Comment by drzaiusx11
3 hours ago
I think it was a joke implying you'd be old enough to forget because of age, which in my case is definitely true...
3 hours ago
I think it was a joke implying you'd be old enough to forget because of age, which in my case is definitely true...
No, just that confusing the two was ubiquitous at the time 14.4k, 28k, and 56k modems were the standard.
Like it was more common than confusing Kbps and KBps.
I mean, the 3.5" floppy disk could store 1.44 MB... and by that people meant the capacity was 1,474,560 bytes = 1.44 * 1024 * 1000. Accuracy and consistency in terminology has never been particularly important to marketing and advertising, except marketing and advertising is exactly where most laypersons first learn technical terms.