Bill Gates traces nostalgic tech journey with a CD post on Instagram
Updated On: 15 March, 2024 12:51 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
The post depicts more than just a nostalgic journey. It brings to light the ever-evolving world of technology, where the cutting-edge inevitably succumbs to obsolescence, overtaken by newer innovations
Bill Gates
Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, recently took to Instagram to post an image commemorating the storage capacity of a Compact Disk-Read Only Memory (CD-ROM). Thirty years ago, Gates and his team decided to visually demonstrate the amount of information that a CD could store.
The team set up two several meters-high stacks of papers, almost as tall as the trees in the background. These stacks represented the bytes of data that a CD-ROM could carry. On top of the stack, young Gates can be seen seated, holding a CD-ROM in his hand. To ensure safety, Gates was secured with a harness belt.
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