Computing has gone through some interesting changes since 1997 when I started my first job, and even more since the early 1980s when I got my first computer (a Spectrum ZX81). On the Spectrum, if you wanted to save some information, you recorded it on a cassette tape; a typical game would take around 5 to 10 minutes to load from the tape. Of course, at the time, more sophisticated computers were in use, but much of the heavy storage was actually still done on tape. Even after I got my first PC, I remember buying a tape drive for it so that I could store up to a gigabyte of information (a gigabyte of information was a lot of data back then).
These days, your phone has far more storage than that, and it's still not enough: you go on holiday and maybe take 100 pictures; long gone are the days of taking two...