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Originally Posted by Katsunami
So, I've been reading some stuff on Wikipedia, and noticed that they are using Kibibyte, and Mebibyte... fools.
Yes, I know. Kibibyte and Mebibyte have been the 'official' SI terms since 1998, but because everybody has been using Kilobyte and Megabyte since the 70's, the new terms never took hold.
In practice, i have *never* met someone apart from some teenage or low-twenties epic Linux zealots who use Kibibyte or Mebibyte.
When I've heard the term used by one of those people, when talking to someone who isn't an over the top nerd who doesn't know the terms, the reaction of the other person is something like: "WTF dude, are you trying to be interesting or something? Be normal, fool/idiot/nerd."
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This is the first I've ever heard of them, and I work in IT...