I often find myself explaining the same things in real life and online, so I recently started writing technical blog posts.
This one is about why it was a mistake to call 1024 bytes a kilobyte. It’s about a 20min read so thank you very much in advance if you find the time to read it.
Feedback is very much welcome. Thank you.
It wasn’t/isn’t. It’s nothing to do with Americans. It was (and often still is) because of binary, as the article mentions.
2 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024.
So no, kilo is not always a thousand when dealing with computers.