What is something that's crazier than the wildest dreams of any ~1970s nerd, but exists today? I'll start with an easy one:

me (1999): I just want 1GB of ram and 1TB of hard drive, I can’t see a world where more than that would be necessary.

We were ripping DVD’s to 200mb divx at the time and an OTA cartoon might only be 25mb because SD+compression.

Yeah, some anime are now 400 1 GB per episode. That’s what bad encoding settings do to you.

Edit: mind fart. Some Fate series are 1.2 GB per episode. 400 MB is high-ish, ~300 MB in mpeg, ~120 MB in avif webm.