Kahle put the Web into a storage container, but most people measure digital data in bytes.
Still, all deserve their even-handed memorials – in bytes, if not in bronze.
To publish the book in bytes, PublicAffairs struck a deal with netLibrary, the Boulder, Colo.-based digital bookseller.
A side effect has been to drive up sharply the size, in bytes, of the spam that e-mail providers must handle.
(Data storage is measured in bytes. The letter N, for example, takes 1 byte to store. A gigabyte is a billion bytes of information).
One refers to the storage capacity, as measured in bytes and the amount of data in the form of photos, music, etc. that a flash drive has.
Will Ferrell, in the role of a man who is the quintessence of dullness — an I.R.S. agent who counts out his life in bytes — suddenly hears a woman's voice in his head, narrating his thoughts and acts.
"We now consume about 100,000 words each day from various media, which is a whopping 350 percent increase, measured in bytes, over what we handled back in 1980," Ms. Gallagher says.
However, with some notable exceptions such as the Microsoft Windows operating system, the computer industry has switched over to decimal prefixes, in which prefixes denote a thousandfold increase in bytes.
His adoring wife, Evelyn Rebecca Halll), wants to hold on to him, and she's enthralled when he shows up thinking and talking on computer screens — he's physically dead but immortal in bytes.
No one seemed sure whether the surprising demand marked the beginning of a revolution in the fledgling electronic publishing market -- where individual literary works have not sold more than a few hundred copies -- or simply resulted from the novelty of having a marquee author dabble in bytes.
