Elaine happened upon an article which is basically a warp-speed version of The Road To Ubar of which I raved earlier. The story of the map of Ptolemy still grips me.
Stop wallowing in sin and talking about "gigabytes": IEC has solved the problem that has allowed hard disk vendors for years to inflate their capacity claims.
While you are at it, consider how many yottaatoms there are in the universe.