I recall when we upgraded our 40MB HDD to a mindboggling 210MB drive. I vividly recall booting up, running dir and wondering what on earth I was going to do with all that space.

Not a week later I was back to figuring out what to delete to free up some space for a new game...

For me there was a bit of a step function, where I went from caring about the size of something (number of floppies -> CDs -> HD space limited) to at some point just stopped really worrying about it. Yes a 2GB vs 10GB download time differs but leave it and it's done when it's done. HDDs these days are big enough at least for my (and I would imagine most people's) use. I can see storage being a limiting factor if you have a lot of games or media though.

This is true for folks from the wild and woolly days of... before 2005 (I think?).

But if you think about what's happening today, things have plateaued. Most people since at least 2005 probably have laptops, and generally those hover around 250GB, 500GB, 1TB of storage (with the bigger difference being top of the line/more expensive configurations, than with generational differences). More likely people now identify with 64GB, 128GB, 256GB for smartphones and tablets.

We will soon reach a point of mass market computation where the "mature" times are longer than the early years (1980 - 2005 = 25 years, 2005 - present day = 20 years and counting).

Large leaps, at least in storage, don't really happen (50MB to 1GB is <<extremely>> consequential, 500GB to 1TB is meh.

Oh yes, the memories! [Pun not intended] Mine is 880k. Boy, did I squeeze the last bytes out of that Workbench boot floppy!