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Here's what a VPN can't protect you from (but you need to use it)

The abbreviation " VPN " has slowly become established among average Internet users, which is certainly good, but the problem is that people have started to see VPN as the ultimate solution to all problems.

History of hard drives

September 1956

IBM produces the RAMAC 305, the first computer with a hard disk to store data. The disk itself had a capacity of 5 megabytes and weighed over a ton.

RAMAC 305
RAMAC 305

The sixties...

IBM produces a hard drive called IBM 1311

IBM 1311

The seventies...

IBM 3310 (64 megabytes per unit)

IBM 3310

1979 hard drive: 250 MB

1979 hard drive: 250 MB

The eighties...

Things in 1985 look a little better

In the 1990s,

in 1992, HP launched the first 1.3-inch hard drive - what we later called memory cards.

HP launched the first 1.3-inch hard drive

Two thousand...

2005 - First 500 GB hard drive

2006 - The first 750 GB hard drive

2007 - First 1 terabyte (TB) hard drive

2008 - First 1.5 TB hard drive

2009 - First 2 TB hard drive

2010 - First 3 TB hard drive

beginning of 2011 - Prototype of 4 TB disk made

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