received at the other, and then processed, amplified, and recycled back at the transmitting end. Many early calculators and computers used these. A typical calculator of the 1960s carried about 400-800 bits of data on it's delay line. Also, there was the RCA Selectron tube. The Selectron was a directly addressable 256 byte vacuum tube RAM. It was used in the JOHNNIAC computer. A 4096 bit version was proposed, but not produced.

4:51 I have that very laptop! It's an Asus EeePC, specifically mine is a 900a model from 2009 with an upgraded SSD.

Damn, I was born in the perfect century. Imagine playing a 100GB games now while people back 50 years ago were limited to 10 kilobytes. Lmao, even my assignments were bigger than that

Really nice video, looking forward for a video based only on the flashdrive :D

I still use the 3.5" floppy on older Agilent spectrum analyzers, noise figure analyzers, and vector network analyzers to transfer screen captures to my Windows 10 laptop at work. Yes indeed Windows 10 has a floppy drive icon still in the icon database.

That magnetic tape for archival storage he mentioned at 2:09, that he said was cheaper than hard drives for space even now, what do I search if I wanna find that on amazon/ebay/aliexpress/etc?

4:22 And also updating the BIOS, configuring POS System kiosks like ATMs, Ticket dispensers at your local metro station, Legacy compatibility for scientific and industrial equipment and so on.

Great historical video, Luke. I wonder who on your team did all that research?

what year did storage move from MBs of data on USB sticks to GBs of data on USB Sticks and again to TBs of data storage? also, how long dyou think its will be till we see PB hard drives commonplace? so far I think we're up around 16TB hard drives.

Your content is awesome thumbs up

I used floppy disks until about 2007, when I started using CD-R then DVD-R. Then USB. It's only from about 2010 that I started using hard disk only for long term storage, and cloud for moving files between home and college/uni, and local network to move files between computers.

Nice video thanks!

My first computer used audio tapes connected via headphone and mic sockets for it's main storage, but you could buy a 130kb 5 1/4" floppy drive for it, though that cost more than the computer itself and I simply couldn't afford to do this. Still have a crap ton of games and utilities on tape in the cupboard under the stairs. My second hand a built in 880k 3.5" floppy drive and expansion sockets for up to 3 daisy chained extra drives, and IDE for an internal hard drive, as well as external SCSI for plugging in HDs, CDs, Zip Drives etc. Still have this machine downstairs with dual floppies(1 internal, 1 external), a 1gb IDE HD and a SCSI CD-ROM drive in the cupboard under the stairs.

You failed to mention glass disks, which amongst others were used for census data in Norway (and I would assume many other high-tech countries as well.

congrats on the million subs!

So close to 1,000,000 subscribers

Luke thanks for another great video! I'm very interested in the sources that you used for the beginning of the video (about the punchcards and drum memory) Thank you!

I still have an old DOS 6.2 boot disk lying around somewhere. I've been thinking of looking at it just because I can. (My case is almost ten years old, and it has a floppy drive.) I think that if you guys were willing to, I'd love to send you this old boot disk and watch you try to use it. Codes are listed online for it.

Every single video on Techquickie seems like homework for a university presentation.