Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our Joel posts a link to a pictorial history of storage media — these behemoths roamed the prehistorical jungles when a kilobyte was a kilobyte and we were damned grateful for it.
You know we love the retro tech around these parts, so it is impossible to resist Royal Pingdom's collection of now-ancient computer storage technology, like this Selectron vacuum tube that could hold up to a full 512 bytes of data when plunged directly into the exposed brain of a screaming test subject.