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by iggldiggl 1379 days ago
> It's especially amusing that a single photo taken on my phone exceeds the capacity of a standard 1.44MB 3.5" disk

… and the full decompressed version of that image might not have fit into your computer's memory at that time, either.

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For quite a while, floppy disks exceeded the system memory by at least one order of magnitude.