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G2ThaUNiT said:
"Thirty years ago GiBs as a measurement didn’t even exist. GBs, at that time, represented both units of measurement depending on the context. This confusion has persisted to the present day."
This explains it lol.
Makes me look at storage differently. Even in my networking classes, GiB was never used for measurements. I'm guessing it's primarily used in Europe.

And the "fun" thing is RAM is measured in GB, which are actual Gigabytes from the old days, meaning 1024 MB, but disk drives are measured in "new" Gigabytes, which are 1000MB.